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5:30 AM ET, August 23, 2023

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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
AMPTP releases details of the contract offered to the WGA on August 11, after WGA representatives met with Hollywood CEOs including Bob Iger on August 22  —  WGA leaders met face-to-face with key CEOs on Tuesday evening as executives sought to pitch the guild on their most recent contract offer …
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
An analysis of Google's policy dilemma as YouTube and UMG explore AI licensing, Google scrapes the web to train its AI, and lawsuits could upend copyright law  —  Google has made clear it is going to use the open web to inform and create anything it wants, and nothing can get in its way.
Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
London-based ticketing company Dice raised $65M from MUSIC and others to expand in Europe and the US; the app will serve 55K+ artists and 10K+ venues in 2023  —  Kobalt Music founder Willard Ahdritz's Ahdritz Holding LLC, Exor Ventures and Mirabaud Lifestyle Fund also participated in the funding round.
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Three Motherboard alumni and former EIC Jason Koebler launch 404 Media to cover tech, hacking, sex work, and more; subscriptions are $10/month or $100/year  —  They are joining a recent boom of publications owned and operated by the reporters and editors themselves.
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Fandom CEO Perkins Miller on the wiki hosting service's origin as Wikipedia's sister company, Pottermore, acquiring TV Guide, ads, FanDNA, AI, and more  —  Today, I'm talking with Perkins Miller.  He's the CEO of Fandom, which runs thousands of wikis for everything from Disney …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sports podcasting network Blue Wire opens a community fundraising round, seeking $1M+ at a $26M valuation; in 2022, Blue Wire had $8M in revenue and a $5M loss  —  Blue Wire, a sports podcast company founded in 2018, will open up a community fundraising round on Tuesday …
Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
Whether Wirecutter has become less reliable is hard to say given the rise of copycats, changes to the internet since 2011, and falling trust in institutions  —  Longtime fans have turned on the product-recommendation website.  An evolving internet may be to blame.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
TikTok launches Search Ads Toggle, which lets brands target users with ads in search and add “Negative Keywords” so their ads don't appear beside some queries  —  TikTok announced today it's adding a new place for advertisers to reach its audience: within the search results page.
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Turkey's media regulator threatens to block VOA Türkçe's website in the country if the digital outlet doesn't apply for a broadcasting license within 72 hours  —  The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) gave VOA Türkçe 72 hours to make an application for a license.
Klaus Lauer / Reuters:
Axel Springer settles with Julian Reichelt, the former Bild EIC that the publisher had sued for sharing internal company data with newspaper Berliner Zeitung  —  German publishing magnate Axel Springer has agreed to an out-of-court settlement in a civil lawsuit against Julian Reichelt …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Prominent media executives and others raise ~$3M to launch the Center for News, Technology & Innovation, for fostering an open internet and an independent press
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
IBM plans to sell its weather business, including Weather.com and business-oriented offerings, to private equity firm Francisco Partners for an undisclosed sum
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta is rolling out a Threads web app over the next few days that will let users post, interact with other posts, and look at the feed
Kerry Flynn / Axios:
Mather Economics acquires AI tool Sophi, which recommends when outlets should show visitors a paywall, from The Globe and Mail; Sophi works with ~100 newsrooms
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Jon Porter / The Verge:
Nick Clegg says Meta now lets Instagram and Facebook users opt out of its recommendation algorithms for Reels, Stories, Search, and more, to comply with EU DSA
Australian Financial Review:
A profile of Sky News Australia CEO Paul Whittaker, who critics say turned the broadcaster into an antipodean Fox News, as Sky News expands its YouTube strategy
Lacey Rose / The Hollywood Reporter:
Bill Simmons, Ben Shapiro, Kara Swisher, and other podcast hosts, executives, and agents on how the industry has changed, not reaching “peak podcast”, and more
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Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Lachlan Murdoch pays Crikey ~AU$1.3M in legal costs for his failed defamation lawsuit, on the condition the outlet donates its ~AU$589K raised via crowdfunding
Kylie Robison / Fortune:
Elon Musk says that X plans to remove preview headlines from posts linking to articles, so that the previews show only the article's lead image and the URL