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Hundreds of thousands of out-of-work Hollywood crew members have dipped into savings and turned to nonprofits' emergency funds as the SAG-AFTRA strike drags on — The lives of hundreds of thousands of crew members have been upended, and even a deal between the actors and the studios might not help much in the short term.
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@rmwhittaker.bsky.social, @rachelsl.bsky.social and Insider
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Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos says SAG-AFTRA talks broke down because the union wanted a “levy” on each streaming subscriber instead of a “success-based bonus” — “A levy on top of our revenue or per subscriber, with no insight into the revenue per subscriber or anything …

SAG-AFTRA and the major studios suspend talks, as the AMPTP says the gap between the two sides is “too great”; SAG-AFTRA accuses the studios of “bully tactics”
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The Wrap, SAG-AFTRA, Variety, The Ankler, NBC New York, @thewrap, Simon Pulman on LinkedIn, @arey.bsky.social, @scenarist.bsky.social, @wgawest, @thr, The Wrap, @screenwriterchic.bsky.social, @matthewrodier.bsky.social, @bloomberglive, The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, Deadline, Cord Cutters News, The A.V. Club, The Daily Beast, @vanthebrand, @danhindmarch, @itsmecarolamptp, @carolinerenard_, @elainelow, @slack2thefuture, @sagaftra, @mattbelloni, @sagaftra, @filmupdates, @joesteel@duck.haus, KTLA, The Verge, Screen Rant, TVLine, Reuters, Next TV, Engadget, New York Times, Rolling Stone, CBS News, IGN, What's On Disney Plus, Reuters, CNN, ABC7, IndieWire, The Wrap and Variety


Study: US prosecutions for public corruption rise after a nonprofit news outlet opens in a judicial district and are more likely the more funding the outlet has — “We find a really strong connection that they're able to maintain accountability in these communities.”
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Aaron Jacklin on LinkedIn, Sheila Coronel on LinkedIn and @ben@werd.social


News Media Canada, which represents Canada's top newspapers, backs many of Google's issues with the Online News Act, whose final rules could hit by December 19 — A Canadian news industry body on Thursday lent support to some of Google's concerns about a new law that aims …
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Globe and Mail, @jaycurrie, @mgeist, @davidcoletto and @pagmenzies


Comcast hires Morgan Stanley and Disney hires JPMorgan Chase to value Hulu, a step toward Disney buying Comcast's 33% stake; their 2019 deal set a $27.5B floor — - Comcast and Disney have hired investment banks to appraise Hulu. — On Nov. 1, Comcast and Disney can both trigger an option …
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@sherman4949, What's On Disney Plus, Erick Opeka on LinkedIn and Alex Sherman on LinkedIn


A look at The Debut: Dream Academy, Hybe Chairman Bang Si-Hyuk's project to form a US-based group of women from around the world that replicates K-pop group BTS — With the world's biggest boy band on hiatus, Bang Si-Hyuk wants to replicate the formula that changed music—but with even more global appeal.
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@business, @business, @business, @business, @business, @business, @bw, @next_china, @minyoongiswagg7 and @lucas_shaw


Six days of the Israel-Hamas war: at least one Israeli and nine Palestinian journalists have been killed, two journalists are missing, and two have been injured — The Israel-Gaza conflict has taken a severe toll on journalists since Hamas launched its unprecedented attack against Israel …
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A study using 60 bots to look at TikTok's recommendations after seeding with four news outlets finds that just 18% of the recommended videos were news-related — Plus: The “labor” of avoiding news, a study of disagreements between journalists and their bosses about objectivity, and the effects of Trump's criticisms of Fox News.
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@peterhamby and Nick Hagar on LinkedIn


The Information hires Morning Brew COO Matthew Resnick as its COO, to grow consumer revenue and brand partners; chief commercial officer Karl Wells is leaving — Technology publisher The Information has hired Matthew Resnick, the former chief operating officer (COO) of Morning Brew …


A group of comic book writers and artists form Ghost Machine, a company the creators will be exclusive to, as well as jointly own, operate, and profit from — The founding writers and artists of Ghost Machine will be exclusive to the company and will jointly own, operate and profit from it.
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Image Comics, Michael Cotton on LinkedIn, Brad Meltzer on LinkedIn and The Wrap


Antenna: YouTube's NFL Sunday Ticket attracted an estimated 1.3M signups, vs. 1.2M reportedly under DirecTV; ~41% of the NFL subscribers are new to YouTube TV — Die-hard fans of live sports are migrating online in big numbers, responding to the multibillion-dollar investments by major technology companies …
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Sportico, @deesevere.bsky.social and The Streamable, more at Techmeme »


Many writers at fanfiction site Archive of Our Own restrict viewing to registered readers in an effort to prevent their writing being scraped to train AI models — Kinktober. Whumptober. Kisstober. Flufftober. Goretober. October is a bacchanal of fan fiction …


The Block names Tim Copeland, formerly its news editor and managing editor, as editor-in-chief; Copeland worked at Decrypt before joining The Block in 2021 — Cryptocurrency news site The Block has named Tim Copeland to be its editor in chief. — He previously has been news editor and managing editor of the publication.
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@timccopeland and @vishal4c