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4:03 PM ET, April 18, 2023

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NBC News:
Dominion-Fox defamation trial kicks off in Delaware Superior Court, more than two years after Dominion accused Fox of knowingly airing lies about the company  —  Ex-Fox News producer Abby Grossberg said she recently found more evidence relevant to Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit …
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CNBC:
The judge in the Dominion-Fox defamation trial announces that the parties have settled the case  —  Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT  —  Fox Corp. and its cable networks reached a settlement Tuesday in a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems, averting a weeks-long trial …
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Ex-Fox News producer Abby Grossberg says she recently found more evidence relevant to Dominion's lawsuit against Fox and plans to turn it over to the court
Ann M. Simmons / Wall Street Journal:
A Moscow court rejects an appeal by WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich and upholds his pretrial detention at the prison where he has been held since his March arrest  —  Journalist to remain in pretrial detention at Moscow's Lefortovo prison  —  A Moscow court upheld the detention …
Steve Scherer / Reuters:
Elon Musk says Twitter changed the label on Canada's CBC to “69% Government-funded Media” after the outlet said it's “less than 70% government-funded”  —  Public broadcaster Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBC) Twitter account was on Monday labeled as …
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Reuters:
Sweden's Sveriges Radio will deactivate or delete its Twitter accounts, the first big European public broadcaster to do so; PBS and CBC quit Twitter last week
Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Netflix says it will ship its last red DVD envelopes in September, after 25 years of mailing shows and movies to subscribers and paving the way for streaming  —  Streamer said mailed DVDs paved the way for shift to streaming  —  Netflix Inc. NFLX .31%increase; green up pointing triangle …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Samsung rebrands its Samsung Free app as Samsung News, offering custom news feeds, morning and evening news briefings, and podcasts, starting with the US  —  Samsung announced today that it's introducing a “Samsung News” app that gives users access to everyday news from a variety of publications.
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Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
Survey of 2,000+ authors who self-publish in English finds their median income in 2022 was $12,749, up 53% YoY, and average income was $82,600, up 34% YoY  —  A survey commissioned by the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) found that income from self-published authors increased substantially …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Deloitte: US consumers pay $48 per month on average for subscription video services; millennials spend $54 per month on average, more than any other generation  —  Deloitte's 17th annual Digital Media Trends report highlights challenges for subscription streamers
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Nexstar's NewsNation will launch a new daytime block of news programming on April 24, bringing the network to 24 hours of news, five days a week  —  NewsNation will debut a new daytime block of news programming next Monday that will bring the network to 24 hours of news, five days a week, president of news Michael Corn told Axios.
 
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Bailey Schulz / USA Today:
Gannett news division president and USA Today EIC Nicole Carroll plans to step down on May 1; Managing Editor Michael McCarter takes over as Interim EIC
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Joseph Staten, Microsoft's former head of creative for Halo Infinite, is joining Netflix as Creative Director for a new AAA multiplatform game and original IP
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David Robb / Deadline:
WGA members vote to authorize the WGA West Board and the WGA East Council to call a strike if a “fair” deal for a film and TV contract isn't reached by May 1
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
A eulogy for the era of computer magazines in the US, as Maximum PC and MacLife, both of which started in 1996, abandon print after their April 2023 issues
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Muck Rack survey of 2,226 journalists globally: 78% say Twitter is the most valuable social media platform to them but ~50% considered leaving in the past year
Mark Savage / BBC:
Heart On My Sleeve, a song allegedly created using AI trained on the voices of Drake and The Weeknd without the artists' permission, goes viral on social media
 

 
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Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
An undisclosed 2023 agreement between Microsoft and OpenAI defines achieving AGI as the point when OpenAI develops AI systems that generate $100B+ in profits

Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
How H-1B workers from India and other countries help the US remain dominant in tech, as some on the new “Tech Right” discover MAGA's racial-nationalist bigotry

Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat:
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3, an open-source MoE model of 671B total parameters, with 37B activated per token, claiming it outperforms top models like GPT-4o
 
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