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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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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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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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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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Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
Alphabet reports Q1 Google ad revenue of $54.55B, vs. $54.66B YoY, the second straight decline after a 3.6% drop in Q4 2022, and the third since going public
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Source: Nate Silver told FiveThirtyEight staff he expects to leave Disney's ABC News when his contract is up “soon”, as layoffs hit the data journalism outlet — ABC News is expected to retain the FiveThirtyEight brand, with plans to streamline the data-driven site.
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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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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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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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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Fox News agrees to give voting technology company Smartmatic additional documents about Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, and other senior corporate executives — New York CNN — — Fox News has agreed to give voting technology company Smartmatic additional documents …
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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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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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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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Dave Byrnes / Courthouse News Service:
A judge throws out libel suits from Devin Nunes and his relatives stemming from a 2018 Ryan Lizza story alleging the Nunes family farm used undocumented workers — The suit stemmed from a political reporter's investigation into claims the former congressman's family used undocumented workers on their Iowa dairy farm.
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