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How Story-Telling In Podcasts Is Different From Radio

The podcast market is increasingly interested only in those that take the listener on a journey from one episode to the next. Without a throughline, listeners stick with your documentary only if they’re already invested in the issue. - Current

What Companies Like Amazon And Facebook/Meta Are Really Using AI For: Generating Ads

"These AI ad-generation products are less visible to regular users than, for example, an Instagram bot pretending to be Tom Brady. ... But they’re also clearer in purpose and tell us a lot about what sorts of problems these companies think generative AI can solve — for them, anyway." - MSN (New York Magazine)

Now Boris Johnson Is Going To Be A TV Pundit

The disgraced ex-prime minister has been hired as a presenter and commentator on the UK's right-leaning network GB News. "I’m going to be giving this remarkable new TV channel my unvarnished views on everything," he says, "… (and) why I believe our best days are yet to come." - Press Gazette (UK)

Neuro-Study: Why We Communicate Less Well Over Video Conference

The research suggests online faces, with present technology, don’t engage our social neural circuits as effectively. - Neuroscience News

When Collectors Die

The BBC has recovered three missing episodes of shows from the 1960s - episodes it had probably thrown out. Luckily, collectors "saved them from the skip." - BBC

Studios, Actors Still Talking After A Weekend Of Negotiations

Caveat to optimistic studio press releases: "Issues remain unresolved with the actors, including protections around the use of artificial intelligence technology to create digital replicas of their likenesses without payment or approval." - The New York Times

Meg Ryan Would Like To Talk About What Happens After The Rom-Com Ends

She rode a wave of 1980s and 1990s rom-coms to superstardom, and that no longer interests her. Now, she wants a story that asks "vulnerable, wounded questions." - The New York Times

How To Pitch A Movie

First step: Be a performer. - Los Angeles Times

Apparently, Movie Sex Was Gone, And Now It’s Kind Of Back?

Are Zoomers truly anti-sex? Or is this just a belief in the U.S. as Europeans go on and make, er, sexy movies? - Irish Times

The Friendly Ghosts Of Long Lost Silent Film Stars

"To be a silent star is to be almost completely, but maybe imperfectly, physically gone; to be a fan of silent films is to feel as though you’ve been given the gift of seeing the dead." - The Smart Set

The Streaming Squeeze Is On

Will it ever end? And how much can one household afford? - The Verge

Public Radio Station Sees Huge Ratings Boost With High-Context News

“We've been in a crazy news cycle, people are coming to us for nuance and context, like they've been doing many public radio stations across the country,” WYPR Chief Content Officer Jonathan Blakley says about the station's 40% Aug.-Sept. gain according to Nielsen. - Inside Radio

All About Fake Movie Blood

"In all its elemental, metaphorical, campy, over-the-top, gore-y goodness, blood is something that has seeped into the visual vocabulary of movies. But how exactly did all that gloop get on the movie set? It’s kind of a sticky story." - Quartz

Revered Taiwanese Director Hou Hsiao-Hsien Has Dementia And Has Retired From Filmmaking

A statement from his wife and two children, all collaborators, said that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's pre-pandemic and a recent bout of COVID has worsened his condition. The last film he was working on, Shulan River, will not be completed. - Variety

Movie Theatres Fear Terrible Holiday Season As Strike Drags On

Hollywood hoped SAG-AFTRA and studios would resolve their contract negotiations by the end of October. But the strike drags on, preventing major stars from promoting their new films and adding to exhibitors’ anxieties about the upcoming holiday season. - Variety

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