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2:55 AM ET, July 23, 2023

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New York Times:
Sources: Jeff Bezos is taking a more active role in The Washington Post's operations as staff morale craters and the newspaper is on pace to lose ~$100M in 2023  —  The Amazon founder, who purchased The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013, has taken a more active role in the paper's operations this year.
Variety:
A look at the actors' and writers' strikes that are plunging Hollywood into chaos, causing pricey movie delays, pay battles, AI anxiety, and more  —  It was a typical day on the set of “Gladiator 2” in Malta.  British director Ridley Scott was orchestrating a complex sequence featuring the film's star …
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Josef Adalian / Vulture:
By letting the Hollywood strike drag on, legacy companies like Disney, NBCUniversal, and Paramount risk the devastation of the traditional network TV model  —  This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture's newsletter about the streaming industry.  Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today!
David Robb / Deadline:
In a 23-page document, the AMPTP disputes SAG-AFTRA's “misleading” claims of the negotiations status as of July 13, before talks broke off and the strike began
Rishabh Jaiswal / Reuters:
Elon Musk tweets “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand” and “if a good enough X logo is posted tonight... we'll make go live worldwide tomorrow”  —  Elon Musk said he was looking to change Twitter's logo, tweeting: “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.
New York Times:
Texas A&M's president resigns after faculty members criticized alleged political meddling in the school's failed hiring of Black journalist Kathleen McElroy  —  The university said M. Katherine Banks would retire “immediately” after political pushback over the effort to appoint Kathleen McElroy to lead its journalism program.
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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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
Check My Ads Institute:
A look at the Publir ad network, whose founders have ties to The Federalist Society and RealClearPolitics, and how Publir funnels ad revenue to The Donald forum  —  At the end of 2022, The_Donald quietly started running ads.  —  The_Donald, a MAGA forum banned by Reddit for its role …
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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.
Justin Garcia / Tampa Bay Times:
Lawyers for journalist Timothy Burke file a motion demanding the US DOJ return his equipment and argue he legally obtained controversial Fox News video outtakes  —  Burke's legal team says his phone and computers were seized “in violation of the law.”  —  Tim Burke's home office is gutted.
Michael Kan / PCMag:
Twitter sets “daily limits” on the number of direct messages that accounts without Twitter Blue can send, as part of changes to reduce spam in DMs  —  It looks like Elon Musk really wants users to pay for Twitter Blue. … In another controversial change, Twitter will restrict …
 
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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
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
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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
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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
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