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8:30 PM ET, February 11, 2023

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CNN:
The White House says Biden's pre-Super Bowl interview with Fox is still off, after Fox said its streaming service Fox Soul would interview him, in an about-face  —  Hours after the White House said Fox had called off its pre-Super Bowl interview with President Joe Biden, the network said the president was still welcome.
Charlotte Van Campenhout / Reuters:
An advertising joint venture by Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, and Vodafone to rival Meta and Google wins unconditional EU antitrust approval  —  Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE), Orange (ORAN.PA), Telefonica (TEF.MC) and Vodafone (VOD.L) on Friday secured unconditional EU antitrust approval …
Louise Matsakis / Semafor:
Sources: TikTok's Internal Audit team that spied on journalists had wide investigative powers with little oversight; ByteDance says it's restructuring the team  —  TikTok's hyper-aggressive internal security team drew a wave of complaints from employees before its conduct exploded …
Clare Duffy / CNN:
Pathmatics estimates the monthly revenue from Twitter's top 1,000 advertisers fell 60%+ from around $127M in October 2022 to just over $48M by January 25, 2023  —  New York CNN —  —  More than half of Twitter's top 1,000 advertisers in September were no longer spending on the platform …
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
Report: ads next to tweets from 10 extremist Twitter accounts restored by Musk generate enough engagement to likely bring in $19M in ad revenue annually  —  Ads from major brands are running alongside hateful content and dangerous conspiracy theories from far right Twitter users, group claims
Alex Williams / New York Times:
Marianne Mantell, who co-founded Caedmon, a groundbreaking label that issued recordings of writers reading their words, the precursors to audiobooks, dies at 93  —  In her early 20s she co-founded the groundbreaking spoken-word record label Caedmon, which had a hit with Dylan Thomas's “A Child's Christmas in Wales.”
Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Sources: Fox turned down $2B+ unsolicited offers for Tubi, which the company acquired for $440M in 2020; Tubi lost ~$50M in Q4 and grew sales 25% YoY to $200M+  —  Fox Corp. has turned down unsolicited offers of more than $2 billion for its Tubi streaming service, over four times …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp plans to cut its headcount by ~5%, or ~1,250 positions, by the end of 2023 and says the company is still in talks to sell its digital real estate unit
New York Times:
After a three-month strike, the HarperCollins union and the company reach a tentative deal that includes increasing minimum salaries and a one-time $1,500 bonus  —  After a three-month strike, the two parties reached a tentative deal that includes wage increases and a one-time bonus.
New York Times:
An excerpt from an upcoming book on the Redstone family and its media empire: how Shari Redstone took control of Paramount, which emerged from CBS and Viacom  —  Her father doubted her much of her career.  Les Moonves launched a bid at CBS to overrule her.  That was before sexual misconduct allegations came to light.
Jenna Burrell / Poynter:
Journalists must challenge the notion that AI will replace humans; ChatGPT proves that finding the truth is trickier than pairing data with the right algorithm  —  Don't let these tools dazzle you beyond reason.  Don't anthropomorphize them.  Ask hard questions about what they're purported to do.
 
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Harry Lambert / New Statesman:
A look at the UK's Evening Standard and Independent under owner Evgeny Lebedev; while the Indy is profitable, the media outlets have lost £150M over 11 years
NBC News:
White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield plans to step down at the end of February 2023; Obama administration veteran Ben LaBolt will succeed her
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Yahoo plans to lay off 20%+ of its workforce and restructure its ad tech unit, impacting 50%+ of the unit, or 1,600+ people; CEO says the cuts are “strategic”