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Today's my first day @Variety! I'm covering the intersection of AI and entertainment, with a look at how AI is affecting everything from film to TV to music to, yes, media. Send all tips/ideas/anything to [email protected]
This morning: MS Now reports that @S_Fitzpatrick is the focus of an FBI investigation bc of her previous reporting in @theatlantic
This afternoon: Fitzpatrick publishes another big story on the FBI. https://t.co/7bkUhoLW3h
New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards:
Best Play: Little Bear Ridge Road by Sam Hunter
Best individual performance: Alden Ehrenreich, Becky Shaw
Best ensemble performance: The cast of Death of a Salesman
Special Citations: Wallace Shawn and André Gregory; Qween Jean; Ragtime
NEW: Grindr is, yes, hosting a White House Correspondents' Dinner party. So, naturally, I wrote about why.
The WHCD party scene "a little bit ready for some party crashing,” its head of global government affairs told me.
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SCOOP: Staffers at McClatchy, the company that owns Pulitzer Prize-winning newsrooms like the Miami Herald and the Sacramento Bee, have revolted against the company's latest AI tool: a "content scaling agent" that repurposes old stories under new headlines.
https://t.co/0O8dI6QeZV
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
Music/Performing Arts Industry Feature (Under 1,000 Words), Print
Tim Teeman, The Times of London, “‘Prince Faggot’ Is the Gay Royal Play Blowing Up
in New York”
https://t.co/MQ5uYh3xY4
Online Journalist of the Year — Tied to an Organization
Tim Teeman, The Daily Beast
https://t.co/uzbQAM2dll
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Thank you, @LAPressClub! Very honored to have won two awards, including Journalist of the Year, at this year’s National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, and to have had other work recognized in other categories. And thank you @kpfallon for editing and theater-buddying!
Congratulations to @nschager, named film critic of the year, and to @TimTeeman, named online journalist of the year, by the LA Press Club.
https://t.co/05KBlwF2f8
Several late night writers’ rooms were surprised with free lunches, allegedly sent by Ava Daniels and Deborah Vance from 'HACKS.'
The lunches included branzino.
Former President Joe Biden has sold his presidential memoir to the Hachette Book Group for an advance in the range of $10 million, according to people familiar with the matter https://t.co/eEN8pigo1n via @WSJ