A consultant sues Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, alleging he is owed 'several million dollars' for work he did for the company's $370M Redbox deal (Todd Spangler / Variety)

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Sesame Workshop writers reach a tentative deal with management, narrowly avoiding a strike; the 35 WGA members will vote to ratify the deal in the coming days (Sharon Knolle / The Wrap)

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Nicholas Welker, leader of a white supremacist group who admitted to posting a death threat against a Brooklyn journalist, is sentenced to 44 months in prison (Lola Fadulu / New York Times)

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The New York Times' thriving games business prompts others to try to replicate its success, such as with Hearst's acquisition of Puzzmo, but games coverage lags (@vahn16 / Aftermath)

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[Thread] The California Journalism Protection Act is good for big media and hedge funds like Alden, but not for indie local outlets like the Richland Source (Jay Allred)

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Interviews with over a dozen current and former WAMU staffers and contractors show management's contradictory, unclear messaging about its closure of DCist (Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian)

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Post.News, the news-focused social platform launched in 2022 that offered micropayments to publishers, is shutting down after failing to grow 'fast enough' (Emma Roth / The Verge)

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The USAGM names former Washington Post journalist Michael Abramowitz as the director of VOA, overseeing 48 language services reaching ~354M people weekly (Liam Scott / Voice of America)

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Graydon Carter opens a physical store called Air Mail Newsstand in NYC, as an extension of his digital newsletter Air Mail, selling books, magazines, and more (Ruth La Ferla / New York Times)

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At a town hall, GB News CEO announced job cuts affecting 40 roles, its first major round of cuts after its 2021 launch; GB News had 295 staffers in May 2023 (@bron_maher / Press Gazette)

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Inside the turmoil at UK-based nonprofit newsroom Open Democracy, whose leadership team says it could have been insolvent by June without 40% cost cuts (@bron_maher / Press Gazette)

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Filing: Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav's 2023 compensation package was worth $49.7M, up 26.5% from the year prior, with $23.1M in stock awards (Todd Spangler / Variety)

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RSF: London has become a 'hot spot' of transnational threats against Iranian journalists, including from Iranian government, its proxies, and opposition groups (Megan Specia / New York Times)

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A look at LinkedIn's Collaborative Articles, a collection of over 10M work-related Q&A articles, as many users claim the tips are low-quality and AI-generated (Sharon Goldman / Fortune)

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Internal draft: UK's ICO says Google's Privacy Sandbox falls short and leaves gaps that can be exploited to undermine privacy of users who should be anonymous (Wall Street Journal)

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A deep look at the reasons behind the ongoing strike at The Long Beach Post, including layoffs after staffers voted to form a union (@benburgis / Jacobin)

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Hyundai says it is pausing ads on X, after one ad appeared next to antisemitic and pro-Nazi content; the ad appeared on a user profile that had 55K+ followers (@david_ingram / NBC News)

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Sources: Sony Pictures Entertainment and Apollo discussed a joint all-cash offer for Paramount, which is still in an exclusive negotiation window with Skydance (New York Times)

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Essence magazine's parent, Sundial Media Group, agrees to buy Refinery29 from Vice Media and names former Vice COO Cory Haik as CEO of Refinery29 (Sara Fischer / Axios)

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Netflix won't report subscriber numbers or Average Revenue per Membership starting in Q1 2025, saying time spent is its 'best proxy for customer satisfaction' (Todd Spangler / Variety)

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