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4:40 PM ET, May 8, 2023

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The Pulitzer Prizes:
List of 2023 Pulitzer Prize winners, including WSJ for Investigative Reporting, WaPo for National Reporting, and NYT for International Reporting  —  New York, NY (May 8, 2023) — Columbia University today announces the 2023 Pulitzer Prizes, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Four of the 16 Pulitzer awards went to local outlets reporting on corruption; Spotify's Gimlet Media won for audio reporting, its first Pulitzer Prize  —  The 2023 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Monday, with four of the 16 awards for journalism across 15 categories going to local outlets reporting …
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Despite big reach elsewhere, on YouTube, Slate podcasts averaged ~75 views/video last week while NPR averaged ~179/video; studio footage drives views higher  —  Hello and welcome back to Soundbite.  Today we'll look at how podcast networks are faring on YouTube and have an update on Sony Music Entertainment's podcast efforts.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Sources: Tucker Carlson wants to force Fox News to let him out of his contract, which expires in January 2025; Carlson and Elon Musk discussed working together  —  Tucker Carlson is preparing to unleash allies to attack Fox News in an effort to bully the network into letting him work for …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News says 40+ new advertisers came into the 8pm slot since Tucker Carlson's exit and it hopes to bring back a full complement of advertisers to the slot  —  Tucker Carlson is out at 8 p.m. on Fox News Channel, and the network hopes that a host of blue-chip advertisers that for years avoided …
Anna Fazackerley / The Guardian:
More than 40 scientists resign from the editorial board of science journal Neuroimage, which charges £2,700+ per paper, to protest publisher Elsevier's “greed”  —  Entire board resigns over actions of academic publisher whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
In a letter, Fox News asks Dominion to “investigate and confirm” that the voting tech company is not the source of the leaked Tucker Carlson text messages  —  Lawyers for Fox News are asking officials at Dominion Voting Systems to conduct an internal investigation after media reports …
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Fox News sends Media Matters a cease-and-desist letter over a series of stories featuring leaked footage of Tucker Carlson, claiming the material is its IP
Rolling Stone:
Sources: in spring 2020, Tucker Carlson tried to get Fox to fire PR chief Irena Briganti by convincing Lachlan Murdoch, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott, and others  —  The host tried to get a top executive canned.  It backfired spectacularly … Carlson had grown so furious with Fox's communications …
 
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BuzzFeed News:
BuzzFeed News, launched in 2012, shuts down and archives its website; current and former staff share their memories in a recap as the outlet's final post
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Vice Media is nearing a deal to get acquired out of bankruptcy by lenders including Fortress Investment Group and Soros Fund Management for ~$400M