The advertisement titled "Crush" has over a million views on Apple's YouTube channel and was shared by CEO Tim Cook on social media platform X. It shows a variety of creative tools and objects such as a camera, guitar, piano and paint being destroyed by an industrial crusher. - Reuters
"In nine years, the show (Critical Role), hosted on Twitch and YouTube, has become the team’s full-time job, spawning a transmedia kingdom of novels, comic books, animated series and original games, as well as a new membership program for fans launched Thursday." - The Washington Post (MSN)
"The plan would include auctioning off CBS, cable channels like MTV and the Paramount Plus streaming service, said (sources). Paramount Pictures … would be combined with Sony’s (movie studio) business," and the new owners would likely keep Paramount's library of films and TV programs. - The New York Times
This time it's Southern California Public Radio, the entity that combines KPCC and the website LAist. All full- and part-time staffers in the newsroom who work at least 24 hours per week are eligible for the voluntary buyouts. - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
A distributor is legally required to ask for a new rating when it rereleases a movie that was classified before the introduction of the modern ratings in 1982. The B.B.F.C. said that about half of the theatrical releases it rerated in the past two years were mandatory submissions. - The New York Times
"NPR CEO Katherine Maher was a no-show today (at the hearing) but she will 'testify on a date in the near future that works for the Committee and Maher.' … House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), unleashed an array of criticisms in her opening remarks." - Inside Radio
The state economic development authority today approved a partnership with a $1+ billion studio complex including 22 sound stages set to rise in the Bergen Point neighborhood of Bayonne, New Jersey at the site of a former Texaco oil refinery. - Deadline
We found, for example, saying “Scientists believe methane emissions soared to a record in 2021” led readers to view methane levels as more a matter of opinion compared to saying “Scientists know…” - PNAS
We found AdVon had been running a similar operation at the magazine Sports Illustrated, publishing product reviews using bylines of fake writers with fictional biographies and AI-generated profile pictures. - Futurism
"The Writers Guild of Canada and the Canadian Media Producers Association, representing local indie film and television producers, have agreed terms for a new labor contract. … (The terms) will cover rates and workplace conditions for Canadian writers, story editors, and story consultants." - The Hollywood Reporter
ByteDance has said it can’t and won’t sell its U.S. operations by the deadline, leaving litigation as its best hope to maintain its U.S. market. The lawsuit accuses the government of trampling on TikTok’s First Amendment rights—as well as the free-speech rights of millions of Americans. - The Wall Street Journal
"We feel that our reporting is good enough to exist globally and we feel that it's important to add a different perspective than the dominant American perspective on global news, because the global language is English. And as we all know, two people reporting on the same story don't write the same story." - The Media Mix
Cited for his "richly evocative and genre-spanning film criticism that reflects on the contemporary moviegoing experience," Chang worked at the L.A. Times for nearly eight years; this past January he moved to The New Yorker. - Los Angeles Times
“It’s just not hitting like it used to.” I still find some joy on the app. The delight is just less abundant than it was. Something has changed on TikTok. It’s become less serendipitous than before, though I don’t know when. - The Guardian
It’s not because David Zaslav is a grasping media tycoon who made a zillion dollars while trying to tell writers and actors to accept coal for payment and like it. No, it’s actually a sports issue. - The Businesshttps://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-business/pam-grier-comcast/warner-discovery-nba-tv-paramount-merger
