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Chris Moody / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the journalists who found new perspectives after leaving the US media hubs of New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC, for smaller cities and towns — As a teenager growing up in a rural Georgia town in the early 2000s, Alison Miller counted the days until she could move away for good.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney pulls ABC, ESPN, and other channels from DirecTV in a major carriage dispute, a year after a dispute with Charter Spectrum led to channels going dark — Disney previously saw its channels go dark a year ago in a dispute with Charter Spectrum. — Disney finds itself at the center …
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Margaret Sullivan / American Crisis:
The NYT's article on Trump's and Harris' housing crisis policies is a particularly ugly example of the mainstream media's continued use of false equivalence — The mainstream media is still getting it wrong about Trump — I once asked Jill Abramson, the former top editor of the New York Times …
John Rogers / Associated Press:
Linda Deutsch, a trial reporter for the AP who covered Charles Manson, OJ Simpson, and other criminal and civil trials, died on September 1 at age 80 — Linda Deutsch, a special correspondent for The Associated Press who for nearly 50 years wrote glittering first drafts of history …
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Wall Street Journal:
How Netflix is trying to improve dubbing and translations of non-English content, particularly South Korean reality TV shows, to drive international viewership — Using South Korea as a testing ground, the streaming giant offers culture classes to voice actors to nail the nuances of translation
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Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
The organization that runs National Novel Writing Month faces criticism after saying “the categorical condemnation of AI has classist and ableist undertones” — The organization that runs National Novel Writing Month, a November challenge to write 50,000 words, said …
Taylor Lorenz / Taylor Lorenz's Newsletter:
Music labels and entertainment PR agencies scramble to assess Brazil's X ban, which could impact talent fandoms that are heavily supported by “stan” accounts — Brazil blocking X could deal a fatal blow to stan twitter — Last night, dozens of major celebrity and pop culture stan accounts …
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New York Times:
How Brazil's experiment fighting fake news during the 2022 elections, giving a justice broad power to order social networks to remove content, led to the X ban — To combat disinformation, Brazil gave one judge broad power to police the internet. Now, after he blocked X, some are wondering whether that was a good idea.
Associated Press:
Brazil blocks X, following an order from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
California's Senate passes AB 1836, which requires heirs' consent to use dead performers' likenesses for digital replicas; the bill now goes to the governor — The California state Senate has passed a law that requires consent for the use of dead performers' likenesses for AI-created digital replicas.
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Glen Allsopp / Detailed:
A look at websites dominating Google's Top Stories search result feature in 2024: the top 10 media brands, led by Gannett, are behind 284 of the top 1,000 sites — In an analysis of ~45 million keywords in which Google displayed their Top Stories SERP feature, the 1,000 most prominent domains accounted for 97.3% of all listings.
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@glenngabe and @viperchill
Amanda Holpuch / New York Times:
A New Hampshire man is sentenced to 27 months in prison for harassing New Hampshire Public Radio journalists, including by vandalizing their homes — Tucker Cockerline was part of a group that prosecutors said vandalized the homes of a New Hampshire Public Radio reporter, her editor and her parents.
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Media Nation
Wall Street Journal:
Big YouTube shows including Hot Ones and Good Mythical Morning attract large audiences but aren't yet getting Primetime Emmy nominations and ensuing ad revenue — ‘Hot Ones,’ ‘Chicken Shop Date’ and ‘Good Mythical Morning’ draw big audiences but aren't getting the kind of ad dollars and accolades TV shows do
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