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4:15 PM ET, July 14, 2023

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The Hollywood Reporter:
SAG-AFTRA members picketed at studios on July 14 in Los Angeles and New York; Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery are expected to be among the bigger targets  —  Fran Drescher and her 160,000-strong union hit the streets on day one of the SAG-AFTRA strike — and day 74 of the WGA strike.
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Andrew Webster / The Verge:
SAG-AFTRA: the AMPTP's AI proposal lets studios scan a background actor to create a digital likeness, for a day's pay, for perpetual use without consent or pay  —  During today's press conference in which Hollywood actors confirmed that they were going on strike, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland …
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
Erik Pedersen / Deadline:
In a statement, the AMPTP says SAG-AFTRA's decision to strike “will lead to financial hardship for countless thousands of people who depend on the industry”
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Tucker Carlson and Daily Caller co-founder Neil Patel are seeking to raise hundreds of millions for a media company offering free and paid content  —  Former Fox News host and associate look to raise funds for new venture that could use Twitter as its backbone
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
Twitter's creators program makes its first payouts, including to far-right influencers like Andrew Tate, who made over $20K, Ian Miles Cheong, and Benny Johnson  —  The platform is paying high-profile creators, including Andrew Tate, thousands of dollars for posting to the app
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Carlo Vittorini, who was the publisher of Parade magazine for 20 years, during which time circulation grew to 37.5M and a full-page ad cost $640K, dies at 94  —  He spent two decades guiding a popular newspaper Sunday supplement as its revenue and circulation grew, reaching nearly 40 million readers at one point.
Discussion: MediaPost
Wall Street Journal:
A look at Bob Iger's challenges, some of which are rooted in his previous choices as Disney CEO, including the Fox acquisition and entering the streaming race  —  Eight months after returning as Disney's CEO, he is straining to put out fire after fire, including streaming losses, an activist investor and TV woes
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Justin Smith says Semafor is on track for its first profitable month and “might even” see a profitable quarter; it has allocated ~90% of its resources to the US  —  Semafor claims to have an audience of about four or five million people per month so far.
GovTech:
A California Assemblywoman delays consideration for her bipartisan California Journalism Preservation Act until 2024, while JCPA advances in Congress  —  While California lawmakers have put the brakes on a bill that would make the likes of Facebook and Google pay news publishers for using their stories …
Discussion: Free Press and Tech Xplore
The Charlotte Observer:
Rolfe Neill, publisher of The Charlotte Observer from 1975 until 1997 and a member of a small group of business leaders who shaped city growth, dies at 90  —  In his farewell column as publisher of The Charlotte Observer in December 1997, Rolfe Neill said that in 40-odd years, illness had kept him away from work for less than a week.
Alan Rusbridger / Prospect Magazine:
It's an asymmetric war between The Sun, which broke the Huw Edwards story, and the BBC, as they have different ideas of governance, transparency, and journalism  —  Huw Edwards may have behaved recklessly and there may be a public interest in reporting it—we still don't know for sure.
Discussion: The Guardian and inews.co.uk
Bloomberg:
Sources: TPG-backed Creative Artists Agency is in advanced talks to sell a majority stake to billionaire François-Henri Pinault at a potential valuation of $7B+  —  - CAA may fetch valuation more than $7 billion in Pinault deal  — Formed in 1975, CAA manages some of Hollywood's biggest stars
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Cindy Holland, former VP of original content at Netflix, joins Elisabeth Murdoch's production company Sister as global CEO  —  Former Netflix TV boss Cindy Holland has joined Elisabeth Murdoch and Jane Featherstone's Sister as Global CEO.  —  Holland, who spent nearly two decades at Netflix …
 
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Reuters:
Sources and a doc: India told streaming services like Netflix and Disney to use an independent panel to review content for obscenity and violence before release
New York Times:
A look at Minyoung Kim's work as Netflix's VP of content in Asia: making Netflix feel less foreign, keeping shows authentically local, and “green-light rigor”
Discussion: CNET and Screen Rant
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
In a four-year deal with Raycom, Nexstar's The CW acquires exclusive broadcast rights to 50 ACC football and basketball games each season
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Ryan Phillips / The Big Lead:
The Seattle Times fires newly hired writer David Volodzko after he tweeted that Adolf Hitler was a lesser evil than Vladimir Lenin; he had written one column
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Twitter starts paying Twitter Blue creators who earned 5M+ impressions per month for three months a revenue cut from the ads beside the replies to their tweets
 

 
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Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

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