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12:45 PM ET, October 3, 2023

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Ellie Rushing / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Police say freelance journalist Josh Kruger was shot and killed inside his Philadelphia home at age 39; Kruger wrote for The Philadelphia Inquirer and others  —  A Philadelphia journalist was shot and killed inside his Point Breeze home overnight, police said, after a person with a gun entered …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK's Independent Publishers Alliance urges members to block crawling access for OpenAI and Google, as OpenAI removes ChatGPT's September 2021 training cut-off  —  Independent Publishers Alliance urges members to block GPTBot and Google Bard crawler ASAP.  —  ChatGPT's threat …
Discussion: The Keyword
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Paris Hilton and her company 11:11 Media sign a partnership with X to create four original video content programs per year to promote X's Live Shopping product  —  Paris Hilton is getting her X on.  —  The influencer and entrepreneur — who has 16.6 million followers on X …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Netflix plans to raise the price of its ad-free service a few months after the SAG-AFTRA strike ends, likely starting with the US and Canada  —  Company to become latest streamer to lift fees; Disney weighs launching new live-sports tier abroad  —  plans to raise the price …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Memo: Meta VP of Media Partnerships Campbell Brown says she's stepping down from the role in the fall but staying as a consultant, as Meta backs away from news  —  Campbell Brown, the veteran TV anchor who led Meta's foray into news, is leaving the company, according to an internal note obtained by Axios.
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta pitched a plan to EU regulators to charge European users a subscription fee to use Facebook and Instagram without ads starting at €10 per month  —  European users would have option to pay fee or agree to personalized ads, according to company's pitch to regulators
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Wattpad replaces its Paid Stories paywall with a freemium tier letting users read some chapters free and buy others; Premium+ subscribers get two stories/month  —  After launching its “Paid Stories” program in 2019, the social storytelling platform Wattpad is now replacing it with a new freemium model called …
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Jon Lafayette / Next TV:
Clix, a tech company aiming to help viewers find streaming shows to watch, launches a streaming guide that uses AI and expert recommendation to find shows  —  Adds executives Jim Anderson, Hassan Wharton-Ali  —  Clix, a technology company aiming to help viewers find streaming shows to watch …
Discussion: Axios
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
While Adobe, Getty Images, Stability AI, and YouTube have pledged to share some generative AI profits with creators, none have shared specific payout amounts  —  As tech companies begin to monetize generative AI, the creators on whose work it is trained are asking for their fair share.
Associated Press:
The police chief who led the raid on the Marion County Record resigns, just days after he was suspended from his post by the mayor of Marion, Kansas  —  The police chief who led an August raid on a small weekly newspaper in central Kansas resigned Monday, just days after he was suspended …
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
TikTok confirms the company is running a limited-scale test of an ad-free subscription plan, but only says the market is not the US and does not share the price
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: Ted Sarandos, David Zaslav, Bob Iger, and Donna Langley are attending October 2's negotiating session at SAG-AFTRA's HQ, raising hopes for a quick deal
Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Philadelphia Inquirer launches a seven-figure ad campaign aimed at millennials; all five major Philadelphia sports teams agreed for their logos to be used
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Jeff Zucker acquires a minority stake in newsletter startup Front Office Sports; source: the deal values the startup at ~$40M, up from $25M at the end of 2021
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Reuters:
Vertex, a SPAC backed by Singapore's Temasek, plans to acquire live streaming service 17LIVE for ~$676M; 17LIVE had revenue of $363.7M in 2022 and is profitable
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Laura Wagner / Washington Post:
A profile of More Perfect Union, a nonprofit labor-advocacy publication with a $5.5M annual budget, 28 employees, and a video-first approach on social media
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Q&A with YouTube Chief Business Officer Mary Ellen Coe on NFL Sunday Ticket “exceeding expectations”, Multiview interest, the Charter-Disney dispute, and more
Discussion: The Desk
New York Times:
The number of fact-checking sites has declined worldwide, as social media platforms reduce disinformation efforts and false AI content keeps fact-checkers busy
Carly Thomas / The Hollywood Reporter:
California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoes a WGA- and SAG-AFTRA-backed bill that would have given unemployment benefits to striking workers like writers and actors
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Exploring the scaling challenges of transformer-based LLMs in efficiently processing large amounts of text, as well as potential solutions, such as RAG systems
 
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