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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Source: MSNBC fires political analyst Matthew Dowd over his on-air comments about Charlie Kirk; MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler and Dowd apologized for them — Political analyst Matthew Dowd has been fired from MSNBC after his comments about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, according to a network source.
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
While traditional media avoided sharing explicit videos of Charlie Kirk's assassination, gory imagery flooded social media, including X, Instagram, and TikTok — They were careful with the explicit imagery — as usual. But did it make any difference? — Traditional news organizations …
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Deseret News:
Charlie Kirk, the MAGA influencer who founded Turning Point USA, has died after being shot at an event at Utah Valley University — In what Utah's governor called a political assassination, a sniper shot and killed influential conservative Charlie Kirk on Wednesday at Utah Valley University in Orem …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Jezebel adds an editor's note to its September 8 story “We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk”, condemning his shooting and removing the author's name — Two days ago, feminist news and opinion site Jezebel ran a story with the headline, “We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk.”
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Bloomberg:
China says it opposes 90-day US visa limits for Chinese journalists, compared to 240 days for others, and does not “want to see a new round of ‘media warfare’” — China has pushed back against Washington's proposed new visa limits on Chinese journalists in the US …
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Lauren Fedor / Financial Times:
The BBC, CBC, DW, and 100+ other news organizations sign an open letter calling on the Trump administration to scrap plans to restrict journalist visas — News organisations say proposed changes would enable ‘powerful adversaries’ to ‘fill the resulting vacuum’
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR names Thomas Evans as its new editor-in-chief, starting September 15; Evans joined NPR in 2024 and was previously CNN's London bureau chief — NPR is poised to name a new news chief at a moment of uncertainty for the network, when it must adjust to the end of federal funding for public media …
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Wall Street Journal:
MediaRadar: pharmaceutical industry spent $6.4B on US TV ads in 2024; drug companies may cut TV ad spend if new rules mandate the inclusion of all side effects — Pharmaceutical industry spending on TV ads topped $6 billion last year — The Trump administration is cracking …
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New York Times:
President Trump signs a memorandum seeking to reinstate a pre-1997 policy that would sharply restrict prescription drug advertising on TV and social media
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John Paul Rathbone / Financial Times:
Turkish authorities seize Can Holdings, which owns one of the country's last independent broadcasters, as part of a probe into money laundering and tax evasion — Takeover of one of last remaining independent news groups in graft probe extends government control over national media
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John Koblin / New York Times:
The differences between Severance and The Pitt in terms of budget, star power, time between seasons, and genre attest to changes in priorities for streamers — The Apple TV+ drama “Severance” and the HBO Max medical series “The Pitt” have only one thing in common: Both shows center on a workplace.
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Lesley Goldberg / The Ankler:
Netflix's 10-year worldwide exclusive licensing deals for original shows like House of Cards are starting to expire, allowing studios to reclaim and resell them — ‘House of Cards,’ ‘Orange Is the New Black’ and 130+ shows are set to hit the market as FASTs, rival streamers and yes, cable, muscle in
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TVNewsCheck and Deadline
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
People CEO Neil Vogel calls Google a “bad actor” for refusing to pay publishers for AI content and says Google Search drives 25%-30% of visits to People sites — When Google became the dominant search engine around 2004, not everyone was happy.
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