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David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR receives two of its largest ever gifts: $80M for innovation in use of digital tech and $33M to build and buy tools to be shared with US public media orgs — NPR has received two of the largest gifts in the public media network's existence, totalling $113 million.
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The Wrap, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Barrett Media, Bloomberg and Current
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Roku says it is in 100M+ homes globally and its devices are used by “more than half of all US broadband households”; Roku had $4.15B in 2025 platform revenue — Roku Inc. said more than 100 million households are using its streaming platform, marking another milestone …
Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
Memo: Condé Nast is shuttering Self magazine, folding its content into other brands, and winding down Glamour's publishing arms in Mexico, Spain, and Germany — The company will also stop publishing Wired's Italian edition and several of Glamour's international editions
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New York Times, @emily_sundberg, @jayasaxena.com, @tati_wm and @katie_robertson
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
The UK CMA tells Getty Images to sell Shutterstock's editorial business, which includes Backgrid and Splash, to secure approval for the $3.7B merger of the two — CMA warns that $3.7bn merger of photo agencies depends on sale to address competition concerns
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Bloomberg
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The transfer of digital operations and print ad work from the UK's Standard to The Independent is complete; of 75 Standard staff, 23 moved to Independent Media — Press Gazette understands 23 Standard editorial staff transferring across. — The Independent has completed a “long-term” …
Emily Zemler / The Wrap:
A look at Doug Liman's $70M Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi movie, which uses AI for sets, lighting, and more in post-production, cutting costs from an estimated $300M — “Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi” will be looking for buyers at Cannes and is billed as the first fully-generated, studio-quality AI feature film
Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
BBC Science Focus editor Daniel Bennett says Apple News helped the title nearly double its editorial staff from six to 11 and reach 3M monthly page views — BBC Science Focus has made “embarrassing amounts” of money and almost doubled its team since finding success on all-you-can-read subscriptions app Apple News.
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@janmoleski.bsky.social and Kieran Delaney on LinkedIn
Dylan Byers / Puck:
Sources: Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff is likely to strike multiple deals in coming weeks to sell off assets, including the Podcast Network, The Verge, and NYMag — News, notes, and all the scuttlebutt pertaining to Jim Bankoff's admirable, atom-splitting attempt to sell off Vox Media in parts …
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The Wrap, Awful Announcing, @mattbrown.bsky.social and @ethangach.bsky.social
Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Joseph Collins, a top executive at HBO, Time Warner Cable, and Comcast, a founder of C-SPAN and a pioneer in cable transition to broadband, died April 2 at 81 — A top executive at HBO, Time Warner Cable and Comcast, he helped pioneer the industry's transition to broadband
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Google's 2025 Ads Safety Report: Google blocked a record 8.3B ads, up 63% YoY, but suspended 36% fewer advertisers, attributing the disparity to its use of AI — Google said Thursday it blocked a record 8.3 billion ads globally in 2025 — up from 5.1 billion the year before.
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The Economic Times, Fortune India, BleepingComputer and ExchangeWire.com, more at Techmeme »
Sandor Zsiros / Euronews:
Hungary's Prime Minister-elect Peter Magyar says he plans to suspend state broadcaster MTVA and “create independent, objective, and impartial conditions” — Magyar has threatened to suspend the state broadcaster following a heated on-air clash, accusing it of spreading …
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New York Sun, Adam Kinzinger, Reuters, @jayinkyiv, @acosta, @magyarpetermp, @imranicus.bsky.social, @newsguy.bsky.social, TheJournal.ie, Reuters, @0_0a023310, The London Economic, @marquardta, @pippamusgrave1, @magyarpetermp, @ashokdadhwal196, @mariatad, Al Jazeera, Politico, Mediaite, The Guardian, Washington Examiner, Modern Diplomacy and Bloomberg
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Channel 4 Chief Content Officer Ian Katz plans to step down in October after nearly nine years, making him Channel 4's longest-serving programming head — Exit of former Newsnight editor as chief content officer comes after appointment of new CEO Priya Dogra
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Telegraph, Deadline, Channel 4, The Hollywood Reporter, Televisual, Advanced Television, Variety, Broadband TV News and Telecompaper
