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6:45 PM ET, July 27, 2023

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Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept:
Netflix lists a $300K to $900K-a-year ML product manager job that points to its plans to use AI to “create great content”, as actors strike for AI protections
Bloomberg:
Research using Meta's data from around the 2020 US election shows news audiences were highly politically segregated; changing algorithms didn't change attitudes  —  Multiple studies aim to understand Facebook's impact on elections … Meta Platforms Inc., Facebook's parent company …
Will Sommer / Washington Post:
The staff of Mississippi Today, which won a 2023 Pulitzer for Local Reporting, and its New Orleans-focused sister site Verite unionize  —  It's the latest evolution for scrappy nonprofit Mississippi Today, founded seven years ago by former NBC News executive Andy Lack
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
Universal Music Group Q2: revenue rises 8.8% YoY to €2.697B, or $2.93B, subscription streaming revenue up 13%, and merchandising up 12.1%; stock climbs 10%+  —  Yesterday, the world's biggest subscription music streaming service, Spotify, announced its Q2 results.
John Ourand / Sports Business Journal:
Yahoo Sports hires former Axios Sports newsletter editor Kendall Baker as its senior writer to oversee its newsletter strategy and launch a new daily newsletter  —  Yahoo Sports hired Kendall Baker as senior writer, a position where he will head up the company's newsletter and cross-platform strategy.
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The UK's Film & TV Charity names Marcus Ryder, former BBC news executive and a diversity veteran, as its CEO, replacing Alex Pumfrey, who moved to ITV this year  —  Marcus Ryder, the British diversity vet and former BBC news exec, has been named CEO of the UK's Film & TV Charity.
Reuters:
Comcast reports Q2 revenue up 1.7% YoY to $30.5B, content and experiences revenue up 4% YoY to $10.9B, and Peacock hit 24M subscribers, up from 22M in Q1 2023  —  Comcast Corp's (CMCSA.O) quarterly revenue beat estimates on Thursday, helped by higher theme park attendance …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
The White House condemned Fox News over comments made by host Greg Gutfeld, who said some Jews “had to be useful” as a means for survival during the Holocaust  —  The White House denounced Fox News this week over comments by one of its hosts, Greg Gutfeld, that some Jews …
Aisyah Llewellyn / Al Jazeera:
Indonesia restricts X.com, which now redirects to twitter.com after Twitter rebranding to X, as the domain had been previously used by porn and gambling sites  —  Medan, Indonesia - Elon Musk's aspirations for X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, have hit a stumbling block …
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Financial Times:
Sources: Linda Yaccarino pitched her vision for Twitter/X to talent agencies in LA and met with Disney, in a bid to bring stars and influencers to the platform
 
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K.J. Yossman / Variety:
A UK judge sends Prince Harry's lawsuit against The Sun's publisher over alleged unlawful information gathering to trial, but barred phone hacking claims
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
BBC News' Yalda Hakim leaves just months after becoming a chief presenter to join Sky News to be the lead world news presenter and lead a new primetime program
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Producer Scott Zabielski and entrepreneur Adam Mosam plan to launch an AI-dependent, 30-minute weekly news show in 2023 for a FAST channel, hosted by AI anchors
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