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8:30 AM ET, September 26, 2023

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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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HuffPost:
Seven Gen Z writers and actors on how they're navigating the Hollywood strikes, the state of the entertainment industry, the threat of AI, residuals, and more
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 …
Emilia David / The Verge:
Getty partners with Nvidia to launch Generative AI by Getty Images, a tool trained on Getty's licensed photos that lets users create legally protected images  —  Getty Images is partnering with Nvidia to launch Generative AI by Getty Images, a new tool that lets people create images using Getty's library of licensed photos.
Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Estate Media, a real estate-focused outlet debuting with a website, newsletters, podcasts, and video, raised $1.65M from Morning Brew CEO Austin Rief and others  —  Estate Media, which was co-founded by Josh Flagg, aims to give advertisers a new way of reaching both industry professionals and home buyers and sellers
Discussion: Talking Biz News
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.
Molly Schuetz / Bloomberg:
Liberty Media, which had an 83% stake in SiriusXM as of July, proposes splitting off the business that houses SiriusXM and combining it with Sirius XM Holdings  —  “Liberty's proposal rationalizes the dual corporate structure between LSXM and SiriusXM,” Liberty's Chief Executive Officer Greg Maffei said in a statement Tuesday.
Rachel Scully / The Hill:
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.
Discussion: Media Nation
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 …
Alex Reisner / The Atlantic:
The Atlantic debuts a tool to look up authors whose work is in the Books3 dataset, which Meta, Bloomberg, and others used to train their generative AI systems  —  Use our new search tool to see which authors have been used to train the machines. … This summer, I acquired a data set …
John Koblin / New York Times:
People over 60 have become the US broadcast networks' core constituency, as the median age of viewers at ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox has ballooned in recent years  —  Viewers have fled prime-time lineups for streaming outlets, with one notable exception: people over 60.
 
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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
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
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Reddit launches a Contributor Program that pays verified users monthly based on the karma earned and the gold received for “eligible contributions” on the site
New York Times:
Some employees reminisce about Netflix's DVD subscription service, which upended the entertainment industry and is shutting down on September 29 after 25 years
 Earlier Picks: 
Lauren Indvik / Financial Times:
An interview with Anna Wintour on her rise to the top of the fashion world, her tough image, Chioma Nnadi's appointment as the head of British Vogue, and more
Vauhini Vara / Wired:
A writer whose AI-assisted essay went viral reflects on testing GPT-3 early, Sudowrite's novel generator, and whether AI is good for writers and literature
Paresh Dave / Wired:
A look at the antitrust activists attending the DOJ's Google antitrust trial every day and documenting their observations via social media and daily newsletters
Washington Post:
Academics and US agencies are overhauling or ending online misinformation research due to Representative Jim Jordan and other Republicans' escalating campaign