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Wall Street Journal:
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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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Sources: Paper Magazine lays off its staff, effective April 28, and stops its editorial operations but is not closing; EIC Justin Moran will remain through May — The iconic title hopes to avoid closure — The staff of Paper Magazine, the music and cultural publisher made famous by the 2014 …
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, Inside Radio, @rosental, @jjabbott, @annrejrat, @leighgiangreco, Media Nation and @nprinskeep
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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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Time plans to fully remove its digital paywall, which was launched in 2011, starting on June 1, 2023; paid subscriptions will expire when the paywall is removed — Time is fully removing its digital paywall beginning June 1, its CEO Jessica Sibley told Axios.
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@kevdgrussing, @mcwm and @sarafischer
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 — Users streamed a record high of 3.9 hours per active account per day during the quarter, company says
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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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@harry_jerry, New York Post 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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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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Variety, Cord Cutters News, The Desk, The Information, @daveleebbg, Adweek, The Streamable, Media Play News and Cablefax
Deadline:
Mina Lefevre, Meta's head of development and programming, to exit amid layoffs, as Meta shutters Facebook Watch Originals and ends its last show, Red Table Talk — EXCLUSIVE: Mina Lefevre, who was Head of Development and Programming at Meta, is departing Facebook's parent company.
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The Wrap, Variety, TVLine, @andyvermaut and @deadline, more at Techmeme »
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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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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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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