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Producers at “Fox & Friends” allowed an aide to former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt to pre-approve a script for an interview with Pruitt on the program, according to email messages uncovered through a Freedom of Information Act request by The Sierra Club. The emails show that Fox contacted Pruitt’s staffers about his appearing on the show, and that those staff members had a say in determining what topics would be addressed in the interview. In addition, Diana Aloi, a “Fox & Friends” producer, sent an email to former EPA press representative Amy Graham with the lead-in that would be used, asking “Would this be OK as a setup to his segment?” The intro to the on-air interview held to the pre-arranged script. Fox says they are planning to discipline the employees behind the exchange.
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Emerson Collective, the social-change focused organization run by Laurene Powell Jobs, has purchased Pop-Up Magazine Productions. The company operates Pop-Up Magazine, a “live magazine” that consists of events held in more than a dozen cities around the country, and California Sunday, whose print edition runs in the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle. “Both magazines have managed to create unique journalistic platforms that help foster empathy and a better understanding of the world,” Powell Jobs said in a statement. Emerson, which assumed majority ownership of the Atlantic last year, also supports such nonprofit journalism organizations as ProPublica, Mother Jones and the Texas Observer. It made a $10 million investment in Pop-Up last year.
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Bustle Digital Group is expected to soon close a deal to buy digital news site Mic, according to a report in the New York Post. The Post report says that the company laid off 60 to 70 employees Thursday morning, allegedly in preparation for the transaction. The move follows a decision by Facebook to call off a $5 million agreement with Mic to publish a news video series. Bustle owns several women’s lifestyle sites and purchased gossip site Gawker for $1.35 million in a U.S. Bankruptcy auction last year. Mic co-founders Jake Horowitz and company CEO Chris Altchek are expected to remain with the company.
Trump Media & Technology Group today reported a $58.2M net loss on $4.1M in 2023 revenues, a disclosure that drove its stock price down 22.6 percent to $47.96.
Barry Pollack, an attorney at Wall Street’s Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler, has registered Julian Assange as a client with the Justice Dept. “out of an abundance of caution.”
Paramount Global to slash 800 jobs in what chief executive Bob Bakish calls part of an effort to “return the company to earnings growth"... Rolling Stone editor-in-chief Noah Shachtman is exiting at the end of the month due to disagreements with chief executive Gus Wenner over the direction the magazine is taking... The New York Times broke the $1 billion barrier in annual revenue from digital subscriptions in 2023... Press Forward is investing more than $500 million to strengthen local newsrooms.
The majority of news articles are read within the first three days of publication, according to a recent report.
The Los Angeles Times gives pink slips to 115 people or 20 percent of its newsroom staff... TIME is also laying off about 30 employees, which is approximately 15 percent of its editorial staff... The Baltimore Banner, which was launched by Stewart Bainum in 2022 after he failed to buy the Baltimore Sun, added 500 subscribers per day in the three days following Sinclair Broadcast Group's deal to purchase the Sun.
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