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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” — Palin's suit was the first libel case against the Times to go to trial in nearly two decades.
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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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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.
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Source: FT will hit 1M digital subscribers later this month; in 2021, revenues reached £438M, up 18% YoY, and digital journalism makes up 46% of revenue — The Financial Times will soon reach 1 million digital-only subscribers, a source familiar with the numbers confirms to Axios.
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