The director's new film is partly funded by MUBI. On the company's investor with ties to the Israeli military: “All corporate money is dirty. ... You can avoid it and not make films at all. But films are how I carry what I like to say.” - Variety
“Most of the 1,300 Voice of America journalists had already been fired or remained on paid leave prior to these layoffs. Only 100 journalists and other staff members remain employed by the organization.” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
“TIFF, long considered the people's festival because screenings are open to the public, is preparing to host its 50th edition.” But brands are blocking fan access - and the people are not thrilled. - CBC
“Even as the subjects reported trusting online content less after the quiz, they still ranked (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s largest circulation broadsheet daily) highly and turned to it more after being confronted with a quiz that showed how difficult it can be to tell fake from real.” - Nieman Lab
“The move follows last month’s congressional rescission of more than $1 billion in federal public media funding. Vermont Public CEO Vijay Singh said the station will lose $2 million from its current budget.” Fifteen employees have been laid off; two further positions were reduced from full-time to part-time. - Inside Radio
The sometime-director of blockbusters hasn’t worked in Hollywood since getting fired from Bohemian Rhapsody in 2017. He moved to Israel several years ago and has reportedly completed a feature starring Jon Voight (another figure in the industry’s doghouse) set during Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon during that country's civil war. - Variety
The problem is that you aren’t downloading the movie, to own and watch forever; you’re just getting access to it on Amazon’s servers – a right that only lasts as long as Amazon also has access to the film, which depends on capricious licensing agreements that vary from title to title. - The Guardian
Algorithm movies usually exhibit easy-to-follow story beats that leave no viewer behind; under this regime, exposition is no longer a screenwriting faux pas. - The Guardian
There are 27 rural public radio stations in the state, most of them serving small communities with little other media and hundreds of miles from any city. The stations are the only source for local news and, crucially, emergency weather alerts, and federal funding comprised up to half of their budgets. - Inside Radio
Broadcasting no longer conveys a geographic monopoly on the distribution of content. It’s becoming clear that a business model based largely on the broadcast distribution of national programming leased from PBS and NPR is declining. - BIA
Instead of toppling our radio towers, the funding cut is just likely to make them lean further left. Was that the White House’s and Congress’s intention? - Washington Post
Following Congress’s elimination of federal funding of public TV and radio and state-level finding cuts, SDPB is laying off 15 staffers and eliminating five currently vacant positions. One locally produced program each on television and radio are being canceled, and some education resources will be shelved. - South Dakota Searchlight
Several station managers across Alaska said they worried their station would end up with nothing more than an antenna to rebroadcast content created in Juneau, Anchorage or elsewhere in the country. - The New York Times
