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Rocio Fabbro / The Messenger:
Staff writers at Disney's National Geographic say the outlet is laying off all remaining writers and will rely on freelancers and people with outside funding — Several staff writers announced their layoffs over Twitter — A Facebook icon representing an external link to share the article …
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: several news and magazine publishers, including The NYT, News Corp, IAC, and Axel Springer, are discussing forming a coalition to address AI's impact — New York Times, Wall Street Journal parent News Corp and Dotdash Meredith owner IAC are among companies discussing forming a coalition
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MediaPost, @colincrowell and @jayrosen_nyu
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Sources: Linda Yaccarino plans to launch full-screen, sound-on video ads on Twitter's short-video feed and is wooing celebrities in the hope of selling more ads — CEO hits ground running with plans for new advertisement offering while telling staff to ready for ‘hand-to-hand combat’
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Patrick McGee / Financial Times:
Advertisers demand significant refunds from YouTube after a report suggested millions of ads served via YouTube's TrueView system are hidden from users — Study shows millions of ads are hidden away in violation of Google-owned group's policies — Advertising industry figures …
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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The Overspill and The Messenger
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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@drahardja@sfba.social, IGN, SlashFilm, The Hollywood Reporter, The Messenger and UPROXX
Bloomberg:
Sources: WBD plans to add live CNN programming to Max outside the US later in 2023 and is weighing different approaches for the US — Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. is planning to add live programming from CNN to the Max streaming service later this year, according to people familiar with the matter …
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 …
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The Line
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 …
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@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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Broadband TV News and Plagiarism Today
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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@decodingfoxnews, @pucknews and Mediaite
Mia Galuppo / Hollywood Reporter:
Memo: the Sundance Institute lays off 11 people, or ~6% of its staff, as it juggles inflation, a drop in earned revenue, and a “challenging fundraising climate” — The reduction will affect 11 staffers, or about six percent of the organization.
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