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Max Tani / Semafor:
NewsWhip data on 300K influential X users: X is throttling posts with New York Times links, with “weekly average shares per article” down 75%+ from a July peak — The Scoop — X, Elon Musk's social media platform formerly known as Twitter, appears to be attempting to limit its users' access to The New York Times.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Disney and Charter reached an agreement that will restore popular channels including ESPN and ABC to the cable operator's nearly 15M subscribers — Disney and Charter have decided to let ESPN sports take the field on traditional cable after all. — The two media giants …
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
US Copyright Office denies protection for an AI-made image that won a fine arts competition, despite many prompt revisions and it being altered with Photoshop — The U.S. Copyright Office has again rejected copyright protection for art created using artificial intelligence …
Discussion:
Ars Technica
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
The Associated Press says a defunct third-party-managed AP Stylebook site was hacked in July 2023 and the hacker is using the data for targeted phishing attacks — The Associated Press is warning of a data breach impacting AP Stylebook customers where the attackers used the stolen data to conduct targeted phishing attacks.
Discussion:
@castrotech and @nolongerbennett
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The UK government launches a task force to crack down on the growing number of SLAPP legal cases from Russian oligarchs and others to intimidate journalists — Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer writes for Press Gazette about a new task force to tackle the rise of SLAPPs.
Discussion:
The Independent, HoldtheFrontPage and The Times
Marcos Codas / Manor Vellum:
Disenfranchised and underprivileged film journalists say online screenings fell in the past year as festivals returned to in-person, hurting them professionally — At the end of 2019, nobody could foresee what was about to happen. A global pandemic absolutely changed the landscape of all industries.
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@redheadfrommars, @marcoscodas and @manorvellum
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
A deep dive on NFL's attempts to expand beyond cable, and its partnership with YouTube, including the $14B commitment from YouTube for Sunday Ticket rights — YouTube is now home to NFL games every Sunday. Will it bring more young people into the NFL? Or will it hasten the demise of linear TV networks?
Discussion:
Dan Rayburn, Front Office Sports, Wall Street Journal and Sportico
Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
A profile of Walter Isaacson, who has written biographies of Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, and others, edited Time magazine in the 1990s, and was running CNN on 9/11 — It's a Saturday night in August, and Walter Isaacson is sitting in the back of Lilette, a restaurant on Magazine Street in his hometown of New Orleans, swizzling a Sazerac.
Discussion:
New York Times, CNN, CBS News, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post and New York Post, more at Techmeme »
Omar Gallaga / Poynter:
A local TV journalist whose father was murdered in 2017 created a guide to help families of homicide victims engage with local media in a more humane way — More Than A Number is a guide with resources for families and offers victims' families ways to tell their stories ... when they're willing and ready.
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Amazon starts requiring writers in its e-book program to disclose using AI-generated content in their books, after complaints from the Authors Guild and others — After months of complaints from the Authors Guild and other groups, Amazon.com has started requiring writers who want to sell books through …
Variety:
The AMPTP says that its member studios remain aligned, after the WGA suggested that some of the legacy studios may be willing to accommodate the writers' demand — The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers said Friday night that the studios remain aligned …
Discussion:
Forbes, SlashFilm, The Hollywood Reporter, @davidaugust, @discussingfilm, @slack2thefuture, @slack2thefuture, @slack2thefuture, @slack2thefuture, @slack2thefuture, @slack2thefuture, @slack2thefuture, @slack2thefuture, @slack2thefuture, Gizmodo, WGA Strike 2023, Deadline, The Wrap, Strikegeist, IndieWire, Rolling Stone, Deadline, Los Angeles Times, Deadline, Variety, The Wrap and AMPTP
Amaris Castillo / Poynter:
Q&A with former TV reporter Adam Gaub on bringing journalism skills to a county government job, starting a true crime video series, leaving journalism, and more — ‘Success for sure is getting new leads on any of these cases, and potentially getting any of them solved’
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