Mediagazer: Disney employees say the company has not been forthcoming about layoffs, with some sources saying around 3,000 employees will be affected (Paul Bond/Hollywood Reporter)

2:00 PM ET, March 22, 2019

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Source: Apple has signed up Vox for its upcoming news subscription service; other Vox Media properties will not participate initially — Apple Inc. signed Vox to be part of an upcoming subscription service for newspaper and magazine readers, according to a person familiar with the matter …

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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:

With advertisers fleeing Tucker Carlson's show, 34.8% of its ads since March 10 have been in-house and promoted Fox programming — ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight,’ besieged by social media backlash, increasingly is filling commercial breaks with in-house ads and direct-response brand spots.

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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Sources: some pundits who appear regularly on Fox News “opinion” shows, including Sara Carter, are banned from appearing on the network's news programming

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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Fox's Jeanine Pirro to be off the air for a second week; a source says she was suspended for two weeks and that she will return on March 30

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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Interview with former News Corp SVP Joseph Azam, who says he quit in 2017 over the Murdoch approach to Muslims, immigrants, and race at Fox and other outlets

Monojoy Bhattacharjee / What's New in Publishing:

Report: YouTube is now responsible for 37% of all mobile internet traffic, ahead of Facebook's 8.4%; media time spent on mobile in US rose from 21% to 24% YoY — Smartphones are the big gainers in media consumption year-over-year, according to the just-released Nielsen's Q3 2018 Total Audience Report.

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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:

Disney employees say the company has not been forthcoming about layoffs, with some sources saying around 3,000 employees will be affected — Multiple employees say that Disney has been less than forthcoming about who will be let go and when. — At Walt Disney's shareholder meeting two weeks ago …

Discussion: /Film and IGN

Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:

Sources: expected layoffs begin after the close of the Disney-Fox deal, with about two dozen senior-level executives at 20th Century Fox affected so far — Anticipated layoffs have begun at Fox, following the storied studio's sale to Walt Disney Co. earlier this week.

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TechCrunch:

MoviePass CEO Ted Farnsworth said around 20% of the company's subscriber base abused the service by sharing their pass with others, among other things — Ted Farnsworth discusses Helios and Matheson's work to turn around the troubled service — Two days after MoviePass announced the return …

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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

How the American Journalism Project, which raised $42M to help local news, is choosing which sites get grants: quality work, credibility, public purpose, more — No pushing in line, please. Having raised $42 million in just six months, the American Journalism Project …

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Rosemary Feitelberg / WWD:

John Homans has been named editor of Vanity Fair's media, technology, and business vertical The Hive — Telling stories in one voice, repurposing online content for the magazine and “figuring out how the two can work together” are among the editor's priorities.

Jon Levine / The Wrap:

A reporter for a pro-life media organization says he was forced to resign after criticizing a far-right activist who was “verbally tormenting” a CNN reporter — Zachary Petrizzo, a writer for the pro-life media organization Live Action, says he was forced to resign after he tweeted …

Discussion: @oliverdarcy, @levinejonathan and @alexthomasdc

PolitiFact:

Politifact is partnering with Noticias Telemundo to offer fact-checking in Spanish for the network's 2020 election coverage — PolitiFact will partner with Noticias Telemundo to offer fact-checking in Spanish ahead of the 2020 presidential election. — PolitiFact is a fact-checking website owned …

Discussion: @billadairduke

Vikas SN / The Economic Times:

Sources: Netflix is testing a low-cost, mobile-only subscription with select users in India, for half the price of its entry-level plan in the country — In October last year, Netflix chief product officer Greg Peters had said that they will experiment with their pricing models to grow …

Discussion: BGR, @lucas_shaw, The Next Web, MediaNama, Engadget and FierceVideo

Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:

Almost 8 out of 10 GOP voters who watch Fox News believe Trump is the best President in US history, as the network presents an “alternative reality” — A new survey of the network's watchers reveal the hard core of the Republican Party and how hopeless it is for Democrats to try and court them.

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