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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
SAG-AFTRA members officially decide to strike, after failed negotiations with AMPTP, joining over 11,000 already striking film and television writers — - The Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists union is going on strike.
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Michael Schulman / New Yorker:
Netflix's Orange Is the New Black was an early indicator of how lopsided the streaming economy would be, as 10 actors from the show detail tiny residual incomes — The innovative and daring show was a worldwide hit for Netflix, but some of the actors say that they were never fairly compensated.
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Los Angeles Times:
A look back at the last time actors and Hollywood writers both went on strike, when Ronald Reagan led SAG, and how technological change fuels labor conflict — The year was 1960. An actor named Ronald Reagan was president of the Screen Actors Guild, which was at the time fired up about residuals over films licensed to or sold to TV.
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Erik Pedersen / Deadline:
In a statement, AMPTP says the union's decision to strike “will lead to financial hardship for countless thousands of people who depend on the industry” — The group represents Hollywood's studios has responded to SAG-AFTRA's strike call today.
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Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Bob Iger says Disney's linear TV channels, like ABC, “may not be core Disney”, leaving the door open to a possible sale; Disney is open to a partner for ESPN — - Disney CEO Bob Iger sat down with CNBC's David Faber at Allen & Co.'s annual conference in Sun Valley on Thursday.
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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
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
The Sun faces serious questions over its reporting on a BBC presenter, later revealed to be Huw Edwards, after UK police found no evidence of criminality — Days after publication, the newsreader is in hospital with mental health issues and the paper is rapidly backtracking
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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Sources: BBC Newsnight anchor Victoria Derbyshire and other BBC journalists were examining accusations about Huw Edwards before The Sun published its story
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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
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The AP and OpenAI sign a two-year deal; the AP gets access to OpenAI's tech in return for licensing some of its text archive dating back to 1985 for AI training — The Associated Press on Thursday said it reached a two-year deal with OpenAI, the parent company to ChatGPT, to share access to select news content and technology.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Telly begins shipping its free, dual-screen, ad-supported 4K TV as part of its public beta program and says Nielsen plans to license Telly's viewership data — Start-up says it received more than 250,000 sign-ups from U.S. consumers … The start-up, which plans to ship some 500,000 free …
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Twitter starts paying verified creators who have had 5M+ impressions per month for three months a share of revenue from ads served in the replies to their posts — Twitter is now paying creators for a share of the ad revenue earned from ads served in the replies to their posts.
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Kyle Chayka / New Yorker:
A writer details using AI startup Writer's LLM to generate text in his writing style and says that most of the tool's “insights” felt hollow or approximated — A new wave of artificial-intelligence startups is trying to “scale language” by automating the work of writing.
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Financial Times:
Some investors in Hipgnosis Songs Fund, which owns rights to music by Nirvana, Rihanna, and others, urge it to sell some catalogs to raise its stock price — Pop music assets pioneer is trading at less than half the $2.2bn valuation it ascribes to its portfolio
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Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
Al Giordano, a former Boston Phoenix columnist who founded Narco News, dies; he won a 2001 case that helped ensure First Amendment rights for online journalists — On Monday evening I received some sad news: Al Giordano, who was the political columnist at The Boston Phoenix in the mid-1990s …
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Mike Darnell, who oversaw programming including The Voice and The Bachelor as Warner Bros. president of unscripted TV, steps down after 10 years — The former Fox executive has been with the studio for the past 10 years. — One of the architects of reality TV is leaving his position.
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