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Emma Roth / The Verge:
The BBC launches social.bbc, an “experimental” Mastodon server with posts from a handful of BBC accounts, and plans to try out the server for six months — The BBC has launched its own “experimental” Mastodon server, marking one of the first major news outlets to establish an instance on the Twitter alternative.
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Pete Thamel / ESPN:
Sources: the Pac-12 commissioner presented conference members with a primarily subscription-based Apple streaming deal that would start in 2024-25 — After months of negotiations and uncertainty, Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff on Tuesday presented the conference's presidents and chancellors …
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Awful Announcing, Sportico, @petethamel, 247Sports, CBSSports.com, 9to5Mac, The Streamable, Front Office Sports and Cord Cutters News
Brian Conway / Nieman Lab:
A look at the decline of Pittsburgh news site The Incline, launched in 2016 by Jim Brady with a $2.6M investment from Gannett, as its last journalist leaves — An online Pittsburgh newsroom's last remaining journalist says goodbye, as the city's media landscape sputters.
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@brian__conway, @ckrewson, @sarahscire and MediaPost
The Daily Beast:
Current and former Los Angeles magazine staff claim the new owners blur the lines between editorial and advertising and pay freelancers late or not at all — In this week's edition of Confider, we reveal how new ownership at Los Angeles has been accused of neutering the punchy mag and stiffing writers.
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@zacestrada and @mediaevan
Manuela Lazic / The Guardian:
How film criticism has deteriorated as studios invite influencers to screenings, critics seek to promote cinema, and expertise and writing are devalued — A shift from knowledgable writers to those simply in search of free tickets devalues cinema - and audience experience
Bryan Pietsch / Washington Post:
X sues the Center for Countering Digital Hate, alleging that researchers violated its terms of service and the CFAA while studying hate speech on the platform — X, the company formerly known as Twitter, is suing a research group that investigated hate speech on the social media platform …
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Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
Under EU pressure, Meta offers to seek user consent in Europe for targeted ads based on users' activity to comply with GDPR, sources say as soon as October 2023 — Under pressure from regulators, the Facebook and Instagram owner proposes asking users to opt in before targeting ads with their digital activity
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The Verge, TechCrunch and d2331, more at Techmeme »
Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
As audiences shrink, TV networks cut costs on long-running series by having casts take pay cuts and reclassifying series regulars as recurring cast members — In a shrinking business, actors on some shows are being guaranteed less money, an issue that's helping to fuel the Hollywood strike.
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@avocalistsrival, @sonyasteele@mastodon.social and TVLine
Giorgio Leali / Politico:
Journalists at France's Journal du Dimanche voted to end the 40-day strike protesting the JDD's new right-wing editor; many said they will leave the outlet — Geoffroy Lejeune was appointed top editor at the iconic publication after it was bought by conservative tycoon Vincent Bolloré.
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Financial Times and Agence France-Presse
Reuters:
Meta says it has begun ending access to news on Facebook and Instagram in Canada, following a new law that would force it to negotiate deals to pay publishers — Meta Platforms (META.O) has begun the process to end access to news on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada …
Natalie Korach / The Wrap:
Internal memo: Vice Media's SVP of Global News and Entertainment, its senior director of global news operations, and Motherboard's EIC are stepping down — Three top executives at Vice Media will be leaving the company, a memo to staff said Tuesday, a day after its $350 million sale closed …
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Variety, @katie_robertson, The Information, @eriksherman, @lorenzofb, @karlbode, @petersterne, @pahwa_nitish, @sidhubaba and The Daily Beast
Chethan Rao / Android Police:
YouTube starts a small-scale experiment generating AI summaries of English-language videos to help users decide what to watch and encourages feedback — YouTube's new experiment is currently limited to English content — YouTube constantly adds new features to its mobile, web, and TV apps to enhance user experience.
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MediaPost, MobileSyrup, Neowin, 9to5Google, The Verge, Engadget and TechCrunch
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
To challenge TikTok, YouTube releases new Shorts creation tools for remixing, adding effects, going live, as well as a new interactive Q&A sticker and more — As competition with TikTok and Instagram Reels heats up, YouTube today announced an expanded suite of creation tools for its own short-form video platform, YouTube Shorts.
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Engadget, The Verge, 9to5Google and Tubefilter, more at Techmeme »
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