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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, 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, @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
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 — Live Nation has vehemently denied acting as a monopoly. — ADD NBC NEWS TO GOOGLE — A jury in a high-stakes antitrust trial …
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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
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
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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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
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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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 — All YouTube users are getting an option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes.
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