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4:30 AM ET, March 7, 2024

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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
A jury finds Rust movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the 2021 accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins  —  Weapons experts and prosecutor witness Bryan Carpenter, explains in court that he found fault with Alec Baldwin's conduct and use of guns.
Ben Markus / Colorado Public Radio:
Colorado Public Radio lays off 15, primarily in audio and podcast production, and spares the newsroom of cuts; staff grew from 48 in FY 2006 to 214 in FY 2022  —  Colorado Public Radio laid off 15 employees this week, the largest cut to the public broadcaster's payroll in at least a quarter of a century.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
News sites are closing due to the collapse of programmatic ad revenue; a case study of Talking Points Memo shows how subscriptions kept the site in business  —  Over the years I've written about structural problems in the digital news industry, often driven by the growth of platform monopolies and other issues.
Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
A look at Apple's studio business: sources say the company spent $700M+ of its reported $1B+ annual 2023 spend on just three films, which earned $466M combined  —  On March 10, the tech giant has 13 shots to take home an Oscar via two historical epics, “Killers of the Flower Moon” and …
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Kasey Moore / What's on Netflix:
Netflix licenses the first season of the OnlyFans original series House of Sims, which debuted on OFTV in May 2023, in the UK  —  No, we're not making that up... House of Sims is coming to Netflix UK.  —  There are always headlines I have to write here at What's on Netflix …
Discussion: The Sun
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Dish Media announces it has formed an advertising partnership with streaming service Philo, letting Dish Media clients purchase Philo's addressable ad inventory  —  Dish Media has formed a strategic, advertising-driven partnership with wallet-friendly general entertainment streaming service Philo, the companies announced on Wednesday.
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Will Shanklin / Engadget:
Twitch details its 2024 plans: redesigning its mobile app for the first time since 2019 to add mod tools, the ability to upload short videos, and more  —  It promises “a more modern, immersive viewing experience” later this year.  —  Twitch is redesigning its mobile app for the first time since 2019.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
An interview with LinkedIn EIC Dan Roth on investing in journalism and news, work with over 400 news publishers globally, launching a podcast network, and more  —  - Unlike Facebook and X, traffic referrals to news publishers have increased slightly from LinkedIn over the past three years, per Similarweb.
Hayden Field / CNBC:
Patronus AI releases CopyrightCatcher and says OpenAI's GPT-4 produced copyrighted content on 44% of prompts in its test of AI models for copyright infringement  —  - Patronus AI, an AI model evaluation company founded by ex-Meta researchers, on Wednesday released research showcasing …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Police in Azerbaijan detained about a dozen journalists after raiding offices of Toplum TV; EIC Khadija Ismayilova said no explanation for the raid was given  —  Police in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, detained about a dozen journalists from the online Toplum TV channel on March 6 after searching …
Will Sommer / Washington Post:
Road & Track magazine pulls a 5,000-word article by socialist writer Kate Wagner that skewered the F1 racing scene; source: EIC Daniel Pund ordered it pulled  —  Editors for Road & Track aren't saying why they yanked Kate Wagner's story from the website shortly after it published
 
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Gavin Anderegg / anderegg.ca:
Bluesky is working to become fully decentralized but it could take years amid financial concerns as it makes money only by selling domains for usernames

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: ByteDance is valuing itself at about $300B as part of a recent buyback offer, one of its highest valuations ever

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Sources: T-Mobile's network was among the systems hacked by the China-linked Salt Typhoon group, and some foreign telecommunications firms were also compromised
 
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