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The Washington Post publisher and CEO Fred Ryan plans to leave in August and the outlet names Gates Foundation founding CEO Patty Stonesifer as its interim CEO — Ryan, chief executive of The Post for most of the decade since Jeff Bezos bought it, will lead the new Center on Public Civility at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation
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Jeff Bezos has been more involved in The Washington Post's operations in 2023, a source says after staff raised concerns in January about Fred Ryan's management — Patty Stonesifer, the former chief executive of Martha's Table, will be The Post's interim chief executive.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Source: Fox News sends Tucker Carlson a cease-and-desist letter over his Twitter show; the network says Carlson's Fox contract runs through December 31, 2024 — Fox News has sent a “cease and desist” letter to Tucker Carlson as he ramps up a competing series on Twitter that drew …
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The Athletic lays off ~20, or ~4% of its journalists, and plans to give 20+ reporters new assignments, shifting from one reporter per team to broader coverage — Nearly 20 journalists will lose their jobs and more than 20 others will be moved to new assignments.
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Text messages: in 2020, WarnerMedia used CNN's relationship with then New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Chris Cuomo's brother, to advance its commercial interests — The Scoop — CNN and its parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, reeling from firing CEO Chris Licht last week, are now facing a new, high-stakes drama.
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Elaina Plott Calabro / The Atlantic:
How Lara Logan, once a respected 60 Minutes correspondent, became a conspiracy theorist after CBS publicly disavowed a Benghazi story she had reported in 2013 — Lara Logan was once a respected 60 Minutes correspondent. Now she trades in conspiracy theories that even far-right media disavow.
Jane Bradley / New York Times:
The Guardian apologizes to at least one woman for its handling of sexual harassment complaints against columnist Nick Cohen and plans to change its processes — The British media company is also changing its internal processes following a New York Times investigation into a former star political columnist.
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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Sources: the EU is set to hit Google with a formal antitrust complaint regarding the company's ad tech, with a statement of objections coming as soon as June 14 — Google is set to be hit with a formal antitrust complaint from the European Union that could pave the way for massive fines …
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Scott Feinberg / The Hollywood Reporter:
Dick Clark Productions and Eldridge acquire the Golden Globes from the HFPA and plan to make the awards a for-profit enterprise; the HFPA plans to “wind down” — The Globes will no longer be under the oversight of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization …
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
With Telegraph's parent company B.UK in receivership, a look at the potential buyers and the initial optimism among its staff about the news of a probable sale — With a sell-off looming for the newspapers, several tycoons and groups look to have the money, and the motivation, to take over
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Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
GroupM expects global ad spending to grow 5.9% YoY to $874.5B in 2023, excluding US political ads, including digital growing 8.4% YoY, the slowest since 2009 — GroupM expects ad spending to grow 5.9% this year to $874.5 billion, excluding U.S. political advertising
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Time dropped its paywall on June 1, ending 250K digital subscriptions, and says the outlet has 1.3M print subscribers and revenue grew 19% YoY to $200M in 2022 — Earlier this month, the publisher eliminated its digital subscription business — The general news publisher …
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