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8:15 AM ET, May 1, 2026

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Business Wire:
USA Today reports Q1 revenue down 4% YoY to $548.5M, net income of $19.9M, up $27.2M from Q1 2025, 1.46M paid digital subs, and $45.9M digital subscription rev  —  USA TODAY Co., Inc. ("USA TODAY Co.", “we”, “us”, “our”, or the “Company") (NYSE: TDAY) today reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026.
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Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
USA Today's Q1 “other” digital revenue, including AI partnerships, grew 125.6% YoY to $33.75M; visitors fell 7.7% to 180M; digital ad revenue fell 3% to $80.9M  —  USA Today Co.'s AI licensing deals helped drive meaningful year-over-year revenue growth in the first quarter of this year …
Discussion: Yahoo Finance
Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Five more states join the lawsuit filed last month by eight states seeking to block Nexstar's Tegna acquisition, which Nexstar said the DOJ and FCC approved  —  Five additional states have joined a federal lawsuit originally filed last month that seeks to block Nexstar Media Group's $6.2 billion acquisition …
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Samantha Hendrickson / The Columbus Dispatch:
Ohio AG strikes a deal with Nexstar to maintain separate news teams at each of two Ohio TV stations and respect editorial independence after a merger with Tegna  —  The Ohio Attorney General's Office struck a deal with Nexstar Media Group to keep two of Columbus' TV stations independent …
Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
A group of TV consumers sue in federal court in California to block Paramount's acquisition of WBD on antitrust grounds; Paramount says the suit lacks merit  —  The lawsuit looks to block the merger, arguing it will lead to higher prices, reduced choice and fewer productions in violation of antitrust laws.
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 …
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 …
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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
Eric Fisher / Front Office Sports:
The Braves say their network is on pace to equal its prior broadcasting revenue from Main Street Sports; other MLB teams using the in-house model are struggling  —  The Braves say that despite a frenetic move this spring to form their own regional sports network, the MLB club is on pace …
Discussion: TVREV
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
A US appeals court reverses its 2024 decision, now ruling that Netflix's use of videographer Tim Sepi's 66-second clip in Tiger King constitutes fair use  —  A three-judge panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the filmmakers' use of a 66-second clip from a character's funeral …
Discussion: The Wrap, Reuters and Bloomberg Law
Mike Leonard / Bloomberg Law:
Gavin Newsom's $787M defamation lawsuit against Fox News, accusing it of falsely claiming he lied about a phone call with Trump in 2025, moves forward in court  —  California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) won an initial round Thursday in his $787 million defamation case over Fox News coverage …
Discussion: The Wrap and JDJournal Blog
Hannah Miller / Bloomberg:
The News/Media Alliance urges web repository Common Crawl to stop unauthorized scraping and prevent AI companies from using publisher content in its database  —  Major news organizations, including CNN, NBC and USA Today, have joined an effort to curb the storage of their content …
Discussion: News/Media Alliance
 
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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
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $1.25B, ad revenue up 27% to $613M, subscription revenue up 30%, raises 2026 profit guidance; ROKU jumps 8%+ after hours
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
Discussion: News/Media Alliance
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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
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
X says it has begun a “phased rollout” of its rebuilt ad platform, which it says will have more modern “retrieval and ranking systems” powered by AI
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
Krystal Scanlon / Digiday:
Meta introduces Meta Ads AI connectors in open beta, letting advertisers use their preferred third-party AI tools to create, manage, and analyze campaigns
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
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
Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: London-based DAZN agrees to acquire ViewLift, which builds tech for streaming services for 15 professional US sports teams and others, for ~$100M
 

 
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Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Sakana AI launches Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system accessible through a single model API, claiming Fugu Ultra matches Fable and Mythos on benchmarks

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Valve's Steam Machine, its new living room Linux PC, will start at $1,049 for the 512GB base model without a controller, and will go on sale starting June 29
 
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