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Sources: Fox News' Black employees are openly confronting management over its anti-Black rhetoric; Lachlan Murdoch personally approved Carlson's Neff remarks — SH*T.' — A heated early-June phone call between Fox execs and Black staffers was just the beginning of an internal revolt …
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Daniel Victor / New York Times:
Christopher Dickey, a foreign correspondent and editor who worked for the Washington Post, Newsweek, and the Daily Beast, has died at 68 — Mr. Dickey reported from war zones and published seven books, including a memoir about growing up with his famous father.
Nicholas Quah / Vulture:
The Michelle Obama Podcast to launch exclusively on Spotify July 29; show to feature conversations with Conan O'Brien, Valerie Jarrett, Michele Norris, others — The former First Lady is coming to your headphones. — This morning, Higher Ground, the production studio of Barack and Michelle Obama …
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Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline:
Netflix commits to a $200M+ budget, its largest ever, to produce The Gray Man, a Russo brothers thriller meant to be the start of a new franchise — EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from an earnings report that saw it add 10 million subscribers during the pandemic, Netflix has just set its most financially ambitious feature film so far.
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Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Andrew Sullivan announces launch of the Weekly Dish on Substack beginning next week; includes a column, a “dissent section” to that column, and a podcast — The good news is that my last column in this space is not about “cancel culture.” Well, almost.
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
USA Today says the column it ran by trade adviser Peter Navarro in which he criticized Dr. Fauci was misleading and didn't meet fact-checking standards — NEW YORK (AP) — USA Today says that a column that the newspaper solicited and published from presidential trade adviser Peter Navarro criticizing …
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CNBC:
Netflix names Ted Sarandos co-CEO, appoints Chief Product Officer Greg Peters as COO — Netflix is promoting its chief content officer Ted Sarandos to co-CEO, the company announced Thursday. The 20-year Netflix veteran will join current chief executive Reed Hastings in the role.
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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Netflix reports Q2 revenue of $6.15B, up 24.9% YoY, and expects 2.5M net subscriber additions for Q3 vs analyst estimates of 5.27M; stock down 9%+ after hours
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Memo: Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait says outlet publishes too many mediocre and/or long enterprise stories, stories should be shorter than 400 words or 900+ — Bloomberg News editor in chief John Micklethwait sent the following to the editorial staff on Wednesday:
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Krystie Lee Yandoli / BuzzFeed News:
Eleven current or former Ellen DeGeneres Show employees detail a toxic work culture, blaming executive producers and senior management — Ellen DeGeneres has built her worldwide, multimillion-dollar brand on the motto “be kind,” with lavish giveaways and acts of charity.
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Matthew Gault / VICE:
ACLU and Knight Institute say the US Army is violating the First Amendment by banning people from its Twitch channel for asking questions about war crimes — Two civil rights lawyers say that the U.S. Army may have violated the constitution when it banned Twitch viewers for asking questions about American war crimes.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Global Alliance for Responsible Media, an industry body of ad companies including Google and Facebook, agrees to evaluate mutual definition of hate speech — The Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), an industry body consisting of the world's biggest advertising companies …
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Bonnier, owner of Popular Science, Saveur, and others, names David Ritchie as its new US CEO, as it nears a deal to sell its US-based titles — Bonnier, the 216-year-old Swedish publishing giant that owns Field & Stream, Popular Science and Saveur, has changed the CEO of its American operation …
Dean Ridings / America's Newspapers:
Congress to consider The Local Journalism Sustainability Act, which would provide tax credits for local newspaper subscriptions, payroll, and advertising — Editor's Note: America's Newspapers supports passage of the Local Journalism Sustainability Act, which was introduced July 16.
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