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1:40 PM ET, August 5, 2023

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Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
Investigation: Richard Hanania, a Substack writer also published in WaPo, NYT, WSJ, and more, wrote for white supremacist outlets in the 2010s using a pen name  —  Hanania is championed by tech moguls and a U.S. senator, but HuffPost found he used a pen name to become an important figure in the “alt-right.”
The Wrap:
Memo: WGA says the two sides remain too far apart after the Friday meeting with AMPTP, accusing AMPTP of violating its own request for a media blackout  —  In a letter to members, WGA accuses studios of leaking details about ‘confidential’ meet-up  —  Hopes for renewed contract talks between …
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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 …
Discussion: Deadline, Fortune, Vanity Fair and Bloomberg
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 …
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 …
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
Khadijah Khogeer / NBC News:
Journalists at Vancouver-based IndigiNews and The Sarnia Journal in Ontario say Meta's news block is reducing their site visitors and hurting their outlets  —  Meta recently began blocking news from Instagram and Facebook in Canada in response to the Online News Act.
Discussion: @tehuti88
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
X delays its Ads Revenue Sharing program's payouts that were set for the week of July 31, saying the volume of people signing up “has exceeded our expectations”  —  In news that isn't very surprising given the recent history of Twitter, which Elon Musk is currently rebranding to X …
Canadian Association of Broadcasters:
North American broadcasters say Meta's news ban in Canada is “monopolistic” and urge lawmakers to back rules enabling publisher negotiations with tech platforms  —  In response to Meta blocking news on Facebook and Instagram for Canadian users after the passage of Canada's Online News Act …
Joe Amditis / Center for Cooperative Media:
A look at LocalLens, a completely AI-driven website generating 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 …
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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David Sharman / HoldtheFrontPage:
With online page views declining, UK-based Reach launches a voluntary redundancy scheme for editorial staff after undertaking 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.
 
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The Conversation:
A comparison of NYT headlines about the ongoing Yemen and Ukraine wars finds extensive biases in the scale and tone of coverage, aligning with US foreign policy
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
AMC Networks reports Q2 net revenue fell 8% YoY to $679M and adjusted operating income fell 9.6% YoY to $177M; streaming subscribers fell by 500K from Q1 to 11M
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Fox Corp defends its effort to renew the license of a Philadelphia TV station, after a group asked the FCC to block the renewal due to Fox News' legal issues
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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
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple reports Q3 revenue for its Services segment, which includes Apple TV+ and Apple Music, grew 8.2% YoY to a record $21.2B, driven by 1B+ paid subscriptions
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon Q2: ad revenue up 22% YoY to $10.68B, vs. $10.4B est., subscription revenue up 14% YoY to $9.89B, and North America segment sales up 11% YoY to $82.5B