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9:45 AM ET, September 27, 2023

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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
WGA leaders lift the strike order as of 12:01am PT Wednesday, release the tentative AMPTP deal, and allow writers to return to work before final ratification  —  The Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike is officially over.  —  On the 148th day of the work stoppage, the board of the WGA West …
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Hollywood Reporter:
A play-by-play of the final negotiations between the WGA and the studios, represented by Bob Iger, David Zaslav, Ted Sarandos, and NBCUniversal's Donna Langley  —  From the Chris Keyser-CEO calls that brought them back to the table to the ask that almost derailed the deal, a play-by-play of the final negotiations.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the WGA and AMPTP's deal lets studios train AI models on writers' work while writers would be compensated for work on scripts even if AI tools are used  —  Writers are expected to be guaranteed credit and compensation for work they do on scripts, even if studios partially use AI tools
Washington Post:
Sources and new documents detail how Facebook execs repeatedly shied away from punishing the BJP or associated accounts in India for hate speech and propaganda  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Nearly three years ago, Facebook's propaganda hunters uncovered a vast social media influence operation …
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Gerry Shih / Washington Post:
Staffers and allies of India's BJP detail how they crafted posts for a vast network of WhatsApp groups aimed at exploiting the fears of the Hindu majority  —  MUDBIDRI, India — At first, the WhatsApp messages touted roads paved, schools built, free food distributed to the poor …
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
GB News suspends presenter Laurence Fox after he went on a misogynistic on-air rant about the political journalist Ava Evans; Fox refused to apologize  —  Broadcaster says it will apologise to Ava Evans about comments Fox made about her on Dan Wootton's show on Tuesday
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Sources: Paul Marshall, the co-owner of GB News, along with Citadel founder Ken Griffin, plans a bid for UK's Telegraph through his UnHerd Ventures media group  —  Founder of Citadel hedge fund Ken Griffin linked to group of investors including Sir Paul Marshall
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Linda Yaccarino reflects on her first 100 days as X CEO, says intense public scrutiny is “hard on me”, as sources describe her relationship with Elon Musk  —  Can the chief of the company formerly known as Twitter survive Musk's chaos and win back advertisers?
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Memo: New York Public Radio President and CEO LaFontaine Oliver plans to cut NYPR staff by ~12% due to a “free fall in the advertising market”  —  The chief executive of New York Public Radio, which operates WNYC and the classical music station WQXR, said the organization was facing a “free-fall” in advertising.
Sara Atske / Pew Research Center:
US survey of 4,742 Black adults: 63% say news about Black people is more negative than news about other races and 43% say the coverage stereotypes Black people  —  Black Americans are critical of news coverage of Black people and say educating journalists would make coverage fairer
Martin Baron / The Atlantic:
An excerpt from Marty Baron's upcoming book, Collision of Power: the “Democracy Dies in Darkness” slogan, Trump asking Bezos for better Post coverage, and more  —  And other stories from eight years running The Washington Post  —  I should not have been surprised …
 
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Jen Fifield / Votebeat:
Local Labs, tied to Metric Media's network of local websites, is paid by GOP-backed clients for hundreds of public records requests, stymying election officials
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel announces plans to reinstate net neutrality, seeking to “largely return to the successful rules the Commission adopted in 2015”
Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Sources: the Golden Globe Awards plans to add two new categories to its January 2024 show: for highest-earning or most-seen films and for stand-up comedy on TV
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A US judge rules that the Thomson Reuters lawsuit accusing Ross Intelligence of copying Westlaw content to train a competing AI-based platform must go to trial
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google plans to shut down Google Podcasts “later in 2024”, moving its streaming listeners to YouTube Music, which will support US podcasts and RSS feeds by 2024
Molly Schuetz / Bloomberg:
Liberty Media, which holds an ~83% stake in SiriusXM, proposes splitting and combining LSXM, the business that houses SiriusXM, with Sirius XM Holdings
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
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify launches Jam, a feature that lets up to 32 people curate a playlist together; only Premium subscribers can create Jams, but all users can contribute