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| Mike Pompeo |
Fox News hires former secretary of state Mike Pompeo as a contributor. Pompeo, who will provide analysis across all Fox News Media platforms, was scheduled to make his debut on the April 9 edition of “Fox & Friends.” He joins fellow Trump alumni Larry Kudlow and Kayleigh McEnany at the network. “I intend to give viewers a candid, no-nonsense look at geopolitics, international relations and the America First policies that helped chart the course for unprecedented American prosperity and security,” Pompeo said in a Fox News release.
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News Corp. plans to issue $1B in bonds to fund acquisition drive, according to a report on The Hill. That figure is a hefty jump from the $750 million in bonds that the company previously said it would issue. In March alone, News Corp made two large purchases. On March 25, it announced plans to pick up Investor’s Business Daily for $275 million, and just days later said it was also buying Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books. The Houghton Mifflin deal will give News Corp. control of J.R.R. Tolkien books including “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, as well as George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” and “1984.”
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| Jessie Henderson |
Apple Studios is beefing up its push into the feature film market with the addition of Jessie Henderson as a feature film executive. Henderson comes to Apple from HBO Max, where she served as executive vice president of original feature films. She was previously co-president of Feigco Entertainment, producing film and TV projects that included the all-female “Ghostbusters” and “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.” Apple has also recently hired Paramount Pictures feature executive Lejo Pet.
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach an agreement that will make a set of more than 200 animated, masked and creature characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars available for use by Sora, OpenAI’s short-form generative AI video platform... CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has moved Tony Dokoupil, a co-host at “CBS Mornings” since 2019, into the anchor’s chair for the “CBS Evening News,” following the departure of John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois... USA Today editor-in-chief Caren Bohan has left the paper.
Michael Kaminer, who was responsible for the Observer’s “Power List” for the past 13 years, has cut ties with the publication... The New York Times Company continues the march toward its goal of 15 million subscribers by the end of 2027... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is providing more than $6 million in funding to eight organizations working to address the challenges local news and information environments face along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Conservative outlets Fox News, Newsmax and the Daily Caller are holding back from signing Pete Hegseth’s edict restricting press access in the Pentagon... CBS News sees the first executive departure of the Bari Weiss era as head of standards and practices Claudia Milne exits... Indiana University shuts down the print version of The Indiana Daily Student.
Rothschild family plans to unload 26.7 percent stake in The Economist... STAT, a digital media company that focuses the life sciences, brings back Damian Garde, who anchored its biotech newsletter and podcast from 2016 to 2024... High Times officially resumes print publication (following its 2024 shutdown) with the release of a limited-edition, collectible 50th anniversary issue. 
CBS News is set to hand over its reins to The Free Press co-founder Bari Weiss as Paramount acquires her site for $155M... C-SPAN comes on board as an official media partner of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, which is charged by Congress to lead the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence... A new Gallup survey says that the level of trust that US audiences have in the media has hit a new low.
