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Los Angeles (AFP) - The Los Angeles Times said Tuesday it laying off more than a fifth of its journalists, in another example of how news media in the United States and around the world are struggling to cope with the disruptions of the internet age. The announcement came as staff at the Conde Nast group, which publishes Vanity Fair and Vogue, took strike action over looming job cuts, and as belt-tightening ripples through several major titles. The Los Angeles Times, which is bleeding cash, said it will eliminate at least 115 newsroom positions as it seeks to right its listing balance sheet. "...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Unionized journalists at the Los Angeles Times walked off the job Friday for the first time in the paper's 142-year history, after management said it planned significant job cuts to help plug a gaping financial hole. Scores of employees gathered at a park in downtown Los Angeles to protest what they said were "obscene and unsustainable" contract changes being pushed on staff at the storied outlet in America's second-biggest city. Others based in California state capital Sacramento and in Washington also downed pens, labor leaders said. "The changes to our contract that man...
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Paris (AFP) - The number of journalists killed in the line of duty fell this year, despite reporter deaths in Gaza in the past two months, media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders said Thursday. In the first 11 months of 2023, 45 journalists were killed carrying out their work, down from 61 last year, according to the annual report by RSF. It was the smallest number since 33 died in 2002, largely due to a major drop in Latin America. While some 63 journalists have been killed in the Middle East since the October 7 start of fighting between Israel and Islamist group Hamas, only 17 of th...
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New York (AFP) - With a prolific musical output, a remarkably bankable tour and a name that's headline catnip, it's no surprise that Time Magazine has declared 2023 the Year of Taylor Swift. In its annual issue honoring a Person of the Year -- a nearly century-old designation whose recipients include Volodymyr Zelensky, Martin Luther King Jr. and Greta Thunberg -- the magazine called music's reigning deity a "rare person who is both the writer and hero of her own story." Nearly two decades into her career the 33-year-old's star simply keeps rising: Swift is smashing industry records, and her c...
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Washington (AFP) - Fox News announced Monday its replacement for ousted primetime host Tucker Carlson will be Jesse Watters, an equally provocative conservative commentator whose skewering of the left has gained him a large following. The move was part of a shake-up at the cable news behemoth nine weeks after it parted ways with pugnacious star Carlson following Fox's $787 million payout to settle a defamation case brought by an election technology company. Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News, which largely backed Trump before and during his term in office, has recently had rockier relations with th...
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New York (AFP) - Named Friday as Elon Musk's successor as Twitter CEO, Linda Yaccarino is a respected media and advertising executive considered a visionary by some. Yaccarino left her job as head of advertising at NBCUniversal, where she worked for 12 years. Born into a family with Italian roots, Yaccarino has spent her career in television, 20 years of it with the Time Warner group that has since become known as Warner Brothers Discovery. Yaccarino said in a 2021 episode of the Great Minds podcast that she fell in love with television shows as a child and originally thought she would get int...
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Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Messages of grief poured in Wednesday after the death of AFP journalist Arman Soldin in Ukraine, paying tribute to his bravery in covering Europe's worst conflict since World War II. Soldin was killed when an AFP team came under fire by Grad rockets while they were with a group of Ukrainian soldiers near Bakhmut, the epicentre of the fighting for months. His death brings to at least 11 the number of journalists, fixers or drivers for media teams killed since Russia invaded Ukraine more than a year ago, according to advocacy groups. French Foreign Minister Catherine Colon...
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London (AFP) - Britain's Prince Harry has accused his family of withholding information about phone hacking from him to avoid sitting in the witness box and opening "a can of worms", a witness statement released Tuesday said. The Duke of Sussex made the claim in submissions for a privacy claim he and other celebrities have filed against the publisher of the Daily Mail, Associated Newspapers (ANL). Lawyers for the group, which also includes pop superstar Elton John, claim ANL commissioned the breaking and entry into private property, illegally intercepted voicemail messages and obtained medical...
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Washington (AFP) - Conservative media tycoon Rupert Murdoch will tie the knot for the fifth time, at the age of 92 years, he said Monday in an interview with his own newspaper, the New York Post. Murdoch is engaged to Ann Lesley Smith, a 66-year-old former police chaplain in San Francisco and widow of American country singer and media executive Chester Smith. "I was very nervous. I dreaded falling in love -- but I knew this would be my last. It better be," he told the tabloid. "I'm happy." Murdoch divorced his fourth wife, model Jerry Hall, last year after six years of marriage. The Australian...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Twitter announced Tuesday it was introducing new measures against Russian government accounts to reduce the impact of official propaganda on the social network. The official accounts will no longer be "recommended" to Twitter users across all categories of the app, including in searches, the platform said in a statement. The California company, like its rival Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram, had already blocked the accounts of the Russian state-run media RT and Sputnik in the European Union. Moscow responded by restricting access to Twitter in the countr...
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