Lionsgate, the entertainment company behind The Hunger Games and Twilight, plans to start using generative artificial intelligence in the creation of its new movies and TV shows, a sign of the emerging technology’s advance in Hollywood. (WSJ) Under the arrangement, AI video startup Runway will use Lionsgate’s vast catalog of content to train an AI…Read More
What a difference a historic presidential debate makes. After a sleepy post-Labor Day week, the big three cable networks saw double-digit week-to-week and year-to-year gains courtesy of the Sept. 10 matchup between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. (TVNewser) It was a slender victory–but a victory nonetheless–for Good Morning America last week. After the ABC News…Read More
Some Brazilian users regained access to X Wednesday despite a nationwide ban put in place by the country’s Supreme Court–a reunion apparently resulting from the social network changing the way its servers are accessed. But the renewed access may be short-lived. (AP) The X update used cloud services offered by third parties, namely security firm…Read More
Macollvie Neel, editor of The Haitian Times, was ready to start her workday from home Monday when her doorbell rang. What she thought might be a delivery turned out to be more than a half-dozen police officers. “I looked and there were police cruisers outside my house,” Neel recalled Tuesday in an interview with CNN….Read More
TelevisaUnivision, the influential producer and broadcaster of Spanish-language television, is weighing a plan to immediately replace CEO Wade Davis, according to three people briefed on the plan who would speak only anonymously because the discussions are private. (NYT)Read More
Alphabet’s Google took a major step this year to end a European Union antitrust investigation with an offer to sell its advertising marketplace, AdX, but European publishers rejected the proposal, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Wednesday. (Reuters)Read More
Nicole Chambers, former office manager of Dartmouth College student newspaper The Dartmouth, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for embezzling nearly $250,000 from the publication, authorities said. (Boston Globe)Read More
The Sobesednik publishing house in Russia suspended production at all of its outlets for up to three months, including its popular newspaper, following a decision by authorities to place the company on the list of “foreign agents,” Yelena Milchanovska, a Sobesednik correspondent, said. (RFE/RL)Read More
Whether it’s a bicycle to school, subway to the office, or Uber to the airport for some overseas “revenge travel,” people are on the move again. And along with them, out-of-home transit advertising is on the rise. In the United States, the category–which includes ads on taxis, inside buses, and before in-flight movies–is on track…Read More
Erika Badan understands the skepticism. As CEO of Barstool Sports for nearly one decade, Badan oversaw an editorial empire that transformed armchair quarterbacking, raucous podcasting, and “smokeshow” franchises into a $550 million sale in 2023. So, when she was named CEO of Food52 in April, the appointment felt odd. While Barstool serves an audience of…Read More
