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12:23 PM ET, April 24, 2023

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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Fox News says the channel and Tucker Carlson “have agreed to part ways”, and Carlson's last program was Friday, April 21; FOXA stock is down 4%+  —  Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News, according to a press release from the network.  —  FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways.
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell is leaving the company effective immediately, after a Comcast investigation into an employee's complaint of inappropriate conduct  —  Jeff Shell had been at the Comcast Corp. unit for roughly two decades  —  NBCUniversal Chief Executive Jeff Shell is leaving …
Ben Smith / Vanity Fair:
An inside look at Disney's offer to acquire BuzzFeed in 2013 for $450M, with the potential to earn $200M more, which BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti nearly accepted  —  In an excerpt from his new book, Traffic, former BuzzFeed editor in chief Ben Smith reports how Jonah Peretti enraged Bob Iger …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A timeline of BuzzFeed News, from hiring Ben Smith in December 2011 to announcing IPO plans in March 2017, including funding deals and competitors' critiques  —  The “BuzzFeed is the most important news organization in the world” era.  —  A little over a decade after BuzzFeed News came to life …
New York Times:
CNN says it is parting ways with Don Lemon, who had been under scrutiny since making remarks about women and aging in February; Lemon says he was terminated  —  Mr. Lemon, one of the network's most recognizable stars, had been under scrutiny since making remarks about women and aging in February that were widely perceived to be sexist.
Discussion: @donlemon and New York Post
Martine Paris / Forbes:
Pop star Grimes tells fans to create AI-generated music with her voice, saying she will split 50% royalties, the same as “with any artist I collab with”  —  In the wake of the AI-generated hit Heart on My Sleeve going viral with deepfakes of Drake and The Weeknd …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: Disney begins its second round of layoffs today, cutting around 4,000 jobs by the end of the week, as part of plans to lay off 7,000 employees  —  Restructuring will continue “for the next couple of months,” Disney Entertainment chiefs Dana Walden and Alan Bergman wrote to staff Monday …
Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
Twitter restores the gold badges of some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay  —  Some Twitter accounts with more than one million followers have had their blue tick badges re-instated by Twitter without paying to subscribe.
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Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Twitter emails advertisers to say they must now have “a verified checkmark or subscribe to either Twitter Blue or Verified Organizations” to keep running ads
TIME:
Time names interim EIC Sam Jacobs as its new Editor in Chief and says it has 105M readers globally, with 45% of those under the age of 35  —  TIME CEO Jessica Sibley sent the following note to staff on Monday:  —  Team,  —  Today, I am thrilled to announce Sam Jacobs as the new Editor in Chief of TIME, effective immediately.
Bloomberg:
Nielsen: Netflix accounts for between 7% and 8% of TV viewing in the US every month and between 70% to 80% of the top 10 shows in the US every week  —  Good afternoon from Ojai, California, where I am celebrating my girlfriend's birthday.  Lunch was interrupted by huge news …
 
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Mae Anderson / Associated Press:
Analysts say how much Fox Corp pays of the $787.5M Dominion settlement remains unclear and could be much lower due to insurance and income tax deductions
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Dani Anguiano / The Guardian:
How Doni Chamberlain and her team at A News Cafe are documenting the far-right's takeover of Shasta county in northern California, despite threats of violence
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Alan Baldwin / Reuters:
Funke Media Group sacks the editor of German magazine Die Aktuelle, which ran an AI-generated interview with Michael Schumacher, and apologizes to his family
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CNN announces King Charles, a weekly one-hour primetime show hosted by Gayle King and Charles Barkley, expected to launch in fall 2023 and air on Wednesdays
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes:
The proliferation of AI-generated content on marketplaces like Upwork and Fiverr is causing transactional disputes and increasing client and freelancer mistrust
Discussion: @zachweiner