After three rounds of layoffs this year, Pushkin staffers have unionized with Writers Guild of America East. The union has received voluntary recognition from Pushkin management, which recently went through a restructure as the studio behind Revisionist History has fallen on hard times.
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The New York Times reported last month that Apple threatened to cancel The Problem with Jon Stewart over its handling of topics including AI and China, leading Stewart to walk away.
Based on that reporting, ranking members of the Select Committee on Competition with the Chinese Communist Party sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook demanding answers. The letter, which was obtained by Deadline, says “if these reports are accurate, it potentially speaks to broader concerns about indirect Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence over the creative expression of American artists and companies on CCP-related topics.”
In 2020, the share of Americans age 18-29 who could say the same was just 9 percent, according to a new poll from Pew Research. Additionally, 43 percent of TikTok users report consuming news on the platform, up from 22 percent in 2020.
