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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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Matt Duckor, a Condé Nast vice president who oversaw videos for Bon Appétit and other titles, has resigned after accusations of bias from staff — Matt Duckor, who led the publisher's programming efforts, resigned after accusations of bias. He leaves the company shortly …
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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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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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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
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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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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


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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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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The Weather Company, which runs weather.com and Weather Underground, is laying off writers, editors, and video journalists, and shuttering the Category 6 blog — The Weather Company, which operates the popular websites Weather.com and Weather Underground, and offers forecast …
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ViacomCBS says it has no plans to drop Pluto channel the First despite staff petition calling to do so because the First airs Bill O'Reilly's show — ViacomCBS employees are asking the media company to drop a streaming channel carrying a new show by former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly …
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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 …
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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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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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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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