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Who hosts Meet the Press?

As of September 2023, Kristen Welker is the host of NBC's "Meet the Press." She took over the role from Chuck Todd, who stepped down after moderating the show for nearly nine years. Kristen Welker is a seasoned journalist and White House correspondent for NBC News.

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BBC Studios Acquires ITV’s Stake in BritBox International for £255M

In a historic deal, BBC Studios has acquired ITV’s 50% shareholding in BritBox International, the joint venture streamer. The transaction, valued at £255 million ($322 million), represents the largest single deal ever undertaken by the BBC’s commercial arm. ITV confirmed the sale, with proceeds set to be returned to shareholders through a share buyback scheme post the announcement of full-year results on March 7.

CEO Transition and New Leadership Plans

As a result of the acquisition, BritBox International CEO Reemah Sakaan will exit the business, which will become part of the BBC Studios Global Media & Streaming division. New leadership plans are said to be already in place to ensure a smooth transition, with an official announcement expected imminently. Sakaan is anticipated to remain with BritBox during the transitional period.

Strategic Importance and Valuation of BritBox International

The deal values BritBox International at over £500 million, making it the largest single agreement ever struck by BBC Studios. BritBox International, which boasts nearly four million subscribers across eight territories, has become a profitable and successful venture. Tom Fussell, BBC Studios CEO, emphasized the strategic importance of the acquisition, stating that it aligns with their goal to double the size of their business. BritBox International, with its focus on British content, has generated significant demand for British shows globally.

Continuity in Programming Strategy and ITV’s Focus on ITVX

While the acquisition signals a change in ownership, the programming strategy for BritBox International is expected to remain unchanged. The platform will continue to commission content from a variety of UK independent producers, as well as BBC Studios and ITV. Producers have been assured that the new arrangement will not impact commissioning plans. ITV, on the other hand, is exiting the joint venture to concentrate on the growth of its own streamer, ITVX, and its global ITV Studios division. ITV Studios will continue to receive an ongoing revenue stream from BritBox International under new extended licensing agreements.

The acquisition by BBC Studios comes at the end of a bustling week for both ITV Studios and BBC Studios, who have been actively showcasing their latest content to international buyers at the London TV Screenings and BBC Studios Showcase events in the British capital.

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Don Lemon, one of the most recognizable figures at CNN, announced on Sunday that he will be leaving the network in September. He has been with the network for 12 years, during which he hosted a daily show, “CNN Tonight with Don Lemon,” and covered major news events such as the 2020 presidential election and the Black Lives Matter protests. Lemon is one of the few Black anchors in prime-time cable…

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El Camino Real Charter High School students protested growing antisemitism on their campus in a walkout on Tuesday.

The walkout at the Woodland Hills school followed an alleged incident against 15-year-old Jewish student Danielle Eshed. According to Eshed, a student screamed antisemitic comments before attacking her a little over a week ago.

By Lindsay Kornick

Jewish students at El Camino Real Charter High School walkout to protest antisemitic incidents at the Woodland Hills school on Tuesday, February 27, 2024.  (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

"I was really shocked because he said he would beat me up, but I didn't think that he was telling the truth until he got up and started to punch me," she said. "I was just sitting there in silence because I was shocked at what was happening because that never really happened to me. I was like in shock at what was going on. I couldn't process."

Eshed’s father joined the protest, claiming that the school had dismissed their claims and would not elaborate on how the student was punished.

"The school thinks that he has more rights than my daughter for protection," Eshed said. "He has rights to be educated, but my daughter [doesn’t] have the rights for her safety."

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GRAFTON, Mass. (AP) — When two octogenarian buddies named Nick discovered that ChatGPT might be stealing and repurposing a lifetime of their work, they tapped a son-in-law to sue the companies behind the artificial intelligence chatbot.

Veteran journalists Nicholas Gage, 84, and Nicholas Basbanes, 81, who live near each other in the same Massachusetts town, each devoted decades to reporting, writing and book authorship.

Gage poured his tragic family story and search for the truth about his mother's death into a bestselling memoir that led John Malkovich to play him in the 1985 film “Eleni.” Basbanes transitioned his skills as a daily newspaper reporter into writing widely-read books about literary culture.

Basbanes was the first of the duo to try fiddling with AI chatbots, finding them impressive but prone to falsehoods and lack of attribution. The friends commiserated and filed their lawsuit earlier this year, seeking to represent a class of writers whose copyrighted work they allege “has been systematically pilfered by” OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft.

“It's highway robbery,” Gage said in an interview in his office next to the 18th-century farmhouse where he lives in central Massachusetts.

“It is,” added Basbanes, as the two men perused Gage's book-filled shelves. “We worked too hard on these tomes.”

Now their lawsuit is subsumed into a broader case seeking class-action status led by household names like John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and “Game of Thrones” novelist George R. R. Martin; and proceeding under the same New York federal judge who’s hearing similar copyright claims from media outlets such as The New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Mother Jones.

What links all the cases is the claim that OpenAI — with help from Microsoft's money and computing power — ingested huge troves of human writings to “train” AI chatbots to produce human-like passages of text, without getting permission or compensating the people who wrote the original works.

“If they can get it for nothing, why pay for it?” Gage said. “But it’s grossly unfair and very harmful to the written word.”

OpenAI and Microsoft didn’t return requests for comment this week but have been fighting the allegations in court and in public. So have other AI companies confronting legal challenges not just from writers but visual artists, music labels and other creators who allege that generative AI profits have been built on misappropriation.

The chief executive of Microsoft’s AI division, Mustafa Suleyman, defended AI industry practices at last month’s Aspen Ideas Festival, voicing the theory that training AI systems on content that’s already on the open internet is protected by the “fair use” doctrine of U.S. copyright laws.

“The social contract of that content since the ’90s has been that it is fair use,” Suleyman said. “Anyone can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it. That has been freeware, if you like.”

Suleyman said it was more of a “gray area” in situations where some news organizations and others explicitly said they didn’t want tech companies “scraping” content off their websites. “I think that’s going to work its way through the courts,” he said.

The cases are still in the discovery stage and scheduled to drag into 2025. In the meantime, some who believe their professions are threatened by AI business practices have tried to secure private deals to get technology companies to pay a fee to license their archives. Others are fighting back.

“Somebody had to go out and interview real people in the real world and conduct real research by poring over documents and then synthesizing those documents and coming up with a way to render them in clear and simple prose,” said Frank Pine, executive editor of MediaNews Group, publisher of dozens of newspapers including the Denver Post, Orange County Register and St. Paul Pioneer Press. Several of the chain’s newspapers sued OpenAI in April.

“All of that is real work, and it’s work that AI cannot do," Pine said. "An AI app is never going to leave the office and go downtown where there’s a fire and cover that fire.”

Deemed too similar to lawsuits filed late last year, the Massachusetts duo's January complaint has been folded into a consolidated case brought by other nonfiction writers as well as fiction writers represented by the Authors Guild. That means Gage and Basbanes won't likely be witnesses in any upcoming trial in Manhattan's federal court. But in the twilight of their careers, they thought it important to take a stand for the future of their craft.

Gage fled Greece as a 9-year-old, haunted by his mother's 1948 killing by firing squad during the country's civil war. He joined his father in Worcester, Massachusetts, not far from where he lives today. And with a teacher's nudge, he pursued writing and built a reputation as a determined investigative reporter digging into organized crime and political corruption for The New York Times and other newspapers.

Basbanes, as a Greek American journalist, had heard of and admired the elder “hotshot reporter” when he got a surprise telephone call at his desk at Worcester's Evening Gazette in the early 1970s. The voice asked for Mr. Basbanes, using the Greek way of pronouncing the name.

“You were like a talent scout,” Basbanes said. “We established a friendship. I mean, I’ve known him longer than I know my wife, and we’ve been married 49 years.”

Basbanes hasn’t mined his own story like Gage has, but he says it can sometimes take days to craft a great paragraph and confirm all of the facts in it. It took him years of research and travel to archives and auction houses to write his 1995 book “A Gentle Madness” about the art of book collection from ancient Egypt through modern times.

“I love that ‘A Gentle Madness’ is in 1,400 libraries or so,” Basbanes said. “This is what a writer strives for -- to be read. But you also write to earn, to put food on the table, to support your family, to make a living. And as long as that’s your intellectual property, you deserve to be compensated fairly for your efforts.”

Gage took a great professional risk when he quit his job at the Times and went into $160,000 debt to find out who was responsible for his mother's death.

“I tracked down everyone who was in the village when my mother was killed," he said. “And they had been scattered all over Eastern Europe. So it cost a lot of money and a lot of time. I had no assurance that I would get that money back. But when you commit yourself to something as important as my mother’s story was, the risks are tremendous, the effort is tremendous.”

In other words, ChatGPT couldn't do that. But what worries Gage is that ChatGPT could make it harder for others to do that.

“Publications are going to die. Newspapers are going to die. Young people with talent are not going to go into writing,” Gage said. “I'm 84 years old. I don’t know if this is going to be settled while I’m still around. But it’s important that a solution be found.”

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(Photo during the NHL game at the TD Garden on October 17, 2022 in Boston by Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)

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Disney Takes Full Control of Hulu with $8.6 Billion Comcast Deal

In a strategic move to bolster its presence in the ever-growing streaming landscape, Walt Disney Co. has announced Full control of hulu with 33% stake from Comcast for a substantial $8.6 billion. This deal marks a significant turning point in Disney’s quest for supremacy in the streaming arena, granting the entertainment giant undisputed control of Hulu. Disney has been overseeing Hulu’s operations since 2019, following Comcast’s decision to relinquish its authority, effectively becoming a silent partner.

A Bold Move

While Disney provided minimal commentary on the acquisition, it did note that the move would “further Disney’s streaming objectives.” This bold step underscores Disney’s commitment to dominating the streaming market and diversifying its offerings to capture a wider audience.

Hulu, originally launched in 2007, emerged as a collaborative effort by entertainment conglomerates aiming to counter the rise of online platforms for TV shows. Disney entered the picture in 2009 with plans to feature content from its own subsidiaries, such as ABC, ESPN, and the Disney Channel. Fast forward a decade, and Disney increased its majority control of Hulu platform after acquiring 21st Century Fox.

Disney’s treatment of Hulu as one of its own services has been evident for years. Notably, in 2019, when Disney introduced its own streaming service, Disney+, it promptly offered a bundle that included Hulu and ESPN+. This strategy allowed Disney to provide a comprehensive streaming experience to its customers, cementing its position in the competitive streaming market.

Disney to Take Full Control Of Hulu for $8.61B

Disney’s Step Toward Profitability

In response to the growing pressure on streaming services due to rampant expansion, low prices, and widespread password sharing, Disney has initiated measures to maintain profitability. The company has pledged to crack down on non-paying users and has raised prices for ad-free versions of Disney+ and Hulu by 20% to 27%. CEO Bob Iger, in an August statement, clarified that the price increases were aimed at directing consumers toward more affordable ad-supported versions of these channels, with subscription prices remaining unchanged.

Iger also emphasized the advertising market for streaming, noting that it is currently on the upswing and healthier than traditional TV ads. Disney’s pricing strategy aims to encourage more subscribers to opt for the advertising-supported tier, which will undoubtedly boost the company’s revenue and strengthen its foothold in the streaming industry.

With this latest acquisition, Disney solidifies its position as a key player in the streaming world, setting the stage for further innovation and competition in the ever-evolving digital entertainment landscape.

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Media News Daily: Top Stories for 10/31/2024

X loses EU users, WaPo's non-endorsement sparks rival gains, GB News fined, and Gannett ditches candidate endorsements #MediaNews

This page hosts daily news stories related to the media. Check back often, as new stories may be added here throughout the day. X Struggles with EU User Decline and Cuts Moderation Staff X (formerly Twitter) continues to lose monthly active users in the EU, reporting 105 million users between April and September—a decline of nearly 724,000 from its previous period. Additionally, moderation staff…