Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
3:50 PM ET, April 23, 2026

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Todd Spangler / Variety:
WBD shareholders vote to approve Paramount Skydance's deal to acquire the company; in a non-binding vote, they reject compensation packages for David Zaslav  —  But investors weren't OK with the lavish golden parachutes that CEO David Zaslav and other WBD top brass are set to receive through the merger.
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Source: the FBI investigated NYT reporter Elizabeth Williamson after she wrote about Kash Patel's use of FBI staff for his girlfriend's security  —  The bureau said it is not pursuing a case, but the scrutiny is an example of the Trump administration weighing whether to criminalize routine news gathering.
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Filing: the NFL met with the FCC on Friday to defend the league's media rights strategy and said 87% of games are primarily aired for free on broadcast TV  —  League defends media-rights dealings as federal regulators investigate migration to streaming  —  As federal regulators scrutinize …
RELATED:
RELATED:
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Comcast reports Peacock's Q1 revenue rose 71% YoY to $2.1B, the quarterly loss rose to $432M from $215M a year prior, and subscribers increased 12% YoY to 46M  —  Comcast topped Wall Street's revenue and earnings estimates for the first quarter on Thursday, lifted by NBC's sports slate …
Fernando Cardoso / Reuters:
Brazil's antitrust watchdog approves a plan to deepen investigations into Google's use of journalistic content over potential abuse of its market position  —  Brazil's antitrust watchdog CADE approved on Thursday a recommendation to deepen investigations into the use of journalistic content by Alphabet's …
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
A former executive for MrBeast, Lorrayne Mavromatis, has sued the company, claiming sexual harassment, wrongful firing after maternity leave, and more  —  Lorrayne Mavromatis alleges female employees were subject to comments about their appearance from company leaders.  Beast Industries has denied the claims.
Kyle Jahner / Bloomberg Law:
Music publishers including UMG, Warner Music, and Sony drop a copyright suit against Verizon following a SCOTUS decision limiting ISP liability in Cox's suit  —  Publishers representing the bulk of the music industry dropped a copyright lawsuit against Verizon Communications Inc. over music piracy …
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Filing: Netflix plans a $25B share buyback, adding to a Dec. 2024 program that still has $6.8B for purchases; NFLX is down 13% since its Q1 earnings on April 16  —  Netflix Inc. announced plans to buy back $25 billion in stock after the company's shares dropped following a weak financial outlook.
Anna Koslerova / The Guardian:
Journalists at the Czech Republic's public broadcasters threaten to strike over plans to scrap license fees and move TV and radio funding to state control  —  Government aims to move TV and radio funding under state control, which critics say undermines independence
Discussion: Reuters
Gil Kaufman / Billboard:
Spotify celebrates its 20th anniversary with a first-ever list of its 20 most streamed artists, albums, songs, podcasts, and audiobooks  —  But who else made the cut? … It was 20 years ago today that Spotify began to play.  And to mark the streaming service's big anniversary …
Peter Beaumont / The Guardian:
Israel strikes in Lebanon kill journalist Amal Khalil, making her the ninth journalist killed in the country this year  —  Lebanese PM calls attack a ‘war crime’ as Amal Khalil's death prompts fresh claims over targeting of media workers  —  Israel's killing of a prominent Lebanese journalist …
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Beehiiv rolls out metered paywalls, paid trials, AI analytics, and webinars for 10K people, and says it has 50K+ active users and hit $28M+ in ARR in April  —  It's been clear for a while that Beehiiv wants to be more than just a newsletter platform.  The L.A.-based company announced a slew …
Discussion: @denk_tweets and Digiday
Adam Lucente / AL-MONITOR:
Kuwait acquits journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin following 52 days' detention after he shared footage of damage resulting from the Iran war  —  The American-Kuwaiti journalist is expected to be released after 52 days in custody over posts about wartime damage.  —  American-Kuwaiti journalist …
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 3:50 PM ET, April 23, 2026.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Inside Radio:
At the NAB show, sole Democratic FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez reiterates her call for broadcasters to challenge the agency's potential unconstitutional overreach
Discussion: NewscastStudio
Joanna Stern / The New Things:
Joanna Stern, who has worked at WSJ, ABC, The Verge, and Engadget, launches New Things, her independent tech newsletter and YouTube channel
 Earlier Picks: 
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
MS NOW appoints Shawna Thomas, former executive producer of CBS Mornings, as political director to lead coverage of 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential race
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
The FCC launches a review of TV Parental Guidelines, citing concerns that “gender identity issues are being included or promoted in children's programs”
On Substack:
Substack adds translation tools, and says ~100K publishers earn on the platform, including ~30K outside the US; European creators earn $90M+/year collectively
 

 
From Techmeme:

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
OpenAI plans to overhaul ChatGPT in the coming weeks, turning it into a superapp with coding tools and AI agents to serve as a gateway to higher-margin products

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Inside the early 2025 senior exec meeting where Apple admitted its AI failures; Tim Cook became intimately involved in Apple's AI roadmap around the same time

Wall Street Journal:
KPMG survey: only 26% of companies have a comprehensive view of their AI costs, while 50% have some visibility and 22% have none or only see costs after billing
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page