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10:25 AM ET, August 23, 2023

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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
In an email, the WGA says AMPTP's August 11 proposal failed to sufficiently protect writers and the studio CEOs meeting was an attempt to make the WGA “cave”  —  - TV Talk Podcast: Strike-Delayed Emmys Risk Getting Lost In Awards-Show Pileup & That's A Damn Shame
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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 …
Sean Piccoli / Deadline:
SAG-AFTRA and WGA members and sympathizers picketed outside of Amazon's and HBO's offices in NYC on August 22 as the Hollywood strikes continue  —  - Dispatches From The Picket Lines: Latine Writers & Actors In L.A. & NYC; ‘Roseanne’ And ‘The Conners’ Teams Reunite At Radford
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.
Washington Post:
Fox News staff and Trump advisers detail how Tucker Carlson's pre-recorded interview came about; Trump had initially wanted to stream the show on Truth Social  —  The on-again, off-again partnership found mutual benefit in a pre-recorded interview to air during the first Republican presidential debate
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
We Work founder Adam Neumann seeks a £25,000 donation to charity from The Spectator's US edition over an alleged defamatory story, which has since been amended  —  Neumann's lawyers say he was defamed by a report that he “defrauded” investors.  —  We Work founder Adam Neumann is seeking …
Jacob Granger / Journalism.co.uk:
A look at the New Statesman's podcast commercial strategy: ~30% of the revenue comes from podcast host Acast and the rest from in-house ads and branded content  —  70 per cent of podcasting revenue is coming from bespoke deals with clients.  Branded content is emerging as the space to watch
Discussion: Podnews
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Twitch rolls out an experimental TikTok-like Discovery Feed to select users, first with creators' horizontal clips and, “as the feed evolves”, vertical clips  —  Twitch is the latest tech company to try a TikTok-like way to browse content.  The company is experimenting with a feature …
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 …
Bianet:
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.
 
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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
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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
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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
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
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
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
 

 
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Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
OpenAI pulls ChatGPT's Sky voice that users say sounds like Scarlett Johansson, says it is an actress' voice and wasn't chosen to be an “imitation” of Johansson

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk:
Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein resigns, to be replaced by the head of strategy for asset and wealth manager at Goldman Sachs, Peter Mintzberg, on August 15

Chae-Yeon Kim / KED Global:
Sources: LG has ended its Meta partnership due to a lack of “synergy”, three months after the companies agreed to develop XR devices; LG may partner with Amazon
 
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