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10:15 PM ET, August 17, 2023

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Richard Rushfield / The Ankler:
Q&A with FTC Chair Lina Khan on visiting a WGA picket in NYC to hear from “people on the ground”, plus other Hollywood issues like M&A regulation and new tech  —  The FTC chair and Biden breakout star on her WGA meetings, A.I. and why the agency's keeping an eye on entertainment
Discussion: Variety and Bloomberg
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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
The WGA urges antitrust regulators to stop M&A in streaming, saying that Netflix, Amazon, and Disney amassed market power that depresses wages and limits choice  —  The Writers Guild of America issued a report on Thursday calling Netflix, Amazon and Disney the “new gatekeepers” …
Kim Zetter / Zero Day:
How Timothy Burke accessed video from Fox News and why his lawyer says Florida prosecutors are using a “novel and unsupported” interpretation of the CFAA  —  But attorneys for Timothy Burke say a raid on his home and office exhibit government over-reach and misuse of the federal hacking law …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Microsoft's Start, which uses AI to summarize news and other content, lists the Ottawa Food Bank as a tourist site and suggests visiting on “an empty stomach”  —  Microsoft published an AI-generated travel article about Ottawa, Canada that prominently recommended tourists visit …
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
Trustees of NYC's pension funds send letters to the CEOs of Disney, Comcast, and Paramount Global, calling on them to negotiate and end the Hollywood strikes  —  Brad Lander and five pension fund trustees call on Paramount, Comcast and Disney executives to “end the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes promptly”
Discussion: Deadline
ACA Blog:
Nine, which owns The Sydney Morning Herald and others, plans to stop publishing comic strips, after News Corp and Australia Community Media did the same in 2022  —  The Australian Cartoonists Association notes with disappointment that the Nine newspapers (including The Age, the Sunday Age …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple says the company removed all episodes of The Glenn Beck Program from Apple Podcasts because of a trademark dispute that has since been resolved  —  Reached for comment, an Apple spokesman told Variety that “The Glenn Beck Program” was removed from Apple Podcasts because of a trademark …
Jim Edwards / Press Gazette:
A profile of Fortune EIC Alyson Shontell, two years into her tenure, as she reorients the outlet to be digital-first and develops e-commerce as a revenue stream  —  Fortune's editor-in-chief says print is “an important differentiator” despite digital drive.
Discussion: @jeffjohnroberts
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
A Revson Foundation report looks at how governments, banks, and philanthropy could help make loans and credit programs more accessible for local news outlets  —  The precarity of local news outlets has left them with “little to no access to capital.”  A new report imagines what state and local government …
Discussion: The City
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Internal doc: Spotify weighed removing white noise podcasts and redirecting users to “talk” content, which would boost the company's annual gross profit by €35M  —  An internal document shows that white noise podcasts account for 3 million daily consumption hours on the platform
 
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Steven McIntosh / BBC:
UK broadcaster Sir Michael Parkinson dies at the age of 88; his TV career spanned seven decades, and he interviewed the world's biggest stars on his chat show
Calum Marsh / New York Times:
Documentaries about the annual CrossFit Games from CrossFit's media team have become consistent streaming hits due to their niche fitness community audience
Vitalik Buterin / Vitalik Buterin's website:
A deep dive into X's Community Notes, including how the algorithm works, whether the feature actually fights polarization, and its use in high-stakes situations
Reggie Ugwu / New York Times:
A look at “MovieTok” influencers like Maddi Moo, Straw Hat Goofy, and Cinema.Joe, who reach millions of TikTok users by reviewing, analyzing, or promoting films
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Struum, an aggregator that used a ClassPass model for streaming content and was backed by Michael Eisner's investment firm Tornante, quietly shut down in 2022
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Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
Six days after making brand safety assurances, X placed ads for The Athletic, MLB, USA Today, and others on a pro-Hitler account, before suspending the account
Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount drops its plans to sell a majority stake in BET Media, concluding that a sale wouldn't lead to a meaningful deleveraging of its balance sheet
Bobby Allyn / NPR:
Sources: The New York Times' lawyers are exploring suing OpenAI to protect the news outlet's IP rights, after tense negotiations over a potential licensing deal
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

The Linux Foundation:
A survey of 501 organizations globally estimates organizations contribute $7.7B annually to open source software and 86% of contribution value is employee labor
 
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