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Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
SAG-AFTRA members ratify the union's new three-year contract with studios after 78% voted in favor; some members remain unhappy about the deal's AI protections — Approval of new studio agreement with a turnout of 38% concludes a historic year for Hollywood labor
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Wall Street Journal:
The US State Department says Russia rejected a “significant” proposal to release The WSJ's Evan Gershkovich; sources say the offer involved trading prisoners — U.S. seeking to win freedom for Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan, State Department spokesman says
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BBC, Reuters, Columbia Journalism Review, Newser, The Desk, The Hill, Fox News, CNN, Associated Press, CBS News, Mediaite, Agence France-Presse, The Messenger and Talking Biz News
Mia Sato / The Verge:
TikTok releases its 2023 list of top videos and trends, again showing how disparate users' individual experiences on the app are and how siloed the content is — It's the most wonderful time of the year: when TikTok publishes its annual roundup of the biggest hits, and I get to see what everyone else …
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Daily Mail, BBC and expressandstar.com
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Web3 streaming protocol Sona launches Sona Stream, a free music streaming service with a marketplace for music and SONAs, or “digital twins” of songs, in beta — Sona is a new web3 streaming protocol that uses DeFi primitives (decentralized finance basic building blocks) …
Catherine Perloff / Adweek:
Study: only 36 cents of every dollar that enters a DSP actually pay for an ad a consumer sees, 29 cents go to intermediaries, and 35 cents to low-quality media — The supply chain is still filled with waste, and impression price doesn't correlate with quality
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Association …, MarTech and MediaPost
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
UK carrier EE launches broadband TV platform EE TV, to replace the BT TV service, partnering with Apple to offer an Apple TV 4K with a customized remote control — EE TV, a new broadband TV platform from EE, today launched as a BT TV replacement service in the UK, offering subscribers …
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Broadband TV News and The Guardian, more at Techmeme »
Jordan Fragen / VentureBeat:
Twitch plans to shut down in South Korea on February 27, 2024, saying the country was “prohibitively expensive” to operate in despite working to reduce costs — Games livestreaming platform Twitch is shutting down its business operations in South Korea February 27, 2024.
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Twitch, Boing Boing, TechCrunch, Neowin and Watcher Guru, more at Techmeme »
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
How the WSJ, MIT Technology Review, the FT, El País, The Globe and Mail, BBC News, Middle East Eye, WaPo, and five other news outlets use LinkedIn newsletters — “While you're less at the whim of the algorithm, it's still social media.” — “LinkedIn is cool now” …
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
A poll of 2K+ Britons on Israel-Hamas coverage: 36% consider the BBC neutral, the most among five outlets; 15% see the BBC as pro-Palestinian, 17% as pro-Israel — But even more of those polled felt the BBC's coverage has been “mostly neutral”. — A poll conducted by think tank More in Common …
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More in Common UK and Media Voices
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Sources: UK ministers are set to pick veteran TV executive Samir Shah as BBC chair to replace Richard Sharp, who resigned earlier in 2023, as soon as today — New head of corporation's board replaces Richard Sharp, who resigned this year — UK ministers are set to pick veteran TV executive Samir Shah …
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The Guardian, Bloomberg, Broadband TV News, The i Paper, @janemartinson, @jake_kanter, The Sun and @jamesrbuk
New York Times:
A new Trump administration would “come after” the media as well as political foes, promises Kash Patel, a Trump confidant likely to serve in the administration — Donald Trump, who has already promised to use the Justice Department to “go after” his political adversaries …
Jordan Moreau / Variety:
Three Pixar movies released solely on Disney+ during the pandemic will come to theaters in 2024: Soul on January 12; Turning Red, February 9; and Luca, March 22 — The three movies will come to theaters nationwide in 2024, with tickets going on sale Jan. 2.
Tom Symonds / BBC:
Lawyers for News UK and former UK Cabinet minister Chris Huhne reach a settlement in a phone hacking case that Huhne says includes a “six figure sum” in damages — The publisher of the Sun and the News of the World has agreed a “six figure” settlement to a phone-hacking claim from a former government minister.
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