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4:55 PM ET, April 26, 2023

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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
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
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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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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
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.
Discussion: New Statesman
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 …
Discussion: New York Post, @harry_jerry and Insider
 
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