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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
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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
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Variety:
The Writers Guild of America strikes after AMPTP negotiations concluded without an agreement, saying “the studios' responses have been wholly insufficient”
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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 …
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Ben Smith on his book Traffic, the demise of the social media ecosystem that fed BuzzFeed, lessons learned for Semafor, evolving “Semaform”, and more — Former BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief Ben Smith on what's next — and his new book, Traffic.
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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
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: CNBC's Hadley Gamble formally complained to NBCU about other executives besides now-fired Jeff Shell, saying they fostered a toxic workplace culture — A complaint filed by CNBC senior international correspondent Hadley Gamble accuses named CNBC International executives of fostering …
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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.
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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.
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
The Washington Post announces a free, ad-supported video streaming channel on Amazon Freevee, starting on May 6 with King Charles III's coronation coverage — EXCLUSIVE: The Washington Post is launching its own channel on Amazon Freevee. — Washington Post Television is debuting …
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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 …
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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.
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Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
VentureBeat's editorial director says the outlet will use generative AI “as a creative partner” to brainstorm story elements like ledes, not to write articles — I sent this memo to the editorial staff at VentureBeat today, explaining my perspective on the current state …
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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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