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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 …
The Daily Beast:
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 traditional search ads and industry-specific ads 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 …
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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.
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@jilltucker and @trishathadani
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
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The Wrap
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
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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.
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 …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Vince McMahon seeks as much as $9B for WWE, or 37% above its ~$6.5B market value; potential buyers include UFC owner Endeavor and Middle East investors — Vince McMahon is looking to get as much as $9 billion in a potential sale of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. …
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@wyshynski, @susanlitv, @mrwarrenhayes and @lucas_shaw
Reuters Institute:
An interview with Ukrainian independent journalist Olga Tokariuk on Ukrainians' attitude toward the media, challenges for local outlets, press freedom, and more — In this episode we discuss the tremendous toll that Russia's full-scale invasion has had on journalists and the news media in the country
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@risj_oxford, Quartz, European Federation …, Bloomberg, @mitalilive, @rasmus_kleis, @palewire and Breitbart
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