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Zack Sharf / Variety:
In a video on Wednesday, Tucker Carlson gave a vague statement about “how unbelievably stupid most of the debates” on TV are and how “true things will prevail” — In a video posted to Twitter on Wednesday, Carlson delivered a vague speech in which he spoke about what it's …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Time plans to fully remove its digital paywall, which was launched in 2011, starting on June 1, 2023; paid subscriptions will expire when the paywall is removed — Time is fully removing its digital paywall beginning June 1, its CEO Jessica Sibley told Axios.
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Vice plans to end Vice News Tonight on May 25, sunset the Vice World News brand and fold it into Vice News, and cut, sources say, dozens of jobs — Vice Media will cancel its acclaimed program “Vice News Tonight” as part of a broad restructuring that will result in painful cuts across the organization, the company said Thursday.
Deadline:
Mina Lefevre, Meta's head of development and programming, to exit amid layoffs, as Meta shutters Facebook Watch Originals and ends its last show, Red Table Talk — EXCLUSIVE: Mina Lefevre, who was Head of Development and Programming at Meta, is departing Facebook's parent company.
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Sources: Paper Magazine lays off its staff, effective April 28, and stops its editorial operations but is not closing; EIC Justin Moran will remain through May — The iconic title hopes to avoid closure — The staff of Paper Magazine, the music and cultural publisher made famous by the 2014 …
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Sources: DraftKings plans to launch a free, ad-supported video streaming service with videos of podcasts the company sponsors, expected to debut in coming weeks — DraftKings Inc. is planning to launch its own streaming video service, the latest evidence that sports betting and media are converging.
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Dana Bash will replace John King as host of CNN's Inside Politics, the first time she will host her own show after almost thirty years at the network — Bash, who was married to King, will host her own daily show for the first time in her 30-year career at the network.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
The WSJ, WaPo, and NYT will run a joint full-page ad in their national editions urging support from the US government in fighting for Evan Gershkovich's release — The publishers and top editors at the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and New York Times on Thursday will run a joint letter …
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Chad Umble / LancasterOnline:
The Steinman family plans to donate LNP Media Group to WITF, a public broadcasting station in Pennsylvania; LNP is set to become a public benefit corporation — The Steinman family's 158-year ownership of a daily newspaper in Lancaster will end in June with a gift meant to safeguard the future of its flagship publication.
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Aditya Kalra / Reuters:
Reliance's Viacom18 strikes a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery to make Warner Bros and HBO content available on Reliance's JioCinema app in India — The broadcast venture of India's Reliance (RELI.NS) has struck a deal with Warner Bros Discovery Inc. (WBD.O) for its streaming platform JioCinema …
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Madeline Ashby / Wired:
How Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith, a fair use case before SCOTUS, could impact how copyright law is applied to what AI tools can do with human-made works — The US Supreme Court's upcoming decision could shift the interpretation of fair use law—and all the people, and tools, that turn to it for protection.
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@dcnorg, @madelineashby, @eff and Generative AI in the Newsroom
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku reports Q1 revenue up 1% YoY to $741M, platform revenue down 1% YoY to $635M, streaming hours up 20% YoY to 25.1B, and active accounts up 17% YoY to 71.6M — Users streamed a record high of 3.9 hours per active account per day during the quarter, company says
Rolling Stone:
Sources: Fox would share details from a Tucker Carlson “oppo file”, including workplace conduct complaints, if executives suspect he is coming after the network — Eight sources tell Rolling Stone that the network's top brass has been stockpiling information on the departing primetime host
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Sources: Tucker Carlson called a senior Fox News executive the c-word, something Fox's lawyers persuaded the court to redact and which helped lead to his firing
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