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10:25 AM ET, January 18, 2023

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Lian Buan / Rappler:
A Philippine tax court acquits Maria Ressa and Rappler of four tax evasion charges filed in 2018, leaving three active court cases against Ressa and Rappler  —  This is breaking news.  Please refresh for more details.  —  MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines' Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) …
Erin Woo / The Information:
Source: Twitter manager Siddharth Rao told employees that daily revenue was 40% lower than a year earlier and more than 500 top advertisers have paused spending  —  A senior Twitter manager told employees that the company's daily revenue on Tuesday was 40% lower than the same day a year ago …
New York Times:
Semafor plans to buy out Sam Bankman-Fried's roughly $10M stake, putting the money in a separate account; the investment was Semafor's largest in a ~$25M round  —  Semafor is one of several media companies that received money from Mr. Bankman-Fried or his affiliates before his cryptocurrency …
Rachel Russell / BBC:
The BBC apologizes after noises from a porn clip were audible during pre-match soccer commentary; a mobile phone playing the noises was found taped to the set  —  Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker has laughed off the moment sex noises transmitted by a YouTube prankster disrupted the show's live coverage.
Harvey Solomon-Brady / whynow:
London-based media company whynow plans to re-launch CNN's YouTube channel Great Big Story in early 2023, licensing the brand from CNN International Commercial  —  whynow is delighted to announce the relaunch of the hugely popular video storytelling brand Great Big Story.
The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at Disney's board power struggle and how investor Nelson Peltz lobbied for a seat since July 2022 with help from former Marvel executive Ike Perlmutter  —  As activist shareholder Nelson Peltz presses a long-shot fight for a seat on Disney's corporate board, with help …
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India proposes making social media companies rely on the Press Bureau of India and its other agencies for fact checks, as part of amendments to its IT rules  —  The Indian government has proposed making the Press Bureau of India and its other agencies the arbiter of truth on what information …
Discussion: MediaNama
Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
Edelman 2022 survey: 37% of people in the UK said they trusted the media, up from 35% in 2021, compared to 43% in the US, up from 39% YoY  —  Data shows trust in the media increased in the US and the UK but there is little faith in the industry.  —  The UK and the US were just two of six countries …
Bob Harig / Sports Illustrated:
Sources: Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf tour plans to sign a multiyear TV deal with The CW Network; a source says it is a revenue sharing deal with no rights fee  —  The TV agreement would fill a major objective for LIV Golf, as CW is in 220 U.S. markets, many of which have a local news operation, website and nightly newscast.
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
The New York Times appoints Adrienne Carter as its Europe editor, succeeding Jim Yardley, in the role since 2016; Carter has been the Asia editor since 2019  —  Carter takes over from Jim Yardley, who assumes a new role at the paper in New York.  —  The New York Times has announced …
Stephen Harrison / Slate:
A look at Wikipedia editors debating the use of ChatGPT, which some see as a useful drafting tool while others worry about bad actors creating fictional content  —  Five years ago, I traveled to Stockholm to cover the annual convention for Wikipedia and related free knowledge projects.
 
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Derrick Bryson Taylor / New York Times:
Harvard Medical School will no longer submit data to US News & World Report for its Best Medical Schools rankings, saying they create “perverse incentives”
Pranshu Verma / Washington Post:
An interview with Raqib Hameed Naik, a Kashmiri Muslim journalist hiding in the US, about his project HindutvaWatch.org that tracks human rights abuses in India
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Using Taylor Swift's career as a case study to review the music industry's evolution from CDs to streaming, a model on the precipice of a failed marketplace
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Jon Christian / Futurism:
After Futurism found major errors in an AI-written “fact-checked” CNET article, CNET updated almost all its AI pieces as currently being reviewed “for accuracy”
Diana Pearl / Business of Fashion:
Vogue plans to publish 10 print issues in 2023, down from 11 for the past three years, including the most recent “Winter” issue and the combined June/July issue
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Robinhood plans to launch Sherwood Media, an independent brand led by veteran tech editor Joshua Topolsky; Sherwood will be the Snacks newsletter's new home
 

 
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Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Exploring the scaling challenges of transformer-based LLMs in efficiently processing large amounts of text, as well as potential solutions, such as RAG systems

 
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