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Meghnad Bose / Columbia Journalism Review:
A profile of the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist of the Year winner, an Afghan woman who works anonymously and covers the plight of women under Taliban rule — The winner of this year's Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award. — On Monday evening, media figures gathered …
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Voice of America and Reuters
Frank Connelly / Bloomberg:
Vivendi says one of its small investors seeks to delay Vivendi's spinoff of Canal+, Havas, and Louis Hachette Group; shareholders were due to vote December 9 — Vivendi SE said investor CIAM has filed with the Paris Commercial Court to postpone its shareholder meeting scheduled for next month …
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The Bookseller, Bloomberg and The Times
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney+, Hulu, Max, Peacock, and Paramount+ offer steep discounts for Black Friday, despite streaming losses; Netflix, Prime Video, and Apple TV+ have no offers — Disney+, Hulu, Max, Peacock and Paramount+ are offering steep discounts, even as they struggle to turn a profit in streaming.
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TVNewsCheck, Streaming Better, Polygon, The Verge and ABC13
Daniel Kaplan / Awful Announcing:
The US DOJ and 17 state attorneys general file briefs for Fubo and against Venu Sports, which is trying to get an injunction lifted that blocked Venu's launch — Fubo, Venu Sports logos. — The Department of Justice came out strongly in support of FuboTV in its battle against Venu …
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Reuters, TVNewsCheck, Sportico, Cord Cutters News, The Desk and Sportico
Associated Press:
A US federal judge dismisses a defamation lawsuit against Fox News by Ray Epps, who said Fox aired conspiracy theories about his January 6 riot involvement — A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a defamation lawsuit against Fox News by a former Donald Trump supporter who said he received death threats …
Bloomberg Media:
Mishal Husain, who presented the BBC's Today programme for the past eleven years, plans to leave in 2025 to launch a Bloomberg Weekend Edition interview series — Bloomberg News today announced that award-winning broadcaster and journalist Mishal Husain is joining as Editor-at-Large on Bloomberg Weekend Edition.
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Deadline, BBC, @tom_watson, @mishalhusain, The Sun, Penny Crook on LinkedIn, @danielthomasldn, @davidmmerritt, @chrisckmedia, @marklowen, @cloudsdm, @omrgriffiths, @olibarrett, @faisalislam, @darshna.bsky.social, David Merritt on LinkedIn, The Independent, Talking Biz News, The Mirror, Victoria Wakely on LinkedIn, @manori-r.bsky.social, @felicityhannah.bsky.social, GB News, Daily Star, The Guardian, @davelee.me and The Mirror
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Hearst CEO Steve Swartz says 50%+ of Hearst's profits will come from B2B products in 2024; Hearst has spent $14B on B2B acquisitions over the past decade — - That's up from 13% in 2013. — Swartz credits the company's B2B (business-to-business) investments for helping the company grow amid …
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Tom Lowry on LinkedIn, Paul Luthringer on LinkedIn and Columbia Journalism Review
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Incoming FCC chairman Brendan Carr's censorial agenda, which is couched in the language of free speech, may be the biggest threat to the 1A in quite a long time — When Donald Trump announced that he was appointing current FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr to be the next chair of the FCC, it was no surprise.
Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:
OpenAI suspends early access to Sora after ~20 artists leaked access to the tool in protest of the company's treatment of creative professionals as “PR puppets” — A group of artists created a webpage allowing anyone to make AI videos using Sora. They argue the maker of ChatGPT used artists as “PR puppets” without pay.
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AV Club, Reclaim The Net, @tsimonite, Ars Technica, The Wrap, Entrepreneur, @carnage4life@mas.to, @justinhendrix.bsky.social, Variety and Tom's Guide
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
A group published a Hugging Face project that let anyone generate videos using OpenAI's Sora, protesting what it calls the company's duplicity and “art washing”
A group published a Hugging Face project that let anyone generate videos using OpenAI's Sora, protesting what it calls the company's duplicity and “art washing”
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Digital Music News, Futurism, Hugging Face, Deadline, Quartz, The Verge, @ehuanglu, @jakehartnell, @rowancheung, @kimmonismus, @koltregaskes, @legit_rumors, PCMag, WinBuzzer, Crypto Briefing, The Decoder, Gizmodo, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, BGR, Digital Trends, news.ycombinator.com, r/OpenAI and r/singularity
John Buckley / Capital Brief:
Sources: a group of Australian media organizations including Seven West, ABC, SBS, and ACM forms an alliance to bargain collectively with AI firms — The alliance highlights Australian media companies' urgency in seeking revenue from AI firms using their content to train large language models.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Spotify will no longer allow developers building new third-party apps with its Web API to access several features, such as song and artist recommendations — Spotify will no longer allow developers building third-party apps with its Web API to access several features within the music streaming platform …
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A US judge dismisses a Netflix shareholder lawsuit accusing the company of downplaying the impact of account sharing on subscriber growth — Netflix (NFLX.O) won the dismissal on Tuesday of a shareholder lawsuit accusing the streaming company of downplaying the impact on subscriber growth …
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The Desk, BGR and Los Angeles Times
Voice of America:
A Russian court sentences journalist Nika Novak, who has been a freelance reporter at RFE/RL, to four years in prison for her work with foreign media outlets — In a closed-door trial Tuesday, a Russian court sentenced a journalist to four years in prison for her work with foreign media outlets.
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USAGM, Committee to Protect … and Associated Press