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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.
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  —  Tucker Carlson's departure from Fox News was not voluntary, multiple sources told Mediaite.
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Source: Tucker Carlson was in the midst of negotiating the renewal of his Fox News contract through 2029 and told people last week he expected it to be renewed  —  The prime-time star, who was recently negotiating his contract renewal through 2029, learned Monday that his top-rated 8 p.m. show was being taken off the air.
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.
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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  —  CNN's communications department issued a quick correction to fired anchor Don Lemon's brutal statement …
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  —  BuzzFeed News shut down Thursday due to an “over-investment” into the social-first news site, according to an internal memo from BuzzFeed Inc's CEO and founder Jonah Peretti.
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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.
TIME:
Time names interim EIC Sam Jacobs as its new Editor in Chief, effective immediately, and says the outlet has 105M readers globally, 45% of which are under 35  —  TIME CEO Jessica Sibley sent the following note to staff on Monday:  —  Team,  —  Today, I am thrilled to announce Sam Jacobs …
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 …
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, 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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