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The Hollywood Reporter:
Charities say food insecurity is rising in Hollywood as strikes linger, so nonprofits are boosting food and financial aid for writers, actors, and support staff — As the labor impasse continues, charities say growing numbers of the industry's most vulnerable are unable to feed themselves …
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Deadline, Fortune, Vanity Fair and Bloomberg
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Deadline:
Thousands of WGA and SAG-AFTRA members picket NBCUniversal, after union members filed NLRB complaints saying the studio hindered earlier pickets — This is Day 95 of the WGA strike and Day 22 of the SAG-AFTRA strike — NBCUniversal has been at the center of a number of controversies involving …
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Los Angeles Times, Deadline, @slack2thefuture, Forbes and The Wrap
Dawn Chmielewski / Reuters:
WGA representatives met with the AMPTP on Friday for the first time since the strike was called in May to discuss whether contract talks can resume
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Fortune, The Hollywood Reporter, Fans for the WGA, @genemaddaus, @genemaddaus, IGN, Bloomberg, Puck, The Wrap, Deadline and Variety
André Beganski / Decrypt:
The New York Times is fighting a gag order imposed on FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried after he shared former lover Caroline Ellison's writings with the outlet — The Gray Lady's letter follows a report that landed Bankman-Fried back in court. … The New York Times pushed back on Thursday …
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ABC News, Reuters, @elonmusk, @zguz, Cointelegraph, The New York Times Company, CryptoSlate, @decryptmedia, US Department of Justice, @zguz, @zguz, CoinDesk and CourtListener
Casey Newton / Platformer:
New laws restricting access to porn circumvent First Amendment protections that prevent the government from deciding what content is “harmful to minors” — Anti-speech laws are spreading from states to Congress, and the future of online speech could hang in the balance
Joe Amditis / Center for Cooperative Media:
A look at LocalLens, a completely AI-driven site that generates coverage of local government, whose stated goal is to serve as a starting point for journalists — It's not journalism, but does it have a role to play in the information ecosystem? — Imagine you're using a metal detector …
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@jsamditis, @jozsefmeszaros.bsky.social, @spsullivan, @_jeffpierce, @spsullivan, @ndiakopoulos and Politico
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: private equity firm KKR is in advanced talks to acquire Simon & Schuster from Paramount Global for around $1.65B — Book publisher was put up for sale for the second time after a judge blocked a previous deal with Penguin Random House — Private-equity firm KKR is in advanced talks …
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Reuters, Financial Times, 24/7 Wall St., New York Times, The Wrap, Publishers Weekly and The Bookseller, more at Techmeme »
Janet Lorin / Bloomberg:
Texas A&M agrees to pay Black journalist Kathleen McElroy $1M to settle legal claims over her botched hiring; the case led to the resignation of A&M's president — Texas A&M University agreed to pay a prominent Black professor $1 million in a settlement over her failed hiring that led …
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The Texas A&M …, New York Times, Houston Public Media, The Texas Tribune, National Review, @brizzyc, The Hill, @sdkstl, @bgrueskin, @donmoyn, @donmoyn, @donmoyn, @froomkin, @jillgeisler, @mcgeereports, @andrewczhang, @markjacob16, @blackamazon, @jayrosen_nyu, @jayrosen_nyu, @jayrosen_nyu, @shortformernie, @jswatz, @jswatz, @michaelewebber, @jswatz, @bgrueskin, The Wrap, Associated Press and Chron
David Sharman / HoldtheFrontPage:
With online page views declining, UK's Reach launches a voluntary redundancy scheme for editorial staff after multiple rounds of cuts in H1 2023 — A decline in online page views has prompted a regional publisher to launch a voluntary redundancy scheme for editorial staff.
Bobby Allyn / NPR:
Background actors describe studios scanning their bodies and worrying over the lack of control of their digital likenesses, a key issue in the SAG-AFTRA strike — After four weeks of working as a background actor on the Disney+ series WandaVision during the pandemic, Alexandria Rubalcaba …
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Screen Rant, ComingSoon.net, Comic Book, @kagan@wandering.shop, @phillewis.bsky.social, @baldur@toot.cafe, IGN, SlashFilm, @WarnerCrocker@mastodon.social, @azalben.bsky.social, @black_intellect@mstdn.social, @labuzamovies.bsky.social, @JoParkerBear@universeodon.com and @lilithsaintcrow …, more at Techmeme »
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The Conversation:
A comparison of NYT headlines about the Yemen and Ukraine wars finds extensive biases in the scale and tone of coverage, aligning with US foreign policy — War entails suffering. How and how often that suffering is reported on in the U.S., however, is not evenhanded.
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@bmarchetich, @caitoz, @caitoz, @markamesexiled and @caitoz
Pew Research Center:
The top 20 NPR-affiliated public radio stations had an average total weekly listenership of ~8M in 2022, down 10% YoY; NPR revenue grew 8% YoY to $316.7M — Table of Contents — Hundreds of local and regional radio and television stations make up the U.S. public media system.
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Jacobs Media Strategies and Inside Radio
Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News:
Fubo reports Q2 revenue up 41% YoY to $312.7M, a $54.2M net loss, and 1.17M subscribers, up 23% YoY, but down from 1.29M in Q1 — Today Fubo reported their 2nd quarter 2023 earnings and posted a loss of 118,000 subscribers in just three months. In total, Fubo has 1,167,000 subscribers in North America …
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Streaming Better, The Streamable, ir.fubo.tv, The Desk and MediaPost
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
AMC Networks Q2: net revenue fell 8% YoY to $678M and adjusted operating income fell 9.6% YoY to $176M; streaming subscribers fell 500K from Q1 to 11M — AMC Networks reported its second-quarter 2023 earnings Friday, revealing it had lost 500,000 more subscribers across its portfolio …
Byline Times:
A unique password found in a data breach directory links GB News' Dan Wootton to two online personas that bribed and harassed men to share sexual material — Receive our Behind the Headlines email and we'll post a free copy of Byline Times — GB News star Dan Wootton twice used …
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@kuangeleven, @peterjukes, @fascinatorfun, @hardeep_matharu, @gcluley@mastodon.green and Press Gazette
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