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2:35 PM ET, February 20, 2023

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Mike Allen / Axios:
Sources: last week, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy gave Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from the January 6 riot  —  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has given Fox News' Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage …
Jason Garcia / Nieman Lab:
A look at the close collaboration between Ron DeSantis' administration and The Florida Standard as he cultivates a network of sympathetic conservative outlets  —  Last summer, six days after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspended Tampa prosecutor Andrew Warren, one of the governor's top aides drafted …
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Polk Awards: New York Times wins three, CoinDesk wins for its FTX coverage, The Stanford Daily's Theo Baker becomes the youngest ever recipient at 18, and more  —  The Times was honored for its coverage of the war in Ukraine and a photo of war victims, as well as for its reporting on private schools for Hasidic Jews in New York.
Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
Don Lemon will not appear on today's CNN This Morning; sources say executives are discussing Lemon's future after his offensive remarks about women and aging  —  CNN sources told Confider that the network changed its Monday lineup to proceed without Lemon while “conversations about Don's future” are ongoing.
Phineas Rueckert / Forbidden Stories:
Leaked docs detail reputation management company Eliminalia's tactics to remove public-interest info from the internet, like via fake sites and copyright claims  —  Leaked documents obtained by Forbidden Stories reveal the inner world of Eliminalia, a Spanish reputation management company.
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
James O'Keefe resigns as Project Veritas leader, after clashing for weeks with its board, following staff complaints alleging “outright cruel” conduct  —  The founder of the right-wing nonprofit resigned without striking a severance deal, The Daily Beast has learned.
Hayden Vernon / The Guardian:
Puffin hired sensitivity readers to rewrite language the book publisher deems offensive, removing words like “fat” and “ugly” from Roald Dahl's children's books  —  Augustus Gloop now ‘enormous’ instead of ‘fat’, Mrs Twit no longer ‘ugly’ and Oompa Loompas are gender neutral
Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
A preview of Gonzalez v. Google SCOTUS case and a look at the Israeli nonprofit Shurat HaDin that is arguing the case against Google at the February 21 hearing  —  Are tech companies liable when their algorithms recommend terrorist content?  The Court's answer could upend the way the internet works.
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NBC News:
Biden and some GOP senators have formed a loose alliance in asking SCOTUS to change Section 230 protections when hearing Gonzalez v. Google on February 21
Dánae Vílchez / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Q&A with Nicaragua's La Prensa publisher Juan Lorenzo Holmann, incarcerated in August 2021 and unexpectedly released and deported to the US on February 9, 2023  —  Juan Lorenzo Holmann Chamorro was on the verge of sleep in his Nicaraguan jail cell when he was issued civilian clothes …
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Dow Jones' general counsel says OpenAI lacks a deal to use WSJ reporters' work to train its AI; source: CNN plans to ask OpenAI to pay to license its content  —  Major news outlets have begun criticizing OpenAI and its ChatGPT software, saying the lab is using their articles to train …
Marisa Dellatto / Forbes:
New Mexico prosecutors drop firearm enhancement charges against Alec Baldwin and Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez, removing the possibility of a five year sentence  —  Prosecutors who charged Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter over the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins on the set …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
TikTok launches a revamped Creativity Program creator fund in beta and says the program will generate higher revenue and unlock more opportunities for creators  —  TikTok announced today that it's launching the beta version of a revamped creator fund called the “Creativity Program.”
 
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Memo: New York public radio station WNYC won't renew The Takeaway, launched 15 years ago to rival NPR's Morning Edition, after the show's contract ends in June
Nikkei Asia:
Japanese video streaming services U-Next and Paravi plan to merge on March 31, becoming Japan's No. 2 streamer, with 3.7M+ paid subscribers, behind only Netflix
Discussion: Nippon.com
Geneva Abdul / The Guardian:
London-based Iran International TV closes its London studio and will broadcast from Washington, DC, acting on advice from the UK police about threats from Iran
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
NewsGuild members hijacked the official topics on a C-SPAN morning call-in show to accuse C-SPAN board member and Block CEO Allan Block of union busting
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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Issac J. Bailey / Nieman Reports:
The New York Times' response to criticism of its trans coverage reduced serious journalists to radical activists, a route too many outlets take when challenged
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
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