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5:25 AM ET, April 27, 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 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
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
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.
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 …
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.
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
Madeline Ashby / Wired:
How Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith, a fair use case before SCOTUS, could impact how copyright law is applied to what AI tools can do with human-made works  —  The US Supreme Court's upcoming decision could shift the interpretation of fair use law—and all the people, and tools, that turn to it for protection.
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 …
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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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
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
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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
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
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
Dave Byrnes / Courthouse News Service:
A judge throws out Devin Nunes' libel lawsuits against political reporter Ryan Lizza for a 2018 article alleging the Nunes family farm used undocumented workers