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Ahead of a trial of two female journalists who covered Mahsa Amini's death, Iran's reporters describe beatings and threats for covering protests in the country — Ahead of a trial of journalists who covered the death of Mahsa Jina Amini, reporters describe beatings and threats as government agents try to wipe out independent media
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@nazaninnour, The Times of Israel, @chrisvanhollen, @richardbranson, The Hill and Reuters

Meta says it would remove news content in California from its platforms if the state government passes a proposed law forcing tech companies to pay publishers — Facebook parent Meta Platforms (META.O) said on Wednesday it would remove news content in its home state of California …

OPEC bars Reuters, Bloomberg, and The Wall Street Journal from its meeting this weekend; sources: the decision was instigated by Saudi Arabia's energy minister — Reuters, Bloomberg and Dow Jones denied invites in decision driven by Saudi Arabia's energy minister
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Bloomberg, @big_orrin, @carlquintanilla, @energzdeconomy, @kanthan2030, @jabrimd, @energy_blogger, @sohaibab9, @dionnissenbaum, @zerohedge, @rory_johnston and @energypeddler

Sources: ex-NFL punter Pat McAfee's ESPN contract is for five years and worth ~$85M; ESPN gets 230 shows per year that the network can sell advertising against — Pat McAfee's deal with ESPN is for five years and around $85 million, The Post has learned. — With the contract …
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@kwikwarren, @nickthepicker, @el_budget, The Big Lead, @_willcompton, Awful Announcing, @wadeplem, @garrettsprints and Fox News

Studios notified authors whose books are being turned into movies and TV shows that they are putting book adaptation deals on hold until the WGA strike ends — Studios from Netflix to Amazon put book-adaptation deals on hold amid writers' strike — Joshua Ferris thought two of the books …
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Deadline, @bysarahkrouse and The Ringer

Sinclair's Diamond Sports, in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, lets its broadcast rights to the San Diego Padres expire; temporary free streams on the MLB app are likely — Temporary free streams on the MLB app are likely, while both direct-to-consumer and traditional cable options are pursued

After a fake image of an “explosion” near the Pentagon went viral, Twitter adds Community Notes to images, set to appear on “recent and future matching images” — Twitter is expanding its crowdsourced fact-checking program to include images, shortly …
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MediaPost, The Drum, Mashable, @communitynotes, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, MIT Technology Review, @communitynotes and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

Parrot: global demand for films and TV shows in Asian languages reached a 25% share in Q1 2023, up from ~15% in Q1 2020, driven by Chinese and Japanese content — WATCH NOW — Netflix is investing $2.5 billion to make Korean shows, says VP of Korean content
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The Wrap, NBC News and WORLD SCREEN

The UK jails five men who sold a £10 per month subscription to illegally stream English Premier League games, generating over £7M from 50K subscribers — Five men who illegally streamed Premier League football matches to tens of thousands of people have been jailed.

Q&A with the co-founders of Good Tape, a new biannual print magazine that aims to feature a mix of journalism and cultural criticism about audio storytelling — This is Hot Pod, The Verge's newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. … Hope everyone is well rested after the holiday weekend.
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The Information and Columbia Journalism Review, more at Techmeme »

WAN-IFRA survey of 101 editors, journalists, or other newsroom staff: 49% say their newsroom is actively working with generative AI, mostly for text creation — The WAN-IFRA survey indicated it is management, rather than individual journalists, driving adoption.
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@pressgazette, @jjaron, @eliothiggins, @pressgazette, @benfenton, @tom___scott and What's New in Publishing

A look at Sino Monthly, a Chinese-language magazine that costs $1.25 per issue and has become a staple for New Jersey's Chinese community — EDISON, N.J. - Bundles of free newspapers are stacked by the doors of Chinese supermarkets in New Jersey. Plastered with brightly colored ads …
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@sarahstonbely and @niemanlab