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Thousands of WGA and SAG-AFTRA members picket NBCUniversal, after union members filed NLRB complaints saying the studio hindered earlier pickets  —  This is Day 95 of the WGA strike and Day 22 of the SAG-AFTRA strike  —  NBCUniversal has been at the center of a number of controversies involving …
Dawn Chmielewski / Reuters:
WGA representatives met with the AMPTP on Friday for the first time since the strike was called in May to discuss whether contract talks can resume
André Beganski / Decrypt:
The New York Times is fighting a gag order imposed on FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried after he shared former lover Caroline Ellison's writings with the outlet  —  The Gray Lady's letter follows a report that landed Bankman-Fried back in court. … The New York Times pushed back on Thursday …
Casey Newton / Platformer:
New laws restricting access to porn circumvent First Amendment protections that prevent the government from deciding what content is “harmful to minors”  —  Anti-speech laws are spreading from states to Congress, and the future of online speech could hang in the balance
Joe Amditis / Center for Cooperative Media:
A look at LocalLens, a completely AI-driven site that generates coverage of local government, whose stated goal is to serve as a starting point for journalists  —  It's not journalism, but does it have a role to play in the information ecosystem?  —  Imagine you're using a metal detector …
Bobby Allyn / NPR:
Background actors describe studios scanning their bodies and worrying over the lack of control of their digital likenesses, a key issue in the SAG-AFTRA strike  —  After four weeks of working as a background actor on the Disney+ series WandaVision during the pandemic, Alexandria Rubalcaba …
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David Sharman / HoldtheFrontPage:
With online page views declining, UK's Reach launches a voluntary redundancy scheme for editorial staff after multiple rounds of cuts in H1 2023  —  A decline in online page views has prompted a regional publisher to launch a voluntary redundancy scheme for editorial staff.
Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
Investigation: Richard Hanania, a Substack writer also published in WaPo, NYT, WSJ, and more, wrote for white supremacist outlets in the 2010s using a pen name  —  Hanania is championed by tech moguls and a U.S. senator, but HuffPost found he used a pen name to become an important figure in the “alt-right.”
Janet Lorin / Bloomberg:
Texas A&M agrees to pay Black journalist Kathleen McElroy $1M to settle legal claims over her botched hiring; the case led to the resignation of A&M's president  —  Texas A&M University agreed to pay a prominent Black professor $1 million in a settlement over her failed hiring that led …
The Conversation:
A comparison of NYT headlines about the Yemen and Ukraine wars finds extensive biases in the scale and tone of coverage, aligning with US foreign policy  —  War entails suffering.  How and how often that suffering is reported on in the U.S., however, is not evenhanded.
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A unique password found in a data breach directory links GB News' Dan Wootton to two online personas that bribed and harassed men to share sexual material  —  Receive our Behind the Headlines email and we'll post a free copy of Byline Times  —  GB News star Dan Wootton twice used …
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Fox Corp defends its effort to renew the license of a Philadelphia TV station, as a group asks the FCC to block renewal due to the legal issues at Fox News
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Apple reports Q3 revenue for its Services segment, which includes Apple TV+ and Apple Music, grew 8.2% YoY to a record $21.2B, driven by 1B+ paid subscriptions
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon Q2: ad revenue up 22% YoY to $10.68B, vs. $10.4B est., subscription revenue up 14% YoY to $9.89B, and North America segment sales up 11% YoY to $82.5B
Martyn Ziegler / The Times:
A look at Premier League soccer's fight against piracy as illegal live streams in the UK decline, with 600K+ blocked last season, and use of IPTV devices rises
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Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
A US judge finds NSO Group liable for exploiting a bug in WhatsApp to spy on 1,400 users and that WhatsApp is entitled to sanctions against NSO

Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI's GPT-5, codenamed Orion, is behind schedule and faces technical hurdles, including high computing costs and limited high-quality training data
 
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