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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
In an email, the WGA says AMPTP's August 11 proposal failed to sufficiently protect writers and the studio CEOs meeting was an attempt to make the WGA “cave” — - TV Talk Podcast: Strike-Delayed Emmys Risk Getting Lost In Awards-Show Pileup & That's A Damn Shame
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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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Washington Post:
Fox News staff and Trump advisers detail how Tucker Carlson's pre-recorded interview came about; Trump had initially wanted to stream the show on Truth Social — The on-again, off-again partnership found mutual benefit in a pre-recorded interview to air during the first Republican presidential debate
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Yahoo acquires CommonStock, a social platform launched in 2020 for retail investors to share insights based on information linked to their brokerage accounts — Yahoo has acquired CommonStock, a social platform designed for retail investors to share insights based on information linked directly …
Clare Malone / New Yorker:
A profile of WBD CEO David Zaslav after the company's rocky first year, as some doubt if he is up to the task of building a new entertainment industry power — The C.E.O. of a huge conglomerate takes on an entertainment business in turmoil. — In 1941, a couple from New York bought …
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
We Work founder Adam Neumann seeks a £25,000 donation to charity from The Spectator's US edition over an alleged defamatory story, which has since been amended — Neumann's lawyers say he was defamed by a report that he “defrauded” investors. — We Work founder Adam Neumann is seeking …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify introduces new podcaster tools, including customized pages, new impression analytics, preview editing controls, and a dashboard for Megaphone publishers — Following Apple's announcement of podcast creator tools for subscriptions on Monday, Spotify today also introduced …
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Jacob Granger / Journalism.co.uk:
A look at the New Statesman's podcast commercial strategy: ~30% of the revenue comes from podcast host Acast and the rest from in-house ads and branded content — 70 per cent of podcasting revenue is coming from bespoke deals with clients. Branded content is emerging as the space to watch
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Rebecca Sun / Hollywood Reporter:
Rotten Tomatoes expands its critics outreach program to support LGBTQ and other groups, and says it added 1000+ critics and gave $600K+ in grants in five years — The review platform has linked up with GALECA, Gold House and the National Association of Black Journalists as its donations …
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Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
London-based ticketing company Dice raised $65M led by MUSIC, taking its total funding to $200M+; Dice expects to 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 Discovery Feed to select users, first with creators' horizontal clips and, “as the feed evolves”, vertical clips — Twitch is the latest tech company to try a TikTok-like way to browse content. The company is experimenting with a feature …
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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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