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12:30 PM ET, May 6, 2024

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Perri Ormont Blumberg / New York Times:
Memo: Condé Nast and the union representing staff at Vogue, Vanity Fair, and others reach a tentative deal for a first contract after over a year of bargaining  —  The company on Monday reached a tentative contract agreement with unionized employees who said they were willing …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Condé Nast's tentative agreement to contract terms came after the union leaders had explicitly threatened to stage a picket line at the 2024 Met Gala  —  After more than a year of talks, Condé Nast management inked an employment pact with hundreds of union workers at Vogue …
Reuters:
Al Jazeera source and Israeli official: police raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its de facto office, following a government shutdown order  —  Israeli police raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its de facto office on Sunday following a government decision …
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Q&A with NYT Executive Editor Joe Kahn, who says polling shows “democracy” is not a prime concern warranting top coverage, while immigration and the economy are  —  I stopped by Joe Kahn's modest office in the New York Times newsroom Thursday to ask him what some of his readers want to know …
Wall Street Journal:
Kim Godwin steps down as ABC News' president, a role she has held since 2021, and says she will “retire from broadcast journalism”; no successor has been named  —  ABC News President Kim Godwin stepped down Sunday night, months after a corporate restructuring that effectively stripped away much of her management autonomy.
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
Twitch streamers are growing their audiences as they stream student protests, and some viewers and protesters see them as more trustworthy than traditional news  —  Live-streamers are amassing audiences through real-time coverage of student encampments and police crackdowns.
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Sabela Ojea / Wall Street Journal:
Simon & Schuster acquires Dutch publisher Veen Bosch & Keuning, its first deal for a non-English book publisher; VBK will maintain its editorial independence  —  VBK to operate as an autonomous division and maintain its editorial independence  —  Simon & Schuster is acquiring Dutch …
Discussion: Publishers Weekly
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, aka Mr. Beast, parts ways with management company Night Media and is increasingly taking personal control of his business  —  The dominant YouTuber MrBeast is parting ways with his high-profile talent management company.  —  Jimmy Donaldson …
Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
A profile of ESPN's First Take host Stephen A. Smith, whose longevity and uncanny ability to deliver opinions made him the most famous talking head in sports  —  Sports, politics, sex, SpongeBob: There's nothing ESPN's biggest star won't argue about — as long as you keep listening.
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
UK film and TV execs say the industry is struggling to recover from the Hollywood strikes and the spending contractions among UK broadcasters and US streamers  —  Last year's strikes across the Atlantic and financial issues facing UK broadcasters have marred a blooming industry
Discussion: Martin S. on LinkedIn
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Over 40K Audible books are marked as having been made with an AI “virtual voice”, saving authors hundreds or thousands of dollars per title on narration costs  —  While authors appreciate the new revenue stream, audiobook listeners are complaining about the influx of new material
 
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Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
Some publishers plan to keep testing Google's Privacy Sandbox but won't allocate further resources to it, as Google delays cookie deprecation from Chrome again
Nikkei Asia:
Sources: Chinese-owned media stopped submissions to Asia's highest-profile journalism prize SOPA due to Chinese government pressure to avoid foreign “collusion”
Yun Li / CNBC:
Warren Buffett says Berkshire sold its entire Paramount stake and “lost quite a bit of money”; Berkshire owned 63.3M shares of Paramount as of the end of 2023
Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times:
How the AI-generated music video for Washed Out's The Hardest Part was created entirely using OpenAI's Sora, a first from a major record label
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Patrick Greenfield / The Guardian:
UNESCO: at least 749 environmental reporters have faced violence and intimidation since 2009, 44 were murdered but that resulted in just five convictions
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sources: the expectation at Paramount Global is that neither of the two offers in play, Skydance-RedBird and Sony Pictures-Apollo, will come to fruition
 

 
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How bots monopolizing DeviantArt's promotional and revenue apparatuses and the platform's unwillingness to address the issue are driving artists to abandon it

Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg:
A US judge approves Genesis Global Capital's Chapter 11 repayment plan to return Bitcoin and other tokens to creditors, defeating a challenge by its parent DCG
 
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