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Claudia Chiappa / Politico:
Tucker Carlson faces backlash from American and Russian journalists after claiming that Western media is not making an effort to hear Putin's side of the story — The controversial pundit is interviewing the Russian leader. Now other journalists are raging at “this SoB.”
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Meduza.io:
Russia says Tucker Carlson is “not correct” to say no Western reporter tried to interview Putin, and Carlson is different from “traditional Anglo-Saxon media” — Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed on Wednesday that Vladimir Putin gave an interview …
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Mediaite, Telegraph, TechCrunch, Associated Press, VICE, @maxseddon, @ronfilipkowski, @michaeldweiss, Reuters, Rolling Stone, Washington Post, @apocalypticanow.bsky.social, The Daily Caller, Reason, Poynter, The Daily Beast, KEYT-TV, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, Media Matters for America, New Republic, Variety, CBS News and New York Times
Dave Lawler / Axios:
Former Fox host Tucker Carlson says he has traveled to Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin and will air the interview “unedited” on his website and on X — Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said in a video posted to X on Tuesday that he is in Moscow to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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@tuckercarlson, BBC, New York Times, Mediaite, THE DC PATRIOT, Reuters, Politico, BBC, The Guardian, @ozkaterji, @maxseddon, @ianbremmer, Barrett News Media, @rferl, @jason, @jonathanlanday, @justinbaragona, @maxseddon, @karaswisher@threads.net, @karaswisher@threads.net, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, @mediaite@threads.net, The Daily Beast, Deadline, @warrenterra.bsky.social, @everythingism.bsky.social, New York Times, The Kyiv Independent, The Kyiv Independent, The Hill, The Daily Caller, The Wrap, @kevinrothrock@infosec …, The Daily Beast, The Hollywood Reporter, Daily Kos and Columbia Journalism Review
The New York Times Company:
The NYT reports Q4 revenue up 1.3% YoY to $676M, subscription revenue up 3.3% YoY to $404M, and a $129M operating profit; Athletic revenue grew 31.3% to $38.5M — NEW YORK, February 7, 2024 - The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) announced today fourth- quarter and full-year 2023 results.
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The Wrap, @nataliekorach and @pressgazette
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT finished 2023 with 10.36M subscribers, 9.7M of them digital-only, helping push annual revenue for digital subscriptions above $1B for the first time — At the end of the year, The Times had 10.36 million subscribers, 9.7 million of them digital-only.
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Nieman Lab, @palewire, The Information, @katie_robertson, @thestalwart and @thestalwart
Wall Street Journal:
Fox, ESPN, and WBD announce a new joint venture to launch a streaming sports service in the US in the fall of 2024; each entity will own a third of the JV — The service will be available to ESPN+, Hulu and Max subscribers.
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CNBC, The Streamable, Business Insider, Radio & Television …, Gizmodo, ESPN Press Room U.S., Axios, Cord Cutters News, Next TV, @sherman4949, @sherman4949, Poynter, @sdkstl, Sports Media Watch, Charlie Boss on LinkedIn, Andrew Wamugi on LinkedIn, AllEars.Net, @sherman4949, masslive.com, 9to5Mac, @michaelsaves, The Hill, @jbflint, Tom Burke on LinkedIn, @jeffjarvis, @fiddleelphier, @jacobfeldman4, @sherman4949, @jacobfeldman4, @tvmojoe, @tvmojoe, @tim_bays, @novy_williams, @jtoonkel, @mattbelloni, @lucas_shaw, @sherman4949, @eriqgardner, @bristei, @loudmouthjulia, Newser, Reuters, Deadline, Associated Press, Sportico, The Hollywood Reporter, Dan Rayburn on LinkedIn, The Daily Caller, The Verge, Adweek, Engadget, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, MediaPost, Awful Announcing, New York Times, Dakotah Rice on LinkedIn, @pkafka@threads.net, USA Today, Barrett Media, @blackamazon.bsky.social, Bloomberg, UPROXX, The Desk, New York Daily News, Ad Age, Digital Trends and Forbes, more at Techmeme »
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Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
A sports streaming platform jointly owned by Disney, WBD, and Fox could reshape the TV industry but could also anger pay TV distributors and sports leagues — - A new sports-focused streaming platform could anger pay TV distributors and sports leagues. — Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery …
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
An interview with Nebojša Vujinović Vujo, who runs 2,000+ AI-generated news sites, often hosted on once-popular domains, and claims to have ~12 human editors — Serbian DJ turned internet entrepreneur Nebojša Vujinović Vujo floods abandoned news sites with AI-generated articles.
Ted Lipien / The Hill:
Current and ex-VOA journalists criticize the US agency for uploading propaganda messages from Putin and Alexander Lukashenko on its YouTube without any context — Voice of America (VOA), the U.S. government-funded media agency, created and uploaded to its YouTube channel a video …
Kara Swisher / New York Magazine:
An excerpt from Kara Swisher's upcoming book, Burn Book: covering digital media in the '90s, Facebook and Google becoming information gatekeepers, and more — My front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe. — In the early 1990s, I was a reporter at the Washington Post.
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@crumbler@threads.net, @laurengoode@threads.net, @corbinbolies, @benmullin, @katzish, @karaswisher, @nymag, @robleathern and @dwhate
Jared Holt / The Daily Beast:
How the author of notorious Hollywood gossip blog Crazy Days and Nights inadvertently revealed his identity to a Florida court following an extramarital affair — The story of how his identity was revealed could have been ripped from his own blind-items gossip site.
Discussion:
@eriqgardner and @katienotopoulos
HEATED:
The New York Times' The Daily ran a greenwashing BP ad on its January 31 podcast, despite a 2021 pledge by the NYT to ban sponsorships by oil and gas companies — The Daily promised to end fossil fuel sponsorships in 2021. BP promised to stop “corporate reputation advertising” in 2020.
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