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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 35m

SAG-AFTRA announces a new agreement tailored for serialized microdramas, or "verticals", with budgets under $300K that it plans to circulate later this month (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 3h

Newsmax, The Washington Times, and the Washington Examiner say they will not sign the Pentagon's new press restrictions; OANN says it has signed the policy (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 3h

The NYT, WSJ, WaPo, NPR, The Atlantic, Guardian, CNN, and others say they will not sign the Pentagon's new press restrictions ahead of a Tuesday deadline (Erik Wemple/New York Times)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 7h

Politico is using SMS to send news updates that sound "personal and urgent" to a select group of lawmakers, staffers, and lobbyists working at the US Congress (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 8h

Google updates Search to group paid results into a collapsible section with a single, larger "Sponsored" label at the top and a hide button at the bottom (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 9h

WaPo joins the NYT, the Atlantic, and the Guardian US in rejecting the Pentagon's new press restrictions ahead of a Monday deadline; OANN will sign the policy (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 11h

CNN plans a multiplatform initiative called CNN Creators, hoping to attract a younger audience, starting with a 30-minute weekly program on CNN International (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 12h

Apple says Apple TV+ streaming service is being renamed as Apple TV, with "a vibrant new identity" (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 13h

Gavin Newsom signs AB 1043, which requires device makers and app stores to verify user ages; Google and Meta supported the bill while Netflix and MPA opposed it (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 13h

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 56, which requires social media companies to add warning labels on mental health risks for users under 18 in the state (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 15h

The NBA takes full control of NBA TV and the NBA App for the first time since 2008, after ending its partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 17h

A look at visual-effects studio Mofac, which is part of a wider rush in South Korea's film industry to integrate AI as it struggles with weak box office returns (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 18h

President Trump is using mainstream media as props in his show of force, while building a group of friendly influencers and journalists to advance policy goals (Sarah Ellison/Washington Post)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 19h

An interview with Ben Meiselas, who runs the left-leaning US media company MeidasTouch with his brothers Jordan and Brett, on Trump, right-wing media, and more (Steve Rose/The Guardian)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 20h

How modern media consumption is converging toward a continuous flow of episodic video, across streaming providers, podcasts, and social media apps (Derek Thompson)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 1d

Buying WBD would require Paramount to take on WBD's massive debt load of around $35B; Paramount has a market cap of around $19B, while WBD's is above $40B (Wall Street Journal)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 1d

A look at Re:Public, a new nonprofit outlet focusing on US public lands and aiming for 10-12 stories/year, founded by former Outside Magazine EIC Chris Keyes (Neel Dhanesha/Nieman Lab)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 1d

Netflix's Ted Sarandos and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro plan to launch a stop-motion studio for training and research, located at the Gobelins school in Paris (Elsa Keslassy/Variety)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 1d

Sources: WBD has rejected Paramount's ~$20 per share takeover bid for being too low; WBD shares closed at $17.1 on October 10, giving WBD a market cap of $42.3B (Bloomberg)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 2d

A look at Ozone, a publisher alliance for ad sales, launched in the UK in 2018, as it makes a US push, where it's signed WSJ, CNN, the BBC (US), and the NY Post (Digiday)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 2d

How TBPN's daily livestream became the preferred news show of tech insiders, as it taps into the "who's up, who's down" part of Silicon Valley culture (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 2d

Parrot Analytics: movies made up ~50% of streaming revenue across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, and WBD in 2024, up from ~27% in 2022, based on engagement data (Alejandro Rojas/The Hollywood Reporter)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 3d

How right-wing influencers, like Benny Johnson and Nick Sortor, are supplying the Trump administration's narrative around National Guard deployment in Portland (New York Times)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 3d

A producer for Chicago's WGN-TV was roughly detained by Border Patrol agents Friday morning; WGN said Friday evening she had been released with no charges filed (Robert Channick/Chicago Tribune)

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 3d

Sources: Paramount will stop airing five UK MTV channels at the end of 2025 but keep its flagship channel; some other non-US MTV channels are also set to close (Mark Savage/BBC)

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