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Netflix posted its best start to the year since 2020, attracting more new customers than anyone expected thanks to a strong slate of original programs and a crackdown on password sharing. (Bloomberg) The company announced it added ...

Sony Pictures Entertainment and Apollo Global Management are discussing making a joint bid for Paramount Global, according to a person familiar with the matter. (Reuters) If a deal were consummated, Sony would control a significan ...

A juror requested to drop out of former president Donald Trump’s hush money trial Thursday over concerns that her identity would be revealed — a situation that shows how intense media coverage could affect the trial and expose ...

Telemundo is restructuring its entertainment studios in an effort to produce more scripted content for its platforms. The new structure will see the Spanish-language media company merge its linear and streaming studios into one co ...

A judge in Tunisia sentenced a journalist and political commentator to six months in prison in the country’s latest assault on members of the media who criticize the government. (AP) Mohamed Boughalleb, who had been charged with ...

The automaker Hyundai said it had paused advertising on Elon Musk’s social media app, X, after a sponsored post from the company appeared next to antisemitic and pro-Nazi posts. (NBC News) On Wednesday, user Nancy Levine Stearns ...

Since taking the helm as CNN’s chairman and CEO in October 2023, Mark Thompson has largely kept a low profile as he acclimated to the mammoth news organization. Massive changes have been slow to come to the network, although Tho ...

CalMatters, a nonprofit news outlet focused on California politics, policy and community issues, has acquired The Markup, a nonprofit news site focused on technology and data privacy investigations. (Axios)

Sean McLaughlin has been named vice president of news at Graham Media Group. McLaughlin last worked as svp of local news at The E.W. Scripps Company, where he oversaw news operations and led the team when the station group laid of ...

Essence magazine’s corporate parent Sundial Media Group has agreed to buy women’s lifestyle company Refinery29 from Vice Media, the company said Thursday. (Axios)