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Amrita Khalid / The Verge:
Spotify partners with OpenAI to debut an AI translation feature that reproduces podcasts in other languages using a synthesized version of the podcaster's voice — What if podcasters could flip a switch and instantly speak another language? That's the premise behind Spotify's …
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Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A US judge rules that the Thomson Reuters suit accusing Ross Intelligence of copying Westlaw content to train a competing AI-based platform must go to trial — A jury must decide the outcome of a lawsuit by information services company Thomson Reuters (TRI.TO) accusing Ross Intelligence …
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The Wrap, Plagiarism Today and Law360
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify launches Jam, a new feature that lets up to 32 people curate a single playlist; only Premium subscribers can create Jams, but all users can contribute — Spotify is today introducing its latest social feature, Jam, which allows multiple people to blend their own musical tastes into a combined playlist.
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David Robb / Deadline:
SAG-AFTRA members vote to authorize a strike against 10 of the major video game companies if negotiations fail; 98.32% voted in favor after a 27.47% turnout — - Lisa Takeuchi Cullen Elected President Of WGA East; Running Unopposed, She Succeeds Michael Winship
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Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo:
How Meta's Facebook and Instagram news blackout in Canada is having an outsized effect on student publications and nonprofit community outlets in the country — Student publications and nonprofit community outlets are caught up in a drawn-out battle between the Canadian government, big-name publishers, and Meta.
Ben Mullin / @benmullin:
Memo: the President and CEO of New York Public Radio, parent company of WNYC, says the company plans to cut staff by about 12% — New York Public Radio, the parent organization of WNYC, is cutting its staff by about 12%, according to a note to staff from President and CEO LaFontaine Oliver [image]
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Northeastern University's Meredith Clark and The Pivot Fund founder Tracie Powell about studying funding to BIPOC news outlets, local news, and more — “You say you're giving more dollars to BIPOC newsrooms? Well, you're actually giving to intermediaries who are filtering down those dollars to BIPOC newsrooms.
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American Press Institute and Media Nation
Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Sources: the Golden Globes plan to introduce two categories to its January show, one for highest-grossing or most-seen films and another for stand-up on TV — The Golden Globe Awards will introduce two new categories to its upcoming January broadcast, Variety has learned exclusively.
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Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
A look at Adam Nagourney's new book The Times, which chronicles the editors, culture, scandals, and strategies at the NYT from 1977 to 2016 — In the second chapter of The Kingdom and the Power, the 1969 book about the first 75 years that the New York Times was owned by the very same Ochs-Sulzberger family …
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New York Times, Axios, Air Mail, @andrewkirtzman, Vanity Fair and @ksacknyt
Los Angeles Times:
The WGA and the AMPTP reach a tentative deal to end the strike; the proposed three-year contract ups pay and streaming residuals, adds new AI rules, and more — The Writers Guild of America and the major Hollywood studios have reached a tentative deal that would end a strike that has lasted …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Netflix, Paramount, WBD, Comcast, Disney, and others launch a trade group, the Streaming Innovation Alliance; Apple, Amazon, Roku, and others didn't join — The world's biggest streaming companies are coming together to launch the industry's first unified coalition, the Streaming Innovation Alliance (SIA).
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The Streamable, The Verge and Hollywood Reporter
Jessie Pang / Reuters:
A Hong Kong court sentences the head of a leading journalist group, one of the city's last groups advocating for rights, to five days for obstructing the police — The head of Hong Kong's leading journalists group was sentenced on Monday to five days jail for obstructing police officers …
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