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How the global content business reorganized around linguistic reach, what festivals became, and the costs newsrooms owe their reporters.
The geography of content is dissolving. When Zee Studios announces a slate spanning seven languages across India, or when Netflix and Disney+ titles share festival lineups with theatrical Korean cinema, the signal is plain: studios…
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Niche Media Is Where the Senior Roles Are Scroll past the usual suspects and something interesting emerges in today's job market: the most compelling senior roles aren't at the big platforms or legacy broadcasters. They're…
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The Associated Press announced it will lay off 20 video production staffers in the United States and relocate those positions to a new production hub in India. Management calls it a cost-efficiency initiative. For anyone…
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ABC filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the FCC, alleging the agency targeted the network over its editorial decisions and programming choices. The suit claims investigations and license renewal actions function as political retaliation, a…
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Established gatekeepers are getting routed around. OpenAI is building an ad business that bypasses legacy programmatic networks. Clive Barker is taking a three-book horror anthology straight to Kickstarter instead of traditional publishers. A hybrid-AI animation…
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The Organizations That Need You Most Aren't Always the Ones You'd Expect Monday's job board tells a story about where media talent is actually being valued right now, and some of the most compelling roles…
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Subject Expertise Is the New Currency For years, media hiring managers prized versatility. They wanted writers who could pivot from healthcare to finance to lifestyle without missing a beat. That era is quietly ending. Today's…
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Nielsen dropped $2.15 billion on DoubleVerify, and if you work in digital media, you just felt the ground shift. The measurement company that spent decades as the neutral referee just bought one of the biggest…
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Two franchise revivals, separated by 15 years of tonal distance but identical in strategy: bring back the original talent to bless the new version. Disney confirmed that Demi Lovato will cameo as Mitchie Torres in…
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The defining question in media right now isn't about technology or distribution. It's about control. Who decides the conditions under which creative and journalistic work gets made, distributed, and monetized? At Locarno, a cohort of…
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