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7:10 PM ET, April 16, 2026

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Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Netflix chairman and co-founder Reed Hastings will step down from the company's board after his term expires in June to focus on philanthropy and other pursuits  —  Co-founder won't stand for re-election to the board, Netflix says in first earnings report since pulling out of Warner Discovery bid
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $12.3B, vs. $12.2B est., net income of $5.28B, and forecasts Q2 EPS below estimates; NFLX drops 8%+ after hours  —  Netflix Inc. gave a forecast for the second quarter that fell short of analysts expectations, sending the shares down in extended trading.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Netflix says it will launch its redesigned mobile app, which will include a vertical video feed, at the end of April  —  The redesigned app is set to launch at the end of April. … Netflix announced on Thursday that it will be launching a redesigned mobile app, which will include a vertical video feed, at the end of April.
Discussion: Android Authority, CNET and 9to5Mac
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.
Rebecca Keegan / NBC News:
Paramount CEO David Ellison makes an unexpected appearance at CinemaCon, promising a 45-day theatrical window for all Paramount movies going forward  —  The Paramount Skydance chief spoke at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday, after opting out of a congressional hearing on the merger earlier this week.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
At a US Senate hearing on Paramount-WBD, Mark Ruffalo said the merger threatens the free press and democracy; Sen. Chuck Schumer called the merger a “nightmare”
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Notus will rename itself The Star and relaunch in early June as it adds local news and sports coverage; source: Robert Allbritton will add ~$30M to its funding  —  The Washington publication is rebranding as it expands its local news and sports coverage in the wake of substantial layoffs at The Washington Post.
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
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 …
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
Discussion: Bloomberg
Axios:
An updating list of confirmed WHCD parties, starting Wednesday; nine events are hosted by media startups that are less than 10 years old  —  - The WHCA has hired mentalist Oz Pearlman as the evening's entertainer, instead of a comedian.  — The dinner's headliner last year …
Discussion: The Wrap and The Verge
 
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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
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
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
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”
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Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
YouTube now lets users set a zero-minute Shorts time limit, effectively removing them from its iOS and Android app; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes
Pew Research Center:
A survey of US teens: ~90% say entertainment is a reason they use TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat, 57% Snapchat message daily, and 37% say TikTok impacts sleep
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Analysis: global Chartbeat clients' traffic from Twitter/X has fallen 70% since Elon Musk's October 2022 acquisition; Facebook traffic has also declined sharply
NBC News:
A US jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in the ticketing market, in a case brought by state AGs after the DOJ settled
 

 
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