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3:05 PM ET, February 8, 2023

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Warner Bros. Discovery plans to keep Discovery+ as a standalone service after launching a new service that combines content from HBO Max and Discovery  —  Move comes amid concerns that some Discovery+ subscribers might not want to move to upcoming pricier, bigger platform
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The New York Times reports Q4 revenue up 12.3% YoY to $667.5M, 2022 revenue up 11.3% to $2.3B, and a $347.9M operating profit, as subscribers reached 9.6M  —  The company said it added more than a million digital subscribers in 2022, bringing its total number of paying subscribers to 9.6 million.
Washington Post:
A live blog of the House Oversight Committee hearing with three ex-Twitter executives on the handling of banning the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story  —  A congressional hearing today promises a moment of political reckoning more than two years in the making …
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
More than 200 staff in the NBC News Digital Union plan to walk off the job on Thursday to protest the company laying off seven union-covered staff last month  —  It's the latest major labor action to strike a national news organization in recent months as the media industry faces headwinds and cut-backs.
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Fox Corp reports Q2 revenue up 4% YoY to $4.61B, ad revenue up 4% YoY to $2.5B thanks to the World Cup, and $321M net income, up from a $73M net loss in Q2 2021  —  After the Murdoch family recently dropped plans to merge Fox with News Corp, the company reported its fiscal second-quarter results.
David Friend / Canadian Press:
Netflix begins rolling out new password sharing rules in Canada, Spain, Portugal, and New Zealand; other countries will be added in the next few months  —  Under new rules, premium and standard account holders will be given option to add extra members for $7.99 per month
Discussion: Canadian Press, The Verge and 9to5Mac
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with authors Felix Gillette and John Koblin on their book It's Not TV, the genesis of HBO, competing with Netflix, AT&T's Time Warner deal, and more  —  Authors Felix Gillette and John Koblin explain how your favorite shows kept HBO afloat.  —  HBO started as an experiment.
Angelina Chapin / The Cut:
Sources detail the office culture at ABC News during the 2010s, describing workplace relationships as common, after the T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach affair broke  —  Sascha didn't pay much attention to T.J. Holmes when he began working as an anchor for ABC News in 2014.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Instagram expands Gifts, a monetization feature that lets fans tip Reels creators using its virtual currency Stars, to more US creators, after a test in 2022  —  Instagram announced today it's expanding access to a new monetization feature called Gifts to more creators across the U.S. The feature …
Discussion: Meta
 
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Tyler Aquilina / Variety:
Muso report: 2022's most pirated TV series differed from the most legally streamed shows; many of the most pirated shows were only on niche streaming services
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Joseph Cox / VICE:
Voice actors are increasingly being asked to sign away rights to their voices so clients can make synthetic AI versions that may eventually replace them
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Microsoft's and Google's plans to use AI in search increase uncertainty for publishers and raise old questions about the link economy, fair use, and aggregation
Duncan Campbell / Byline Times:
Freelancer Duncan Campbell details the conflicts of interest and long delays when CJR edited his article on The Nation's defense of Russia; CJR blames Campbell