Hollywood's ties with Silicon Valley threaten to squeeze out the British media
SUMMARY
the passing of another year of the internet age, the great powers of Hollywood and Silicon Valley have become more closely entwined and British media is at risk of becoming a sideshow. Disney has doubled its original $200m (£184.1m) investment in the online youth brand Vice Media (which also has money from 21st Century Fox). The House of Mouse, alongside Hollywood talent agency Creative Artists Agency, recently sunk big money into Jaunt, a virtual reality company, while stars from Ashton Kutcher to Kim Kardashian put cash into start-ups and apps.
FACTS:
- Netflix, Amazon and Apple are starting to dominate television as content creators as well as platforms.
- Younger viewers head to YouTube and Instagram.
- Facebook and Twitter have become many people’s key sources for news
Boston Globe reporters forced to deliver papers by hand amid distribution crisis.
SUMMARY
Scores of reporters from the Boston Globe are preparing to personally hand out Sunday’s edition after a distribution crisis left readers across the city without their daily paper. The extraordinary move comes after a week of tumult at the paper after it switched delivery companies, resulting in outcry from thousands of subscribers who failed to receive their daily papers.
FACTS
- In an attempt to ensure that the Sunday edition reaches readers, union leaders at the Boston Globe appealed to staff members to gather on Saturday night to help deliver the paper
- Reports said about 100 employees had volunteered.
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