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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, the top-rated host at Fox News, is exiting the network.  —  The abrupt departure of the controversial prime …
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Sources: the decision to fire Tucker Carlson came straight from Rupert Murdoch and is related to ex-Carlson producer Abby Grossberg's discrimination lawsuit  —  Tucker Carlson is leaving Fox News.  —  The network announced the departure of its top-rated and most provocative conservative prime-time host Monday with no explanation.
Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
Source: Tucker Carlson's exit from Fox News wasn't voluntary and he was “totally surprised”; sources: the newsroom found out the news when it broke online
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 an uproar over on-air remarks he made about women and aging in February.
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Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
CNN rebukes Don Lemon for saying his agent informed him about the termination, and says Lemon “was offered an opportunity to meet” but instead took to Twitter
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 …
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Deadline:
Sources: the woman who filed the inappropriate conduct complaint against Jeff Shell was CNBC anchor Hadley Gamble, who previously had a relationship with Shell  —  EXCLUSIVE: Multiple sources tell Deadline that the woman who filed the complaint against NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell …
Martine Paris / Forbes:
Pop star Grimes tells fans to create AI-generated music using her voice, saying she will split 50% royalties, the same deal 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 …
Max Tani / Semafor:
With Facebook's pivot away from news and Twitter's decay, media outlets return to digital media's foundational concepts of the early 2000s like homepage traffic  —  The News  —  What year is it?  Consider the following:  — The Drudge Report is the biggest political website in the country.
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 …
Michael Grothaus / Fast Company:
The Insider Union says members will walk off their jobs today to protest layoffs of 60 unit members; around 250 staff members are expected to picket today  —  Hundreds of Insider staffers are expected to walk off their jobs today over proposed layoffs at the company.
 
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Mae Anderson / Associated Press:
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