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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
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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
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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
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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
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Lara O'Reilly / Insider:
The European Parliament is auditing its YouTube advertising from 2020 to date after a study indicated YouTube broke its own rules with ads on third-party sites — - The European Parliament said it's auditing its YouTube advertising from 2020 to date. — It follows a study …
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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.
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Wall Street Journal:
A look at Disney's challenges, some of which are rooted in Bob Iger's previous decisions as CEO, including acquiring Fox assets 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
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Justin Smith: Semafor is on track for a first profitable month and “might even” see a profitable quarter, having allocated nearly 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:
An assemblywoman last week delayed consideration of her bipartisan California Journalism Preservation Act until 2024; the JCPA advanced in Congress in June 2023 — While California lawmakers have put the brakes on a bill that would make the likes of Facebook and Google pay news publishers …
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The Charlotte Observer:
Rolfe Neill, the publisher of The Charlotte Observer from 1975 until 1997 and a member of a group of business leaders who shaped Charlotte's 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 …
Alan Rusbridger / Prospect Magazine:
The Sun, which broke the Huw Edwards story, and the BBC are in an asymmetric war as the organizations clash on 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.
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Former Netflix VP Original Content Cindy Holland joins Elisabeth Murdoch and Jane Featherstone's production company Sister as its global CEO — Former Netflix TV boss Cindy Holland has joined Elisabeth Murdoch and Jane Featherstone's Sister as Global CEO. — Holland, who spent nearly …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: TPG-backed talent firm Creative Artists Agency is in advanced talks to sell a majority stake to billionaire François-Henri Pinault at a $7B+ valuation — - CAA may fetch valuation more than $7 billion in Pinault deal — Formed in 1975, CAA manages some of Hollywood's biggest stars
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