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11:50 AM ET, August 12, 2023

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Anthony Lin / Bloomberg:
Fox Corp's chief legal and policy officer, Viet Dinh, plans to step down on December 31, 2023, and become a Fox adviser, after the $787.5M Dominion settlement  —  - Viet Dinh is departing as Fox chief legal and policy officer  — Fox paid $787.5 million to settle suit over vote-fraud claims
Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times:
Representatives for the WGA and AMPTP met on Friday; source: the talks were more productive than the earlier meeting, and the sides plan to meet again August 15  —  Negotiators for film and TV writers met with studio representatives on Friday afternoon, a step that could represent …
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Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
The Hollywood Professional Association, which includes Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, urges the AMPTP, the WGA, and SAG-AFTRA to find a strike resolution soon  —  “Organizations indispensable to the creation of media are cutting staff... and in some cases, even risk closing,” the Hollywood Professional Association writes
Sherman Smith / Kansas Reflector:
Police raided the Marion County Record's office, authorized by a local judge, and the publisher's home, seizing equipment after the paper ran a critical article  —  Eric Meyer, publisher of the Marion County Record, answers questions in his newspaper office Friday after police seized computers, servers, cellphones and other items.
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
UMG, Sony Music, and other labels sue the Internet Archive for copyright infringement, saying the “Great 78 Project” is an “illegal record store” for songs  —  Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), Sony Music Entertainment (6758.T) and other record labels on Friday sued …
Luc Cohen / Reuters:
A US judge revokes SBF's bail after the DOJ accused him of tampering with witnesses, such as by sharing former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison's diary with the NYT  —  Sam Bankman-Fried's bail was revoked ahead of his October fraud trial, a U.S. judge said on Friday, after prosecutors accused …
Fortesa Latifi / Teen Vogue:
Illinois passes the US' first law protecting child influencers, entitling influencers under age 16 and featured kids of influencers to a percentage of earnings  —  Illinois has officially passed the nation's first legislation aimed at protecting child influencers, in a move advocates …
Anthony Crupi / Sportico:
NBCUniversal signs a multiyear deal to let EverPass distribute Peacock's exclusive live sports content to bars, restaurants, and other commercial establishments  —  The financial terms underpinning the multiyear pact were not disclosed.  —  The partnership will serve to expose Peacock's …
Ty Rushing / Iowa Starting Line:
Ron DeSantis' campaign bars two reporters of Courier Newsroom's Iowa Starting Line from an Iowa campaign event on Friday; no other media outlets were excluded  —  Gov. Ron DeSantis' campaign team today contacted law enforcement in an attempt to prohibit Iowa Starting Line reporters from covering …
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
The IRS files a claim in Vice Media Group's bankruptcy case saying that Refinery29 owes the US government ~$40.9M in back taxes, interest, and penalties
Discussion: Fast Company and Politico
Angela Yang / NBC News:
Major outlets including TMZ, Insider, and the Los Angeles Times had to walk back their reporting about the alleged death of child rapper Lil Tay and her brother
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
X lowers its eligibility threshold for ad revenue sharing from 15M to 5M impressions in the past three months; Musk: “only views from verified handles count”
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Herbert J. Siegel, a billionaire entertainment industry mogul who enabled the 1989 Time Warner merger and sold 10 TV stations to News Corp. in 2000, dies at 95
Discussion: The Wrap and Bloomberg
Nicole Gallucci / Decider:
Writers for the series Suits, which aired from 2011 to 2019 and has received renewed interest on Netflix and Peacock, criticize their paltry streaming residuals
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Sarah Fielding / Engadget:
To fight spam, YouTube plans to deactivate links in Shorts descriptions, comments, and the vertical feed from August 31 and make social media icons unclickable
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
Diana Marcum, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former feature writer for the Los Angeles Times, San Bernardino Sun, Desert Sun, and Fresno Bee, dies at 60
Mickey Djuric / Canadian Press:
Meta's blocking of news outlets has impacted some satirical websites in Canada, including The Beaverton and The Toronto Harold, requiring appeals to the company
Discussion: @thebeaverton