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12:25 PM ET, April 22, 2026

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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Nexstar CEO Perry Sook defends his Tegna bid, citing Brendan Carr's “break-glass moment” for TV finances, and says only 2 or 3 local TV companies will survive  —  “The idea that anyone, Nexstar included, would be a ‘broadcast behemoth’ - to me, that term is kind of an oxymoron …
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Substack adds translation tools, and says ~100K publishers earn on the platform, including ~30K outside the US; European creators earn $90M+/year collectively  —  Who changed your life today?  Who stretched your way of seeing the universe?  Who challenged you to think deeper about the culture around you …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Media24, a unit of Naspers that runs some of South Africa's biggest digital news sites, is considering selling or closing historic newspaper City Press  —  Naspers Ltd., Africa's largest company by market value, is exploring strategic options for City Press, according to people familiar …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Sky News launches The Sky News Defence app, a paywalled app for “defence and security content”, as part of plans to become a “premium video-first newsroom”  —  Sky News is launching a paywalled app specifically for defence and security content.
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Dan Eggen, a veteran WaPo editor who helped shape coverage of the White House and who was among hundreds of WaPo journalists laid off in February, dies at 60  —  He helped guide Pulitzer Prize-winning projects, including coverage of Russian election interference in 2016 and the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump Media & Technology Group names Kevin McGurn as interim CEO, succeeding Devin Nunes; McGurn previously worked as an executive at Hulu, Vevo, and T-Mobile  —  Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of social-media platform Truth Social and other businesses whose mission is …
Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
Miami Herald, Sacramento Bee, and Kansas City Star unions filed grievances with McClatchy, saying it didn't give enough notice for “major technological change”  —  Miami Herald, Sacramento Bee and Kansas City Star unions have filed grievances against the company as TheWrap obtains …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Amazon Music partners with Bandsintown to display live concert listings and “buy ticket” buttons on artists' profile pages in its iOS and Android apps  —  Amazon Music said today that it is partnering with live event listing platform Bandsintown to bring concert listings to its music streaming service.
Eriq Gardner / Puck:
Sources: some in Hollywood are urging state AGs to scrutinize the Paramount-WBD merger, and some think Netflix is behind the anti-merger letter signed by 3,000+  —  Suspicions are building inside Paramount and beyond that Netflix is astroturfing Hollywood's “Block the Merger” campaign and engaging with regulators about the deal.
Washington Post:
A profile of far-right influencer Nick Fuentes, who made ~$900K from “fanatical” donors since early 2025, as his influence in the US conservative movement rises  —  Summary  —  Kristine Kasubienski's donation appeared on viewers' screens four hours into the live stream of Nick Fuentes …
Brice Laemle / Le Monde:
Since December 2025, print media companies in France have cut nearly 1,000 jobs; Trendeo: since 2009, 10.5K jobs have disappeared from the sector in France  —  Since December 2025, magazine and regional press companies have announced nearly 1,000 job cuts, putting the viability of countless newsrooms at risk.
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Creator talent agency Fixated buys creator media company Studio71, which also has a podcast network, from ProSieben; together, the two represent 1K+ creators
Maddy Varner / Wired:
The nonprofit Consumer Federation of America sues Meta, accusing it of misleading consumers about its efforts to combat scam ads on Facebook and Instagram
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Roku and NBCU sign an agreement to make Peacock's ad-free Premium Plus tier available on Roku Premium Subscriptions
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Digiday:
OpenAI enables cost-per-click ads inside ChatGPT, setting bids at between $3 and $5 per click, in addition to CPMs
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
YouTube makes its deepfake detection tool available to anyone at high risk of having their likeness abused, expanding it from public officials and politicians
Isaac Anyaogu / Reuters:
Nigeria's broadcast regulator threatens sanctions for radio and TV presenters who intimidate guests, or air personal opinions or divisive political content
Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
Caper, a food news brand by two Puck founders and VF's Dana Brown, launches with a $2.5M seed, offering staff salary plus revenue-linked bonuses and equity
Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
Barack Obama says Higher Ground, his production company with Michelle Obama, will become an independent operation after its Netflix deal, signed in 2018, ends
 

 
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Song Jung-a / Financial Times:
South Korea, Samsung, and SK Hynix say they plan to invest ~$590B to build a new chip complex, including four chipmaking plants and a chip packaging cluster

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Soaring memory costs are posing existential threats to small electronics makers, amid thin margins, low supply chain leverage, and little room for price hikes

Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post:
DeepSeek details DSpark, a speculative decoding framework for its V4 models, saying it speeds up AI inference by up to 85% and was tested on Gemma and Qwen
 
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