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3:40 PM ET, February 28, 2023

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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
New York Times:
Court docs: in a January 2023 deposition, Rupert Murdoch said that several Fox News hosts endorsed the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump  —  Rupert Murdoch, the conservative media mogul, spoke under oath last month in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems.
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Fox News lawsuit filing: Dominion alleges that Rupert Murdoch gave Jared Kushner confidential info about Joe Biden's political ads and debate strategy in 2020
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Source: Jonathan Capehart quit the Washington Post's editorial board in December over an editorial on the Georgia senate runoff, leaving the board with no POC  —  Jonathan Capehart quit the Washington Post editorial board after a dispute over an editorial about 2024 politics …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Substack says its newsletters have 20M+ monthly active subscribers and 2M paid subscriptions, up from 1M in November 2021, as Big Tech rival offerings shutter  —  There are more than 2 million paid subscriptions to writers on Substack, Axios has learned — up from 1 million last reported in November 2021.
Financial Times:
Some marketers worry that Meta's AI-based Advantage+ ad tool, added after Apple's ATT to generate multiple ads, forces them to relinquish too much control  —  Social network claims successes with tool to counteract Apple's privacy changes that resulted in billions in lost revenue
Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal:
Axel Springer plans to restructure its German operations, including shuttering print editions, which could affect ~300 jobs, as the publisher focuses on the US  —  The media conglomerate aims to eliminate print editions in the medium term  —  BERLIN—The German owner of Politico …
James Pomfret / Reuters:
Two Reuters reporters were impersonated on Telegram, Instagram, and other sites to gain details about activists' protests against China's COVID-19 controls  —  Two Reuters journalists had their identities faked by an unknown person or people who then used sham social media accounts to engage …
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Nexstar reports 2022 revenue up 12.1% YoY to $5.21B, Q4 net revenue up 19.3% YoY to $1.49B, and political ad revenue of $265.9M, up 1,306.9% due to the midterms  —  Nexstar reported its fourth-quarter 2022 earnings Tuesday, revealing its core ad sales fell 3.3% from Oct. 1-Dec. 31 …
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
BBC employees in England who are members of the National Union of Journalists vote in favor of a strike, which would be the first major BBC strike since 2010  —  Members of the National Union of Journalists have said the walkout could also affect coverage of the May coronation of King Charles III.
Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times:
Penguin Random House reorganizes its US division and forms Crown Publishing Group, after its failed bid to buy Simon & Schuster and some executive departures  —  The country's largest publisher has had a rocky few months since a deal to buy a rival fell through, and some of its top executives left.
 
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Melanie Goodfellow / Deadline:
Vice France's EIC Paul Douard announces the closure of the French subsidiary “between now and the end of March”, affecting 30 employees
Minnie Chan / South China Morning Post:
Taiwan proposes stiffer penalties for “dissemination of fake news and misinformation” and requiring the media to cooperate with the military in investigations
Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
ABC: in H2 2022, UK local daily newspaper sales fell by 19% YoY on average and non-dailies fell 13%; Reach titles like Manchester Evening News were hit hardest
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Scott Stein / CNET:
Meta opens up its VR OS called Horizon OS to third parties and says Asus and Lenovo are both planning Meta Horizon OS-compatible headsets

James Rundle / Wall Street Journal:
Source: UnitedHealth's Change Healthcare was compromised on February 12, nine days before the ransomware attack; the company paid a ransom to the hackers

Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon ends drone deliveries in Lockeford, California, which began in 2022, and plans to expand them to Tolleson, Arizona, in 2024 and other US regions in 2025

 
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