Mediagazer: Fox News says its court settlement reflects its “commitment to the highest journalistic standards”, showing that not even court evidence of perfidy can shame it (Erik Wemple/Washington Post)

6:20 PM ET, April 19, 2023

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Fox News says its court settlement reflects its “commitment to the highest journalistic standards”, showing that not even court evidence of perfidy can shame it — When news of a possible settlement between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News surfaced on Sunday night …

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 — Veteran mediator Jerry Roscoe was on a relaxing river cruise from Budapest to Bucharest celebrating his 70th birthday on Sunday when he received an urgent phone call.

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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 — For the media mogul, the massive Dominion settlement fee is just the cost of doing business.

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 — The agreement brings an abrupt end to one of the most significant media cases in recent decades, one that hinged on false claims about a presidential election

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Fox spared its executives and hosts further embarrassment on the witness stand but the $787M settlement sets a benchmark for lawsuits from Smartmatic and others

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CNBC:
Fox Corp and its cable networks agree to pay $787.5M to Dominion Voting Systems to settle the defamation lawsuit over Fox's lies about Dominion's machines

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Matt Binder / Mashable:

Microsoft plans to drop Twitter support from its ad platform on April 25; users won't be able to access or manage Twitter accounts through Microsoft's tool — Yet another big B2B service passes on paying for Twitter's new high-priced API. — Twitter is being removed from yet another big B2B platform.

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Washington Post:

An analysis of Google's C4 dataset, a snapshot of 15M websites used to train LLMs, shows that half of the Top 10 sites were news outlets like The New York Times — AI chatbots have exploded in popularity over the past four months, stunning the public with their awesome abilities …

Rosa Flores / CNN:

County official Mark Jennings resigns after an Oklahoma newspaper released audio allegedly of him and others talking about killing journalists and Black people — An Oklahoma county commissioner allegedly heard on a recording of local officials that included remarks about lynching Black people and killing journalists has resigned.

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Liam Scott / Voice of America:
Oklahoma's governor calls on four officials to resign after a newspaper released audio of the group talking about killing journalists and lynching Black people

Pew Research Center:

December 2022 survey: 49% of US adults listened to a podcast in the past year; 87% of those who hear news discussed on podcasts expect it to be mostly accurate — About half of Americans have listened to a podcast in the past year, and most of those listeners come across news content

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Rebecca Pettingill / Columbia Basin Herald:

Washington's legislature passes a bill giving a tax break to newspapers and websites that grew from newspapers; the bill awaits Governor Jay Inslee's signature — OLYMPIA - Senate Bill 5199, a measure that gives a tax break for newspaper publishers, passed the Washington House of Representatives 89-7 Monday.

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Max Goldbart / Deadline:

Fremantle UK names Amelia Brown as its new CEO, replacing Simon Andreae, who stepped down earlier this week after misconduct complaints and two investigations — Fremantle UK has named departing Thames boss Amelia Brown as its new CEO just days after Simon Andreae stepped down following misconduct complaints.

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Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:

How Bellingcat researcher Aric Toler helped The New York Times identify Jack Teixeira, the Air National guardsman charged with leaking classified Pentagon docs — The Times publicly identified the man believed to have leaked intelligence documents before law enforcement did.

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Nicholas Gordon / Fortune:

Netflix added 1.46M subscribers in Asia-Pacific in Q1 2023, out of a total of 1.75M, 100K in the US and Canada, 640K in EMEA, and lost 450K in Latin America — As Netflix's subscriber numbers fluctuate wildly from quarter to quarter, the streaming service can at least bank on the Asia-Pacific region as a consistent source of growth.

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Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Netflix plans to ship its last red DVD envelopes in September 2023, after 25 years of mailing shows and movies to subscribers and paving the way for streaming