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Court docs: in a January 2023 deposition, Rupert Murdoch said that several Fox News hosts endorsed the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump — Rupert Murdoch, the conservative media mogul, spoke under oath last month in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems.
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Fox News host Howard Kurtz, who anchors a weekly show on the media industry, told viewers on Sunday that the network won't let him cover the Dominion lawsuit — Howard Kurtz told his ‘MediaBuzz’ viewers he ‘strongly’ disagrees with the network's decision — Fox News host Howard Kurtz …
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Gabby Miller / Columbia Journalism Review:
An analysis of Meta's Journalism Project initiatives: $29.4M invested in 564 organizations through 17 grant programs since 2018, 43% received just $5K, and more — b — “People want more local news, and local newsrooms are looking for more support,” Campbell Brown wrote in 2019 when Meta …
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Madhumita Murgia on being appointed as The Financial Times' first AI editor, her “global remit”, the consumer risk of anthropomorphizing AI, and more — Madhumita Murgia describes herself as an accidental tech journalist. As a biology student …
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James Pomfret / Reuters:
Two Reuters reporters were impersonated on Telegram, Instagram, and other sites to gain details about activists' protests against China's COVID-19 controls — Two Reuters journalists had their identities faked by an unknown person or people who then used sham social media accounts to engage …
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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Nexstar reports 2022 revenue up 12.1% YoY to $5.21B, Q4 net revenue up 19.3% YoY to $1.49B, and political ad revenue of $265.9M, up 1,306.9% due to the midterms — Nexstar reported its fourth-quarter 2022 earnings Tuesday, revealing its core ad sales fell 3.3% from Oct. 1-Dec. 31 …
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
BBC employees in England who are members of the National Union of Journalists vote in favor of a strike, which would be the first major BBC strike since 2010 — Members of the National Union of Journalists have said the walkout could also affect coverage of the May coronation of King Charles III.
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Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
Inside The New York Times as staff clash over its trans coverage; a source says leaders mulled serious punitive measures for signees of the contributors' letter — Top editors, Pulitzer-winning reporters, contributors, and the paper's union have been embroiled in a back-and-forth over journalistic independence and “activism.”
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
A look at CNN's plans for its 9pm primetime slot, including a mix of one-on-one interviews with newsmakers, town halls with government officials, and scoops — CNN hopes it's finally hit upon a way to solve a long-vexing puzzle: What should it be airing at 9 p.m.?
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@bristei, @susanbordson, @bristei, @amandacarpenter, @bristei and CNN
Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal:
Axel Springer plans to restructure its German operations, including shuttering print editions, which could affect ~300 jobs, as the publisher focuses on the US — The media conglomerate aims to eliminate print editions in the medium term — BERLIN—The German owner of Politico …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vice Media Group names CFO Bruce Dixon and chief strategy officer Hozefa Lokhandwala as co-CEOs, effective immediately, days after CEO Nancy Dubuc leaves — Lokhandwala (above right) has been chief strategy officer at Brooklyn-based Vice Media since October 2018, and Dixon (above left) …
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Politico Europe has nearly doubled its London bureau since December 2022 to around 32 journalists and aims to have over 50 journalists in the next 18 months — The bullish growth contrasts with widespread cuts hitting news publishers in both the UK and US.
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Media Voices and @bron_maher
John Leland / New York Times:
A look at the vicious fight between local newspapers The Village Sun, WestView News, The Villager, and The Village View in New York City's Greenwich Village — A crusty publisher. A “guerilla” litigator. An ambitious caregiver. Has the news of Greenwich Village ever been more fun?
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