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7:50 AM ET, March 30, 2026

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Yasmin Rufo / BBC:
The BBC fires Radio 2 presenter Scott Mills following allegations about his personal conduct; Mills took over the breakfast show from Zoe Ball in January 2025  —  Scott Mills has been sacked by the BBC following allegations about his personal conduct.  —  The BBC says “while we do not comment …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: some Disney executives learned about Sora's shutdown less than an hour before OpenAI's announcement; Disney was in talks about company-wide ChatGPT use  —  When Sam Altman arrived in Los Angeles to attend Vanity Fair's Oscar afterparty earlier this month, his company was just weeks away …
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: Mathias Döpfner met with UK politicians earlier this month, organized by global advisory PR firm FGS, as Axel Springer seeks to acquire the Telegraph  —  The Scoop  —  A successful media pressure campaign from the right torpedoed Jeff Zucker's attempt to buy the Telegraph.
Discussion: Byline Times
Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
The NBC News-Joanna Stern deal offers a new model for independent journalists to grow audiences via institutional support while retaining editorial independence  —  Tech journalist Joanna Stern's partnership with NBC News points to a new model of editorial independence with institutional support
CNN:
The Israeli military says it suspended operational activities of a reserve battalion involved in detaining and assaulting a CNN team in the West Bank last week  —  The Israeli military's top general suspended all operational activities of a reserve battalion involved in the detention and assault …
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: Beehiiv plans to launch a podcasting program in the coming days and is privately courting podcasters on Substack and elsewhere as founding members  —  The News  —  Newsletter and creator startup Beehiiv is making a push into podcasting, and wants to peel off talent from Substack and Patreon.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Guardian begins cross-publishing its Feast food newsletter, which has 100K+ subscribers, to Substack, as part of its Project Berger platform strategy  —  Weekly Feast newsletter to be cross-posted to Substack in bid for new audience.  —  The Guardian has decided to experiment with Substack …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
A MoffettNathanson chart showed Netflix delivered 48 cents of revenue per hour viewed in 2025, below competitors, giving it room for its price hike this week  —  As the “KPop Demon Hunters” Oscar-winning hit song “Golden” says: “We're goin' up, up, up.”  —  It's not rocket science.
Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
An AI-generated TikTok parody of reality series Love Island, called Fruit Love Island, averaged 10M+ views across its first 21 episodes after debuting last week  —  ‘Fruit Love Island’ averages over 10 million views for each of its episodes  —  A new viral dating show featuring sexy …
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Reuters:
Meta's longtime content policy chief Monika Bickert is leaving the company to teach at Harvard; she will stay at Meta until August to work on a transition plan
David Smith / The Guardian:
Jane Fonda led a Kennedy Center rally Friday with ~100 invited guests, including journalists Jim Acosta and Joy Reid, to protest free speech threats under Trump
Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
A US judge grants DirecTV a temporary restraining order blocking the Nexstar-Tegna merger, finding DirecTV's position that it violates antitrust laws persuasive
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Kathryn Wilkens / Mediaite:
At CPAC, FCC Chair Brendan Carr boasted “Trump is winning”, citing PBS and NPR defunding and the departures of Joy Reid, Chuck Todd, Stephen Colbert, and others
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Internal figures show Business Insider's paid subscribers have consistently declined, from about 185K at the end of 2022 to 135K at the end of 2025, a 27% drop
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
The Writers Guild Staff Union, on strike for almost six weeks, has offered a contract proposal to WGA West management, seeking a response by Monday at midnight
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Meta unveils Meta Adventurer and Fury glasses, each priced at $299, its first under its own brand, and a $399 Starfire model in collaboration with Kylie Jenner

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present

Bloomberg:
Sources: Tencent is negotiating exits from minority investments in game studios in Japan, such as Tokyo-traded Marvelous, as it reassesses its global portfolio
 
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