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10:10 AM ET, February 9, 2024

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Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:

The White House Correspondents' Association announces that Saturday Night Live's Colin Jost will be the featured entertainer at its annual dinner on April 27 — The “Saturday Night Live” comedian has co-anchored “Weekend Update” since 2014. — WASHINGTON — “Saturday Night Live” …

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Josh Dickey / The Wrap:

Tucker Carlson releases his two-hour interview with the Russian president Vladimir Putin for free on his website and on X — The former Fox News host sat with the Russian president in Moscow — Tucker Carlson released his two-hour interview with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president whose military …

Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:

In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Putin says he would “not rule out” releasing Evan Gershkovich, but maintains claims the WSJ reporter committed espionage — “At the end of the day, it does not make any sense to keep him in prison in Russia,” Putin told Tucker Carlson during their two-hour interview.

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Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:

A profile of OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap, tasked by Sam Altman with striking a deal with Axel Springer, which may offer a road map for additional media deals — Brad Lightcap helped seal the startup's deal with publisher Axel Springer. Now he's experimenting with the company's business model.

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Thomas Barrabi / New York Post:
News Corp CEO says it is in advanced talks with major AI companies to license its content and that Sam Altman understands “the social importance of journalism”

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Jennifer Maas / Variety:

AMC Networks reports Q4 revenue down 30% YoY to $679M, vs. $676M est., streaming subscribers up 1% to 11.4M, and US ad sales down 23% YoY to $158M — AMC Networks saw its streaming subscribers increase by 1% and its U.S. ad sales drop by 23% in the fourth quarter of 2023.

Discussion: Next TV, The Wrap, AMC Networks Inc., MarketWatch, Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter

Reuters:

Prince Harry settles the remainder of his phone-hacking lawsuit against Mirror Group Newspapers after MGN agreed to pay substantial damages and his legal costs — Prince Harry has settled the remainder of his lawsuit against Mirror Group Newspapers over phone-hacking and other unlawful acts …

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:

X signs a two-year deal with the WWE for a new exclusive weekly video series called WWE Speed featuring timed matches of 5 minutes or less, coming spring 2024 — ‘WWE Speed’ will stream timed matches meant to end in five minutes or less on the Elon Musk-owned platform.

Discussion: Forbes, Engadget, @wwe, @lindayax, @xbusiness, Awful Announcing and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »

Mike Tanier / Defector:

A journalist who covered the NFL for Football Outsiders, The Messenger, and The NYT talks about his experience working for them and the state of sports media — I covered the NFL for three media outlets in the last calendar year: Football Outsiders, The Messenger, and The New York Times.

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Dino Grandoni / Washington Post:

A US jury awards climate scientist Michael Mann damages of $1M+ in his defamation suit against two right-wing bloggers claiming he manipulated his research data — The verdict comes amid heightened attacks on scientists working on climate change, vaccines and other issues

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Ben Smith / Semafor:

An interview with Piers Morgan on ending his live broadcast show Piers Morgan Uncensored on News UK's TalkTV to focus on YouTube — The Scoop — The British broadcaster Piers Morgan is giving up his live, daily, hour-long evening news show for a YouTube-first, digitally native …

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Kevin Lind / Columbia Journalism Review:

Q&A with Slate's Dahlia Lithwick on the necessity and the difficulty of writing about structural issues like dark money, the change in SCOTUS coverage, and more — In 1999, Dahlia Lithwick happened to be in Washington, DC, when the federal government was suing Microsoft over antitrust violations.

Discussion: KEYT-TV, Vox, The Colorado Sun, The Hill, NPR, Associated Press and Financial Times

Eric Fisher / Front Office Sports:

Sources: Sinclair is exploring strategic alternatives for the Tennis Channel, including bringing in an equity partner; Sinclair purchased it in 2016 for $350M — Sinclair Inc. is exploring bringing in an equity partner for the Tennis Channel as well as other strategic alternatives for the network …

Discussion: @fos, @aericfisher, Awful Announcing, The Streamable, Bloomberg, Bloomberg and Cord Cutters News

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
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