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6:45 AM ET, April 27, 2026

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Wall Street Journal:
President Trump was evacuated from the White House Correspondents' Dinner after loud sounds were heard in the hotel; a shooting suspect has been apprehended  —  Witnesses heard three loud bangs and saw a man carrying a rifle  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump is safe after what he described …
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Clayton Davis / Variety:
President Trump calls for the White House Correspondents' Dinner to be rescheduled within 30 days after Saturday's dinner was disrupted by a shooting incident  —  President Donald Trump held a press conference at the White House about one hour after he and first lady Melania Trump …
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Lionsgate's Michael opens with $97M domestically and $217M globally in its first weekend, the best start ever for a biopic and the second-biggest debut of 2026  —  There's a new box office king.  —  “Michael,” a biopic from Lionsgate about the King of Pop, Michael Jackson …
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: Canadian holding company Tiny is looking to sell its stake in cinephile social platform Letterboxd, and has held talks with Versant and The Ankler  —  The Scoop  —  The controlling investor in Letterboxd, the social platform for movie lovers that's one of the few success stories …
Discussion: r/Letterboxd
Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
Amazon reaches a multiyear licensing deal with Oprah Winfrey to produce twice-a-week video podcasts starting in July, repurpose The Oprah Winfrey Show, and more  —  The multiyear deal with Ms. Winfrey signifies the tech giant's growing ambitions in video podcasts.
Discussion: TechCrunch
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
A look at what's next for Netflix and Comcast's Peacock after the WBD-Paramount deal; Nielsen says Netflix had six of the top 10 original streaming shows in Q1  —  The company's streaming service has lost more than $11 billion and can't keep customers form canceling
Boaz Sobrado / Forbes:
A profile of Anthony Fujiwara, who industrialized “clipping” for social media video marketing and has contributed to the rise of crypto casinos like Stake  —  Anthony Fujiwara is the co-founder of Clipping Exe, also known as the creator of clipping, the video marketing phenomenon …
Benjamin Wallace / New York Times:
A profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become mandatory listening in the AI community, with guests like Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg  —  Dwarkesh Patel was a bored college sophomore looking for intellectual stimulation.  Now he commands interviews with Jensen Huang …
Polina Ivanova / Financial Times:
Russia enters a new stage in its crackdown on publishing houses, including those compliant with state demands; major publisher Eksmo-AST was raided last week  —  Kremlin crackdown targets even loyal publishing houses  —  First, they came for the covers: in bookshops across Russia …
Benjamin Toff / Pew Research Center:
Survey: 49% of US adults say they mostly get news because they happen to come across it, not by actively seeking it out, an increase from 39% in 2019  —  The Pew-Knight Initiative supports new research on how Americans absorb civic information, form beliefs and identities, and engage in their communities.
Alex Mahadevan / Poynter:
When newsroom leaders rolled out badly executed AI initiatives in Cleveland, at McClatchy outlets, and more, they increased distrust of the tech  —  A series of tumultuous generative artificial intelligence rollouts make clear that leaders need to listen before leaping
 
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Leila Abboud / Financial Times:
Over 100 writers quit Grasset after rightwing billionaire Vincent Bolloré, owner of parent company Hachette, fired the Paris publisher's editor Olivier Nora
Aidan McLaughlin / Vanity Fair:
A look at Tony Dokoupil's tenure, with tumbling ratings and his kid-glove questioning of the powerful, as he became the face of the Weiss revolution at CBS News
Gretel Kahn / Reuters Institute:
Union representatives for media in the US, Philippines, and Greece share how their groups are trying to protect members from job changes due to AI
Eric Rynston-Lobel / Local News Initiative:
A look at the future of local TV news amid consolidation: three industry veterans consider digital options, collaborations, and new business models
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Sources: AG Todd Blanche, WHCA President Weijia Jiang, CBS News President Tom Cibrowski, and Bari Weiss attended Paramount's dinner at the US Institute of Peace
@themidasproj:
The Wire by Acutus, which used AI to interview people and write articles attacking AI critics, seemed to be funded by OpenAI-backed super PAC Leading The Future
Aroon Deep / The Hindu:
Source: Meta has a system in India to “automatically restrict content, at scale” to meet local law, massively expanding the country's censorship powers
Discussion: MediaNama
Calista Wong / The Straits Times:
A Singapore man has been arrested and may face seven years in jail for allegedly leaking The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender after accessing a media server
Bloomberg:
Sources: iHeartMedia is in preliminary talks about a possible merger with SiriusXM; the combined company would have $12B+ in sales; IHRT closed up ~35%
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Profile of comedian Tim Heidecker, who, as creative director, plans to turn Infowars into a “weird” comedy streaming network if a judge okays The Onion's offer
 

 
From Techmeme:

Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Anthropic backtracks on its decision to quietly limit Fable 5's ability to develop LLMs, saying “requests will visibly fall back to Opus 4.8”, after backlash

Shahram Mokhtari / iFixit News:
A teardown reveals the Trump Mobile T1 is a gold-painted HTC U24 Pro but features some changes, including memory from Micron instead of SK Hynix

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI is considering drastically lowering the prices it charges users for tokens in anticipation of similar cuts the startup expects Anthropic to make
 
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