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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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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 …
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!
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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
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Q&A with Josh Goldstine, Warner Bros. president of global marketing, on Barbie's marketing campaign, which rival studio execs estimate to have cost ~$150M — Unless you've been trapped in a plastic toy box, there's no escaping the Barbie-core movement that's sweeping the globe …
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Screen Rant, Vox, Insider and The Hollywood Reporter
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Sources: IAC, News Corp, the NYT, and other publishers are forming a coalition to push for AI laws and lead a lawsuit against AI firms who trained on their data — The News — Barry Diller fired publishers' opening shot at artificial intelligence platforms in a Semafor interview this April …
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.
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.
Discussion:
@gabemschneider and @objectivejrn
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
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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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: an Insider executive editor updates staff on AI experiments and recommends not using AI tools for quoting facts, data analysis, or getting up-to-date info — Insider's executive editor sent a note to staff today addressing how the newsroom's pilot group is using AI [image]
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@journalist_guy, @scottnover, @scottnover, @kaylaepstein and @thenewsan
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