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Jeff Zucker sees the UAE as key to his new $8 billion entertainment empire

The $8B Banijay-All3Media merger has created a global media and entertainment powerhouse—and Jeff Zucker believes the Gulf has a starring role to play.

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'The UAE has been a fantastic investor': Jeff Zucker hails UAE partnership after Banijay merger

In this week’s Fortune Gulf Brief.

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Trump's Libel Lawsuit Against N.Y. Times and Penguin Random House Can Proceed in Florida, Rather Than N.Y.

From Judge Steven Merryday (M.D. Fla.) today in Trump v. N.Y. Times Co. (for the Complaint in the underlying case,… The post Trump's Libel Lawsuit Against N.Y. Times and Penguin Random House Can Proceed in Florida, Rather Than N.Y. appeared first on Reason.com.

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‘No one’s even heard of the Telegraph’: can the UK’s most conservative paper take on Murdoch in the US?

Axel Springer boss has ‘bold vision’ for the media group, but identifying a gap is no guarantee of stateside success

The Guardian - UK

Banijay Group to form £3.8bn television super-indie with The Traitors producers

Chair of merged production company says move creates a ‘world-class’ offering across live events and programming

The Guardian - UK

Alan Dershowitz's Libel Case Over CNN's Coverage of His Defense in Trump Impeachment Thrown Out

"For a public figure like Dershowitz to prevail, defamation law has long required proof of a speaker's actual malice: knowledge of or reckless disregard for the falsity of a statement. But here, the available evidence points to the reporters’ sincere—if mistaken or even overwrought—belief in the truth of their accusations."

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Spoof Legend David Zucker Reflects On His Idea For Airplane 2 Getting Shot Down By Francis Ford Coppola

What could have been.

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Fired CNN boss Chris Licht admits that he should not have done disastrous Atlantic profile

Lengthy magazine profile came out days before Licht departed role leading CNN

The Independent UK

Battle resumes to take control of Telegraph – and the Tory soul

After year in ownerless limbo, Conservative party’s bible goes up for sale in second auction next week

The Guardian - UK

Former aide insists Melania’s marriage to Trump is just a ‘mirage’ dreamed up by TV producers

‘He needed a woman who looked & played the part & let him be the star,’ the Melania confidant said of Donald Trump

The Independent UK

Jeremy Corbyn 'a very hard act to follow' says TV journalist standing to replace him

‘I know the area well, I live three miles away’, says candidate Paul Mason

Evening Standard

UK government was ‘scared’, says man behind failed UAE-backed Telegraph bid

RedBird IMI deal effectively killed by new legislation blocking foreign states from owning UK newspapers

The Guardian - UK

Mind the Gulf: Britain thwarts UAE takeover bid for Telegraph newspaper

The newspaper industry may be in duress, but a legacy brand like The Daily Telegraph in the UK is still an attractive asset that wields considerable influence. Former CNN president Jeff Zucker led a consortium to buy the paper that was primarily backed by money out of the United Arab…

France 24

Telegraph takeover decision put back by fresh inquiry into Barclay family’s UAE-backed deal

Regulators’ reports on public interest risk now due on 11 March after late change in consortium’s structure prompts further review

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From right or left, UAE ownership of the Telegraph should be unacceptable

To state the obvious, the media is more important to free speech and public debate than a football club or a nuclear power station

International Business Times

UK To Probe Of UAE-backed Takeover Of Telegraph

The UK government said on Thursday it had triggered a formal probe on public interest grounds into the proposed sale of the Telegraph Media Group to an Abu Dhabi-backed investment fund.

The Independent UK

Deal to sell Telegraph and Spectator to UAE fund referred to UK media watchdog

Culture secretary steps in after 18 Tory MPs warn proposed sale ‘presents very real potential national security threat’

The Guardian - UK

MPs add to pressure on ministers to vet Barclay family’s Telegraph offer

Call for national security law to be used to investigate proposed deal involving consortium backed by UAE

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The Guardian - UK

Top Tory strategist’s lobbying firm advising Daily Mail owners on Telegraph bid

Exclusive: Isaac Levido’s company, Fleetwood Strategy, is helping DMGT navigate potential acquisition of rightwing broadsheet

International Business Times UK

UK Government To Intervene In the Telegraph Takeover Deal As Tories Worry About the Newspaper's Operations

Several Tory MPs have urged the UK government to intervene in the Telegraph takeover deal by UAE-backed investment fund, resulting in the Media Secretary writing a hard-hitting letter to the involved parties.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Telegraph sale: Jeff Zucker, the thin-skinned mogul taking on Britain's media

Jeff Zucker is the last highflyer in the American media business. He may be the last person totally in love with media — a mass market showman, a publicity seeker, a man comfortable with, perhaps addicted to, the deadly politics of media organisations. He has been killed off several times…

The Guardian - UK

Tory concern grows over potential sale of Telegraph titles to Abu Dhabi

Former Telegraph editor Charles Moore among those to condemn bid for the Conservative party’s paper of choice

The Guardian - UK

Whitehall infighting could hamper scrutiny of Telegraph sale

Foreign Office could stifle possible inquiry into bid from Abu Dhabi-backed fund RedBird IMI in absence of cabinet secretary

The Guardian - UK

Frontrunner in Telegraph newspaper takeover bid accuses rivals of hypocrisy

Jeff Zucker of Abu Dhabi-backed Redbird IMI insists editorial independence of titles would be protected

The Guardian - UK

The Telegraph, the autocracy and free speech: can RedBird IMI calm media fears?

One of the investors bidding for the paper is the vice-president of the UAE, which is ranked far down the press freedom index

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