Axel Springer says it will "turbocharge the expansion of TMG into the United States market, leveraging the significant expertise of its media brands POLITICO and BUSINESS INSIDER."
Here's the full release:
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From Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner: "We want to grow the Telegraph, while preserving its distinctive character and legacy, to help it become the most read and intellectually inspiring center-right media outlet in the English-speaking world."
New this morning: "Axel Springer, a transatlantic family-owned media company, has reached an agreement with RedBird IMI to acquire the Telegraph Media Group (TMG) for £575 million in cash."
‘He’s Not MAGA!’ Trump Officially Cuts Tucker Carlson Loose from His Political Movement in Stunning Comments
David Ellison will "throw the First Amendment, CNN’s reporters and HBO’s filmmakers under the bus if they stand in the way of expanding his corporate empire and fattening his pockets," @freedom.press's Seth Stern said.
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CPJ says Mario Guevara was deported early Friday to his native El Salvador, after spending months in custody following his arrest while covering a protest (Liam Reilly/CNN)
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"He was transferred to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention shortly after his arrest."
Read my full story for CNN here:
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"Guevara was deported to his native El Salvador early Friday morning, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) confirmed to CNN, more than three months after the Spanish-language live-streamer was arrested while covering an Atlanta-area “No Kings” protest.
"Mario Guevara, the Salvadoran journalist who gained popularity by documenting immigration raids, has been deported after spending months in federal custody.
“Mario Guevara’s deportation is a troubling sign of the deteriorating freedom of the press under the Trump administration,” said CPJ U.S., Canada, and Caribbean Program Coordinator Katherine Jacobsen. “Make no mistake, this is not a simple immigration case."
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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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Journalist Mario Guevara is being deported because the American government punishes reporters to protect its own power.
We should all be outraged.
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"So they see this, these corporate owners see this, and they know they need to curry favor with this administration so they can get their transactions. They also want the lifting of these ownership caps, because they want to get even bigger."
"They voluntarily committed to do that, and then the FCC said, ‘Well, we will confirm but verify, and we will take action against them if they don't follow through on their commitment.’ That's censorship.
"I mentioned in my remarks the Paramount-Skydance deal and the voluntary commitment by Paramount to install a truth arbiter, which they called an ombudsman, in order to field complaints about bias and any content that CBS has that people don't like. That's self-censorship.
Gomez:
“We have seen that this administration uses the fact that it has to approve mergers and acquisitions in order to impose ideological requirements on the companies or censor these companies.
"The result will be a chilling effect on coverage, fewer jobs and less diversity of viewpoints. In the end, this effort has never been about preserving a diversity of voices: it's about narrowing them.”
"The FCC won't need to threaten to investigate individual stations, journalists and comedians won't need to be censored directly. They'll censor themselves to avoid conflict with regulators or risk losing government favor.
"The FCC has a duty to ensure our media system serves the public, not billion-dollar companies, not to mention this form of media consolidation will further push independent local newsrooms to answer to corporate masters who are already under political pressure from this administration.
"This will do nothing to help the small, independent and local broadcast stations that are at risk of closing shop.
"The FCC proposal to lift these ownership caps isn't about innovation or competition, it's about consolidation of viewpoints solely for financial gain. Billion-dollar companies do not need our help competing with national networks.
"Efforts to dismantle ownership caps and to allow greater consolidation are advancing. Each merger or acquisition reduces the number of voices that may be heard. Each closure of a local newsroom makes our discourse narrower and our communities weaker.
"Congress placed limits on broadcast ownership precisely so that one entity would not control the majority of the content that we all consume. That's the essence of viewpoint diversity. Today, that principle is at risk.
"Separately, the FCC is also considering overwriting congressionally established ownership caps that for decades have played a critical role in preserving the agency's pillars of media policy, localists. localism, competition, and diversity of viewpoints.
Anna Gomez speaking at the University of Mississippi as part of her First Amendment Tour:
“With a vote just this week during our monthly meeting, the FCC is gearing up to make major changes that will drastically alter the national media landscape, and the number of voices that are a part of it.
"A comedy festival in Saudi Arabia featuring high-profile American performers is drawing intense criticism from human rights advocates who say the star-studded event helps gloss over the kingdom’s ongoing human rights abuses."
Read my full story for CNN here:
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The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida against the Fox News Network and its parent company, Fox Corp, accused Fox of engaging in “an exclusionary scheme to increase and maintain its dominance in the market for US right-leaning pay TV news.”
Christopher Ruddy’s pro-Trump channel Newsmax on Wednesday filed an antitrust lawsuit against Fox News, accusing the Rupert Murdoch-owned broadcaster of illegally blocking competition in the right-wing pay-TV market.
