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10:45 PM ET, January 19, 2023

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Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings steps down as co-CEO but plans to stay on as executive chair; the company promotes COO Greg Peters to co-CEO with Ted Sarandos  —  Streaming company names new leadership as it looks to reset after ‘tough year’ in 2022  —  Reed Hastings is stepping …
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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 1.9% YoY to $7.85B, $55M net income, down from $607M YoY, 231M paid memberships, adding 7.66M subscribers vs. 4.57M expected  —  - Netflix is scheduled to report fourth quarter earnings after the bell.  — The streaming service's new ad-supported service will be in focus.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Netflix plans to roll out paid password sharing “more broadly” in Q1 2023 and expects some “cancel reaction” before an improvement in overall company revenue  —  The era of Netflix password sharing will soon come to a close.  Netflix has plans to enforce password-sharing rules …
The Verge:
Source: CNET owner Red Ventures has used AI tools like Wordsmith for at least a year and a half, amid layoffs and restructuring that have demoralized staff  —  Fake bylines.  Content farming.  Affiliate fees.  What happens when private equity takes over a storied news site and milks it for clicks?
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Right-wing YouTuber Steven Crowder, who has 5.94M subscribers on the platform, feuds with Ben Shapiro's The Daily Wire, which offered him a $50M four-year deal  —  Right-wing blowhard Steven Crowder is accusing Ben Shapiro's media empire of being in bed with Big Tech—fighting words that have ignited a heated public dispute.
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
New Mexico prosecutors charge Alec Baldwin and the armorer of the movie “Rust” with involuntary manslaughter for cinematographer Halyna Hutchins' on-set death  —  New Mexico prosecutors said they are filing felony criminal charges against actor Alec Baldwin and the armorer …
Chris Stokel-Walker / Nature:
Journal editors, researchers, and publishers are debating the place of AI tools like ChatGPT in published literature and whether they should be cited as authors  —  Chris Stokel-Walker is a freelance journalist in Newcastle, UK.  —  You can also search for this author in  —  PubMed Google Scholar
Wall Street Journal:
Nexstar reaches a multiyear deal to broadcast the Saudi Arabia-funded LIV Golf tour on The CW Network; until now, LIV events have been available online for free  —  Partnership will determine the Saudi-funded golf tour's financial viability  —  LIV Golf, the controversial Saudi-funded golf tour …
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The most important thing a blogger can do to develop and retain an audience is to post regularly and frequently, as evidenced by Matt Yglesias' success  —  How to be a successful content entrepreneur  —  What is the secret to a successful career as a blogger/newsletter author/content creator?
 
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Ad revenue made up 15% of INN members' revenue in 2022, up from 3% in 2018; ~430 nonprofits made $66M in 2021 ad revenue vs. The New York Times' almost $500M
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Sources: WWE Executive Chairman Vince McMahon agrees to a multimillion-dollar settlement with a former wrestling referee who accused him of raping her in 1986
Parker Molloy / The Present Age:
News media should've sent a signal to Twitter by not tweeting after the site suspended some journalists' accounts; Fox News once boycotted Twitter for 16 months
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Rich Johnston / Bleeding Cool:
Amazon's layoffs have reportedly impacted up to 50% of staff at digital comic book publisher and distributor ComiXology, which the company acquired in 2014
 

 
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Kent Walker / The Keyword:
Google says the DOJ's “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision”, would hurt US consumers, and jeopardize the US' global tech leadership

Daniel Howley / Yahoo Finance:
Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to $35.1B, vs. $33.2B est., Data Center revenue up 112% YoY to $30.8B, vs. $29B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.

Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider:
Google Quantum AI and DeepMind researchers debut ML decoder AlphaQubit, which surpasses existing methods in identifying and correcting quantum computing errors

 
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