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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 …
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Poynter, Newmark J-School, Axios, Bloomberg and @pablofindsout
Jason Nark / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Miami Herald's Julie K. Brown gets a Pulitzer Prize special citation for her work on the Jeffrey Epstein case, which led to Epstein's arrest in 2019 — Journalist Julie K. Brown, a Bucks County native who spent years at the Philadelphia Daily News, has received a special citation …
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A number of 2026 Pulitzer wins reflected the fallout from Trump's second term, with the committee recognizing coverage of conflicts of interest, ICE raids, more — The New York Times, The Washington Post and Reuters were multiple winners of Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, while the journalism committee awarded …
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Poynter, Minneapolis Star Tribune and Chicago Tribune
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) …
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Poynter, Reuters, Associated Press and Talking Biz News
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
How music streaming services are adapting to the rise of AI-generated music by labeling, deranking, and demonetizing tracks, using AI detection tools, and more — The use of generative AI in pop music started almost as a gimmick. There was a sense of experimentalism to 2018's I AM AI …
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@ladyjan.bsky.social, Baller Alert and NPR
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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.
Max Tani / Semafor:
A look at Trump's embrace of slightly less-well-known conservative media figures and Iran war hawks like WaPo columnist Marc Thiessen and Fox News' Mark Levin — George W. Bush had the hawkish Charles Krauthammer to explain his hawkish presidency to the public and advise him in private.
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The Daily Caller, Mediaite and @maxwelltani
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni settle their legal battle over the 2024 film It Ends With Us, avoiding a federal trial that was scheduled to begin in two weeks — It ends with a settlement. — After a year and a half of bitter feuding in court and in the press, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni …
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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 — The report is the latest study from the Media Insight Project. The Media Insight Poll is a collaboration of The Associated Press-NORC Center …
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Nieman Lab and The Korea Herald
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Paramount reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $7.35B, vs. $7.28B est., DTC revenue up 11% to $2.4B, and Paramount+ subscribers up 700K QoQ to 79.6M — Paramount Skydance topped Wall Street's revenue and earnings estimates for the first quarter on Monday, as the media company got a boost from its streaming and film businesses.
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TheDesk.net, Variety, Yahoo Finance, Media Play News, Paramount, Barron's Online and Cord Cutters News
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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Inverse, Futurism, WPXI-TV, Creative Bloq and Hong Kong Free Press HKFP, more at Techmeme »
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.
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Android Police, TheDesk.net, Chrome Unboxed, Cord Cutters News, 9to5Google, Radio & Television …, TVNewsCheck and Android Authority
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 …
