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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” on July 24 — 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.
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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.
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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
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@thisisweber, @kwatt, @jbflint, @jasonhirschhorn, @whitstillman, @kimbenabib, @jbflint, @petergould, MediaPost and Wall Street Journal
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
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The Wrap, @slack2thefuture, @slack2thefuture, @slack2thefuture, @slack2thefuture, @jbflint, @jbflint, The Wrap and The Hollywood Reporter
Washington Post:
South Korean and Indian filmmakers are hoping the Hollywood strikes will give them more bargaining power with US streaming services and a precedent to follow — SEOUL — When Netflix launched in South Korea in 2016, it was a breath of fresh air for filmmakers jaded by a local industry notorious for labor abuses and penny-pinching.
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@jintakhan, @washingtonpost and @drogon_dracarys
Brian Merchant / Los Angeles Times:
Studio executives embraced Silicon Valley's magical thinking of hypergrowth and disruption for the past 10 years, only to slash worker pay as the boom times end — In one respect, the actors and writers of Hollywood uniting on the picket lines in a historic, industry-shaking strike is a tale as old as time …
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@sonyasteele@mastodon.social and @kangaroo5383@mastodon.social, more at Techmeme »
Brian Veseling / WAN-IFRA:
A look at Argentina's Clarín, which has 30M monthly readers and 700K subscribers, as the outlet looks to diversify their offerings and expand into other markets — “Clarín is the only Latin American media outlet to be ranked among the top 20 in digital subscribers.
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.
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The Texas Tribune, The Hill, @carnage4life@threads.net, @robingnelson, @amydiehl, @thephilosotroll, @jasonackery3rd, Texas A&M Today, @bgrueskin, @nanaslugdiva, @amazonatty, @ijbailey, Boing Boing, @jayrosen_nyu, @alexmill20, The Battalion, The Eagle, The Texas Tribune, Associated Press, @alexwild@mastodon.online, NPR, Los Angeles Times, NBC4 WCMH-TV and Bloomberg
Uyiosa Elegon / The Objective:
Three years after the George Floyd protests drew a wave of financial support, Black journalism entrepreneurs say they are struggling to sustain their newsrooms — Many Black-led outlets — digital and legacy media alike — are still trying to figure out how to sustain their work.
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@objectivejrn and @gabemschneider
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.
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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@checkmyadshq, @checkmyadshq, @nandoodles, MediaPost, @joecardillo@federate.social and @dmarti@federate.social
Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Spotify plans to raise its US ad-free premium tier's price for the first time, by $1 to $10.99/month, and increase prices globally in the coming months — Audio company had avoided raising prices, but faces investor pressure to increase profitability
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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@mmasnick.bsky.social, @niemanlab@mastodon.social, MediaNama and Columbia Journalism Review
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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.
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