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TikTok may lose Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny and more as licensing dispute grows
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Universal Music Group Poised to Stop Licensing Music to TikTok
Universal’s current contract with the social-media app is set to expire Wednesday, and no new agreement has been reached.
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Justin Timberlake’s Air of Desperation
As a musical guest on SNL, the star’s changed status in the pop-cultural universe was hard to ignore.
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LA Times fires 115 journalists in ‘HR zoom webinar’ following union protests
Young journalists of color ‘disproportionately affected’, with many Black, Asian American and Latino staffers laid off, Times guild says
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Journalists of color hit hard in seismic L.A. Times layoffs
“The company has reneged on its promises to diversify its ranks since young journalists of color have been disproportionately affected,” the newspaper’s union says.
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‘I wasn’t murdered. I’m still alive’: Chris Cuomo isn’t done with TV
Cuomo, fired by CNN in 2021, is now the top-rated host on NewsNation. Despite a much smaller audience with the upstart network, he is still making waves.
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Netflix Film Chief Scott Stuber Will Leave to Start New Company
Netflix will now look for a new head of its movie business
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Billionaires Wanted to Save the News Industry. They’re Losing a Fortune.
Time magazine, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times — owned by Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos, and Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong — are still losing money.
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CNN chief Mark Thompson outlines his plan to transform the network for the future: ‘It’s time for a revolution’
“We need to recapture some of the swagger and innovation of the early CNN,” Thompson wrote
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Congrats, and Goodbye, to Peak TV
The Emmys on Monday night felt in many ways like a bookend to one of the defining features of the streaming era: a never-ending supply of new programming.
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Host blasts star’s ‘insane’ Epstein accusation
Late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel has gone scorched earth after NFL star Aaron Rodgers’ hinted the comedian would appear in the Epstein documents.
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Chappelle lashed over trans joke in Netflix hit
Dave Chappelle did exactly what he said he wouldn’t do in his new Netflix special: make fun of trans people. Critics have lashed the comedian over the material.
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ESPN apologizes for showing video of woman flashing breast during Sugar Bowl
ESPN has apologized for a video clip of a woman baring her breast that was shown during the broadcast of the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans
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The New York Times Has an Edge in Suit Against OpenAI
To offer useful information, ChatGPT and other large language models need humans to report, vet and publish new facts. Who is going to pay for that?
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Amazon Prime Video streaming content to include ‘limited advertisements’
Customers will be given option to pay more for ad-free service in UK, Germany and US from early next year
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