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Brooks Barnes / New York Times: A24's Backrooms and Focus' Obsession join a wave of breakout films from young directors who started on YouTube; Backrooms opened to $82M in North American sales -
10 minutes ago Max Tani / Semafor: NYPR's new CEO Christy Tanner, a CBS News veteran, has eliminated many senior figures, surprising staff and unsettling some of its remaining leaders — THE SCOOP -
Brian Steinberg / Variety: NBC News launches Meet the Moment Live, a new live-event franchise for Meet the Press, its latest show to try to develop new revenue through live events -
Sherry Su / Bloomberg: Sky ends its UAE joint venture with IMI amid criticism of Sky News Arabia's Sudan war coverage; IMI will take full ownership, and Sky will license the brand -
Brian Welk / IndieWire: After backlash, animator Jorge R. Gutierrez drops plans to make an AI-generated animated series called Punky Duck for Amazon MGM Studios' GenAI Creators' Fund -
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap: Analysis: the top 18 Hollywood executives received $746M in combined compensation in 2025, a 51% YoY increase, as their pay gap with employees remains massive -
Jem Aswad / Variety: UMG rejects the $64B acquisition offer from Bill Ackman's Pershing Square, saying the deal is not in the best interests of UMG, shareholders, and stakeholders -
New York Times: Just the News founder John Solomon says he is being vetted for a short-term White House role; source: he would lead a task force to declassify documents -
John Koblin / New York Times: Antenna: bundles make up 33% of new major streaming service subscriptions in the US, and 28% of all subscriptions, up from just 10% of new subscriptions in 2024 -
CNBC: Q&A with Brendan Carr, who discusses Disney's claim that the FCC's early TV license renewal orders chill free speech and says the orders are about DEI -
Michael Calderone / New York Magazine: Q&A with the FCC's Anna Gomez on the FCC's “policymaking by mob”, the high likelihood of a Disney win against the FCC, the risks of foreign investment in media -
Max Tani / Semafor: An interview with Nick Bilton on working in TV news for the first time, building 60 Minutes' digital presence, having support from David Ellison, and more — The News -
Brian Steinberg / Variety: Sources: Bari Weiss ousted two senior 60 Minutes executive producers, Tanya Simon and Draggan Mihailovich, and correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega -
Michael Crowley / New York Times: China ordered the expulsion of NYT reporter Vivian Wang in February; a source says the US revoked the visa of a Chinese national working for Xinhua in response -
Meir Orbach / CTech: Sports Illustrated rights holder Minute Media lays off 12% of staff and reverses its ~$200M deal to buy VideoVerse, an AI platform to extract sports highlights
