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6:35 PM ET, February 17, 2023

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A court filing in the Dominion-Fox lawsuit shows more texts and emails from hosts and executives privately expressing disbelief about stolen US election claims — The comments, by Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and others, were released as part of a defamation suit against Fox News by Dominion Voter Systems.

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Oliver Darcy / CNN:

Text messages and emails in the Dominion-Fox suit show that Fox News hosts and executives feared losing audience to Newsmax, which embraced election denialism — New York CNN — — Fox News has been exposed like never before. — A trove of newly-released text messages and emails …

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Memo: The New York Times Executive Editor Joe Kahn defends the outlet's trans coverage and warns staff and contributors not to campaign or attack colleagues — “We do not welcome, and will not tolerate, participation by Times journalists” in protests over the paper's coverage of trans issues, its executive editor wrote.

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Sheila Dang / Reuters:

Source: Microsoft is demoing the Bing chatbot to ad agencies and is testing inserting paid search ads and industry-specific ad formats into the responses — Microsoft (MSFT.O) has started discussing with ad agencies how it plans to make money from its revamped Bing search engine powered …

Discussion: Fortune, Realities & Trivialities, MediaPost, The Information, @carlquintanilla, Search Engine Land, @kantrowitz, TechCrunch and MIT Technology Review, more at Techmeme »

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:

Barnes & Noble launches a $40/year membership offering 10% discounts, free shipping, and more, like the UK's Waterstones', which Elliott Management also owns — Book retailer also launches free membership program in effort to learn more about its customers

Discussion: The Hill, KTLA and The Wrap

Ryan Glasspiegel / New York Post:

Memo: Sports Illustrated laid off 17 people on February 15, including Executive Editor Adam Duerson; co-EIC Ryan Hunt is retiring in March 2023 after 25 years — Layoffs hit Sports Illustrated on Wednesday as the media business continues to have a rough winter with job losses.

Angela Fu / Poynter:

A look at Hearst's decision to hire a dedicated therapist for staff in California and Texas, as part of its effort to better support employees' mental health — Stressed, burnt out and sick of therapists who didn't understand them, San Francisco Chronicle journalists asked for help — and got it.

Discussion: @shiramstein, @shiramstein, @shiramstein, @shiramstein, @shiramstein, @hoyatexas, @shiramstein, @jilltucker and @trishathadani

Tyler Aquilina / Variety:

Fall 2022 global survey: 72% of streaming customers reported becoming frustrated with finding something to watch and 25%+ took 10+ minutes to choose something — Can't decide what to watch on Netflix? Well, it's not going to get any easier. — The streamer has officially discontinued its …

Isobel Koshiw / The Guardian:

Russia increases its propaganda efforts in occupied Ukraine with a free package of satellite channels, including 10 TV channels produced for the local residents — Free satellite package is part of attempts to cut off occupied population from rest of Ukraine, say analysts

Discussion: Carnegie Endowment … and @glasnostgone

Natalie Hanson / Courthouse News Service:

A Nebraska court rules that a state agency violated state law by requiring independent news organization Flatwater Free Press to pay $44K for public records — The estimate for records requested by Flatwater Free Press jumped from $2,000 to over $44,000 between April and June 2022.

Discussion: @freedomofpress and @jebredcal

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Penn Entertainment completes its acquisition of Barstool Sports, after paying $388M for the 64% stake in Barstool the entertainment company didn't already own — Barstool Sports is now fully owned by casino operator and entertainment company Penn Entertainment, which Friday completed …

Discussion: Business Wire, Awful Announcing, Barrett Media, TVNewsCheck and Cord Cutters News

Peter Kafka / Vox:

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki plans to step down after nine years, to be replaced by Neal Mohan as SVP and head of YouTube; Wojcicki was Google's 16th employee — One of the most prominent women in tech — and one of Google's earliest employees — is leaving the company.

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