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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Court documents detail Fox News executives, Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, and others struggling to navigate post-election lies by Donald Trump and his associates — Executives and top hosts found themselves in a bind after Donald Trump began pushing unfounded claims about election fraud, court filings show.
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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
In a letter, YouTube head Neal Mohan outlined his key priorities and teases upcoming features, including generative AI tools for creators and Shorts updates — Neal Mohan, the new head of YouTube, outlined his key priorities and teased some upcoming features for the media platform …
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: former Paramount Global executive David Nevins in recent weeks offered to buy Showtime for $3B+, backed by General Atlantic, but was turned down — David Nevins was latest Showtime suitor to be rebuffed by Paramount over past few years — Former Paramount Global PARA -2.15%decrease …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Disney announces an executive reshuffle, including giving FX chief John Landgraf oversight of National Geographic and Onyx Collective — Landgraf will take oversight of National Geographic as well as Onyx Collective, the production unit devoted to projects from communities of color and underrepresented groups.
Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Netflix announces its first live stage production, “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”, premiering in London's West End later in 2023 — Stage play based on Duffer brothers' series is a first for the streaming service — Netflix Inc.'s NFLX -0.28%decrease …
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
CNN plans to launch its new dayside lineup as CNN News Central in April, featuring anchor trios based in New York City and Washington, DC — CNN will launch its new dayside lineup in April as CNN News Central, an effort to highlight its newsgathering and coverage of breaking stories and events.
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Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day:
After declining Twitter engagement, a writer games the For You feed, which he suspects uses invisible subreddit-like Topics to algorithmically organize tweets — Read to the end for some really good horse content — I Gave Into The New Twitter Algorithm And I Went Way Too Viral
Lori Rozsa / Washington Post:
DeSantis appoints political supporters to a board controlling Disney's special tax district in Florida and suggests they can influence Disney's “woke” content — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis completed the state takeover of a taxing district controlled by Disney for more than half …
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Twitch streamer Kai Cenat breaks the record for most subscriptions on the service, reaching 300K+ subscribers paying $5-$25 for his Grand Theft Auto V streams — Twitch streamer Kai Cenat broke the record for most subscriptions on the Amazon Inc.-owned service Tuesday, with the number topping 300,000.
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Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Journalists at Australia's ABC will walk off the job for 40 minutes on March 7 over a pay dispute, impacting coverage of a Reserve Bank announcement — Strike over latest pay offer from management timed to make it difficult to cover Reserve Bank's scheduled board meeting and cash rate announcement
Wall Street Journal:
Anonym, launched by two ex-Meta executives to use encrypted data to measure ad campaign efficiency while maintaining privacy, raised an $8M seed — Their company, Anonym, aims to tell advertisers how effective campaigns were while maintaining user privacy — Two former executives …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Flipboard adds a beta feature to its iOS app that lets Mastodon users see posts from people they follow, as Twitter integration is expected to become unreliable — Magazine app Flipboard is joining the Fediverse — the group of interconnected servers powering a range of open source …
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