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8:10 PM ET, July 21, 2023

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
News reporters shouldn't write off AI assistance for first drafts of stories that aren't publishable; tools don't have to be perfect to be useful to journalists  —  Dystopian, yes — but tools don't have to be perfect to be useful to journalists.  —  Every other semester …
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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
News organizations' deals with OpenAI and its rivals echo past Google and Meta “partnerships” and could ultimately help companies put journalists out of work
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Disney CEO Bob Iger and ESPN head Jimmy Pitaro have held early talks with the NFL, the NBA, and MLB about bringing them on as minority ESPN investors  —  - ESPN has held early talks about strategic partnerships with the NBA, NFL and MLB that could include the leagues taking an equity stake in the business, sources told CNBC.
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Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Former ABC News producer James Gordon Meek pleads guilty to CSAM transportation and possession, but not distribution; the US DOJ arrested Meek in February 2023  —  The harrowing legal saga—the type of story that could've appeared on Meek's former network— has reached its conclusion.
Adam Sherwin / The i Paper:
UK-based Global, which owns LBC, Capital, Heart, and Smooth, plans to restructure its 11 radio newsrooms across the country, which could mean up to 40 job cuts  —  Journalists warn Global radio plans could ‘decimate local news’ with 40 jobs under threat at the home to Capital, Smooth, LBC and Heart
Discussion: The Desk and Talking Biz News
Marie Woolf / Globe and Mail:
Some Quebec radio stations and news outlets refuse to run Meta's ads that inform Canadians of the company's plan to block news links on Facebook and Instagram  —  Meta has started to run ads to inform Canadians of its plan to block the viewing and sharing of news content on Facebook …
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Former White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield joins CNN as an on-air political commentator; Bedingfield left her White House post in February 2023  —  Former White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield has joined CNN as an on-air political commentator.
Discussion: Mediaite, CNN, The Wrap, The Hill and Politico
David Robb / Deadline:
In a 23-page document, the AMPTP disputes SAG-AFTRA's version of the status of contract negotiations as of July 13, before talks broke off and the strike began  —  UPDATED with SAG-AFTRA response: The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers is disputing SAG-AFTRA's “misleading” …
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
A look at TV writing becoming a dead-end job with dwindling weekly pay, as studios break down the complex job of making TV shows into simpler, lower-paid tasks  —  The writers say Hollywood studios are increasingly limiting their roles in television productions, highlighting a trend for white-collar workers.
 
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
TikTok launches its Commercial Content Library, giving the public access to ad data, including targeting parameters, but only ad data from Europe is available
Natalie Korach / The Wrap:
Hearst Magazines Media Union says 41 members were laid off due to “company restructuring”; Elle, Seventeen, and Men's Health are among the impacted publications
Wall Street Journal:
Artisan Gateway: box-office sales for US films in China hit $592M in H1 2023, down from $1.9B in H1 2019, as Chinese audiences gravitate toward local movies
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Byline Times:
Investigation: Dan Wootton was the subject of at least six bullying claims from Sun colleagues, but was promoted while they were silenced with payoffs and NDAs
Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
The New York Times' newsroom union files a grievance over the company's plans to shutter its sports section and rely on The Athletic for sports news coverage
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
Production workers, 66 at Warner Bros. Animation and 22 at Cartoon Network, file an NLRB petition to form a union and ask WBD to voluntarily recognize the unit
Discussion: Gizmodo, Deadline and The Verge
Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Sources: AMC Entertainment drops its seat location pricing plan; a test didn't grow revenue as moviegoers didn't pay up for better seats or less for worse seats