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Sources: Tucker Carlson called a senior Fox News executive the c-word, something Fox's lawyers persuaded the court to redact and 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 would share details from a Tucker Carlson “oppo file”, including workplace conduct complaints, if executives suspect he is coming after the network — 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:
Tucker Carlson's long journey from a self-described truth-digging journalist to a promoter of conspiracy theories and a pro-MAGA, for-mega-profit propagandist
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Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff / Washington Post:
A profile of Nate Silver, who was a baseball statistician before FiveThirtyEight and in 2020 entered COVID-19 debates despite having no public health experience — 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 in Pennsylvania; LNP is set to 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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WITF, Media Nation, @jjabbott, @leighgiangreco, @rosental, @annrejrat and @nprinskeep
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Tubi founder and CEO Farhad Massoudi leaves the company; Fox restructures its digital operations and forms 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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Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
Inside Jeff Shell's firing; sources say an NBCU investigation coinciding with CNBC anchor Hadley Gamble's contract situation unearthed emails that got him fired — 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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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku reports Q1 revenue up 1% YoY to $741M, platform revenue down 1% YoY to $635M, streaming hours up 20% YoY to 25.1B, and active accounts up 17% YoY to 71.6M — Roku came in above analyst estimates on the top line for the first quarter of 2023, as it gained 1.6 million active streaming accounts in the period.
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The Streamable, The Wrap, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, Cord Cutters News and Roku Inc., more at Techmeme »
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
YouTube Music contractors from Cognizant vote to unionize with the Alphabet Workers Union; Alphabet is appealing a ruling that Google is their joint employer — The majority of a group of YouTube contract staff in Texas have voted to unionize in a labor victory that could force parent company Alphabet Inc …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
External review: the UK press regulator IPSO, which launched in 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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CNN:
Nielsen: Newsmax numbers exploded in the hours after Tucker Carlson's ouster, averaging 531,000 total viewers on April 24, more than triple April 17's 146,000 — 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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@justinbaragona, @justinbaragona, @bulwarkonline, Forbes, Newsweek, Axios and New York Times
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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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Bloomberg:
Kantar: Netflix lost 1M+ subscribers in Spain in Q1 2023, or 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
Jesse Whittock / Deadline:
Netflix plans to spend almost $6B producing shows and films in the UK from 2020 through 2023, or “nearly 50% more” than the company 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, @juwanthewriter, @deadline and The Hollywood Reporter
Michelle Pitcher / The Texas Observer:
A profile of Jason Walker, a prison journalist whose reporting on the use of the synthetic drug K2 in prisons 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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