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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Tucker Carlson called a senior Fox News executive the c-word, something Fox's lawyers managed to redact in court, which helped lead to his firing — Prime-time host called senior executive the c-word in redacted missive; network grew wary of further embarrassment from possible disclosure
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Rolling Stone:
Sources: Fox is prepared to disclose details from an “oppo file” on Tucker Carlson if he attacks the network, including workplace conduct complaints and more — Eight sources tell Rolling Stone that the network's top brass has been stockpiling information on the departing primetime host
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
A look at Tucker Carlson's long journey from a self-declared truth-telling journalist to a promoter of conspiracy theories and a for-mega-profit propagandist — Was his long, strange trip a put-up job? Tucker Carlson wasn't always Tucker Carlson. Or maybe he was.
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Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff / Washington Post:
A profile of Nate Silver, who was a baseball statistician before 538 and most recently entered online COVID-19 debates despite his inexperience in public health — Readers only knew him as “poblano.” — A baseball statistician by day, the mysterious writer started dipping his toes …
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Chad Umble / LancasterOnline:
The Steinman family plans to donate LNP Media Group to WITF, a public broadcasting station based in Harrisburg, PA; LNP will become a public benefit corporation — The Steinman family's 158-year ownership of a daily newspaper in Lancaster will end in June with a gift meant to safeguard the future of its flagship publication.
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CNN:
Nielsen: Newsmax viewership exploded in the hours after Tucker Carlson's ouster, averaging 531,000 total viewers at 8pm on Monday, up from 146,000 on April 17 — Alarm bells must be going off inside Fox News. — The firing of the right-wing network's most popular host, the extremist Tucker Carlson …
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Next TV, @bulwarkonline, Forbes and Newsweek
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon were products of the Trump era with their indignation and outrage; their ousters represent a temporary pullback from media excesses
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Tucker Carlson's exit, like Glenn Beck's and Bill O'Reilly's, shows that no one is irreplaceable since Fox News itself, which convenes the audience, is the star
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube's advertising revenue declined for the third consecutive quarter, by 2.6% YoY to $6.69B in Q1 2023, slightly beating analyst estimates of $6.6B — Ad sales at YouTube declined 2.6% year over year in the first quarter of 2023, to $6.69 billion. Analysts expected it to come in at $6.6 billion, per FactSet.
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Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
Inside Jeff Shell's firing; sources say an NBCU probe, coinciding with CNBC anchor Hadley Gamble's contract situation, unearthed emails that led to his ouster — Wearing a nondescript gray T-shirt with a backstage pass dangling from his neck, Jeff Shell looked more like a snowy-haired roadie …
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Jesse Whittock / Deadline:
Netflix says it will spend almost $6B making shows and films in the UK from 2020 through 2023, or about 50% more than it originally anticipated — Netflix will have invested almost $6BN in UK content over four years by the end of 2023, the streamer has revealed.
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The Guardian, The Wrap and The Hollywood Reporter
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
External review: UK press regulator IPSO, in operation since 2014, has yet to hold a standards investigation and the chance of launching one looks “remote” — The regulator declined to investigate the Jewish Chronicle, instead monitoring it and training staff.
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Bloomberg:
Kantar: Netflix lost 1M+ subscribers in Spain in Q1 2023, triple the cancellations in Q4; two thirds of those who canceled were using someone else's password — Netflix Inc. lost more than one million users in Spain in the first three months of 2023 according to market research group Kantar …
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New York Post, @harry_jerry and Insider
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Tubi founder and CEO Farhad Massoudi leaves the company; Fox restructures its digital operations to form the Tubi Media Group, led by Fox CTO Paul Cheesbrough — Fox Corporation is restructuring its digital operations by forming the Tubi Media Group as Farhad Massoudi …
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Variety, Adweek, The Streamable, The Information, Cord Cutters News, Media Play News and @daveleebbg
Michelle Pitcher / The Texas Observer:
A profile of Jason Walker, a prison journalist whose reporting on the use of a dangerous drug in prisons has led to multiple threats from officials and inmates — In a postscript at the end of the letter, a request. — Jason Walker writes his mom's name, says she lives in San Angelo: “Please be my arranger if a funeral is needed.”
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@texasobserver, ABC13, @texasobserver, @texasobserver, @penamerica and @TexasObserver …
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