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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
AMPTP releases details of the contract offered to the WGA on August 11, after WGA representatives met with Hollywood CEOs including Bob Iger on August 22 — WGA leaders met face-to-face with key CEOs on Tuesday evening as executives sought to pitch the guild on their most recent contract offer …
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Sean Piccoli / Deadline:
SAG-AFTRA and WGA members and sympathizers picketed outside of Amazon's and HBO's offices in NYC on August 22 as the Hollywood strikes continue — - Dispatches From The Picket Lines: Latine Writers & Actors In L.A. & NYC; ‘Roseanne’ And ‘The Conners’ Teams Reunite At Radford
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
An analysis of Google's policy dilemma as YouTube and UMG explore AI licensing, Google scrapes the web to train its AI, and lawsuits could upend copyright law — Google has made clear it is going to use the open web to inform and create anything it wants, and nothing can get in its way.
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Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
London-based ticketing company Dice raised $65M from MUSIC and others to expand in Europe and the US; the app will serve 55K+ artists and 10K+ venues in 2023 — Kobalt Music founder Willard Ahdritz's Ahdritz Holding LLC, Exor Ventures and Mirabaud Lifestyle Fund also participated in the funding round.
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Twitch rolls out an experimental TikTok-like vertical “discovery feed” to select users, first with horizontal clips and, “as the feed evolves”, vertical clips — Twitch is the latest tech company to try a TikTok-like way to browse content.
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Three Motherboard alumni and former EIC Jason Koebler launch 404 Media to cover tech, hacking, sex work, and more; subscriptions are $10/month or $100/year — They are joining a recent boom of publications owned and operated by the reporters and editors themselves.
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Fandom CEO Perkins Miller on the wiki hosting service's origin as Wikipedia's sister company, Pottermore, acquiring TV Guide, ads, FanDNA, AI, and more — Today, I'm talking with Perkins Miller. He's the CEO of Fandom, which runs thousands of wikis for everything from Disney …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sports podcasting network Blue Wire opens a community fundraising round, seeking $1M+ at a $26M valuation; in 2022, Blue Wire had $8M in revenue and a $5M loss — Blue Wire, a sports podcast company founded in 2018, will open up a community fundraising round on Tuesday …
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RADIO ONLINE, Awful Announcing, Barrett Media and Front Office Sports
Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
Whether Wirecutter has become less reliable is hard to say given the rise of copycats, changes to the internet since 2011, and falling trust in institutions — Longtime fans have turned on the product-recommendation website. An evolving internet may be to blame.
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@nxthompson, @yappelbaum, @cwarzel, @matthewkassel, @lrhodes@merveilles.town, @bradbarrish@mastodon.social and Longreads
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
TikTok launches Search Ads Toggle, which lets brands target users with ads in search and add “Negative Keywords” so their ads don't appear beside some queries — TikTok announced today it's adding a new place for advertisers to reach its audience: within the search results page.
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Turkey's media regulator threatens to block VOA Türkçe's website in the country if the digital outlet doesn't apply for a broadcasting license within 72 hours — The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) gave VOA Türkçe 72 hours to make an application for a license.
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Klaus Lauer / Reuters:
Axel Springer settles with Julian Reichelt, the former Bild EIC that the publisher had sued for sharing internal company data with newspaper Berliner Zeitung — German publishing magnate Axel Springer has agreed to an out-of-court settlement in a civil lawsuit against Julian Reichelt …
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