‘Everything is on the table’ if prices don’t come down following Rogers-Shaw acquisition: Champagne

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Description: Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said the publicly available conditions that allowed Rogers Communications Inc. to acquire Shaw Communications Inc. give Canadians a seat at the negotiation table.

Source: BNNbloomberg.ca – video report

Date: Apr 05, 2023

Link: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/everything-is-on-the-table-if-prices-don-t-come-down-following-rogers-shaw-acquisition-champagne-1.1904497

Questions for discussion:

  • Summarize expected outcomes of this deal and what the government is threatening if they are not realized.
  • Do you think the outcomes can be realized, as planned?
  • What are the issues that might prevent the outcomes from materializing?

Doctors are drowning in paperwork. Some companies claim AI can help

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Description: When Dereck Paul was training as a doctor at the University of California San Francisco, he couldn’t believe how outdated the hospital’s records-keeping was. The computer systems looked like they’d time-traveled from the 1990s, and many of the medical records were still kept on paper.

Source: NPR.org

Date: Apr 05, 2023

Link: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/05/1167993888/chatgpt-medicine-artificial-intelligence-healthcare

Questions for discussion:

  • Summarize the challenges facing doctors and the opportunities to help provided by AI.
  • How will these contributions to help manage operations, costs, and patient relations, in your opinion?

Women now dominate the book business. Why there and not other creative industries?

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Description: These findings and others come from a new study by Joel Waldfogel, an economist at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. Waldfogel crunches the numbers on the book market’s female revolution. And, in a recent interview, the economist helps us think through potential reasons why women trail men in many creative industries, but have had spectacular success in achieving — in fact, surpassing — parity with men in the US publishing business.

Source: NPR.org

Date: Apr 04, 2023

Link: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2023/04/04/1164109676/women-now-dominate-the-book-business-why-there-and-not-other-creative-industries

Questions for discussion:

  • Summarize the research findings into the industry, as described in this report?
  • What does this mean for industry growth and development, in your opinion?

The Daily: Has TikTok broken social media, how much time online is spent on social, and Meta’s AR and VR plans

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Description: On today’s episode, we discuss the effect TikTok has had on social media, what time spent on the platform looks like, and the impact of its new screen time limit for children and teens. “In Other News,” we talk about whether social apps are taking up a bigger or smaller share of Americans’ time spent online and what Meta’s AR and VR hardware road map looks like. Tune in to the discussion with our analyst Debra Aho Williamson.

Source: InsiderIntelligence.com

Date: Mar 21, 2023

Link: https://www.insiderintelligence.com/content/podcast-daily-has-tiktok-broken-social-media-how-much-time-online-spent-on-social-meta-s-ar-vr-plans

Questions for discussion:

  • Summarize the highlights presented in this discussion.
  • Do you have concerns about the direction the industry is headed?
  • How do you envision the future?

Reclaiming the Reel: A Provocative Dialogue on Hollywood’s Biases Against Women and Minority Film Directors

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Description: Embracing diversity in the workplace boosts creativity, improves leadership, and enhances understanding of consumers. According to a McKinsey report (Dixon-Fyle et al. 2020), firms with gender-diverse executive teams were 25% more likely to have above-average profitability, and firms in the top quartile of ethnically and culturally diverse leadership outperformed those in the fourth quartile by 36% in profitability. Leadership teams that are not diverse can lead to higher polarization and performance penalty. And although gender and race participation is robust in the creative arts—especially in the film industry, where the structure is modular and work is largely entrepreneurial—evidence suggests that the number of movies directed by women and people of color has been declining since 1995 and was less than 5% in 2016.

Source: AMA.org

Date: Mar 29, 2023

Link: https://www.ama.org/2023/03/29/reclaiming-the-reel-a-provocative-dialogue-on-hollywoods-biases-against-women-and-minority-film-directors/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=rasa_io&utm_campaign=newsletter

Questions for discussion:

  • Summarize the highlights of the research and the interpretations presented in the report.
  • What do you think of the report and explanations?
  • Do you agree with the conclusions presented by the researchers?
  • What should the industry do with this information, in your opinion?

MLB leans into baseball nostalgia with wide-ranging campaign

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Description: Major League Baseball launched a new brand campaign to coincide with the 2023 season’s opening day on March 30, according to a press release. The effort was developed with Wieden+Kennedy.

Source: MarketingDive.com – video report

Date: Mar 30, 2023

Link: https://www.marketingdive.com/news/mlb-opening-day-baseball-is-something-else-campaign-wieden-kennedy/646408/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Issue:%202023-03-30%20Marketing%20Dive%20Newsletter%20%5Bissue:49211%5D&utm_term=Marketing%20Dive

Questions for discussion:

  • What is MLB trying to do with this marketing strategy?
  • What do you think about it and the impact it will have?
  • What do you think about the ad?
  • What is the message being sent?
  • What would you recommend to MLB?

Grocery code to increase ‘fair and ethical dealing’ industry, draft report says

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Description: An industry group set up to hammer out a Canadian grocery code of conduct is getting closer to a final document, even as the way its terms will be enforced remains unclear. A new working draft of the grocery code viewed by The Canadian Press and verified by two grocery sector sources lays out the fundamental elements of the industry-led accord, which aims to increase “fair and ethical dealing” across the grocery supply chain in Canada.

Source: BNNbloomberg.ca – video report

Date: Mar 30, 2023

Link: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/grocery-code-to-increase-fair-and-ethical-dealing-industry-draft-report-says-1.1902635

Questions for discussion:

  • Summarize the issues facing retail distributors and suppliers.
  • Why is there a need for a new “code”?
  • Do you think the process will deliver a fair arrangement for all parties – including consumers?
  • Are there alternatives to this process?

Your Next Landlord Could Be 100 Random People

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Description: Startups are buying properties and wooing first-time real estate investors to buy shares. The model could have real repercussions for renters.

Source: Wired.com

Date: Mar 30, 2023

Link: https://www.wired.com/story/arrived-fractional-investment-real-estate/?_hsmi=252508126&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_6BxRUZp1vSN_Bh9FIR75GdG5FKWsByHxbC_DJZDAZmwMgmVCH8bsPs5FGOfillRcF-m8PKY-jKUpm8wARM0PD-Glm5NW2HTIr6kMQs_1UcPfQ4tE

Questions for discussion:

  • Summarize the pros and cons of this sort of business model, as described in the article.
  • What is the impact on rentals, according to the report?
  • Do you think the business model could be used in other areas of the economy?

Twitter is dying

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Description: It’s five months since Elon Musk overpaid for a relatively small microblogging platform called Twitter. The platform had punched above its weight in pure user numbers thanks to an unrivaled ability to both distribute real-time information and make expertise available. Combine these elements with your own critical faculty — to weed out the usual spam and bs — and it could feel like the only place online that really mattered.

Source: TechCrunch.com

Date: Mar 28, 2023

Link: https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/28/twitter-is-dying/

Questions for discussion:

  • Summarize the analysis of the decline of Twitter, as presented by Natasha Lomas.
  • Do you agree with her assessment?
  • What would you suggest to Elon Musk and the board of directors?
  • Do you think an alternative to Twitter will emerge?

Movie theater stocks pop after report says Apple plans to spend $1B a year on releases

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Description: Cinema stocks jumped Thursday after a report said Apple plans to spend $1 billion a year on theatrical film releases. The investment is part of the tech company’s efforts to raise its profile in Hollywood and lure subscribers to its streaming service, Apple TV+, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Source: CNBC.com

Date: Mar 23,2023

Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/23/apple-movie-plan-boosts-theater-stocks-amc.html

Questions for discussion:

  • Why is this announcement considered significant for the industry?
  • How do you think this effort will play out over the next few years?