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News Articles: Media

Media magnate Rupert Murdoch, right, huddles with Preston Padden, president of network distribution for Fox, during a hearing of the Federal Communications Commission in May 1995. A generation later, Padden says Murdoch is unfit to hold the licenses for local television stations due to Fox News.

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A former Fox executive now argues Murdoch is unfit to own TV stations

Preston Padden helped Rupert Murdoch launch the Fox broadcast network in the 1990s. Now he argues Murdoch has proved unfit to hold the license for a Philadelphia station.

August 09, 2023
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  • David Folkenflik
The seal of Georgia Gannett NewsGuild, which has an illustrated peach at the center

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  • Business

Savannah Morning News staff vote against unionizing, amid employee departures at Gannett-owned paper

Eight reporters in June signaled their intent to unionize, but several have since left.

August 07, 2023
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  • Benjamin Payne
Georgia Public Broadcasting building

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  • News

Bert Wesley Huffman to be the new CEO of GPB

Gov. Brian Kemp announced Friday that Bert Wesley Huffman will serve as the new CEO of Georgia Public Broadcasting.

August 04, 2023
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  • Sarah Kallis
Nina Jankowicz alleges Fox stars and guests defamed her by viciously mischaracterizing her brief tenure leading the federal Disinformation Governance Board. Her case requires overcoming robust protections for free speech about public officials and politics.

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  • Media

Ex-Biden official's lawsuit against Fox echoes case that led to big settlement

Fox devoted 300 segments over an 8-month period to a disinformation researcher named Nina Jankowicz who joined the Biden administration. She says the coverage distorted her work and led her to resign.

August 04, 2023
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  • David Folkenflik
NPR has named Edith Chapin its senior vice president for news, overseeing the newsroom. She has been serving in that position on an acting basis since fall 2022.

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  • Media

NPR veteran Edith Chapin tapped to lead newsroom

NPR has named veteran news leader Edith Chapin as its senior vice president for news and editor in chief, anchoring its newsroom leadership at a time of great transition for the public broadcaster.

July 24, 2023
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  • David Folkenflik
Texas A&M University announced Friday that its school president has resigned after a Black journalist's celebrated hiring at one of the nation's largest campuses unraveled over pushback of her diversity and inclusion work. Here, the Texas A&M logo on Kyle Field is seen before an NCAA college football game against Florida, in College Station, Texas, Sept. 8, 2012.

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  • Education

Texas A&M president 'retires immediately' over fallout from botched journalist hire

The university announced in June it hired Kathleen McElroy, a former New York Times journalist, to lead its journalism program. The hire quickly drew backlash from conservatives across Texas.

July 21, 2023
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Jesse Watters debuts as host of Fox News' 8 p.m. weekday show on Monday. He considers himself a "political humorist," offering a sharp contrast with predecessors Tucker Carlson and Bill O'Reilly.

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  • Media

Fox's newest star Jesse Watters boasts a wink, a smirk, and a trail of outrage

Jesse Watters, who has worked, smirked, and opined for Fox his entire professional career, takes the reins on Monday of Fox News' 8 p.m. weekday show, permanently replacing fired star Tucker Carlson.

July 17, 2023
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  • David Folkenflik
A man who was at the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has sued Fox News for defamation. Here, a woman walks by the Fox News headquarters in New York in April.

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  • Media

Fox News hit with another defamation lawsuit — this one over Jan. 6 allegations

Trump supporter and Jan. 6 protester Ray Epps sued Fox News over statements by former star Tucker Carlson that placed Epps at the center of the violent siege on the U.S. Capitol.

July 12, 2023
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  • David Folkenflik
Top Meta executive Adam Mosseri has said that the company's new Twitter competitor Threads does not need the "negativity" of news and politics on the platform.

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  • Technology

Meta's Threads wants to become a 'friendly' place by downgrading news and politics

Mark Zuckerberg has pitched Meta's Twitter clone as a more "friendly" place for online discourse. Executives say breaking news and politics will not be the emphasized. But is that realistic?

July 12, 2023
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  • Bobby Allyn
In April it was <a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/1172140533/tonya-mosley-will-join-fresh-air-as-co-host">announced</a> that Tonya Mosley would become co-host of <em>Fresh Air.</em>

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  • Media

'Fresh Air' hosts Terry Gross and Tonya Mosley talk news, Detroit and psychedelics

Throughout her career, Mosley has often been one of the few Black journalists in the newsroom. She recently reported first-hand on the use of psilocybin to heal racial trauma.

July 11, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
BBC Broadcasting House on July 10, 2023 in London, England. Last week, the Sun newspaper published allegations that a BBC presenter had paid tens of thousands of pounds to a teenager in exchange for explicit photos.

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  • Europe

Claims about BBC host accused of paying a teen for sexually explicit photos disputed

The alleged victim's mother says for three years, a BBC star funded her teen's drug habit in exchange for explicit photos. It's the latest scandal to rock Britain's beleaguered public broadcaster.

July 10, 2023
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  • Lauren Frayer and
  • Tara Neill
Former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg, seen here in an interview on MSNBC, alleged there was a hostile environment riven by sexism and antisemitism when she worked on Tucker Carlson's show.

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  • Media

Fox pays $12 million to resolve suit alleging bias at Tucker Carlson's show

Ex-producer Abby Grossberg alleged Tucker Carlson created a workplace defined by bigotry and sexism. Her case factored into Carlson's ouster from Fox News and the settlement of another major lawsuit.

June 30, 2023
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  • David Folkenflik
Geraldo Rivera pals around with Fox colleague Sean Hannity at the launch of Rivera's book <em>The Geraldo Show: A Memoir</em> in New York City in 2018.

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  • Perspective

Geraldo Rivera, Fox and Me

Geraldo Rivera leaves Fox News. He was a war correspondent, a host, a Trump supporter and, in his later years, an unexpected voice of reason — but above all, he was a showman.

June 30, 2023
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  • David Folkenflik
Google announced on Thursday that it will start blocking links to Canadian news articles once a new law in the country forcing tech companies to bargain with news publishers takes effect.

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  • Technology

Google says it will start blocking Canadian news stories in response to new law

The Google fight with the country echoes a similar battle in Australia, where the tech industry eventually struck deals with news publishers after tense negotiations.

June 29, 2023
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  • Bobby Allyn
Turner Classic Movies offers a well-curated, wide variety of offerings, spanning more than a century of film history. Above, Gene Kelly pictured in 1952 during the filming of <em>Singin' in the Rain — </em>a movie that aired on TCM earlier this month.

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  • Movies

If you love film, you should be worried about what's going on at Turner Classic Movies

Warner Bros. Discovery recently announced a shake-up at the network, which for years has offered a well curated film selection. Critic David Bianculli says TCM wasn't broken — and didn't need fixing.

June 28, 2023
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  • David Bianculli
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