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5:05 PM ET, April 26, 2023

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Wall Street Journal:
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  —  Prime-time host called senior executive the c-word in redacted missive; network grew wary of further embarrassment from possible disclosure
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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
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Tucker Carlson's long journey from a self-described truth-digging journalist to a promoter of conspiracy theories and a pro-MAGA, for-mega-profit propagandist
Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff / Washington Post:
A profile of Nate Silver, who was a baseball statistician before FiveThirtyEight and in 2020 entered COVID-19 debates despite having no public health experience  —  Readers only knew him as “poblano.”  —  A baseball statistician by day, the mysterious writer started dipping his toes …
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.
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Tubi founder and CEO Farhad Massoudi leaves the company; Fox restructures its digital operations and forms the Tubi Media Group, led by Fox CTO Paul Cheesbrough  —  Fox Corporation is restructuring its digital operations by forming the Tubi Media Group as Farhad Massoudi …
Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
Inside Jeff Shell's firing; sources say an NBCU investigation coinciding with CNBC anchor Hadley Gamble's contract situation unearthed emails that got him fired  —  Wearing a nondescript gray T-shirt with a backstage pass dangling from his neck, Jeff Shell looked more like a snowy-haired roadie …
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Tucker Carlson's exit, like Glenn Beck's and Bill O'Reilly's, shows that no one is irreplaceable since Fox News itself, which convenes the audience, is the star
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
External review: the UK press regulator IPSO, which launched in 2014, has yet to hold a standards investigation and the chance of launching one looks “remote”  —  The regulator declined to investigate the Jewish Chronicle, instead monitoring it and training staff.
Discussion: New Statesman
Bloomberg:
Kantar: Netflix lost 1M+ subscribers in Spain in Q1 2023, or triple the cancellations in Q4; two thirds of those who canceled were using someone else's password  —  Netflix Inc. lost more than one million users in Spain in the first three months of 2023 according to market research group Kantar …
Discussion: New York Post, @harry_jerry and Insider
Michelle Pitcher / The Texas Observer:
A profile of Jason Walker, a prison journalist whose reporting on the use of the synthetic drug K2 in prisons led to multiple threats from officials and inmates  —  In a postscript at the end of the letter, a request.  —  Jason Walker writes his mom's name, says she lives in San Angelo: “Please be my arranger if a funeral is needed.”
 
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