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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Hunter Biden drops his lawsuit against Fox News over its “mock trial” miniseries about his overseas financial dealings, after filing it last month — Hunter Biden on Sunday abruptly dropped a lawsuit he filed last month against Fox News over the network's fictionalized miniseries …
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Axios, Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter
Matilda Battersby / The Bookseller:
Academics say publisher Taylor & Francis hadn't told them about selling access to authors' research as part of a $10M+ Microsoft AI deal, nor let them opt out — Authors have expressed their shock after the news that academic publisher Taylor & Francis, which owns Routledge …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple's Eddy Cue has pushed TV+ studio chiefs to exert more control over budgets, hoping to change Apple's reputation as the biggest spender in town — The iPhone maker is starting to exert more control over its production partners — Netflix extended its lead over fellow streaming services …
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@lucas_shaw, @lucas_shaw and Financial Times, more at Techmeme »
BBC:
A Russian court convicts Evan Gershkovich of espionage and sentences him to 16 years in prison; Wall Street Journal calls the trial a “sham” — US journalist Evan Gershkovich has been sentenced by a Russian court to 16 years in prison on espionage charges, after a secretive trial decried as a “sham” by his employer.
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Los Angeles Times:
LA County Sheriff's Department secretly investigated and urged the state AG to prosecute an LA Times reporter who wrote about a leaked list of problem deputies — For at least three years, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department secretly investigated — and ultimately urged …
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Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
A year after the start of the double strike, SAG-AFTRA and WGA members, studio executives, and agents have mixed responses on whether the strikes were worth it — While some of the creatives that shut down the entertainment industry in 2023 say the fight was absolutely worth the sacrifice …
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Selina Cheng / Columbia Journalism Review:
Selina Cheng says her editor told her that staff advocating for press freedom publicly would create a conflict with WSJ's reporting of the issue in Hong Kong — After 2019, as China tightened its grip on Hong Kong and mass protests gripped the city, police raided the Apple Daily …
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: the Republican National Convention's final night averaged 25.38M US viewers over 14 outlets, up 7% from 2020; people 55+ were about 72% of the audience — Thursday's multi-network coverage beats the final night from four years ago, but the four-day average is lower.
Patrick Smith / NBC News:
BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to a defective update from CrowdStrike, disrupting TV broadcasters, including Sky News and NBC News — Major carriers, including American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, all issued ground stops Friday morning citing communications issues.
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Associated Press, @george_kurtz, HuffPost, ABC News, @davidgrayrhodes, The Guardian, @matthewkeyslive, NewsBTC, @aidanfitzryan, NPR, @netcapgirl, @vxunderground, @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @troyhunt, @troyhunt, @trungtphan, @skysportsnews, NBC Bay Area, SWAMY WORLD, Politico, The Record, Variety, The Sun, The US Sun and Deadline, more at Techmeme »
Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
AAP: in May, book sales rose 10.9% YoY, after an 18.3% gain in April, and adult fiction digital audio sales rose 24.1% YoY; sales rose 5.5% YoY for January-May — Despite a string of dispiriting developments—including the ongoing restructuring of Hachette Book Group, the collapse …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney announces that Safra Catz, CEO of Oracle, is departing its board of directors after six years — Disney announced that Safra Catz, CEO of Oracle, is departing its board of directors after six years. — Disney and Catz did not provide an explanation for why she stepped down from the Mouse House's board.
Hurubie Meko / New York Times:
A Manhattan judge sets a tentative date for Harvey Weinstein's retrial for November 12, 2024, after Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction was overturned in April — Manhattan prosecutors are proceeding with new charges against the disgraced movie mogul after his previous conviction was overturned.
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Vanity Fair, Associated Press, The Independent, ABC News, BBC, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, Washington Examiner, The US Sun, Reuters, The Wrap, ABC7, Fox News, New York Post and ABC13
Alexandra Canal / Yahoo Finance:
Netflix says India brought in the second-highest net subscriber additions in Q2 and was the third highest-country in revenue growth — Netflix (NFLX) is all in on a country that's been historically difficult for its competitors: India. — The country brought in the second-highest net subscriber additions …
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Seeking Alpha, Barron's Online, WORLD SCREEN, Quartz, The Information, Next TV and Deadline
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Reuters:
Netflix added 8.05M subscribers in Q2, vs. 5M est., as it benefited from its crackdown on password sharing and popular titles like Bridgerton and Baby Reindeer
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Business Insider, New York Post, CNBC, Financial Times, TVNewsCheck, 9to5Mac, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
A study of 14K domains used in the C4, RefinedWeb, and Dolma datasets finds a dramatic drop in content available to train AI models as publishers tighten access — New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available to the collections used to build artificial intelligence.
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