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Matthew Keys

@matthewkeys

Media, business & tech journalist

Sacramento, California

Award-winning journalist who covers the business of media and tech. Past: Reuters, ABC7 News San Francisco, FOX40 Sacramento, Grasswire, McNaughton Newspapers. Northern California = Home.

141 Posts

  1. Eugene Weekly forced to lay off staff, launches embezzlement probe with assistance from police

    The alternative newspaper for Eugene, Oregon was forced to lay off its entire 10-person staff just before Christmas after discovering "someone we once trusted" had embezzled money from the publication. The print version of the Eugene Weekly has been suspended. https://eugeneweekl
  2. CBS News head says images from Gaza unreliable

    CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon says rampant misinformation campaigns are making it difficult for journalists to verify videos and photos coming out of #Gaza , adding that only around 10 percent of the more than 1,000 images they've collected can actually be considered reliable enough
  3. Journalists among the dead in Israel, Gaza fighting

    At least seven Palestinian journalists have been killed since fighting between Hamas and Israel began over the weekend, according to numerous reports from media rights groups, including the Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders.
  4. Charter, Disney reach new deal; some channels to be dropped on a permanent basis

    Charter and Disney have ended their programming blackout with a new deal that will see some Spectrum TV subscribers get free access to ESPN Plus and Disney Plus — but some channels like FXX and Freeform will also be dropped for good.
  5. Hearst channels pulled from Dish Network over fees

    Dish Network has become the latest pay television platform to engage in a carriage dispute with a major broadcaster, with the satellite company blacking out nearly three dozen ABC, NBC, CBS and CW Network affiliates owned by Hearst Television on Friday.
  6. Feds start receiving materials in Fox leaks probe

    Federal investigators are already receiving records from companies that are connected to an apparent criminal hacking scheme that allegedly involves a former Deadspin editor.
  7. A professional photographer is suing Nexstar Media Group after two of its local TV stations reused her photos without permission.
  8. Ex-Fox reporter must comply with subpoena seeking names of confidential sources, judge says

    A former Fox News reporter must comply with a subpoena issued in a civil lawsuit that seeks to reveal the real-world identity of confidential sources, a federal judge ruled this week. In the order, Judge Christopher Cooper said journalist Catherine Herridge's First Amendment prot
  9. Cord-cutting continues to impact Charter's Spectrum TV

    High fees convinced more Spectrum TV customers to leave this year, with parent company Charter reporting a loss of 200,000 pay TV accounts during Q2 2023. Meanwhile, the company is readying plans to offer 25 Gbps fiber Internet, possibly as soon as next year.
  10. Indonesia blocks Twitter after rebrand to "X"

    Officials in Indonesia have blocked access to Twitter's new website over concerns that the domain name, X.com, could be too closely aligned with pornography and gambling .
  11. Hawaiian Telcom says Nexstar orderd it to drop FCC complaint

    Hawaiian Telcom said it reached a tentative deal with Nexstar last week to restore two broadcast stations and NewsNation to its cable platfor. But the deal fell apart after Nexstar suddenly sprang new terms on it, including one that forbade it from filing another FCC complaint ag
  12. The dispute between DirecTV and Nexstar Media is heating up, with Nexstar now forcing DirecTV to block CW Network programming on Sinclair-owned or operated CW affiliates. The move means 73 percent of U.S. households have lost access to some or all programming on one or more broad
  13. Trump repeats voter fraud claim on Fox, three months after Dominion settlement

    Former President Trump is allowed to repeat an unfounded claim about voting machines and the 2020 presidential election during an appearance on Fox Business Network on Sunday.
  14. Tucker Carlson talks with Twitter about forming new media venture: report

    Representatives for Tucker Carlson have held discussions with Twitter about starting a new media company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources.
  15. Disney weighs selling profitable broadcast and cable TV business, CEO affirms

    Despite earning $1.8 billion in profit, Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company's traditional broadcast and cable business is being "evaluated" and suggests it could be sold off.
  16. Washington Post begins offering digital subscriptions to Verizon customers

    The Washington Post has become the first newspaper to sell digital subscriptions through Verizon's Plus-Play marketplace. It comes after the newspaper logged a 500,000 dip in subscribers last year.
  17. Comcast's Sky News builds AI-powered journalist to see if robots could replace human news reporters

    Sky News wanted to see if a robot powered by machine learning tools like ChatGPT could produce journalism as good as, or better than, a human reporter. So, it built a robot reporter and a robot editor, and put them to work. The results were something of a mixed bag. The robot repo
  18. Michigan TV news directors fired over anti-gay memo

    Two Michigan television news directors who circulated an anti-gay memo during Pride Month have been fired, along with two news producers who are suspected of leaking information about the memo to the press. News Director Stanton Tang, Assistant News Director Amy Fox and producers
  19. Fox News continues to dominate cable, but ratings lower after Tucker Carlson's exit

    While Fox News continued to dominate cable news ratings, its prime-time audience fell 20 percent during the same quarter when the network fired its highest-rated host Tucker Carlson.
  20. Long-time afternoon drive host Bob Shannon has died at the age of 74 after a prolonged illness, his wife announced on Wednesday.

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