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4:35 PM ET, May 4, 2026

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Ren LaForme / Poynter:
2026 Pulitzer Prize winners: WaPo for Public Service for its DOGE coverage, The Minnesota Star Tribune for Breaking News, and AP for International Reporting  —  Details and links to this year's recipients of American journalism's highest honor  —  The Pulitzer Prize winners …
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT wins three Pulitzers: Investigative Reporting, Opinion Writing, and Breaking News Photography; the podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out wins Audio Reporting  —  The Washington Post won the award for public service, considered the most prestigious of the Pulitzers, for its coverage …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Joseph Ax / Reuters:
Reuters wins two 2026 Pulitzers: Beat Reporting about Meta exposing users to scams and National Reporting about Trump's political retribution campaign  —  Reuters won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, one for beat reporting for stories revealing how social-media behemoth Meta (META.O) …
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes:
A profile of music AI startup Suno, valued at ~$2.5B with 2M+ paying users and $300M annualized revenue as of February, as it battles record labels and artists  —  The music AI startup is battling record labels and angry artists as it upends how millions of people create songs.
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New York Times:
Chinese state media: AI-generated Chinese microdramas to be worth $3B+ in 2026, out of a $14B+ total microdrama market, boosted by tools like Seedance 2.0  —  This actor was just hitting his stride when A.I.-generated dramas took off and roles disappeared.  —  This director is thrilled …
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SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP have “reached a tentative agreement” on terms for a successor contract to their 2023 contracts; the deal is now headed for a board review  —  Of course, until this is voted on by some 160,000 members of the actors' guild, everything will remain tentative for the time being.
Rebecca Davis O'Brien / New York Times:
Sources: the US EEOC is poised to sue the NYT over a white male employee's allegation that he was denied a sought-after promotion because of his race and gender  —  The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently referred a reverse-discrimination complaint by an employee to the agency's legal unit for review.
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
YouTube TV and Allen Media Group renew their carriage deal, ensuring that The Weather Channel and other AMG networks will stay on YouTube's multichannel service  —  The company led by Byron Allen also closed a previously announced deal to sell some of its local stations to Gray Television.
Suzanne Smalley / The Record:
Forbes Media preliminarily agrees to a $10M settlement to resolve a California class action lawsuit alleging unauthorized user tracking via its website  —  Forbes Media has preliminarily agreed to pay $10 million and change its business practices to settle a class action lawsuit filed …
 
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American Press Institute:
Survey: 57% of US teens and adults, and 81% of teens aged 13 to 17, say they get at least some news and information from influencers or independent creators
Discussion: The Korea Herald
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
CBS News correspondent Anthony Mason is launching and financing YouTube series Alchemy, of which he'll retain full ownership, an unprecedented arrangement
Discussion: Tubefilter
Jacob Bryant / The Wrap:
The Daily Wire undergoes layoffs, and a spokesperson says cuts were mostly in Nashville; the EIC says cuts were nowhere near 50% of staff, as some rumors stated
Jazz Tangcay / Variety:
Netflix moves Narnia: The Magician's Nephew from Thanksgiving this year to February 12, 2027, for a wide theatrical release, and to April 2, 2027, for streaming
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro is exploring a “super app” that integrates Disney+ with parks passes, games, merchandise, and cruise and resort apps
Taylor Lorenz / Wired:
How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others
Ethan Gach / Kotaku:
The AV Club pulls away from gaming coverage, eliminating three roles, including two full-time staffers who ran video games coverage, to refocus on film and TV
Scott Feinberg / The Hollywood Reporter:
The Academy tightens rules about AI use for Oscar competitors in 2027, says only human-authored screenplays are eligible, and revises international Oscars rules
 

 
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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

Chloe Taylor / CNBC:
South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi index falls 10%, dragged down by SK Hynix and Samsung; STMicro and ASML fall ~7%, and US tech stocks fall in pre-market trading

Bloomberg:
Sources: Tencent is negotiating exits from minority investments in game studio in Japan, including Tokyo-traded Marvelous, as it reassesses its global portfolio
 
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