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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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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
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Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Paramount reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $7.35B, above $7.28B est., DTC revenue up 11% YoY 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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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Paramount expects “significantly lower theatrical revenue” in 2026 due to lower average box office per film, despite committing to 30 annual releases with WBD — Paramount Skydance has nearly doubled its theatrical-film slate in 2026 — but it will see “significantly” …
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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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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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Media Matters for America:
Media Matters settles with the FTC, and says the FTC agreed to “forgo future investigations of MMFA”; the FTC confirms Media Matters isn't under any probe — FTC agrees to forgo future investigations of MMFA to secure withdrawal ahead of judgment
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Javier Córdoba / Associated Press:
Costa Rican outlet La Nación says the US revoked several board execs' visas without explanation, after critical coverage of President Chaves, a close Trump ally — The United States has revoked the visas of several board executives at La Nación, one of Costa Rica's leading media outlets …
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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 …
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
CBS' Tracker is moving production from Vancouver to Los Angeles for Season 4 after receiving a $48M California tax credit, the biggest ever for a series — Its studio 20th Television is currently locking down production facilities in and around L.A., with filming on Season 4 slated to begin in late June.
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Josephine Walker / Axios:
How the BookTok community is reshaping streaming as studios turn to influential creators and fanbases, placing their bets on book adaptations to win viewers — The BookTok community — ravenous readers who share reviews of their latest reads — is reshaping the streaming wars.
Jason Zinoman / New York Times:
Q&A with David Letterman on his “disbelief” at The Late Show ending, CBS citing financial reasons to cancel it, Byron Allen, his favorite memories, and more — He no longer feels a sense of ownership, but the program's former host has harsh words for the network.
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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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