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10:10 PM ET, September 20, 2023

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Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
After talks on September 20, the WGA and AMPTP release a joint statement saying negotiations will continue on September 21, a first during the strike  —  The union met with four top CEOs, including David Zaslav, Ted Sarandos, Bob Iger and Donna Langley, in their latest negotiations session on Wednesday.
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Nonprofit newsroom The City cuts staff hours by 20%, taking advantage of NY state's work-share program; reporter Tom Robbins quit to help stave off job losses  —  The Scoop  —  New York nonprofit newsroom The City is slashing costs in the latest sign that philanthropists around the U.S. are tiring of supporting journalism.
Michael Wolff / New York Magazine:
Excerpt from Michael Wolff's The Fall: how Tucker Carlson's success became a headache for Rupert Murdoch, making Carlson a casualty of the Dominion settlement  —  Rupert Murdoch didn't want to dump his ratings leader and favorite Fox host.  But was Tucker Carlson giving him a choice?
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty says that in 2022, Rupert Murdoch thought Fox would pay $50M in the Dominion lawsuit, which cost $787.5M
Mediaite:
Sources: Project Veritas, founded by James O'Keefe, suspends all operations amid financial woes and lays off six people, following earlier layoffs in August  —  Project Veritas, the conservative organization founded by James O'Keefe, suspended all operations on Wednesday after another round of layoffs, Mediaite has learned.
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Journalists Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett plan to launch In Retrospect, a weekly pop culture podcast, on September 21, distributed by iHeartPodcasts  —  iHeartPodcasts and The Meteor are launching “In Retrospect,” a pop culture podcast by Emmy-winning journalist Susie Banikarim and New York Times editor Jessica Bennett.
New York Times:
The Authors Guild and more than a dozen prominent novelists sue OpenAI over allegedly infringing on authors' copyrights by using their books to train ChatGPT  —  The suit, filed with the Authors Guild, accuses the A.I. company of infringing on authors' copyrights, claiming it used their books to train its ChatGPT chatbot.
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Mumbai-based Kuku FM, which offers audio content in English and six Indian languages for ~$1.20/month, raised a $25M Series C, taking its total funding to $60M  —  Google-backed audio content platform Kuku FM has raised $25 million in a new funding round as it looks to make deeper inroads …
 
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon announces the $50 Fire TV Stick 4K, the $60 Fire TV Stick 4K Max, the $120 24-inch Fire TV Soundbar, and generative AI updates for Fire TV voice search
Anna Chernova / CNN:
A Moscow court refuses to hear an appeal against WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich's pre-trial detention, meaning he could remain in jail until at least November 30
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Radio Times, started 100 years ago as the BBC's “official organ”, remains “highly profitable”; the magazine also offers a website, an app, and a weekly podcast
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Axios:
Filing: Disney plans to spend ~$60B in the next 10 years on its parks and cruise line segments, nearly doubling the company's investment over the past decade
 

 
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MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Block reports Q3 revenue up 6% YoY to $5.98B, vs. $6.24B est., gross profit up 19% YoY to $2.25B, Cash App gross profit up 21% to $1.31B, and a $284M net income

Anissa Gardizy / The Information:
Source: Amazon is discussing a second multibillion-dollar Anthropic investment, asking Anthropic to use servers with Amazon chips; Anthropic prefers Nvidia GPUs

Sebastian Sinclair / Decrypt:
Detroit plans to accept crypto for tax and fee payments from mid-2025 via a PayPal platform that will convert them to USD, becoming the largest US city to do so

 
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