APM Studios will move away from being a standalone podcast studio and will instead “focus on building strong, multiplatform brands that align with our strategic plan." - Current
"Any attempt to look at the company’s finances suggests a long history of issues at the very top. … Sources described a corporate culture with no discernible strategy and little of the necessary financial infrastructure or discipline. … While Vice execs were spending opulently, the newsroom struggled to pay its bills." - The Verge
"As part of a multi-year licensing deal, … The Independent will take over BuzzFeed’s sub-brands in the UK, including food vertical Tasty UK, black British identity brand Seasoned and HuffPost UK." - Press Gazette (UK)
Speed. That’s what you hear, over and over again, as the real benefit of Gen AI imaging. By eliminating the friction of time-consuming tasks and collaborative translation fails, it lets an idea move swiftly from a creative’s head to something that others can see. - IndieWire
“Every 1.3 to 1.5 seconds you have to have a new graphic or something moving, you have to a lot of effects. For every image and every transition, you have to add a sound effect. You need flashing graphics, and you have to have subtitles in every video.” - Washington Post
But it’s weird. “The bones of the world are familiar. There is only one change: Every race exists, cheerfully and seemingly as equals, in the same place at the same time. History becomes an emoji, its flesh tone changing as needed.” - The New York Times
The director of the new movie Civil War says that "his varied, inchoate anxieties took the shape of one underlying concern: 'It’s polarisation. You could see that everywhere. And you could see it getting magnified.’" - The Guardian (UK)
A former Hiroshima mayor: "From Hiroshima's standpoint, the horror of nuclear weapons was not sufficiently depicted. … The film was made in a way to validate the conclusion that the atomic bomb was used to save the lives of Americans." - CBC
After a strong start, the Georgia Legislature “rejected a bill that would have limited how much the state can spend on tax incentives for film and TV production, reaffirming the increasingly popular production hub’s position as one of California’s biggest rivals." - Los Angeles Times
Well, obviously not for Fox News, but otherwise, NBC News's rapid hiring-and-firing of former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel after an on-air staff rebellion (because she peddled 2020 election disinformation) makes observers wonder if hiring a professional election-denier "is just too costly for a self-respecting newsroom with a public service charter." - AP
Senior management at GBH, which under the call letters WGBH operates both an NPR affiliate and a TV station which produces a number of national PBS shows, says it is "facing financial headwinds. … While final decisions have not yet been made, layoffs are not off the table." - The Boston Globe (MSN)
Yes, Hulu is just a tile. But that tile also seems to represent something bigger inside of Disney: the full Disney Plus-ification of everything, as the tech and strategy it built over the last few years percolates out to everything else Disney does. - The Verge
"Since the original series debuted in 1966, … the Star Trek galaxy has logged 900 television episodes and 13 feature films, amounting to 668 hours. … Every single person I spoke to for this story talked about Star Trek with a joyful earnestness as rare in the industry as a Klingon pacifist." - Variety
