Mediagazer: Sources: Tucker Carlson is raising funds for a new media company and a “vast majority” of his ex-Fox News staffers, who were laid off this week, will join him (Dylan Byers/Puck)

9:55 AM ET, June 29, 2023

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Jules Roscoe / VICE:

Amazon's Kindle Unlimited YA romance bestseller list featured dozens of AI-generated books of nonsense on June 26 and 27, until Amazon took action on June 28 — Amazon's Kindle Unlimited bestseller list was full of books with titles like “Apricot bar code architecture” and “Jessica's Attention” earlier this week.

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Max Kim / Los Angeles Times:

South Koreans are increasingly questioning how Netflix pays them; writers generally get no residuals and production workers cite exploitative labor practices — In 2019, South Korean writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk pitched Netflix a script for a dystopian thriller about society's outcasts competing …

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Sara Fischer / Axios:

Snapchat says Snapchat+, which lets users access experimental and pre-released features for $3.99 per month, has reached 4M paid subscribers in its first year — Snapchat on Thursday will announce that its subscription service, Snapchat+, has reached 4 million paid subscribers in its first year, executives told Axios.

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CBC News:

Bell Media asks Canada's broadcast regulator to drop spending and airtime rules for its local TV news, citing average annual losses of CA$28.4M from 2016-2019 — Company applies to CRTC to drop spending requirements, calling it ‘regulatory relief’ — Bell Media has asked …

Discussion: The Line

Dylan Byers / Puck:

Sources: Tucker Carlson is raising funds for a new media company and a “vast majority” of his ex-Fox News staffers, who were laid off this week, will join him — Life inside the Fox News bunker, the Watters-Hannity-Gutfeld Cerberus, and news on Tucker Carlson's new media ambitions.

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Amrita Khalid / The Verge:

Q&A with Chris Morrow, the new head of audio at Plan B, about the company's partnership with Audible, producing “risky, out-of-the-box” audio fiction, and more — Hope everyone is gearing up for the dog days of summer. Today's issue includes a Q&A I did with Chris Morrow …

Discussion: @beverlyabcd

Reuters:

DAZN urges Italy to speed up plans for tougher rules on online TV piracy for sports content, citing a FAPAV report that put the cost of piracy at €290M per year — Sports video service DAZN urged Italy to speed up plans to introduce tougher rules against online TV piracy as the use …

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