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New York Magazine says the publication and Olivia Nuzzi agreed to part ways, and an independent probe found no inaccuracies or evidence of bias in Nuzzi's work — Last month, the magazine enlisted the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine to review Olivia Nuzzi's work during the 2024 campaign.
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Clint Rainey / Fast Company:
Chick-fil-A announces Chick-fil-A Play, an app with family-focused original animated shows, scripted podcasts, games, e-books, and more, launching November 18 — What is Chick-fil-A Play? Inside the food chain's surprisingly logical next move. — Since late last year …
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Kerry Flynn / Axios:
Sources: G/O Media has agreed to sell Jalopnik, a news and opinion site about car culture and one of its few remaining brands, to Static Media — Exit Content Preview … It acquired food site The Takeout from G/O Media back in March. — Private equity firm Novacap acquired Static in 2023.
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Disney plans to name CEO Bob Iger's successor in early 2026, and says ex-Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman will replace Mark Parker as chairman in January 2025 — Disney has tapped James Gorman to replace Mark Parker as the company's next chairman, effective in January, as the media giant lays …
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Blade Runner 2049's producer sues Musk, Tesla, and WBD for allegedly using AI to create imagery close to the film to promote Cybercab, despite a denied request — Alcon Entertainment, the Hollywood company behind “Blade Runner 2049,” said it had denied a request to use images from the movie but that Mr. Musk did so anyway.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Dow Jones and New York Post sue AI startup Perplexity for alleged copyright infringement and say it hasn't replied to a July 2024 letter about copyright issues — News Corp CEO accuses Perplexity of ‘content kleptocracy’ … “Perplexity is a generative artificial intelligence company …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Cooper Hefner, the son of Hugh Hefner, makes a $100M all-cash offer to acquire Playboy Enterprises' IP and brand assets from its parent company PLBY Group — The son of the late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is seeking to acquire the rights to the Playboy brand from its current owner PLBY Group.
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Javed Farooqui / The Economic Times:
Sources: after Star India and Viacom18's merger, Reliance Industries plans to retain Disney+ Hotstar as the sole streaming platform, absorbing JioCinema — Reliance Industries is set to retain Disney+ Hotstar as its primary streaming platform post-merger with Star India and Viacom18 …
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Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine:
Jeff Zucker, Hamish McKenzie, Bari Weiss, and 54 of the most powerful people in media discuss the future of media, return of print, Big Tech, and more — On and off the record with: — Imran Amed, founder and editor-in-chief, The Business of Fashion. Willa Bennett, editor-in-chief, Cosmopolitan and Seventeen.
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Meta is testing facial recognition to combat celebrity scam ads and to help enable faster recovery of compromised Facebook and Instagram accounts — Meta is expanding tests of facial recognition as an anti-scam measure to combat celebrity scam ads and more broadly, the Facebook owner announced Monday.
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Kyle Khan-Mullins / Forbes:
Steve Ballmer spent $40M+ this election year on his USAFacts site, including to make “Just The Facts” YouTube videos that also ran on Fox News and NewsNation — Why the world's tenth-richest person has put so much money into a nonpartisan website—and doubled the group's budget this year.
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
A look at Netflix's movie strategy, with Dan Lin, who took over as film chairman in April 2024, pushing for quality in-house projects and being more selective — Netflix is trying to make better movies. It starts with making less and spending less. — Ted Sarandos is tired of answering questions about movie theaters.
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