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  1. Stephen Colbert was presented with the Walter Bernstein Award for willingness to confront social injustice in the face of adversity by Robert Smigel at the 2026 Writers Guild Awards New York Ceremony on March 8, 2026.

    #Comedy #LateNight #StephenColbert #WritersGuild

    youtu.be/_Y4BdQXbih0?si=XTXC-Z

  2. 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗲𝗻 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿

    De Writers Guild of America, de vakbond van schrijvers, heeft dinsdag de nominaties voor de Writers Guild Awards bekendgemaakt. Grote kanshebbers op de prijzen zijn de horrorfilm Sinners en de zwarte misdaadkomedie One Battle After Another. Deze twee films zijn de afgelopen tijd bij elke filmprijs...

    rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/55596

    #WritersGuild #Sinners #OneBattle

  3. No More #CBS #Bari Weiss is taking a page out of #ElonMusk playbook. Days after taking over as #editor in chief of #CBSNews, Weiss sent the network’s #journalists an email Friday that set off alarm bells. Every staffer, she said, must write for her a memo by Tuesday detailing how they spend their working hours, what they’ve produced, what’s broken, and how they’d fix it. #jouralism #media #assmedia #censorship #trump #maga #freespeech #news #facts not #lies #authoritarianism #WritersGuild

  4. "The Writers Guild of America is forcefully calling on Hollywood’s major studios to take a stand on the purported use of their members’ works as AI training data.

    Leaders of the WGA West and East demanded that companies take “immediate legal action” against any firms that have used writers’ work to train AI tools in a letter sent to the chief executives of Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, Paramount Global, NBCUniversal, Sony, Netflix and Amazon MGM Studios on Wednesday.

    “It’s time for the studios to come off the sidelines,” the letter stated. “After this industry has spent decades fighting piracy, it cannot stand idly by while tech companies steal full libraries of content for their own financial gain.”"

    hollywoodreporter.com/business

    #AI #GenerativeAI #WritersGuild #Hollywood #Copyright #IP

  5. #WritersGuild of #Canada membership has ratified a new 3 yr contract deal.

    The new #IndependentProductionAgreement for #Canadian #screenwriters, to come into effect on May 22, 2024, includes script fee increases, min. staffing requirements & artificial intelligence protections. The IPA, negotiated with #CanadianMediaProducers Association, representing local indie film & TV producers, sees live action script fees increase 5%, 4% & 3.5% over the next 3 yrs.

    hollywoodreporter.com/business

  6. Washington Post journalists are planning to walk off their jobs in a 24-hour strike on Thursday, according to their union.

    The Guild is asking its readers to not engage with the Post’s content during the planned strike.

    "Washington Post journalists planning one-day strike: Union" - The Hill
    thehill.com/homenews/media/434

    #wapo #strike #union #writersguild