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Josh Rubin / Toronto.com:
Major Canadian news organizations, including Torstar, Postmedia, and CBC, sue OpenAI, alleging breach of copyright and terms of use — A broad coalition of Canada's major news organizations, including the Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC …
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Publishers at The Guardian, The Boston Globe, and other outlets report more referral traffic from Bluesky than from X despite fewer followers on the former — The audience editor for Guardian Australia has said that its posts to the new social network Bluesky delivered more referral traffic …
New York Times:
Russia ordered the expulsion of two German journalists on Wednesday after Berlin's local government denied residency permits to two Russian journalists — The German government denied it had taken action against Russia's Channel One office in Berlin but said two Russian journalists no longer had residency permits.
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Ismail Shakil / Reuters:
Canada's Competition Bureau sues Google over alleged anti-competitive conduct in online advertising, seeking Google to sell two of its ad tech tools and more — Canada's Competition Bureau is suing Alphabet's Google over alleged anti-competitive conduct in online advertising, the antitrust watchdog said on Thursday.
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Amy Hawkins / The Guardian:
China sentences journalist Dong Yuyu, an ex-Nieman Fellow whose work has appeared in Chinese editions of the NYT and FT, to seven years in prison for espionage — Dong Yuyu was detained in 2022 after meeting Japanese diplomats named agents of ‘espionage organisation’
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New York Times, Reuters, UPI, Hong Kong Free Press HKFP, The Wire China, Al Jazeera, NPR, Kyodo News+ and Committee to Protect …
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
UK Culture Secretary says the BBC's license fee will rise with inflation until 2027; from April 2025, it will rise £5 to £174.50, bringing in another ~£75M — The BBC license fee will return to rising with inflation again until 2027, as new Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy continues …
Michael Gennaro / Courthouse News Service:
The First Amendment Coalition sued the CA AG and SF City Attorney for allegedly punishing journalists who publish info related to sealed arrest records — The First Amendment Coalition claims that the penal code statute is a blatant violation of the First Amendment.
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Asif Shahzad / Reuters:
Pakistani TV host Matiullah Jan was picked up off the street and charged with terrorism after investigating claims of casualties in a protest march in Islamabad — A Pakistani journalist investigating claims of casualties in a protest march demanding the release of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan …
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Al Jazeera, Committee to Protect …, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio … and New York Times
Ella Creamer / The Guardian:
Writers and publishers criticize Spines, which raised a $16M seed round and charges authors $1,200 to $5,000 to use AI to edit and distribute their books — Publisher Spines will charge authors between $1,200 and $5,000 to have their books proofread, designed and distributed with the help of artificial intelligence
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 — Dylan Jones has stepped down as editor-in-chief of The London Standard two months after relaunching the formerly daily paper as a magazine-style, weekly newspaper.
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 …
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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.
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