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5:05 PM ET, April 20, 2023

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New York Times:
Memo: BuzzFeed News is shutting down, and BuzzFeed is cutting jobs by ~15%; Jonah Peretti: “We will have a single news brand in HuffPost, which is profitable”  —  BuzzFeed News, which won a Pulitzer Prize but never made money, is “beginning the process of closing,” the company's founder …
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Ben Smith / Semafor:
The end of BuzzFeed News signals a vast shift in digital media: the old way of thinking about news, based on text and distributed via social media, has passed
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
BuzzFeed CRO Edgar Hernandez and COO Christian Baesler are leaving as part of the company's cutbacks; BZFD is down 20%+
Angela Fu / Poynter:
A deep look at changes at The Buffalo News: print and design outsourcing, employee furloughs, insurance snafus, fewer reporters, and more pay for Lee executives  —  Lee cut budgets, pushed out veterans and outsourced design and print production at a paper that had been spared the worst of the industry's decline.
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Insider is laying off about 10% of its US-based staff, affecting editorial and commercial roles; the company employs approximately 950 people globally  —  The company president emailed staff to inform them at 7am Eastern time on Thursday.  —  Insider is laying off 10% of its staff in the US …
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Katherine Le Ruez / The Guardian:
The Guardian signs a licensing deal with British tech company Illuma, letting Illuma use The Guardian API to categorize article pages for contextual ad purposes  —  The Guardian has signed an agreement with a British technology company, Illuma, to categorise article pages for contextual advertising purposes …
Nate Saunders / ESPN.com:
The family of ex-F1 racer Michael Schumacher plans legal action against German magazine Die Aktuelle, which ran an AI-generated fake interview with the driver  —  Michael Schumacher's family plans to take legal action against a German magazine that ran an AI-generated interview with the Formula One legend.
Mark Joyella / Forbes:
Fox News host Dan Bongino says he is leaving after unsuccessful contract extension talks, ending his shows Unfiltered with Dan Bongino and Canceled in the USA  —  Fox News has ended its relationship with Dan Bongino, who hosted the Saturday night show Unfiltered with Dan Bongino.
Jef Feeley / Bloomberg:
Sources: the prospect of fired Fox News producer Abby Grossberg's secret recordings being played during trial pushed Fox News to its $787.5M Dominion settlement  —  The prospect of a fired Fox News producer's secret recordings being played during trial helped push the conservative network …
Discussion: Gizmodo and @timobrien
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CNN:
Sources and the mediator detail how Fox and Dominion settled, after Dominion notified Fox that Rupert Murdoch and Tucker Carlson were among its first witnesses
Julia Rock / The Lever:
Fox says the company can deduct the cost of its $787.5M settlement with Dominion; writing off the full payment would amount to an estimated $213M in tax savings  —  Fox's massive settlement with private equity-backed voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems didn't just spare …
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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
Jack Shafer / Politico:
For Fox Corp., which ended 2022 with $4.1B in “cash and cash equivalents” on hand, $787.5M is a bargain to avoid more embarrassment and continue its sleazy ways
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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
 
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