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4:45 PM ET, August 31, 2023

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Chris Willman / Variety:
Taylor Swift plans to release her concert film in AMC theaters on October 13 in the US; in a first, AMC will also act as a distributor to unaffiliated theaters  —  Anyone who couldn't procure tickets for Taylor Swift's record-breaking stadium tour in the U.S. may be about to have their wounded …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Clare Duffy / CNN:
Gannett pauses the use of an AI tool, Lede AI, to write high school sports stories after several major flubs appeared in articles in at least one of its papers  —  New York CNN —  —  Newspaper chain Gannett has paused the use of an artificial intelligence tool to write high school sports dispatches …
The Moscow Times:
A Russian court imposes 11-year prison sentences on journalists Ruslan Leviev and Michael Nacke, saying they spread “war fakes”; both now live outside of Russia  —  A Russian court has handed 11-year prison sentences to exiled anti-war journalists Ruslan Leviev and Michael Nacke …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
IAC Chairman Barry Diller says traditional Hollywood studios should negotiate directly with unions, splitting from Apple, Amazon, and Netflix, a mutual “enemy”  —  The mogul argues that the traditional studios should go to the guilds and cut their own deals: “We are your natural allies, not your enemies.”
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Sources: top executives from Disney, Amazon Studios, Netflix, Universal, WBD, and others planned to meet on August 30; Disney CEO Bob Iger wasn't set to attend
Maria Bustillos / The Nation:
In the ebook copyright fight, authors should join forces to demand that contracts stipulate ebooks must be offered to libraries on the same terms as paper books  —  But corporate mega-publishers want purchasing a book to be like renting a movie or streaming an album.  —  Pocket
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Substack launches AI-powered tools to let podcasters create a transcript of their podcast episodes and generate a video “audiogram” to share on social media  —  Substack is introducing new AI-powered tools that are designed to make podcasting on the platform easier, the company announced on Wednesday.
Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:
Mark Thompson, who helped reinvent the NYT for the digital age while showing a solid understanding of the newsroom's mission, is a good bet for a beleagured CNN  —  As New York Times public editor, I worried about his time running the BBC  —  n late 2012, I was the newly minted public editor …
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
A Saudi court sentences a man to death over his X posts and YouTube activity, part of a growing dissent crackdown; his brother is a well-known government critic
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
OpenAI files a motion to dismiss two similar lawsuits from book authors alleging copyright infringement, saying the authors “misconceive the scope of copyright”
Laura Wagner / Washington Post:
Three of six full-time Atlanta magazine editorial staffers resign and the EIC plans to retire, as the magazine's owners crack down on content they deem “woke”