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11:00 PM ET, September 28, 2023

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Songtradr:
Music licensing marketplace Songtradr acquires Bandcamp and plans to keep operating Bandcamp as a marketplace and community with an artist-first revenue share  —  (September 28 - Los Angeles) - Songtradr, a music licensing platform and marketplace company supporting artists, labels and publishers …
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Ash Parrish / The Verge:
Epic Games lays off 16% of its workforce, or ~830 employees, divests from music storefront Bandcamp, and intends to spin off “kid-tech” company SuperAwesome
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google lets publishers use a robots.txt flag to opt out of the company using their data to train its AI models, while remaining accessible through Google Search  —  Google just announced it's giving website publishers a way to opt out of having their data used to train the company's AI models …
Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap:
Discussion: Variety and Deadline
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Society of Professional Journalists treasurer Israel Balderas, as membership and revenue dwindle; its foundation still has $14M in the bank  —  “If we don't change our thinking, the next incoming president will be the last president.”  —  The Society of Professional Journalists …
Michael Schneider / Variety:
HBO Max's The Janes takes the top documentary award at the 44th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards; CNN led the news awards followed by Vice and the NYT  —  The 44th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards completed the second of two nights of awards with its doc prizes …
Tony Stubblebine / The Medium Blog:
Medium plans to block AI companies from training on posts published on Medium until the company can get concessions regarding credit, compensation, and consent  —  Fair use in the age of AI: Credit, compensation and consent are required.  —  ·  —  ·  —  Just now
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Filing: a judge denies journalist Timothy Burke's request to get back his seized equipment and to have unsealed an FBI affidavit that led to his home's search  —  Additionally, a judge has refused to unseal an FBI affidavit that was filed with an application for a search warrant earlier this year.
Drew Richardson / CNBC:
After Media Matters found NFL ads placed on white nationalist accounts on X, the NFL says it “expressed our concerns to X to understand and rectify the issue”  —  - The National Football league responded to a report that its ads appeared on white nationalist X accounts.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Financial Times reports 2022 UK operating profit up 179% YoY to £13.4M, revenue up 14% YoY to £422.5M, and web and newspaper subscribers up 9% YoY to 1.26M+
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
In response to this week's GB News events, DMG Media terminates its contract with Dan Wootton, whose MailOnline freelance column had already been paused
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Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
X CEO Linda Yaccarino claims 90% of the top 100 advertisers “returned to the platform in the past 12 weeks alone” and that X will be profitable by early 2024
Shauneen Miranda / Axios:
Late-night TV talk shows return: Bill Maher on Sept. 29; John Oliver on Oct. 1, and Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, and Jimmy Kimmel on Oct. 2
Deadline:
SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP say they plan to “resume negotiations for a new TV/theatrical contract” on October 2, after the WGA ended its strike on September 27
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Meta debuts AI chatbots based on over a dozen influencers, including Snoop Dogg, MrBeast, and Charli D'Amelio, on Instagram and Facebook, and plans to add more