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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
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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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@spj_tweets, @earriagada, @sarahscire, @niemanlab and @madhumita29
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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Talking Biz News, @jamespomfret, @asadhashim, @badiucao, @newley, @billymallard and @petesweeneypro
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Source: Jonathan Capehart quit the Washington Post's editorial board in December over an editorial on the Georgia senate runoff, leaving the board with no POC — Jonathan Capehart quit the Washington Post editorial board after a dispute over an editorial about 2024 politics …
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Financial Times:
Some marketers worry that Meta's AI-based Advantage+ ad tool, added after Apple's ATT to automatically generate multiple ads, forces them to relinquish control — Social network claims successes with tool to counteract Apple's privacy changes that resulted in billions in lost revenue
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@cristinacriddle, @rihardjarc, @mattnavarra and @fbbagholder, more at Techmeme »
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 …
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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@anthony, @madhavchanchani and Reuters
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK appeals court rules that Brexit backer Arron Banks should receive libel damages from freelance journalist Carole Cadwalladr over claims made in a Ted Talk — Brexit donor Arron Banks is entitled to damages over Carole Cadwalladr's Ted Talk, appeal judges have ruled.
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@dbanksy
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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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Substack says its newsletters have 20M+ monthly active subscribers and 2M paid subscriptions, up from 1M in November 2021, as Big Tech rival offerings shutter — There are more than 2 million paid subscriptions to writers on Substack, Axios has learned — up from 1 million last reported in November 2021.
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On Substack, @tvgrimreaper, @walthickey, @kantrowitz, @jaycodon, @kantrowitz and @jasonlk
Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
ABC: in H2 2022, UK local daily newspaper sales fell by 19% YoY on average and non-dailies fell 13%; Reach titles like Manchester Evening News were hit hardest — Data reveals large drops in UK regional print circulation, although some brands' online audiences have grown.
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HoldtheFrontPage
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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@rebeccaballhaus, @amymrusso, @krantinari, @johnleland, @juliamanhattan, @adamweinstein, @marcatracy, @thegarance and @littlewern
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