Elon Musk Announces His Replacement as CEO of Twitter

Train services across Greater Manchester and the UK will be crippled again today (Saturday) due to a fresh wave of strikes. None of the major train companies which operate in the region are running services.

Fern Britton has made her first social media post after Phillip Schofield's tell-all interview was released, in which he spoke about his extramarital affair with a 'much younger' male colleague.

Brian McGinty insists his Cumnock stars have become heroes to a generation after landing the Scottish Junior Cup for just the third time in the club's history.

A student paramedic has been selected to represent Scotland in the six-a-side Football World Cup.

An NHS worker's first trip to the opticians in over 40 years stopped him from suffering a fatal stroke – after optometrists realised he needed urgent medical attention.

Prince William has met a road crash survivor who was saved by William and his former air ambulance crew mates.The heir to the throne invited Jack Beeton to Windsor Castle after he received a letter from the crash survivor’s girlfriend, saying her partner had thanked all the crew from the East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) personally apart from him. William was an EAAA helicopter pilot for two years until 2017, and wrote a public letter about his experiences when his role came to an end, saying pitching in with crewmates to save Mr Beeton’s life gave him the “determination to keep going”.

A monster 'bad boy' jellyfish washed up on a beach at a popular seaside village in north Wales.

Police have issued an appeal for help to find a missing man from Stockport.

With a mini heatwave on the way, what could be better than cooling off in an outdoor pool, enjoying all the thrills of a Mediterranean holiday without even having to travel too far from home?

An Edinburgh Marathon runner proposed to his girlfriend after the pair reached the finishing line of the 26 mile race.

Manchester United winger Alejandro Garnacho inadvertently revealed his dream to win the FA Cup last month when the Reds travelled to West Ham.

Stop-and-search powers have been extended and two further arrests have been made following a spate of violence in parts of Trafford and Manchester.

Phillip Schofield has been awash with varying emotions since the fallout from his BBC interview but the hurt and shame is turning to worry and fear as the fragile star questions how people will react in the aftermath. Since confessing to his affair with a much younger TV colleague last Friday, more details have continued to spill but it was yesterday's exclusive interview that revealed the intimate details of how and where the affair took place, with Phillip discussing how he has shut himself away from the public eye with fears of how the public will be. Having never previously suffered verbal abuse while out and about, he panics now that things might change.

Just weeks after bidding the iconic Weatherfield cobbles adieu, Coronation Street’s Ellie Leach seems to have switched things up career wise.The 22 year old, who from the the age of nine played the role of Faye Windass, recently revealed the new creative project she’s been working on since leaving the soap, and it’s not what you’d think. Ellie is now actually a jewellery designer after bagging a collaboration with Merseyside based accessories brand, Dorothy & J.The actor has officially released her first very own collection, called The Ellie ‘L’ Bundle, and is available to buy for £45 on the store’s website. The actor’s own line consists of her own unique designs, including small hoop earrings in gold and silver, complete with different charms.

According to tradition, having “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue” will bring good fortune to brides on their wedding day. Except this year, “something new” takes on a whole new meaning. Influenced by celebrity weddings, more and more brides-to-be are splashing out on high-tech treatments at our Harley Street Skin clinic to look picture perfect for their big day.

There comes a point with carpets and furniture when they look so grubby you want to replace them.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was stabbed to death in Tameside. Detectives launched a manhunt after the 51-year-old victim was killed in Droylsden on Friday afternoon.

Love Island star Molly Marsh is one of ten singletons heading to the iconic ITV2 villa this summer in order to find love.The musical theatre performer, 21, from Doncaster, who has an impressive social media following, has already appeared on stage in pantomime and her mum, Janet Marsh, is a recognised TV actress, having worked on the likes of Coronation Street. Janet has appeared in multiple roles in the long-running soap, appearing first as a nurse in 2005. She later returned to the cobbles as a receptionist at the Scott-Roe Clinic in March 2008 and then again as an ITU nurse in 2009.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor On his Fox News program, Tucker Carlson would often declare himself “the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and group think.” So now he wants to launch a show on Twitter? The social-media platform has given millions of people the ability to express themselves and communicate in ways they never could before, but it has also become a haven for bullying, tribalism and disinformation. Carlson may become part of the venue’s latest effort to keep traffic flowing even as many advertisers keep more than an arm’s length away. Figuring out how to handle Carlson could be one of the first challenges for Linda Yaccarino, who has been named Twitter’s new CEO. The former NBCUniversal ad-sales chief knows what it takes to line up blue-chip sponsorships at scale. But doing that on behalf of Carlson may be a mission impossible. HisFox News show suffered from a dearth of mainstream national advertisers, despite the show’s high ratings. After recent revelations about the host’s use of racist and misogynist language, disclosed in documents tied to Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation litigation against Fox News, Twitter’s new bosswould have to hunt far and wide for any traditional sponsors willing to associate Carlson with their brands.

Elon Musk defended his propensity to step into divisive debate and even in advancing conspiracy theories, telling CNBC, “I’ll say what I want to say, and if the consequences of that is losing money, I’ll say it.”

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Elon Musk, after dramatically slashing Twitter’s headcount following his takeover of the social platform, said the company will try to rehire some of them — acknowledging that the job cuts were too deep. Musk has slashed Twitter’s headcount by about 80%, from 7,800 to about 1,500, as he has attempted to cut costs and get the company in the black. “Some people who were let go probably shouldn’t have been,” Musk said during an interview with CNBC anchor David Faber following the 2023 Tesla annual shareholder meeting Tuesday at the car maker’s headquarters in Austin, Texas. “Desperate times call for desperate measures… Unfortunately, if you do it fast, there are some babies who will be thrown out,” Musk said. Twitter now will probably try to rehire some of the Twitter employees that were let go, he said.

Elon Musk welcomed Twitter’s new CEO into the fold as he held court at Tesla’s annual meeting in Austin today, sounding genuinely relieved to offload some of the burden of running the beleaguered social media company he reluctantly acquired last fall.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large From the moment an animated “Ted” opened the NBCUniversal upfront, voiced by Seth MacFarlane prior to the writers strike, it was clear this was going to be an abbreviated event. For starters, until a week ago, this was still going to be Linda Yaccarino’s Radio City Music Hall show. But with Yaccarino off running Twitter (“Ted” making a crack about the crazies now at Twitter earned the biggest inadvertent laugh of the morning), it was up to Mark Marshall, NBCU interim chairman, global advertising & partnerships, to make the pitch to advertisers. “In all of our conversations leading up today, regardless of client or category, there has been one constant…this is going to be a very important year for your businesses,” Marshall said, counting 32 pharma launches, 60 auto releases (including 46 electric vehicles) and over 100 movie releases (“which puts us back to pre-pandemic levels”) this year. “We know this is a competitive year. And here at NBCUniversal, we are built for these moments.”

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer “I don’t know but I’ve been told, NBC has a heart that’s cold,” Writers Guild of America pickets shouted outside Radio City Music Hall Monday, making some noise about the writers strike in front of NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation to advertisers. Approximately 200 pickets, some members of SAG-AFTRA joining the WGA in solidarity, used other chants personalized for the occasion, including, “NBC, you’re no good, pay your writers like you should,” to try to get the attention of those in attendance at the event, which is used to launch NBC’s fall schedule and woo advertisers into spending their dollars on spots with NBCU brands. The WGA is on Day 14 of a strike after failing to ink a deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) before the clock ran out May 1.

Mark Lazarus, chairman of NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, wasn’t on the production call sheet until very recently for the company’s upfront at Radio City on Monday morning.

The NBCUniversal Upfront kicked off a week of events in New York amid a writers strike.

Linda Yaccarino sent out her first tweets Saturday night since being named Twitter CEO, assuring the platform’s users that she is committed to the job and even sharing her aim of building “Twitter 2.0.”“I see I have some new followers,” Yaccarino tweeted to her more than 319, 000 followers along with a wave emoji. “I’m not as prolific as @elonmusk (yet!), but I’m just as committed to the future of this platform.

#RipTwitter was trending this afternoon. And the feed was filled with posts and videos about Elon Musk’s newly appointed CEO, Linda Yaccarino. Absolutely correct!

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor In what may have been an highly unconventional job interview, NBCUniversal ad chief Linda Yaccarino hosted a discussion with Elon Musk about Twitter’s content policies and approach to working with marketers at an industry conference one month before Musk announced that he’d hired her as the social network’s CEO. The April 18 keynote conversation was billed as a talk about Musk’s “Twitter 2.0: From Conversations to Partnerships” at MMA Global’s Possible marketing event in Miami. Yaccarino told Musk that marketers want “protection for their ad campaigns,” with content moderation policies ensuring that “provocative speech” is properly labeled. She applauded Twitter’s announcement last month to promote “freedom of speech, not freedom of reach,” under which the company said it will limit the reach of tweets that violate policies concerning hateful conduct and violent speech.

Twitter has a new CEO.

Yaccarino, a graduate of Penn State University, served as the chair of global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal, acting as «the strategic and operational bridge across the entirety of NBCUniversal's global networks, properties, and business units,» according to her profile on LinkedIn. Her role involved monetizing the company's networks, digital and streaming platforms, distribution and commerce partnerships, and client relationships.

Even without a once-in-a-generation strike or a Twitter bombshell, next week would already pose a challenge to media companies making their annual upfront pitches to ad buyers in New York.

Wall Street Journal report that she is in talks to become Twitter’s new chief executive officer. “It has been an absolute honor to be part of Comcast NBCUniversal and lead the most incredible team,” she said in a statement. “We’ve transformed our company and the entire industry—and I am so proud of what we’ve accomplished together, and grateful to my colleagues and mentors, especially Brian Roberts, Mike Cavanagh and the entire NBCU leadership team.”Since joining NBCU in 2011, Yaccarino’s team has generated more than $100 billion in ad sales, expanded the company’s reach globablly, helped launch Peacock, and made massive investments in data and technology capabilities.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor NBCUniversal shook up its ad-sales executive suite with just days to go before the company is slated to present its next slate of programing to advertisers. Linda Yaccarino, the company’s longtime chairman of advertising and partnerships, is leaving the company.

In a potentially seismic change on the eve of the broadcast upfronts, word emerged Thursday evening that NBCUniversal sales chief Linda Yaccarino is reportedly in discussions to become Twitter’s new CEO.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Linda Yaccarino, a hard-charging veteran of TV’s ad-sales wars, is in talks to become the next chief executive of Twitter, according to a person familiar with the matter. Yaccarino, who spent a good chunk of her career at WarnerMedia’s TV operations before joining NBCUniversal last decade, supervises the Comcast-owned company’s ad-sales efforts across the globe, with Peacock and NBC among the assets she helps fortify with revenue. In recent years, she has spearheaded initiatives to generate new cash flows through e-commerce, and worked to redefine the way the TV industry measures its audiences for advertisers in hopes of giving more credibility to the way Madison Avenue pays for people who watch their favorite programs via streaming video.