Ozy Media to Shut Down, Following Revelations of Questionable Business Practices

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In the first of what may well become a string of lawsuits against embattled Ozy Media, a fund manager that invested in the site accused it of fraud and asked for compensatory and punitive damages in a jury trial.

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Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCarlos Watson indicated Monday morning that he had much to discuss with advertisers, even though his company, Ozy Media, has been besieged by a torrent of difficult news about its relations with investors, vendors and staff.

Embattled Ozy Media continues to make headlines as founder-CEO Carlo Watson tell the Today show that the company is not in fact shutting down in the wake of a fast unfolding financial scandal last week as it previous announced.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe board of Ozy Media, the media and entertainment company accused of deceiving investors and advertisers, has had a change of heart and will not be shutting its doors, CEO Carlos Watson said Monday.“This is our Lazarus moment, if you will,” Watson said in an appearance on NBC News’ “Today” show.The about-face comes after Ozy announced Friday, Oct.

NEW YORK -- The CEO of Ozy Media on Monday called the company's announcement last week that it was shutting down “premature” and that after meeting with advertisers and other partners that it would continue to operate.“We have something special here,” Carlos Watson told CNBC on Monday morning.The board of directors of Ozy emailed a statement Friday saying the company was ceasing operations less than a week after a New York Times column raised questions about the media organization’s claims of

less than a week since The New York Times piece, the digital media company that raised a reported $83 million since 2012 is being abandoned by employees, senior executives and investors, including respected TV journalist and producer Katty Kay, investors Laurene Powell Jobs, Ron Conway and Marc Lasry, who resigned this week as chairman of the board just weeks after joining.Ozy billed itself as a modern media venture that was “ahead of the curve.” This week it has faced a daily onslaught of

Embattled digital media company Ozy Media said it will shut down, just days after a New York Times column exposed a range of dubious and even potentially criminal behavior by its executives.

reported that Watson’s resignation letter arrived to the board’s chairman just prior to the governance committee meeting later in the day to determine his status. Watson joined NPR’s board in 2016 and was re-elected for his second, three-year term on the board, which would have begun this month.

Sharon Osbourne said that Watson was lying. “This guy is the biggest shyster I have ever seen in my life,” Osbourne told CNBc.

The heat on Ozy Media has been turned up a notch after its chairman, Marc Lasry, decided to step down from the digital company.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeBillionaire businessman Marc Lasry, who had just been named chairman of Ozy Media earlier this month, is the latest figure to cut ties with the crumbling organization.In a statement, Lasry said he would continue to be an investor in Ozy, but he felt he didn’t have the skills necessary to steer the company out of its current predicament.

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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeFormer BBC News anchor and correspondent Katty Kay, who had just joined Ozy Media in late June, has announced her exit following the recent controversy swirling around revelations of the digital company’s practices.“Yesterday morning I handed in my resignation to Ozy Media,” Kay wrote on Twitter.

said in a statement posted to Twitter just after appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” earlier in the day to talk about former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham’s forthcoming tell-all. “I had recently joined the company after my long career at the BBC, excited to explore opportunities in the digital space.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeA day after a New York Times article revealed that Ozy Media chief operating officer Samir Rao impersonated a YouTube executive on a call with potential Goldman Sachs investors, the company has announced that the exec will take a leave of absence.Also as part of the news, Ozy’s board of directors has hired a law firm to review the company’s practices.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeOzy Media CEO Carlos Watson has informed the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences that he will no longer host the documentary portion of the 42nd News & Documentary Emmy Awards on Wednesday night.Watson’s decision to step down comes following a New York Times report on Monday questioning the validity of Ozy’s various traffic claims, and revealing that Ozy co-founder Samir Rao had posed as a YouTube executive, touting Ozy’s success, during a