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☆ Matt Gaetz Plans Vote to Oust McCarthy After Speaker Avoids Shutdown
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Inside the Company Minting the Next Generation of Child StarsPocket.watch, a digital-media company in Culver City, Calif., wants to be ‘the Nickelodeon of the future,’ its CEO says. WSJ’s Chavie Lieber explains how the company identifies and then signs YouTube’s biggest kid creators and then works to create new shows and distribution deals with streaming giants. Zoe Thomas hosts. Photo: Pat Martin for WSJ Magazine

Persons: WSJ’s Chavie Lieber, Zoe Thomas, Pat Martin Organizations: Nickelodeon, WSJ Magazine Locations: Culver City, Calif

☆ Government Shutdown Averted After Congress Vote
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: WSJ’s Chavie Lieber, Zoe Thomas, Pat Martin Organizations: Nickelodeon, WSJ Magazine Locations: Culver City, Calif

☆ House Passes Bill to Avoid Government Shutdown
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: WSJ’s Chavie Lieber, Zoe Thomas, Pat Martin Organizations: Nickelodeon, WSJ Magazine Locations: Culver City, Calif

☆ Watch: Speaker McCarthy Blames Biden for Imminent Government Shutdown
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: WSJ’s Chavie Lieber, Zoe Thomas, Pat Martin Organizations: Nickelodeon, WSJ Magazine Locations: Culver City, Calif

☆ California Sen. Dianne Feinstein Dies at 90
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: WSJ’s Chavie Lieber, Zoe Thomas, Pat Martin Organizations: Nickelodeon, WSJ Magazine Locations: Culver City, Calif

☆ Suspect Charged in Murder of Rapper Tupac Shakur
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: WSJ’s Chavie Lieber, Zoe Thomas, Pat Martin Organizations: Nickelodeon, WSJ Magazine Locations: Culver City, Calif

☆ Watch: New York City Hit With Severe Flooding, Subways Disrupted
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: WSJ’s Chavie Lieber, Zoe Thomas, Pat Martin Organizations: Nickelodeon, WSJ Magazine Locations: Culver City, Calif

Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico CNN —A couple of dozen people pile into a van meant for 13. The families grab their belongings and head along a tarmacked path as we join them, long grass mostly hiding them from the view of the highway and Mexican officials. Occasionally, Mexican officials shout out across the grass to the walkers and tell them to come back to the main road. This static game of cat and mouse will play out several times past several checkpoints on the route. The migrants CNN spoke with said this was just another bump in their long road, another set of obstacles that will likely make what is generally a one-hour drive last the whole day.

Persons: Mexico CNN —, They’ve, –, crouch, ”, Yeimiler Rodríguez, “ Organizations: Mexico CNN, Ciudad, CNN Locations: Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, Guatemala, Tapachula, United States, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras

☆ Philippines Removes Chinese Floating Barrier in South China Sea
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: WSJ’s Chavie Lieber, Zoe Thomas, Pat Martin Organizations: Nickelodeon, WSJ Magazine Locations: Culver City, Calif

☆ Hollywood Writers End Strike After Reaching Deal With Studios
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: WSJ’s Chavie Lieber, Zoe Thomas, Pat Martin Organizations: Nickelodeon, WSJ Magazine Locations: Culver City, Calif

☆ Hollywood writers and studios reach tentative deal to end strike after nearly 150 days
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Writers Guild of America members walk the picket line on the first day of their strike in front of Amazon studios on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, in Culver City, CA. Talks between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers resumed last week after months of starts and stops, ultimately leading to a tentative deal that would end the ongoing writers strike. Television and film writers sought protections against the use of artificial intelligence, in addition to increases in compensation for streamed content. Then, the board and council will vote on whether to authorize a contract ratification vote by membership. SAG-AFTRA members have been on strike since mid-July and are seeking contract updates similar to those requested by the writers.

Persons: Television Producers, AMPTP, AFTRA Organizations: Guild of America, Amazon, Writers Guild of America, Alliance, Television, WGA, Disney, Paramount, Universal, Warner Bros . Discovery . Television, WGAW, WGAE, SAG, Screen, American Federation of Television, Radio Artists, Comcast, CNBC, Television Producers Locations: Culver City , CA, NBCUniversal

☆ Starbucks promises its new 'siren system' will cut the wait for your drink — but most stores are still waiting for the rollout
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Kylie Kirschner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Starbucks' wait times have increased with higher demand for complicated cold drinks. The company is rolling out its new "Siren System" to overhaul and streamline drink-making. Last year the company announced its new "Siren System," a set of procedures and equipment to overhaul and streamline the drink-making process. But the cold drinks on the menu also tend to be more complicated and take longer to make. Only 40% of stores are expected to have the Siren System in three years time, Bloomberg recently reported.

Persons: John Culver, baristas, Washington barista, you'll Organizations: Starbucks, Service, Siren, Bloomberg, —, Washington Locations: Wall, Silicon, Grande, California, Boston

☆ Big oil lawsuits are riskier than quitting tobacco
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Robert Cyran | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Active pumpjacks from oil wells are pictured at the Inglewood Oil Field, the largest urban oil field in the United States, from the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook in Culver City, California, U.S., March 10, 2022. REUTERS/Bing Guan Acquire Licensing RightsNEW YORK, Sept 18 (Reuters Breakingviews) - California has been a guidepost to America’s future, and the United States is litigious. Oil companies have thus far stalled litigation by seeking to move cases to federal courts, where national regulations on emissions provide some cover. In April, however, the Supreme Court turned down five appeals by oil companies and others to move cases out of the states. That’s too simple given climate’s differing hit to regions, but it indicates the magnitude of the potential problem in the United States alone.

Persons: Bing Guan, Jonathan Guilford, Sharon Lam Organizations: Inglewood Oil Field, Baldwin, REUTERS, Reuters, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, State, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, American Petroleum Institute, Thomson Locations: Inglewood, United States, Culver City , California, U.S, California, Saudi Arabia, San Francisco

However, as government policies started to line up in the industry's favor in recent years, offshore wind developers unveiled a host of new project proposals, mostly off the U.S. East Coast. Many contracts for offshore wind projects have no mechanism for adjustment in the case of higher interest rates or costs. In New York, offshore wind developers also sought to boost the price of power produced at their projects. Norway's Equinor EQNR.OL and its partner BP (BP.L) are seeking a 54% increase for the power produced at three planned offshore wind farms - Empire Wind 1 and 2 and Beacon Wind. But the offshore wind industry is not fully satisfied.

Persons: Joe Biden, Kevin Lamarque, Eli Rubin, Rubin, Equinor, France's, Scott DiSavino, Nerijus, Nichola Groom, Simon Webb, Marguerita Choy Organizations: Federal, State, White, REUTERS, U.S ., Dominion, EBW Analytics, Reuters, U.S . Federal Reserve, Commonwealth, BP, Nichola, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, U.S, Europe, U.S . East Coast, Rhode, Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, Oslo, Culver City

☆ TikTok hires Britain's NCC for auditing data security
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsCompanies NCC Group PLC FollowSTOCKHOLM, Sept 5 (Reuters) - TikTok has hired British cybersecurity firm NCC (NCCG.L) to audit its data controls and protections, and provide independent verification, as part of the social media company's data security regime, nicknamed "Project Clover". As part of the regime, TikTok is opening three data centres - two in Ireland and one in Norway to store user data in Europe. The first Irish datacenter is already online and TikTok has started to migrate data. In the coming months, TikTok and NCC said they will engage with policymakers across Europe to explain how the system will work in practice. TikTok announced Project Clover in March amid growing pressure from lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic over data security.

Persons: Mike Blake, TikTok, Elaine Fox, Clover, Supantha Mukherjee, Ed Osmond Organizations: REUTERS, NCC, Thomson Locations: U.S, Culver City , California, STOCKHOLM, British, Ireland, Norway, Europe, Stockholm

☆ T-Pain in your living room: Are virtual concerts the future of live entertainment?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Samantha Bresnahan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

T-Pain is performing songs that will become a virtual reality (VR) concert, delivered directly to fans via VR headsets. “(Virtual reality) is a very big shift,” says Kyung Kuk Kim, vice president and head of production for AmazeVR. (AmazeVR says it plans to launch the T-Pain concert this Fall.) According to AmazeVR, pricing is currently per concert; it will cost $6.99 for one year of access to the T-Pain concert, for example, after that content launches. It is also producing and releasing mixed reality (MR) concerts – a combination of virtual and augmented reality – by overlaying virtual elements onto live, real-world video.

Persons: ”, I’m, Faheem Rashad Najm, “ I’m, AmazeVR, Megan Thee, “, Kyung Kuk Kim, Kim, Lance Drake, Drake, Mel Slater, Slater, ‘, ’ ”, ” Slater, ’ ” Slater, Jamie McCarthy, they’re, Taylor Swift’s, don’t, AmazeVR’s Kim, it’s, you’re, ” CNN’s Leif Coorlim Organizations: CNN, Florida -, Apple, VR, Dire, YouTube, University of Barcelona, Neuroscience, Technology, UN, Apple Vision Locations: Culver City , California, American, Florida, New York City

☆ Subway is being sold to a massive private-equity firm, finally moving the sandwich chain away from family ownership after nearly 60 years
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Roark's brands include Arby's, Dunkin', Buffalo Wild Wings, and rival sub store Jimmy John's. Subway is in the midst of a huge rebrand after suffering from a sales slump. Through Inspire Brands, it also owns another sub chain — Jimmy John's — which has more than 2,600 stores. AdvertisementAdvertisementSince the first Subway store opened in 1965, the company has been owned by its two founders, Fred DeLuca and Peter Buck, and their families. The sandwich chain announced last month that it had achieved 10 consecutive quarters of positive sales, including recording its highest weekly average unit volume in North America in the second quarter of 2023.

Persons: Dunkin, Jimmy John's, John Chidsey, Fred DeLuca, Peter Buck, It's Organizations: Roark, Arby's, Buffalo Wild Wings, Service, Roark Capital, Subway, Inspire Brands Locations: Wall, Silicon, North America

[1/2] Striking Writers Guild of America (WGA) members walk the picket line in front of Netflix offices in Los Angeles, California, U.S., July 12, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsLOS ANGELES, Aug 16 (Reuters) - After three months of walking the picket lines, striking Hollywood writers expressed optimism on Wednesday about the reopening of contract talks with major studios and the possibility they could be back at work in weeks. Still, members of the Writers Guild of America see reason for hope. Writers went on strike on May 2 over an impasse on compensation, minimum staffing in writers' rooms, residual payments and curbs on artificial intelligence. While "Law and Order" writer and WGA liaison Terri Kopp is also upbeat about talks with studios continuing, she is concerned about information leaking from their confidential negotiating sessions.

Persons: Mike Blake, Pam Davis, we're, it's, AMPTP, They're, K.C, Scott, Terri Kopp, Kopp, Lucy, Danielle Broadway, Dawn Chmielewski, Sandra Maler Organizations: Guild of America, Netflix, REUTERS, Alliance, Television Producers, Walt Disney, Writers Guild of America, Reuters, Amazon Studios, Screen Actors Guild, WGA, Thomson Locations: Los Angeles , California, U.S, Culver City

☆ Disney's future, a hot topic among Hollywood elite
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Dawn Chmielewski | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

[1/2] Executive Chairman of the Walt Disney Company, Bob Iger arrives at the world premiere for the film 'The King's Man' at Leicester Square in London, Britain December 6, 2021. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File PhotoAug 14 (Reuters) - Hollywood's favorite parlor game of the week: What will Bob Iger do next? Another veteran media executive predicted Disney would spin off the television asset to its shareholders as a separate, publicly traded company by 2024, with private equity potentially playing a role. "You sell the parts, then sell what's left," said the veteran. Reporting by Dawn Chmielewski in Los Angeles; Editing by Kenneth Li and Richard ChangOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Bob Iger, Hannah McKay, Walt Disney, Iger, Jeff Bewkes, what's, It's, Laura Martin, Dawn Chmielewski, Kenneth Li, Richard Chang Organizations: Walt Disney Company, Leicester Square, REUTERS, U.S ., Walt, CNBC, Reuters, ESPN, Disney, ABC, Disney Channel, NBA, Comcast, Hulu, Time Warner, Google, Facebook, Apple, Netflix, MGM, Needham, Thomson Locations: London, Britain, Culver City, New York City, U.S, Hulu, Hollywood, Los Angeles

☆ US tech groups back TikTok in challenge to Montana state ban
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Mike Blake/File PhotoWASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Two tech groups on Monday backed TikTok in its lawsuit seeking to block enforcement of a Montana state ban on use of the short video sharing app before it takes effect on Jan. 1. TikTok, which is owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance, filed a suit in May seeking to block the first-of-its-kind U.S. state ban, arguing it violates the First Amendment free speech rights of the company and users. TikTok says it "has not shared, and would not share, U.S. user data with the Chinese government, and has taken substantial measures to protect the privacy and security of TikTok users." The law does not impose penalties on individual TikTok users. TikTok estimates 380,000 people in Montana use the video service, or more than a third of the state's 1.1 million people.

Persons: Mike Blake, TikTok, Donald Trump, David Shepardson, Muralikumar Anantharaman, Edwina Gibbs Organizations: REUTERS, Thomson Locations: U.S, Culver City , California, Montana

☆ $1.4 Million Homes in California
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Angela Serratore | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The property is a few blocks from a branch of Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles, a beloved Southern California chain restaurant, and from a bookstore that sells Spanish-language children’s literature. Culver City is 15 minutes away by bus. The University of Southern California campus is a 15-minute drive. Los Angeles International Airport is about a half-hour away. Size: 2,312 square feetPrice per square foot: $605Indoors: A paved path leads from the sidewalk to the covered front porch, which is wrapped in ivy and private enough to use as an outdoor sitting room.

Organizations: Culver City, The University of Southern, Los Angeles International Locations: Los Angeles, Spanish, Mid City, West Adams, Koreatown, Southern California, Culver, The University of Southern California, Saltillo

☆ They don’t act or write, but the Hollywood strikes are putting them out of work
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Natasha Chen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Elyea, and other small business owners have told CNN about the various ways they’re getting through the dry spell: cutting hours, laying off staff, or temporarily closing their doors. And you know, don’t be buying cars having to make big car payments, and don’t be making big plans with money you don’t have,” she told them. “I know I can get through it, but it takes years to recover,” Levelle told CNN in early July. Natalia Lopez told CNN in June that without her $20.74 per hour wage, she had shifted her grocery list to just basics, like rice and beans. Cendejas told CNN the studios should recognize the people essential at every level to get the work done.

Persons: Los Angeles CNN —, Milken, Remy De La Mora, Patrick Gallagher, Oppenheimer, Pam, Pam Elyea, she’s, ” Elyea, don’t, Pam Elyea Elyea, She’s, “, Elyea’s, Corri Levelle, Sandy Rose Floral, Natasha Chen, CNN Corri Levelle, ” Levelle, ”, Natalia Lopez, Lopez, Yolanda Cendejas, Cendejas, ” Yolanda Cendejas, CNN Cendejas, ” Cendejas, Chester Massetti, Victor Jr’s, you’re, ” Massetti, Massetti, Rosie Blosser, ” Blosser, Blosser Organizations: Los Angeles CNN, Hollywood, Writers Guild of America, SAG, Global, Hire, CNN, WGA, Sandy, SEIU United Service Workers, SEIU, Sony Studios, Amazon Studios, Paramount Studios, Culver City, Warner Bros, Washington, Apple, Warner Bros . Locations: North Hollywood, Los Angeles, Culver City, Culver, Burbank , CA

☆ A Year of Upheaval on Abortion’s Front Lines
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Kate Kelly | Marisa Schwartz Taylor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

Erica’s pilots that day were volunteers with Elevated Access, a nonprofit set up last year to help people obtain abortions, often across state lines. In North Carolina, an anti-abortion, church-backed pregnancy center called Mountain Area Pregnancy Services confronted a harassment incident. Before Dobbs, the group’s abortion services operated on a budget of $20,000 per month. But the dearth of pharmacies willing to offer abortion medication meant that Honeybee soon became the main provider of the online-ordered, home-delivered pills. Abortion medication — which now accounts for more than half of abortions in the United States — produces roughly 40 percent of Honeybee’s revenue.

Persons: Wade, Health “, ”, Maren Hurley, Hey Jane, Jenice Fountain, Julia Rendleman, The New York Times Erica, ” Erica, Erica, Andy, “, Gabriela Bhaskar, Dobbs, Kelsea McLain, Roe, —, McLain, Yellowhammer, Fountain, Mike Belleme, Court’s Dobbs, Jeff Porter, Porter, ” Michelle Fenton, Ms, Fenton, Sharon Chischilly, Paddy, Rachael Lorenzo, Tracy Nguyen, Honeybee, Jessica Nouhavandi, Nouhavandi Organizations: Jackson, Health, Private, Yellowhammer Fund, The New York Times, Maryland —, D.C, Cessna, Fund, Birmingham, Pregnancy Services, The New York, Services, The New York Times Indigenous, Roe, Los Angeles Locations: Dobbs v, North Carolina, Hurley’s, Alabama, Louisiana, America, Minnesota, Twin Cities, Illinois, Maryland, Washington, Wisconsin, Birmingham, Ala, Asheville, N.C, Waynesville, New Mexico, Oklahoma , Texas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Culver City, Calif, Roe United States, United States

☆ TikTok is offering creators $1,000 cash incentives and other rewards as it looks to bolster its e-commerce program
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Dan Whateley | Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

TikTok is offering a slew of cash bonuses and rewards to creators that use its new shopping feature. The conversation centered around how to formalize the role of "TikTok Shop creator" as a new category of influencer, akin to a sports or food personality, Jayy said. "I'm thinking about marketing myself as a TikTok Shop creator," she said. In another instance, they were offered $1,000 in cash for generating at least $3,000 in Shop sales via a video. "Most of the people don't have the support or the knowledge to even be these TikTok Shop creators that TikTok wants them to be."

Persons: Sharon Jayy, Jayy, it's, TikTok, influencers, It's, Ross Hawthorne, Nadia Lynn Garcia, Maryam Malik, Lissette, Shayna Farnan, she's, Malik, Lauren Mabra, Mabra, Pinterest, Farnan Organizations: TikTok, Real Quick Media, Meta, Facebook, YouTube, Financial Times, TikTok Shop Locations: Culver City , California, China, London

☆ TikTok is luring creators into its Shop program with office visits, private chat groups, and cold hard cash
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Dan Whateley | Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The conversation centered around how to formalize the role of "TikTok Shop creator" as a new category of influencer, akin to a sports or food personality, Jayy said. "I'm thinking about marketing myself as a TikTok Shop creator," she said. In another instance, they were offered $1,000 in cash for generating at least $3,000 in Shop sales via a video. On the right, a screenshot of what a creator sees on the backend when using TikTok Shop as an affiliate. "Most of the people don't have the support or the knowledge to even be these TikTok Shop creators that TikTok wants them to be."

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