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Shepard Smith, Fox news anchor and managing editor of the network's breaking news unit, quit today. He broke the news during his program. Smith is a sometimes critic of president Trump.
The anchor of the afternoon "Shepard Smith Reporting" program said the decision to walk was his own.
President Trump trashed Smith during his Oct. 10 tweet storm in which he said pollsters at Fox News "suck," after the network released a study that found 51 percent of the country supports kicking out of office.
He then went on to tweet: "Shep Smith, Donna Brazile (who gave Crooked Hillary the debate questions and got fired from CNN) & others at Fox News doesn't deliver for US anymore. It is so different than it used to be. Oh well I'm president."
Fox News Media issued a pretty sparse release to announce the departure of one of its stars. “Effective today, Maria Bartiromo is no longer with FOX News Media,” it reads.
Brunswick Group partner John Simons has joined CNN as senior director of business & media. He held top jobs at Time and the Wall Street Journal.
WNET, the nation’s largest public media company, names Edward O’Keefe its next president and CEO, effective September 21. O’Keefe succeeds Neal Shapiro, who becomes president emeritus and will retire at the end of the year... The Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, which would empower news publishers and other content providers to defend themselves by mandating transparency for all bots crawling their sites, in introduced in the House by Rep. Laurel Lee (R-FL) and Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-NC)... Google gets socked by European Union regulators with a $1 billion fine for using the platform’s dominance as a search engine to illegally undercut competition.
Boston Globe Media acquires InstaTrac, a company that provides subscription-based services aimed at making government information easier to find, track, and understand... AARP names former New Republic CEO and publisher Michael Caruso as its SVP and chief content officer, unifying the organization's portfolio of media, live events and digital platforms... The Fund for American Studies, an educational nonprofit, awards its inaugural Journalism Excellence Fellowships.
Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. has replaced CEO and former California Congressman Devin Nunes with Kevin McGurn, a seasoned media sales executive.
