Mediagazer: The Insider Union says over 250 staff members walked off the job on April 24 to protest Insider's management “threatening to lay off 60 unit members” (Michael Grothaus/Fast Company)

4:50 PM ET, April 24, 2023

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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:

Fox News says the network and Tucker Carlson “have agreed to part ways”, and that Carlson's last program was on Friday, April 21 — Tucker Carlson, the top-rated host at Fox News, is exiting the network. — The abrupt departure of the controversial prime time figure comes …

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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 former 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.

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Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
Source: Tucker Carlson's Fox News exit was “a firing” and he's “totally surprised”; sources: the newsroom is in “shock” and found out when the news broke online

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New York Times:

CNN parts ways with Don Lemon, who had been under scrutiny since making on-air remarks about women and aging in February 2023; 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.

Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
CNN rebukes Don Lemon for saying his agent “informed” him that CNN terminated him, saying Lemon “was offered an opportunity to meet” but instead took to Twitter

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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 …

Deadline:

CNBC anchor Hadley Gamble filed the inappropriate conduct complaint against NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell; source: Gamble had a previous relationship with Shell — EXCLUSIVE: Multiple sources tell Deadline that the woman who filed the complaint against NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell …

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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.

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Digiday: How a reliance on social media traffic led to BuzzFeed News' demise; Similarweb: social channels made up 26% of its traffic in Q1 2023, vs. 13% at HuffPost

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 …

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Reuters Institute:

News media distrust among marginalized groups often stems from unease about how they are represented, based on focus groups in Brazil, India, the UK, and the US — There is no single trust problem, and therefore there is no single trust solution. This point has been a common refrain …

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:

Sources: Disney begins its second round of layoffs, expecting to cut ~4,000 jobs by the end of the week, as part of plans to lay off 7,000 staff before summer — Restructuring will continue “for the next couple of months,” Disney Entertainment chiefs Dana Walden and Alan Bergman wrote to staff Monday …

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John Kruzel / Reuters:

SCOTUS agrees to hear two First Amendment cases about government officials blocking critics on social media, after a similar Donald Trump Twitter case in 2021 — The U.S. Supreme Court, exploring free speech rights in the social media era, on Monday agreed to consider whether the Constitution's …

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Michael Grothaus / Fast Company:

The Insider Union says over 250 staff members walked off the job on April 24 to protest Insider's management “threatening to lay off 60 unit members” — Hundreds of Insider staffers are expected to walk off their jobs today over proposed layoffs at the company.

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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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