Alex Weprin

We are devastated to hear about the passing of John Sterling, a WFAN and Yankees radio icon whose voice was synonymous with an entire generation of Yankee fandom. Rest in peace, John ❤️

The first film, in hindsight, took place at the very pinnacle of traditional media's power. The second film chronicles the current moment of its decline.

The Devil Wears Prada 2, it turns out, is one of the most biting media satires ever filmed, throwing punches at the decline of journalism, TikTok "investigators," vanity media owners, and more. hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

@edmundlee @LachCartwright Pretty sure this means you guys need to bring back the happy hours.

@edmundlee @LachCartwright Boom!

I have a new gig (via @LachCartwright breakermedia.com)

Here it is, folks, the wildest summary compensation table I've ever seen in a proxy filing. For Tesla.

Financial disclosures show that The Apprentice still generates six figures of annual income for the President via royalties.

More here: hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-in…

Talk about incredible: Thanks to a deal made years ask by Taylor Swift (!!) Universal Music Group will have to pay out millions of dollars to its artists when it sells its Spotify stake (which it announced plans to do today).

Here's Disney's statement responding to the FCC order:

And if you are curious, you can read the FCC's letter to Disney calling in ABC's licenses, here:

FLASH: The FCC is officially calling in Disney's broadcast licenses for early renewal, citing the public interest standard and "the agency’s prohibition on unlawful discrimination."

Tim Heidecker once crashed an Infowars livestream at the RNC to do his Alex Jones impression — to Alex Jones's face. Now he's about to own the place. My sit-down with Tim and Onion CEO Ben Collins, days from closing the deal: hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features…

More here, including just how much of the company's equity the PIF will hold: hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

New: Paramount has asked the FCC to sign off on the Middle East investment in its Warners mega-deal. The company says in a filing viewed by THR that "indirect foreign ownership of equity interests in Paramount will be approximately 49.5 percent."

Excl: A movie adaptation of military video game BATTLEFIELD is in the works...with CHRISTOPHER MCQUARRIE writing & directing and MICHAEL B JORDAN producing & possibly starring. Hollywood studios & streamers taking meetings today. #recipient_hashed=4099e28fd37d67ae86c8ecfc73a6b7b652abdcdb75a184f8cf1f8015afde10e9&recipient_salt=f7bfecc7d62e4c672635670829cb8f9e0e2053aced394fb57d9da6937cf0601a&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=Breaking%20News&utm_content=678411_04-24-2026&utm_term=273056?utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=1777050989-Breaking+News&utm_content=678411_4-24-2026&utm_id=678411" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…

Anthropic is co-hosting a party at Cannes with Graydon Carter.

@maxwelltani They really nailed how the market for for media about startups and "GTM" is bigger than the markets. for sports, real estate and gaming, which are all snoozefests

new media isn't that hard to grasp. there are some podcasts and there are some newsletters, and there are even a few streamers. everyone else is a "creator" usually doing one of those things. if the person/thing is important enough, you'll eventually read about it in the nyt.

i always love these charts. "media for women" and it's like a celebrity podcast and a new newsletter that hasn't launched yet...