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4:05 PM ET, March 23, 2023

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Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to spend $1B per year to produce movies for release in thousands of theatres, a big increase from years past, seeking to grow TV+ awareness  —  Apple Inc. plans to spend $1 billion a year to produce movies that will be released in theaters, according to people familiar …
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Giles Turner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple considers bidding for the streaming rights to a range of English soccer games, including to show Premier League games in the UK, following Amazon  —  Apple Inc. is considering bidding for the streaming rights to a range of English football games, according to people familiar …
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
The FTC proposes banning difficult-to-cancel subscriptions via “click to cancel” rules requiring companies to make ending a subscription as simple as signing up  —  The US Federal Trade Commission is proposing a formal ban on subscriptions that are simple to start but difficult to stop.
Michael E. Kanell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution EIC Kevin Riley announces his retirement, to be succeeded by Leroy Chapman, the first Black EIC in the newspaper's 155-year history  —  Managing Editor Leroy Chapman to succeed Kevin Riley as editor-in-chief.  Riley announced retirement Thursday.
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Fox Corp's lawyers argue executives, including the Murdochs, had no direct involvement in Fox News content, so Fox Corp shouldn't be liable in the Dominion case  —  Lawyers for the company, which faces a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit, are pushing for a judge to rule in their favor before a trial.
Cory Doctorow / Pluralistic:
Cory Doctorow says he's selling a third audiobook via Kickstarter after refusing to consent to Amazon's DRM for Audible, which gets 90% of genre audiobook sales  —  Red Team Blues is my next novel, a post-cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller; it's a major title for my publishers Tor Books …
Mark Jacob / Nieman Lab:
Journalism schools show no interest in an outright ban on Fox News, even though the Dominion case appears to have revealed an ethical breach from the network  —  Fox News appears to have committed a gross breach of journalism ethics: intentionally lying to its audience about the 2020 election.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Center for Cooperative Media Research Director Sarah Stonbely residents' top needs from local news outlets, especially calendars of municipal meetings  —  Blairstown, Paterson, and Trenton are three very different communities in New Jersey, but when Sarah Stonbely …
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
A look at arguments presented by the Internet Archive and the major publishers in a NY court; publishers claim millions in lost revenue from IA's book lending  —  A federal judge will soon decide if digital lending violates copyright laws.  —  Today, the Internet Archive (IA) …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CNN plans to launch The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper, a 60 Minutes-style show, on April 16 at 8pm, as part of its plans for Sunday night premium programming  —  Anderson Cooper, a regular contributor to “60 Minutes,” will now lead CNN's attempt to put on something similar.
Nathan Grayson / Washington Post:
Current and former Twitch staff describe how the service lost its way: out-of-touch leaders, losing big creators, cost cutting, many irrelevant ads, and more  —  The platform's recent moves have confused and upset creators, fans and staff alike  —  For Twitch, the live-streaming platform watched …
 
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A look at the exiled journalists and outlets from South Sudan, Eritrea, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Mexico, Belarus, and Russia covering their countries
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Ubisoft unveils Ghostwriter, an internal AI tool saving its scriptwriters time by creating first drafts and more realistic non-player character interactions
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: at News Media Alliance meetings in recent weeks, publishing executives discussed their content being used to train AI and how they might be compensated
Sarah Spicer / Committee to Protect Journalists:
News reports and journalists say at least 28 members of the press were obstructed, harassed, or attacked covering Nigerian elections on March 18 and March 19
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Chris Stokel-Walker / BuzzFeed News:
Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins says Midjourney banned him after he made images of a Donald Trump arrest; the company banned the word “arrested” in its tool