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Perri Ormont Blumberg / New York Times: Memo: Condé Nast and the union representing staff at Vogue, Vanity Fair, and others reach a tentative deal for a first contract after over a year of bargaining -
Todd Spangler / Variety: Condé Nast's tentative agreement to contract terms came after the union leaders had explicitly threatened to stage a picket line at the 2024 Met Gala -
Ben Smith / Semafor: Q&A with NYT Executive Editor Joe Kahn, who says polling shows “democracy” is not a prime concern warranting top coverage, while immigration and the economy are -
Wall Street Journal: Kim Godwin steps down as ABC News' president, a role she has held since 2021, and says she will “retire from broadcast journalism”; no successor has been named -
Reuters: Al Jazeera source and Israeli official: police raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its de facto office, following a government shutdown order -
Max Tani / Semafor: Sources: YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, aka Mr. Beast, parts ways with management company Night Media and is increasingly taking personal control of his business -
29 minutes ago Ren LaForme / Poynter: 2024 Pulitzer Prize winners: NYT for Investigative Reporting, WaPo and Reuters for National Reporting, and NYT for International Reporting for Oct. 7 coverage -
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: Twitch streamers are growing their audiences as they stream student protests, and some viewers and protesters see them as more trustworthy than traditional news -
Matt Cooper / University of Oregon: A group of researchers say Twitch is increasingly becoming a news source, and traditional news outlets could use it for added income and audience engagement -
Andrew Perez / Rolling Stone: A viral Politico story on Democratic donors funding the pro-Palestine protests against Joe Biden is full of inaccuracies; Politico issued some corrections -
Ben Strauss / Washington Post: A profile of ESPN's First Take host Stephen A. Smith, whose longevity and uncanny ability to deliver opinions made him the most famous talking head in sports -
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: UK film and TV execs say the industry is struggling to recover from the Hollywood strikes and the spending contractions among UK broadcasters and US streamers -
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Over 40K Audible books are marked as having been made with an AI “virtual voice”, saving authors hundreds or thousands of dollars per title on narration costs -
Sabela Ojea / Wall Street Journal: Simon & Schuster acquires Dutch publisher Veen Bosch & Keuning, its first deal for a non-English book publisher; VBK will maintain its editorial independence