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11:45 AM ET, November 28, 2024

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Meghnad Bose / Columbia Journalism Review:
A profile of the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist of the Year winner, an Afghan woman who works anonymously and covers the plight of women under Taliban rule  —  The winner of this year's Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award.  —  On Monday evening, media figures gathered …
Discussion: Voice of America
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney+, Hulu, Max, Peacock, and Paramount+ offer steep discounts for Black Friday, despite streaming losses; Netflix, Prime Video, and Apple TV+ have no offers  —  Disney+, Hulu, Max, Peacock and Paramount+ are offering steep discounts, even as they struggle to turn a profit in streaming.
Frank Connelly / Bloomberg:
Vivendi says one of its small investors seeks to delay Vivendi's spinoff of Canal+, Havas, and Louis Hachette Group; shareholders were due to vote December 9  —  Vivendi SE said investor CIAM has filed with the Paris Commercial Court to postpone its shareholder meeting scheduled for next month …
Discussion: The Bookseller, Bloomberg and The Times
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
London Standard EIC Dylan Jones steps down two months after relaunching the daily as a weekly newspaper and 18 months after taking on the role  —  Jones will stay on to “write frequently” as editor at large, the company's executive chairman said.  —  Dylan Jones has stepped down as editor …
Associated Press:
A US federal judge dismisses a defamation lawsuit against Fox News by Ray Epps, who said Fox aired conspiracy theories about his January 6 riot involvement  —  A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a defamation lawsuit against Fox News by a former Donald Trump supporter who said he received death threats …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Incoming FCC chairman Brendan Carr's censorial agenda, which is couched in the language of free speech, may be the biggest threat to the 1A in quite a long time  —  When Donald Trump announced that he was appointing current FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr to be the next chair of the FCC, it was no surprise.
John Buckley / Capital Brief:
Sources: a group of Australian media organizations including Seven West, ABC, SBS, and ACM forms an alliance to bargain collectively with AI firms  —  The alliance highlights Australian media companies' urgency in seeking revenue from AI firms using their content to train large language models.
Bloomberg Media:
Mishal Husain, who presented the BBC's Today programme for the past eleven years, plans to leave in 2025 to launch a Bloomberg Weekend Edition interview series  —  Bloomberg News today announced that award-winning broadcaster and journalist Mishal Husain is joining as Editor-at-Large on Bloomberg Weekend Edition.
Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:
OpenAI suspends early access to Sora after ~20 artists leaked access to the tool in protest of the company's treatment of creative professionals as “PR puppets”  —  A group of artists created a webpage allowing anyone to make AI videos using Sora.  They argue the maker of ChatGPT used artists as “PR puppets” without pay.
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
A group published a Hugging Face project that let anyone generate videos using OpenAI's Sora, protesting what it calls the company's duplicity and “art washing”
 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A US judge dismisses a Netflix shareholder lawsuit accusing the company of downplaying the impact of account sharing on subscriber growth
Discussion: The Desk, BGR and Los Angeles Times
Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Walmart launches its first shoppable feature film, Jingle Bell Love, produced by Roku; last year, Walmart produced a shoppable TV series
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Disney hires Sky CFO Karl Holmes to run Disney+ in the EMEA, replacing Luke Bradley-Jones, who left to become president of The Economist earlier in 2024
Discussion: Variety
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Karen Middleton / The Guardian:
Australia's AG updates national secrecy laws so journalists will no longer face prosecution for receiving secret government info even without making it public
 

 
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Bhanvi Satija / Reuters:
Intel appoints former board member and chip industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as its new CEO, effective March 18, and says he will rejoin the board; INTC jumps 10%+

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
By previewing smarter Siri vaporware at WWDC and the iPhone 16 launch, Apple burned a reputation earned over decades for only promising actual working products

Nick Huber / Financial Times:
A look at UK-based startup accelerator Founders Factory, which has invested in 300+ startups; KPMG says UK VC funding fell from $20B in 2023 to $15B in 2024
 
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