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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Trump's campaign sends a letter demanding CNN retract a poll showing Biden leading; CNN lawyer says the campaign is threatening litigation to muzzle speech — President Trump's reelection campaign has sent a cease and desist letter to CNN president Jeff Zucker demanding that the network retract …
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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Disney and other companies have suspended advertising on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show in recent weeks, as Carlson ramped up criticism of protests — Tucker Carlson may have one of the most watched shows on cable news, but the Fox News Channel host is losing advertisers - again.
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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Tucker Carlson leaves The Daily Caller and sells his roughly one-third stake to co-founder and publisher Neil Patel, who now owns a controlling stake — Co-founder Neil Patel now owns controlling stake in conservative news website — Tucker Carlson is leaving the Daily Caller …
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Bon Appétit releases a statement conceding its racially insensitive past, vowing extensive changes like prioritizing people of color for its EIC candidate pool — Bon Appétit, the Condé Nast-owned food title that found itself embroiled in controversy this week …
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
A&E cancels reality series Live P.D., which had been renewed for 160 episodes a month ago, following nationwide protests and calls for police reform — EXCLUSIVE: A&E has canceled its flagship series and one of the highest-rated shows on basic cable. A week after Live P.D. was pulled …
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Gannett says many of its 260 regional outlets have 10 or fewer news staff and a lot have five or less; The Ithaca Journal in NY has just a single reporter — It's common for the smallest of Gannett's 260 regional outlets to have staffs of five or fewer, the company's top news executive confirmed
David Folkenflik / NPR:
A black Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter says the executive editor's letter defending a decision to prevent her from covering protests was dehumanizing — The executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette defended his paper in a fiery front-page essay Wednesday morning against charges …
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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Los Angeles County plans to issue guidelines on Thursday for restarting film and TV production; some productions are expected to restart in July and August — Los Angeles County is set to issue its guidelines on Thursday for the restart of film and TV production, allowing filming to resume as soon as Friday.
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Abid Rahman / Hollywood Reporter:
HBO Max temporarily pulls Gone With the Wind, the American classic considered controversial for its depiction of Black people and its positive view of slavery — The 1939 film has long been considered controversial for its depiction of Black people and its positive view of slavery.
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Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter:
ViacomCBS' Paramount Network pulls the plug on the long-running TV show Cops after protests over the death of George Floyd; old episodes still air on Pluto TV
ViacomCBS' Paramount Network pulls the plug on the long-running TV show Cops after protests over the death of George Floyd; old episodes still air on Pluto TV
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Tre Vayne / OneZero:
Black Lives Matter supporters are using YouTube's AdSense tools to generate donations, uploading lengthy videos with frequent ads and donating any revenue — In — the early 2010s, in the wake of the Moldovan parliamentary election protests and Occupy Wall Street, digital observers coined the term …
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Recording Academy tweaks rules to remove “urban” from some Grammy Awards categories but adds it to another, promises to make necessary adjustments in the future — The Recording Academy announced a series of updates for its 2021 awards, including eligibility rules for best …
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Publishers using Google AdSense say they are being penalized by Google's Confirmed Clicks, which, sources say, can reduce programmatic ad revenue by 40-60% — Publishers are once again caught in the crosshairs of Google's quest to clean up the open web. — Over the last six months …
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