Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
5:05 PM ET, April 19, 2023

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Washington Post:
The Fox-Dominion settlement is the largest publicly disclosed one in a US defamation case yet; sources: Fox doesn't have to make an on-air correction or apology  —  The agreement brings an abrupt end to one of the most significant media cases in recent decades, one that hinged on false claims about a presidential election
RELATED:
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox News said its court settlement reflects a “commitment to the highest journalistic standards”, showing that not even a ton of evidence of deceit can shame it  —  When news of a possible settlement between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News surfaced on Sunday night …
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 …
Jack Shafer / Politico:
For Fox News, which has $4.1B in cash and warrants on hand, $787.5M is a bargain price to avoid further embarrassment and continue its sleazy ways  —  For the media mogul, the massive Dominion settlement fee is just the cost of doing business.  —  If it seems fairly daft to congratulate Rupert Murdoch …
CNN:
Sources and the mediator detail how Fox and Dominion settlement came together, as Dominion planned Rupert Murdoch and Tucker Carlson among its first witnesses  —  Veteran mediator Jerry Roscoe was on a relaxing river cruise from Budapest to Bucharest celebrating his 70th birthday on Sunday when he received an urgent phone call.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Fox spared its executives and hosts further embarrassment on the witness stand, but the settlement sets a benchmark for lawsuits from Smartmatic and others
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Netflix upgrades its ad-supported plan, increasing the video quality from 720p to 1080p and the number of streams from one to two, starting in Canada and Spain  —  Netflix is making its $6.99 per month ad-supported plan a much better value. … Subscribers in Canada and Spain …
RELATED:
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
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
RELATED:
Liam Scott / Voice of America:
Oklahoma's governor calls on four officials to resign after a newspaper released audio of the group talking about killing journalists and lynching Black people
Washington Post:
An analysis of Google's C4 dataset, a snapshot of 15M websites used to train LLMs, shows that half of the Top 10 sites were news outlets like The New York Times  —  AI chatbots have exploded in popularity over the past four months, stunning the public with their awesome abilities …
Pew Research Center:
December 2022 survey: 49% of US adults listened to a podcast in the past year; 87% of those who hear news discussed on podcasts expect it to be mostly accurate  —  About half of Americans have listened to a podcast in the past year, and most of those listeners come across news content
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Fremantle UK names Amelia Brown as its new CEO, replacing Simon Andreae, who stepped down earlier this week after misconduct complaints and two investigations  —  Fremantle UK has named departing Thames boss Amelia Brown as its new CEO just days after Simon Andreae stepped down following misconduct complaints.
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
How Bellingcat researcher Aric Toler helped The New York Times identify Jack Teixeira, the Air National guardsman charged with leaking classified Pentagon docs  —  The Times publicly identified the man believed to have leaked intelligence documents before law enforcement did.
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 5:05 PM ET, April 19, 2023.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 Earlier Picks: 
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
A look at the decline of late-night TV as linear audiences wane; Vivvix: seven late-night shows drew $412.7M in 2022 advertising, down ~41% from $698M+ in 2018
Boston Globe Media Group:
Boston Globe Media and New England Sports Network launch Boston Globe Today, a weekday news and sports show, available on-demand and to stream on NESN and Globe
Discussion: MediaPost