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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
SAG-AFTRA members officially decide to strike on July 14, after failed negotiations with the AMPTP, joining 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 Hollywood actors and writers went on strike, when Ronald Reagan led the SAG, and how technological advancement 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 …
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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 to 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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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
The Sun faces questions over its controversial 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 reporters were examining accusations about Huw Edwards before The Sun made its explosive claims
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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 the rights to music by Nirvana, Rihanna, and others, urge the fund to sell 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 case in 2001 that extended freedom of speech rights to 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, the president of unscripted television at Warner Bros. who oversaw programming including The Voice and The Bachelor, is leaving 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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