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8:10 AM ET, July 15, 2023

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Jessica Nicholson / Billboard:
Radio and music industry trade website All Access plans to cease publishing on August 15, 2023 after 28 years, citing “severe financial headwinds”  —  “We will all miss serving and working with all of you — our readers and clients," said founder/president/publisher Joel Denver in a statement.
The Hollywood Reporter:
SAG-AFTRA and WGA members picketed at two NYC and 10 LA studio sites, with Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery HQs among the bigger targets for crowds  —  Fran Drescher and her 160,000-strong union hit the streets on day one of the SAG-AFTRA strike — and day 74 of the WGA strike.
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Andrew Webster / The Verge:
SAG-AFTRA: the AMPTP's AI proposal lets studios scan a background actor to create a digital likeness, for a day's pay, for perpetual use without consent or pay
Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
SAG-AFTRA members officially decide to strike on July 14, after failed negotiations with the AMPTP, joining 11,000+ already striking film and television writers
Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review:
Study: ChatGPT helped writers complete tasks, such as writing press releases or reports, 40% faster and produce work that assessors scored 18% higher in quality  —  People who use ChatGPT to help with writing tasks are more productive and produce higher-quality work than those who don't, a study found.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Daily Caller co-founders Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel seek to raise hundreds of millions for a media company anchored by Carlson's free Twitter videos  —  Former Fox News host and associate look to raise funds for new venture that could use Twitter as its backbone
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
Sources: at an all-hands meeting, NYT staffers expressed anger at the way its sports desk was cut and raised concerns over differing standards at The Athletic  —  A routine all-company meeting turned tense as New York Times employees pressed management on its decision to disband the sports section …
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Creator monetization platform Fanhouse agrees to sell to rival Passes, which only launched in December 2022, but some creators are apprehensive about the merger  —  The creator monetization platform Fanhouse announced yesterday that it was acquired by Passes, a similar startup that only launched in beta in December.
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Justin Smith: Semafor is on track for a first profitable month and “might even” see a profitable quarter, having allocated nearly 90% of its resources to the US  —  Semafor claims to have an audience of about four or five million people per month so far.
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Former Netflix VP Original Content Cindy Holland joins Elisabeth Murdoch and Jane Featherstone's production company Sister as its global CEO  —  Former Netflix TV boss Cindy Holland has joined Elisabeth Murdoch and Jane Featherstone's Sister as Global CEO.  —  Holland, who spent nearly …
Wall Street Journal:
A look at Disney's challenges, some of which are rooted in Bob Iger's previous decisions as CEO, including acquiring Fox assets and entering the streaming race  —  Eight months after returning as Disney's CEO, he is straining to put out fire after fire, including streaming losses, an activist investor and TV woes
 
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The Charlotte Observer:
Rolfe Neill, the publisher of The Charlotte Observer from 1975 until 1997 and a member of a group of business leaders who shaped Charlotte's growth, dies at 90
Reuters:
Sources and a doc: India told streaming services like Netflix and Disney to use an independent panel to review content for obscenity and violence before release
New York Times:
A look at Minyoung Kim's work as Netflix's VP of content in Asia: making Netflix feel less foreign, keeping shows authentically local, and “green-light rigor”
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Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
Twitter's creators program makes its first payouts, including to far-right influencers like Andrew Tate, who made over $20K, Ian Miles Cheong, and Benny Johnson
Bloomberg:
Sources: TPG-backed talent firm Creative Artists Agency is in advanced talks to sell a majority stake to billionaire François-Henri Pinault at a $7B+ valuation
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
In a four-year deal with Raycom, Nexstar's The CW acquires the exclusive broadcast rights to 50 ACC football and basketball games per season, starting this fall
 

 
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Tim Nudd / Ad Age:
Apple apologizes for the “Crush” iPad Pro ad and scraps plans to run it on TV; Apple's VP of marketing communications Tor Myhren says “we missed the mark”

Bloomberg:
Microsoft plans to launch its mobile game store in July on the web, first with its own games including Candy Crush Saga, and later open it to other publishers

Anna Tong / Reuters:
Sources: OpenAI plans to announce its AI-powered search product on May 13
 
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