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5:15 PM ET, April 30, 2026

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says there was no “pressure from the outside” on the agency leading to an early review of ABC's TV broadcast licenses  —  Brendan Carr, the Trump-appointed chairman of the FCC, claimed there was no White House pressure on him to make the unprecedented …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump says ABC “better” fire Jimmy Kimmel soon, after Kimmel said “Donald and Melania lately have seemed closer than ever” on Wednesday; Disney hasn't commented  —  People in entertainment Donald Trump Federal agencies TV shows  —  President Donald Trump says ABC had …
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
The NAB's CEO says the FCC's “nearly unprecedented request” for Disney to reapply for TV licenses is contrary to established principles and creates uncertainty
Reporters Without Borders:
RSF Press Freedom Index hits a 25-year low: over 50% of the world's countries fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories; Norway holds the top spot  —  For the first time in the history of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple reports Q2 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, and more, grew 16.3% YoY to $30.98B, beating estimates of $30.4B  —  Apple hit another high note in the first three months of 2026, delivering an earnings beat driven by a surge in iPhone sales and continued momentum in its Services segment.
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Reddit reports Q1 revenue up 69% YoY to $663M, vs. $611M est., DAUq up 17% to 126.8M, vs. 125.9M est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates  —  Reddit reported better-than-expected profit and revenue in its first-quarter earnings report on Thursday, and also issued an optimistic forecast.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Digital Content Next files an amicus brief in support of Amazon's Perplexity lawsuit, saying AI agents' unregulated access to content threatens news outlets  —  Case centres on use of AI agents that access content while cloaked as human users.  —  Major digital news publishers in the US …
Discussion: News/Media Alliance
Emily Shugerman / The San Francisco Standard:
Semafor announces a two-day conference, Silicon Valley & the World, in November in the Bay Area, with an advisory board including Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella  —  Davos by the Bay?  —  That's what the leaders of Semafor, the digital media and events company, seem to have in mind …
Alyssa Ray / The Wrap:
A Texas court stays the turnover of Infowars to the official who agreed to license it to The Onion; Sandy Hook families will seek emergency relief from courts  —  “[This] just warms my heart and still gives me faith in America and our legal system,” the Infowars founder adds
Ethan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter:
UMG artists will receive a share of the proceeds from UMG's Spotify stock sale, regardless of debts; WMG paid out $126M to artists from its 2018 stock sale  —  Years ago, as part of her negotiation process to sign with UMG, Swift demanded that the company pay out artists …
 
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Netflix starts rolling out its new Clips vertical video feed as a separate tab in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, India, and four other countries
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Analysis: in 2025, total UK ad spend grew 6.4% YoY to £46.7B; of that, £31B went to Google, Meta, and Amazon, and £1.6B went to magazines and news, down 5.1%
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
How US schools' overreliance on YouTube for educational content encourages students to get sucked into an infinite scroll of videos on school-issued devices
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon executives, including MGM Studios head Mike Hopkins, have discussed rebooting The Apprentice for Prime Video, with Donald Trump Jr. as the host
New York Times:
Digital advertising is booming for Google and Meta, helped by AI tools used for creating ads, translating copy, targeting, bidding, measuring results, and more
Scilla Alecci / ICIJ:
People posing as ICIJ journalists or whistleblowers targeted Taiwanese officials and real reporters after a 2025 ICIJ investigation called China Targets
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta reports Q1 family DAP up 4% YoY but down 20M QoQ to 3.56B, vs. 3.62B est., due to internet disruptions in Iran and a WhatsApp access restriction in Russia
 

 
From Techmeme:

Kate Conger / New York Times:
Google's AI Search is endangering the open web; Cloudflare: between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to sites of businesses in many industries fell ~40%

Matthew Sparkes / New Scientist:
Levent Alpöge, a mathematician who works at Anthropic, says he was able to disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture with the help of Fable 5

Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Chinese open models like Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 Max shift the industry's focus back to marginal costs and cost of goods sold, as inference costs scale with revenue
 
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