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5:50 PM ET, April 18, 2023

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CNBC:
Fox Corp and its cable networks agree to pay $787.5M to Dominion Voting Systems to settle the defamation lawsuit over Fox's lies about Dominion's machines  —  WILMINGTON, Del. - Fox Corp. and its cable networks agreed Tuesday to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems to settle …
Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Netflix plans to ship its last red DVD envelopes in September 2023, 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 …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix plans a “broad rollout” of its paid sharing plan in Q2 2023, including to the US, after its Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain launch in February  —  Netflix said it would stage a “broad rollout” of its paid-sharing plan in the second quarter of 2023, including in the U.S.
Ann M. Simmons / Wall Street Journal:
A Moscow court rejects WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich's appeal and upholds his pretrial detention at the prison where he's been held since his March 2023 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 account to “69% Government-funded Media” as the broadcaster 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 plans to “deactivate or delete” its Twitter accounts, becoming the first big European public broadcaster to do so after PBS and CBC quit
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Mansa, a free, ad-supported streaming service and content aggregator that offers curated Black cultural content, launches out of stealth with an $8M seed  —  Mansa, a free ad-supported streaming service and content aggregator that offers a curated selection of Black cultural content, launched out of stealth today.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Samsung rebrands its Samsung Free app as Samsung News, offering custom news feeds, morning and evening top news briefings, and podcasts, rolling out in 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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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
Discussion: Media Play News and VentureBeat
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Nexstar's NewsNation plans to launch a new daytime block of news programming on April 24, bringing the network to 24 hours of news coverage, five days per week  —  NewsNation will debut a new daytime block of news programming next Monday that will bring the network to 24 hours of news …
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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
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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
Mark Savage / BBC:
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Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Sources: Microsoft plans more cuts after closing several game studios, as the massive Activision acquisition has ramped up scrutiny on the Xbox division

Wall Street Journal:
Binance sources and documents: internal investigators, dismissed in late 2023, found evidence of market manipulation by DWF Labs and secret trading accounts

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Some Stack Overflow users say their account was suspended after they attempted to alter their posts in protest of its OpenAI partnership to supply data for AI

 
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