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9:35 PM ET, July 12, 2023

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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Studio and streaming sources: the studios plan to “break the WGA” by allowing “things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments” and houses  —  EXCLUSIVE: Regardless of whether SAG-AFTRA goes on strike this week, the studios have no intention …
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David Robb / Deadline:
SAG-AFTRA agrees to federal mediation with the AMPTP, but is “not confident” the employers intend to bargain; the contract expires at 11:59pm PT on July 12
Chris Willman / Variety:
Luminate's H1 2023 report: on-demand audio and video streams were up 30.8% YoY globally and 15% YoY in the US, US physical album sales rose 13.3% YoY, and more  —  The vinyl boom is not going bust anytime soon.  In the first half of 2023, vinyl LP sales were up 21.7% from the same period the year before …
New York Times:
Ray Epps, a Trump voter who attended the January 6 Capitol riot, sues Fox News for defamation, after the network and Tucker Carlson spread rumors he was a “fed”  —  Ray Epps, a two-time Trump voter, says Tucker Carlson repeatedly and falsely named him as a covert government agent who incited the Jan. 6 attacks.
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Huw Edwards' wife names him as the BBC presenter suspended over allegedly buying sexually explicit photos; police say there's no evidence of a criminal offense  —  News comes shortly after Met says there is no evidence suspended presenter committed criminal offence
Peter White / Deadline:
HBO/Max again topped Emmy nominations with 127 in 2023; Netflix got 103, Hulu/FX on Hulu got 64, Apple TV+ got 50, Amazon got 45, Disney+ got 40, and ABC got 28  —  HBO and sister streamer Max remain top of the Emmy nominations pile.  —  The Warner Bros. Discovery network …
Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Disney's board extends Bob Iger's contract as CEO through 2026, two years longer than he had planned; Iger was supposed to have prepared his next successor  —  - Disney is extending CEO Bob Iger's contract through 2026.  — Iger told CNBC in February that he had no intention to stay longer …
Kevin T. Dugan / New York Magazine:
Docs and sources: Shane Smith's Vice contract included a $1.6M salary, a 5% cut of deals with a 25% net margin he brought in, and now-worthless stock grants  —  When Vice Media filed for bankruptcy this May, the digital-media conglomerate, once worth more than the New York Times, was reduced to the mere sum of its parts.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Discussion: Mediaite and The Hill
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
McClatchy cuts three Pulitzer-winning cartoonists: The Sacramento Bee's Jack Ohman, The Charlotte Observer's Kevin Siers, Lexington Herald-Leader's Joel Pett  —  Political junkies lost three Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists this week when the McClatchy chain issued a round of cuts that it blamed on changing reader trends.
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The Washington Post names former CNN and NYT executive Alex MacCallum as its new chief revenue officer and Uber's senior engineering leader Vineet Khosla as CTO  —  Alex MacCallum will focus on expanding the news publisher's subscription and ad businesses  —  The Washington Post named former CNN …
Andrew Deck / Rest of World:
A look at the global labor force on sites like Fiverr and Upwork, some of whom are early generative AI adopters and are most at risk of being replaced by AI  —  The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.  —  R
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
TikTok signs a deal with Redbox's owner to show TikTok videos at 3,000+ Redbox US kiosks, letting brands advertise alongside via the ad platform Crackle Connex  —  The video app will provide content from its platform, while Crackle Connex will handle ad deals.  —  TikTok is coming to a Redbox DVD kiosk near you.
 
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