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The Hollywood Reporter:
Charities say food insecurity is rising in Hollywood as strikes linger, so nonprofits are boosting food and financial aid for writers, actors, and support staff — As the labor impasse continues, charities say growing numbers of the industry's most vulnerable are unable to feed themselves …
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Deadline, Fortune, Vanity Fair and Bloomberg
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Deadline:
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 …
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Deadline, Forbes, @slack2thefuture, @sonyasteele@mastodon.social, Fans for the WGA, The Wrap and Los Angeles Times
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
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CBS News, The Hollywood Reporter, Fortune, Los Angeles Times, IGN, Bloomberg, @genemaddaus, @genemaddaus, Puck, The Wrap, Deadline and Variety
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 …
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ABC News, Reuters, Cointelegraph, @elonmusk, @zguz, @zguz, CryptoSlate, @decryptmedia, The New York Times Company, US Department of Justice, CoinDesk, @zguz and CourtListener
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 …
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@jsamditis, @jozsefmeszaros.bsky.social, @spsullivan, @_jeffpierce, @spsullivan, @ndiakopoulos and Politico
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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The A.V. Club, Screen Rant, ComingSoon.net, Comic Book, @kagan@wandering.shop, @phillewis.bsky.social, @baldur@toot.cafe, IGN, SlashFilm, @WarnerCrocker@mastodon.social, @azalben.bsky.social, @black_intellect@mstdn.social, @labuzamovies.bsky.social, @JoParkerBear@universeodon.com and @lilithsaintcrow …, more at Techmeme »
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: private equity firm KKR is in advanced talks to acquire Simon & Schuster from Paramount Global for around $1.65B — Book publisher was put up for sale for the second time after a judge blocked a previous deal with Penguin Random House — Private-equity firm KKR is in advanced talks …
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Reuters, Financial Times, New York Times, The Wrap, Publishers Weekly, 24/7 Wall St. and The Bookseller, more at Techmeme »
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.”
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Mediaite, @letsgomathias, @david_j_roth, @letsgomathias, @letsgomathias, @david_j_roth, @letsgomathias, @letsgomathias, @letsgomathias, @paulstewartii, @paulstewartii, @paulstewartii, @paulstewartii, @katzonearth, @tomscocca.bsky.social, @philipncohen@mastodon.social, @chadloder.bsky.social, @timcarvell.bsky.social, @mmasnick.bsky.social, @timnitGebru@dair …, @tomscocca.bsky.social, @michellegoldberg.bsky.social, @lolgop.bsky.social, @sethcotlar.bsky.social, @ddayen.bsky.social, @mmasnick.bsky.social, @charliearchy@mstdn.social, @jacobtlevy.bsky.social, @dandrezner.bsky.social, @stevesilberman@newsie.social, @strangestrings.bsky.social, @KimPerales@toad.social, @alexwild@mastodon.online, @acdha@thepit.social and @mattsheffield@mastodon.social
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 …
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The Texas A&M …, New York Times, The Daily Beast, Houston Public Media, The Texas Tribune, National Review, @brizzyc, The Hill, @sdkstl, @bgrueskin, @donmoyn, @donmoyn, @donmoyn, @froomkin, @jillgeisler, @mcgeereports, @andrewczhang, @markjacob16, @blackamazon, @jayrosen_nyu, @jayrosen_nyu, @jayrosen_nyu, @shortformernie, @jswatz, @jswatz, @michaelewebber, @jswatz, @bgrueskin, The Wrap, Associated Press and Chron
Canadian Association of Broadcasters:
North American broadcasters say Meta's news ban in Canada is “monopolistic” and urge lawmakers to back rules enabling publisher negotiations with tech platforms — In response to Meta blocking news on Facebook and Instagram for Canadian users after the passage of Canada's Online News Act …
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New York Times, NBC News, Inside Radio, Next TV, Radio & Television … and RADIO ONLINE
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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@bmarchetich, @caitoz, @caitoz, @markamesexiled and @caitoz
Byline Times:
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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@kuangeleven, @peterjukes, @fascinatorfun, @hardeep_matharu, @gcluley@mastodon.green and Press Gazette
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