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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 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
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
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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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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 of $741M, up 1% YoY, platform revenue of $635M, down 1% YoY, 25.1B streaming hours, up 20% YoY, and 71.6M active streaming accounts — 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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Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
YouTube Music contractors from Cognizant vote to unionize with 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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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
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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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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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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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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