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Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Fox News media reporter Howard Kurtz calls the Dominion lawsuit a “major test of the First Amendment”, weeks after claiming Fox would not let him cover the case — Fox News media reporter Howard Kurtz said Sunday that the defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems …
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Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
A look at Smartmatic's $2.7B defamation lawsuit that has the potential to create further turbulence for Fox by pursuing Fox News, Maria Bartiromo, and Lou Dobbs — New York court greenlights $2.7bn suit against news channel by election company Smartmatic over 2020 presidential election lies
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@reallyamerican1, @katiephang and @mollyploofkins
Adam Morgan McCarthy / The Block:
Meta plans to wind down its work on NFTs “for now” to focus on other ways of supporting creators and will continue working on Meta Pay — - Meta is ditching its NFT efforts, for now, according to executive Stephane Kasriel. — Meta is ditching its pursuit of NFTs as the company looks …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Reach plans to make “significant changes” to its editorial operations; the National Union of Journalists says the cuts will impact 192 editorial jobs — Reach editorial staff have been told “tough decisions” need to be made because of current headwinds.
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Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
A look at the shift to the ATSC 3.0 TV broadcast standard, still not available in many major markets since its 2017 launch, as free streaming TV channels surge — Antenna television is back. In recent years, millions of cord-cutters have rediscovered antennas as a reliable …
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@michellemanafy, @sarafischer, @risj_oxford, @jank0, The Desk and @dcnorg
Politico:
The Gary Lineker saga has exposed weakness at the heart of BBC, making its leadership look indecisive and raising questions about its impartiality — Gary Lineker 1, BBC 0. — That was the consensus in Westminster on Monday as the U.K.'s national broadcaster was forced into an apology …
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Jamie Grierson / The Guardian:
Tim Davie apologizes for the BBC's sports programming disruption and says its commitments to impartiality and freedom of expression are difficult to balance
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Jane Merrick / The i Paper:
The BBC reaches a deal to let Gary Lineker return to presenting Match of the Day and tweet about politics; the BBC plans to review its social media guidelines
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with Manchester Evening News editor Sarah Lester about her “high ambitions” for the 155-year-old regional newspaper, “clickbait” claims, and more — Manchester Evening News editor Sarah Lester has “high ambitions” for the 155-year-old regional newspaper brand …
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@pressgazette, @patkarney, @sarahllester and @bobjwilliams
New York Times:
Sources: G/O Media sold Lifehacker, the online how-to guide for tech, cooking, and more, to Mashable owner Ziff Davis, and an announcement is expected this week — In the highly competitive world of digital publishing, so-called service journalism publications like Lifehacker are valuable properties.
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Axios, @benmullin, @bkoo, @stephentotilo, @harrymccracken, @adribbleofink, @velocciraptor, @benmullin, @vahn16, @rcmacleod, @lanceulanoff, @jfruh, @patbits, @sarafischer, @bethskw, @tvgrimreaper and @thedavidmurphy
Ronan Shields / Digiday:
Sources: Netflix is reviewing its ad strategy, including building its own tech, when its two-year advertising pact with Microsoft ends — Netflix announced its Microsoft partnership in July as part of a pact that was expected to generate billions in advertising revenue for the online streaming service.
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@martyswant, AdExchanger and @economyapp
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: the 95th Oscars averaged 18.7M viewers in the US, up 12.5% over the 2022 ceremony and the largest audience for any awards show since the 2020 Oscars — ABC's telecast of the 95th awards is up by more than 2 million viewers from a year ago. — The Oscars grew their TV audience for the second consecutive year.
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Jon Rice / Blockworks:
Sources: Digital Currency Group's CoinDesk has been an acquisition target for Binance Capital Management in recent weeks, but the talks are currently on hold — CoinDesk, a leading crypto news and events company and a core component of the Digital Currency Group (DCG) empire …
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@cz_binance and CoinDesk
The Bookseller:
Filing: Filippo Bernardini, arrested in 2022 for allegedly stealing 1,000+ unpublished manuscripts, says he just wanted to read books before they hit stores — Former Simon & Schuster staffer Filippo Bernardini has said stole more than 1,000 unpublished manuscripts because he wanted to read books before they hit stores.
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