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2:45 AM ET, May 3, 2023

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New York Times:
Sources: a text message from Tucker Carlson showing inflammatory views on violence and race contributed to his firing and Fox's decision to settle with Dominion  —  The discovery of the text message contributed to a chain of events that ultimately led to Tucker Carlson's firing.
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Film and TV writers' unions across the globe share their support for striking Hollywood writers as WGA members picket in NYC, Los Angeles, and other US cities  —  International unions representing film and TV writers across the world have begun sharing their responses to Hollywood's …
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Yvonne Villarreal / Los Angeles Times:
Q&A with six showrunners, including Craig Mazin and Bill Lawrence, on the broken pathways for growth for new writers, streaming residuals, mini rooms, and more
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
The WGA details its proposal, including two primary sticking points: a staff minimum of six to 12 writers and a guaranteed minimum number of weeks of employment
Variety:
The Writers Guild of America strikes after AMPTP negotiations concluded without an agreement, saying “the studios' responses have been wholly insufficient”
Bobby Allyn / NPR:
In an unprompted email to an NPR reporter, Elon Musk asked if NPR planned to start posting on Twitter again, “or should we reassign @NPR to another company?”  —  Elon Musk has threatened to reassign NPR's Twitter account to “another company.”  —  In a series of emails sent …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Discussion: @cnyari
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Peter Kafka / Vox:
Q&A with Nick Denton, Jonah Peretti, and Ben Smith, whose new book Traffic details the rise and fall of BuzzFeed and Gawker, on digital media and its reckoning
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Saturday Night Live shuts down due to the writers' strike and will air repeats starting on May 6; SNL stayed off the air for the full WGA strike in 2007-2008  —  The May 6 episode with host Pete Davidson is off, and reruns will air in the NBC show's late-night slot for the time being.
Lucia Moses / Insider:
Sources: layoffs hit theSkimm for a second time in 2023, affecting ~13% of staff; LinkedIn posts indicate cuts include sales executives and a creative director  —  - Newsletter publisher TheSkimm laid off 13%, or about 22 people.  — It's the second layoff this year for the once-buzzy millennial media outlet.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Roku introduces new ad products, including use of contextual AI for automatically running ads next to relevant moments in shows and movies on The Roku Channel  —  In Roku's recent quarter, the company posted better-than-expected revenue of $741 million, but worried investors with its warning …
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
A look at the growth of ESPN+, which has ~25M subscribers and aired 27K live events in 2022, as executives decide when to move all ESPN programming to streaming  —  Ever since Bob Iger returned to lead the Walt Disney Co. in November, he's spoken almost every day with one of his key deputies, ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro.
New York Times:
Despite Google's October 2021 pledge to demonetize climate denial content, CCDH researchers find 100 YouTube videos with 18M+ views featuring ads for big brands  —  Google said in 2021 that it would stop running ads alongside videos and other content that denied the existence and causes of climate change.
 
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Media entrepreneur Jimmy Finkelstein plans to launch his news website The Messenger in beta on May 15 with 200 employees and core coverage on news and politics
Josef Adalian / Vulture:
Sources: ABC will bring back Dancing With the Stars next season, airing live and streaming; Disney+ made the show an exclusive last season to boost subscribers
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Jon Lafayette / Next TV:
Amazon says Thursday Night Football advertisers will be able to target different groups with different commercials during the same 30-second commercial position
Discussion: @tvgrimreaper
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
After finding irregularities in its review, Nielsen says Fox's telecast of the 2023 Super Bowl had 115.1M viewers, becoming the most watched TV program to date
Max Tani / Semafor:
Politico founder Robert Allbritton commits $20M to launch a nonprofit that plans to train aspiring political reporters and eventually launch a news organization