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6:40 PM ET, February 15, 2022

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Sarah Palin loses defamation suit against the NYT as jury finds there was insufficient evidence to prove the newspaper defamed her  —  The verdict came a day after the judge said that he planned to dismiss the case, ruling that Ms. Palin's legal team had failed to prove that the newspaper defamed her.
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Washington Post:
Judge says he intends to dismiss Palin's case after jury returns a verdict, saying she hadn't met the legal standard showing that NYT acted with “actual malice”
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Staff memo: ViacomCBS renames itself as Paramount; shares will trade on Nasdaq starting Thursday as PARAA, PARA, and PARAP  —  Bob Bakish and Shari Redstone announced the news in a memo to staff ahead of the company's presentation to investors.  —  The “ViacomCBS” name is being retired.
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
ViacomCBS reports Q4 revenue of $8B, up 16% YoY; global streaming revenue rose 48% YoY, and global streaming customers rose 9.4M for a total of 56M subscribers  —  ViacomCBS missed Wall Street forecasts for earnings per share in the fourth quarter, but added a record 9.4 million streaming subscribers and smashed revenue projections.
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Facebook rebrands News Feed to just Feed after more than 15 years  —  The ‘News Feed’ is now just the ‘Feed’  —  Meta is changing the name of Facebook's News Feed, the primary part of the service that users scroll through to see what their friends and family have shared.
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Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
US intelligence officials accuse right-wing financial news site Zero Hedge of publishing articles created by Moscow-controlled media; Zero Hedge denies doing so  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday accused a conservative financial news website with a significant American readership …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Right-wing media make wildly erroneous claims about spying on Trump and then they and Trump shame other outlets for not covering the furor they created  —  The latest alarmist claims about spying on Trump appeared to be flawed, but the explanation is byzantine — underlining the challenge …
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Nielsen and NBCU say Super Bowl viewership rose 14% YoY to roughly 112M viewers, of which 11.2M came from streaming services  —  High ratings for NBC and its sister platforms follow strong viewership for the NFL's regular season and playoffs  —  About 112 million viewers watched …
Sudhi Ranjan Sen / Bloomberg:
A look at Oscar nominated Writing With Fire, which documents a women-led Indian newspaper's shift to digital and was shot on smartphones over five years  —  A documentary about Khabar Lahariya, a news-platform run by women from India's Dalit group has been nominated for an Oscar …
Axios:
WSC Sports, whose AI software cuts video clips of live sports and distributes them in real-time, raises a $100M Series D; clients include YouTube TV and ESPN  —  WSC Sports, a B2B sports video company, has raised $100 million in a series D funding round, led by ION Crossover Partners, to expand into new verticals and countries.
Dennis Romero / NBC News:
P.J. O'Rourke, a former editor-in-chief of National Lampoon, author, satirist, and libertarian-leaning commentator, dies at 74 from complications of lung cancer  —  P.J. O'Rourke, an influential baby boomer satirist and commentator who defied the counterculture's leftward politics, died Tuesday morning.
Martin Giles / Forbes:
Cloudinary, which helps companies automate delivering videos and images at scale, raises $100M in a secondary sale from Blackstone Growth at a $2B valuation  —  Cloudinary, a nine-year-old digital media startup, has become a unicorn in a secondary funding round that values the company at $2 billion.
 
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