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Emily Dugan / The Guardian:
The BBC is “urgently” investigating Russell Brand's behavior while he worked on its radio shows, after allegations of rape and sexual assault from 2006 to 2013 — Corporation says accusations span a number of years, including 2006 to 2008, when comedian worked for Radio 2
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Matt Grobar / Deadline:
Disney says Elemental is the most watched movie premiere on Disney+ in 2023, drawing 26.4M views in its first five days, after earning $484M+ at the box office — Disney and Pixar announced on Monday that their animated feature Elemental, starring Leah Lewis and Mamoudou Athie …
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Bill Maher delays resuming the production of his weekly late-night show Real Time “for now” as the WGA and the AMPTP agree to resume contract negotiations — The comedian says he'll delay the HBO show's return “for now” as negotiations between striking writers and media companies are set to begin again.
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Yoel Roth / New York Times:
Twitter's former head of trust and safety reflects on Donald Trump and Elon Musk attacking him, the resulting abuse, fact-checking, the Twitter Files, and more — When I worked at Twitter, I led the team that placed a fact-checking label on one of Donald Trump's tweets for the first time.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with The Independent CEO Christian Broughton on the newspaper's growth drivers: e-commerce, Independent TV, reader revenues, US expansion, and AI — The Indy's team in the UK is also expanding, including the appointment of eight new reporters.
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
A Delaware judge rules that Dominion's $1.6B defamation suit against Newsmax over the network's airing of 2020 election lies will go to trial in September 2024 — Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Newsmax over the right-wing network's airing of 2020 election lies …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
With the WGA and the AMPTP set to resume talks on September 20, a look at the biggest myths impeding a deal, including that streaming services hoard the profits — The writers and studios are going back to the table after a month of not speaking. — Mark your calendars sports fans.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
ABC will air 10 additional Monday Night Football games than previously expected this season, simulcasting them with ESPN, to boost its strike-hampered schedule — “Monday Night Football” was for many years a staple of ABC's Monday-night line-up before it moved to ESPN in 2006. This fall, it will be so again.
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Morwenna Ferrier / The Guardian:
Condé Nast names Chioma Nnadi as British Vogue's head of editorial content, the first Black woman to lead the magazine, as of October 9; Nnadi edits Vogue.com — Exclusive: London-born editor of Vogue's US website to become first Black female head of the fashion title
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Reuters:
Putin signs a decree transferring publishing assets controlled by Nobel Peace Prize-winning Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov to “temporary state management” — Russian President Vladimir Putin has transferred publishing assets controlled by Nobel Prize-winning Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov …
Jem Aswad / Variety:
Litmus Music, the Carlyle-backed company co-founded by former Capitol Records president Dan McCarroll, acquires Katy Perry's music rights, sources say for $225M — After months of rumors, Katy Perry has sold her music rights to Litmus Music, the Carlyle-backed company co-founded …
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Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
Dozens of New York Times sports staff and Guild members marched through the newspaper's offices on September 18 to protest the end of its standalone sports desk — Dozens of New York Times sports staffers and Guild members marched through the Times offices Monday afternoon to protest the end of the Times's stand-alone sports desk.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Time doubles down on opinion content by launching Time100 Voices, an editorial platform featuring global thought leaders, and Time POV, a weekly newsletter — Time on Monday announced a new editorial platform called Time100 Voices that is dedicated to elevating perspectives from global thought leaders.
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