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6:30 PM ET, October 3, 2023

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Netflix plans to raise the price of its ad-free service a few months after the SAG-AFTRA strike ends, likely starting with the US and Canada  —  Company to become latest streamer to lift fees; Disney weighs launching new live-sports tier abroad  —  plans to raise the price …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Meta VP of Media Partnerships Campbell Brown says she's stepping down from the role in the fall but staying on as a consultant, as Meta backs away from news  —  Campbell Brown, the veteran TV anchor who led Meta's foray into news, is leaving the company, according to an internal note obtained by Axios.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
In honor of “Mean Girls” day, Paramount launches an official TikTok account for the movie and makes the 47-minute film, broken into 23 clips, available for free  —  Happy “Mean Girls” day, to all who celebrate!  —  In observance of so-called Mean Girls Day …
Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News:
MrBeast asks whether social media platforms are “ready to handle the rise of AI deepfakes” after a deepfake scam TikTok ad, since deleted, used his likeness  —  MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, called the rise of AI deepfakes “a serious problem” in response to a fake ad circulating online.
Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
A look at the scoop wars between NBA reporters Adrian Wojnarowski and Shams Charania, the impact on other NBA beat reporters, and their usefulness to the league  —  In a battle for scoops and attention, it's ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski vs. his former protégé, the Athletic's Shams Charania.
Amy Hawkins / The Guardian:
A profile of Jimmy Lai, the owner of now closed Apple Daily and one of Hong Kong's most outspoken pro-democracy activists, as he marks 1,000 days in prison  —  He went from rags to riches before his anti-communist newspaper fell foul of security forces.  Now Lai's plight tells of a city forced …
Discussion: New York Times
New York Times:
Spotify starts offering Premium subscribers 15 hours of audiobook streaming per month across 150K+ titles, first in the UK and Australia, and the US this winter  —  A year after adding à la carte sales of audiobooks, Spotify is offering paying subscribers 15 hours of books a month.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Code in the latest build of the Spotify app suggests the company is working on AI-generated playlists based on users' prompts  —  Following the successful launch of Spotify's AI-powered DJ feature and, more recently, added support for AI-translated podcasts, Spotify now appears …
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The Guardian, The Mirror, Reach sites, and The National take down some stories about Dan Wootton; a source says the moves follow a warning by Wootton's lawyer  —  Publishers threatened with exemplary damages and punitive costs.  —  The Guardian, Mirror, various other Reach sites and Newsquest's …
Dalya Alberge / The Guardian:
A look at County Highway, a new, $8.50 print-only newspaper published six times a year with a retro 19th-century look, no advertising, and a focus on the US  —  The retro-look County Highway costs $8.50, is published six times a year - and will never be available online
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
A profile of The Examination, a new nonprofit global health outlet with 12 employees and a partnership model to work with outlets based in areas it covers  —  One of The Examination's first priorities is boosting and diversifying its funding.  —  The executive director …
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Wattpad replaces its Paid Stories paywall with a freemium tier letting users read some chapters free and buy others; Premium+ subscribers get two stories/month  —  After launching its “Paid Stories” program in 2019, the social storytelling platform Wattpad is now replacing it with a new freemium model called …
Discussion: wattpad
 
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The News/Media Alliance organized a US lobbying blitz the week of September 25 to discuss copyright protections for the work of outlets, given the threat of AI
Discussion: News/Media Alliance
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Sources: in a letter, DirecTV warned Warner Bros. Discovery that programming on CNN's new streaming channel on Max risks violating WBD's contract with DirecTV
Jon Lafayette / Next TV:
Clix, a tech company aiming to help viewers find streaming shows to watch, debuts a streaming guide that uses AI, 70 years of movies, and expert recommendations
Discussion: Axios
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK's Independent Publishers Alliance urges members to block crawling access for OpenAI and Google, as OpenAI removes ChatGPT's September 2021 training cut-off
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Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: in September, Meta pitched EU regulators a plan to charge Facebook and Instagram users a subscription to avoid ads, starting at ~€10/month for desktop
Associated Press:
The police chief who led the raid on the Marion County Record in August resigns, just days after he was suspended from his post by the mayor of Marion, Kansas
Todd Spangler / Variety:
TikTok confirms the company is running a limited-scale test of an ad-free subscription plan, but only says the market is not the US and does not share the price
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple and OpenAI are preparing a major announcement of their partnership at WWDC; the new AirTag with a better chip is scheduled to arrive by mid-2025

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: US officials have told Google, Meta, and others about concerns that undersea cables could be vulnerable to tampering by China-owned repair ships

Financial Times:
Microsoft, Meta, Google and others pitch smaller language models that are cheaper to build and train, to lower costs and hardware requirements for generative AI
 
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