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Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
X Looks to Expand its Video Push With ‘X Originals'
This story was originally published on Social Media Today. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Social Media Today newsletter. X is looking to sign-up more original content, as part of its expanded video push, with the launch of a new 'X Originals' moniker for its expanding slate of programming. As explained by X: 'Over the last year, we've released a slate of premium content series, together with some of the internet's top talent […] We've already released 17 shows with over 300 episodes across the US, Japan, and MENA, and we're just getting started - continuing to build premium original content series for X's most popular communities like sports, pop culture, business & finance, and more. Nowhere else can you watch a new series with your favorite creators AND talk to them immediately below the episode.' Which has always been the allure and appeal of X (and Twitter), that it's the top host of TV show discussion online, and if there was some way that you could integrate the two, combining content consumption alongside all that real-time chatter, the platform could become an entertainment powerhouse. 'Could' being the operative word. Previous Twitter management tried out many ways to merge the two behaviors, even signing expensive hosting rights deals with the MLB, NFL and NBA to broadcast games directly in the app. Given that sports is the most discussed topic segment in the app, and live sports, in particular, drive huge engagement, an integrated Twitter/TV offering seemed to make sense, bringing the top tweets and posts right to the same screen, so more users could view and interact with the expanded discussion, But it didn't work. For some reason, users prefer to use Twitter/X as a second screen, while viewing sports on another surface (or in person). Twitter also tried the same with TV shows and exclusive video content, to limited success. But X believes that it now sees a new path to entertainment dominance, though it's exclusive content slate, at this stage, remains limited. Over the first year of its video content push, X has signed deals with and/or hosted exclusive video content from: Khloe Kardashian on her 'Khloe in Wonderland' interview show Anthony Pompliano for his business-focused program 'From the Desk of Anthony Pompliano' Paris Hilton, on a yet-to-be-announced project (which now seems to have been dumped) Tucker Carlson, whose interviews had been generating millions of views in the app (before he migrated to his own platform) Don Lemon, whose X show was canceled after he interviewed Elon Musk Tulsi Gabbard, who had been developing a series of documentary-style programs focused on U.S. politics (now seemingly dumped) Jim Rome who's still airing his show 'The Jungle' in the app WWE, which is airing a weekly 'WWE Speed' show in the app The Big 3 league of retired NBA players, which aired weekly games in the app during its most recent season Rap battle show Verzuz, which is looking to make a comeback on X Investment-based show 'Going Public' (still airing on X) Football docu-series 'The Offseason' NHL's '4 Nations' tournament Athlos athletic events Special docu-series 'The Art of the Surge' focusing on Trump's re-election, and 'All-In with the Boston Celtics' That's not bad, I guess, in terms of expanded original programming. But 15 or so shows is also not going to make X a serious player in this space, especially with every other platform offering more incentives for creators to share their content exclusively in their apps, which have even bigger audience reach. In this sense, X remains a niche offering, and with its overall audience reach in decline, not an overly appealing one for those looking to build their online media foundations. But again, X does host a lot of related discussion, and it's hopeful that those additional community engagement benefits will be of interest to more content creators moving forward. Which will then enable it to build out its X Originals slate, though how X sees itself as a 'video first' platform at this stage is still unclear. X is not a video-first platform. TikTok is, as is YouTube, and both Instagram and Snapchat are inching ever-closer to being video-first in their own ways. X isn't. The app doesn't open to a video feed, and only offers video as a secondary element, that users have to actively seek out. Which will always impede its expansion on this front, and I don't really see how X has done much to shift user attention towards video, other than adding a video tab, and proclaiming that it's now a 'video first' business. Sure, video views in the app are increasing, but some of that comes down to how X is measuring video 'views,' along with broader online posting and consumption trends. Given this, I'm not sure X's Originals are going to see any significant expansion, unless X spends a lot of money to do so. And as noted, that hasn't worked in the past, so I'm not entirely sure why X thinks it can make it happen with this effort. But maybe, with X CEO Linda Yaccarino's experience and connections, based on her years of working NBCUniversal, it has some more tricks up its sleeve on this front. 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BBC News
18-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Eight-try Cas pile more pressure on struggling Salford
Betfred Super LeagueCastleford (24) 48Tries: Hoy 3, Cini, Senior, Mustapha, Mellor, Asi Goals: Milnes 8Salford (0) 16Tries: Foster, Macdonald 2 Goals: Brierley 2 Castleford Tigers grabbed a third win of their Super League campaign to pile more pressure on basement strugglers Salford Red Devils with an eight-try 48-16 win at The Jungle.A match played in bright sunshine was illuminated further with a dazzling display from Tigers full-back Tex Hoy who rattled in a superb hat-trick and had a hand in three more Cini, Innes Senior, Muizz Mustapha, Alex Mellor and Daejarn Asi all went over as Cas kept clear distance between them and their troubled visitors, who fought back in the second period with a try from Matty Foster and two from Nene allowed Castleford to pull four points clear of the battle at the bottom with Huddersfield Giants and Salford anchored in their own private battle at the foot of the follows... Castleford: Hoy; Simm, Cini, Wood, Senior; Asi, Milnes; Amone, Horne, Lawler, Westerman, Mellor, Hall, Senor, Singleton, Ryan; Hankinson, Marsters, Vaughan, Macdonald; Nikorima, Brierley; Ormondroyd, Hill, Makin, Foster, Warren, Davis, Sangare, Wilson, Marcus Griffiths.
The Guardian
29-03-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers' jobs with children: ‘It's insane, right?'
Beneath the smugness of Ron DeSantis, at Florida leading the nation in immigration enforcement lies something of a conundrum: how to fill the essential jobs of the scores of immigrant workers targeted for deportation. The answer, according to Florida lawmakers, is the state's schoolchildren, who as young as 14 could soon be allowed to work overnight shifts without a break – even on school nights. A bill that progressed this week through the Republican-dominated state senate seeks to remove numerous existing protections for teenage workers, and allow them, in the Florida governor's words, to step into the shoes of immigrants who supply Florida's tourism and agriculture industries with 'dirt cheap labor'. 'What's wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time now? That's how it used to be when I was growing up,' DeSantis said at an immigration forum with Donald Trump's 'border czar', Tom Homan, in Sarasota last week. 'Why do we say we need to import foreigners, even import them illegally, when teenagers used to work at these resorts, college students should be [doing] all this stuff.' Unsurprisingly, the proposal has alarmed immigration advocates and watchdog groups concerned about child labor abuses and exploitation. They point out that there is nothing 'part-time' in the language of the companion senate and house bills currently before lawmakers, which instead will permit unlimited working hours without breaks for 14- and 15-year-olds who are schooled at home or online, and allow employers to require 16- and 17-year-olds to work for more than six days in a row. 'It's essentially treating teens who have developing bodies and minds like adults, and this will allow employers to schedule them for unlimited hours, overnight and without breaks, and this is during the school year,' said Alexis Tsoukalas, senior policy analyst at the Florida Policy Institute (FPI), an independent research and economic analysis group. 'It's important to remind people that teens can work. They can get that experience and some extra money if they need it. But there have to be protections in place to protect our most vulnerable, and if we pass this that's absolutely not going to happen.' Meanwhile, an attempt by the state senator who sponsored the bill, the Sarasota Republican Jay Collins, to paint it as an issue of parental rights rather than a way to cover Florida's deportation-driven labor shortfall also failed to impress critics. 'We're not talking about The Jungle by Upton Sinclair,' he told the chamber on Wednesday, referring to the 1906 novel that described horrific and dangerous conditions endured by cheap immigrant laborers, including children, in Chicago's meat-packing industry – an environment that still exists today. DeSantis, he insisted, 'is talking about those soft skill benefits to children growing', and said his bill was aimed at teenagers working in places like grocery stores. Tsoukalas rejected Collins's claim. 'There's different arguments that people will put on the floor in order to do what they think it takes to get a bill passed. Given some of the justifications that state leaders have made in recent days, it's clear that they are linking the immigration issue and child labor,' she said. 'When the sweeping anti-immigrant bill of 2023 passed, we did warn there would be impacts on the labor force and the economy given how reliant we are on immigrant labor. Of course, not all of those people are undocumented, but as we've seen recently at the federal level all types of people, even permanent residents, are getting threatened with deportation. 'Combined with what's going on at the state level, that absolutely is a concern. It's no surprise that last year, and then again this year, we're talking about the need to fill gaps with other forms of labor.' According to the US Census Bureau, more than 27% of Florida's workforce is foreign-born. The Farmworker Association of Florida, which represents tens of thousands of low-income, immigrant laborers, says about 60% of its membership is undocumented, and most vulnerable to detention and deportation. Others are among half a million Haitians nationwide who Trump has ordered to leave the US by August after he rescinded their temporary protected status. Pushback from FPI and other groups persuaded Florida lawmakers to drop some of the harsher provisions in a child labor law that passed last year, and opponents are dismayed to find them back under consideration. Sign up to Headlines US Get the most important US headlines and highlights emailed direct to you every morning after newsletter promotion The state was singled out in a 2024 report by Governing for Impact and the Economic Policy Institute that recorded a surge in workplace injuries and violations involving minors – some in the agricultural industry where hazards include exposure to toxic chemicals and dangerous machinery. The report noted a corresponding push in at least 30 mostly Republican-controlled states to weaken workplace protections for children, and warned the second Trump administration would seek to escalate the rollback. 'We've been saying since 2023 that this is a way for them to exploit minors, it was when they passed this large, anti-immigrant omnibus and the same year that they tried to pass the first law gutting child labor protection,' said Thomas Kennedy, spokesperson for the Florida Immigrant Coalition. 'The only short-term answer to workforce shortages has always been net migration and they'll never go for that because of their politics. So their only answer is to widen the parameters of who can work, and you either go older or you go younger, and they chose to go younger.' Kennedy and Tsoukalas are hopeful that Republicans who said they were uncomfortable with some parts of the bill will ultimately decide to vote against it. According to the Miami Herald, the Republican state senators Nick DiCeglie and Tom Wright helped move it out of the commerce and tourism committee on a 5-4 vote, but said it 'needed work'. Republican Joe Gruters joined three Democrats in voting against, saying: 'We need to let kids be kids.' Kennedy, however, pointed to another Republican bill that progressed this week that would allow employers to pay interns and apprentices less than minimum wage. 'To recap, they made the state hostile to immigrants. They deported a bunch of people, or scared people into not coming, or moving out of the state. They exacerbated worker shortages, so now they're trying to gut child labor protection standards, while at the same time passing a law that would allow them to classify these children and other workers as interns,' he said. 'It's insane, right?'
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Florida Legislators Propose New Bill To Let Kids Work Overnight Shifts — & Yes, They're Serious
Child labor laws are under attack in Florida, where legislators think the subject should be a matter of 'parental rights.' The bill (SB 918) would remove restrictions on 16- and 17-year-olds who are currently only allowed to work eight hours a day on school nights and a total of 30 hours a week during the school year, unless they are given approval by guardians or school superintendents to work longer. The bill would also remove restrictions for 14- and 15-year-olds who have graduated high school early, are homeschooled, or attend virtual school. More from SheKnows The Best Part-Time Jobs for Moms That Allow You to Make Extra Money But Still Care for Kids Plus, the measure would do away with mandated lunch breaks for older teens. Bill sponsor Rep. Jay Collins told the Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee argued that most jobs held by teens are in safe places like grocery stores, per CBS News. 'Ultimately, we're not talking about The Jungle by Upton Sinclair,' Collins said, referencing the book that exposed horrific working conditions in the meatpacking industry. 'We're talking about them working at Publix, at Piggly Wiggly, or jobs within the industry.' 'This is a parental rights thing,' he continued, meaning parents should get a say on when their kids clock out. 'Parents know their kids best.' Meanwhile, Sen. Carlos Guillermo Smith argued that the bill could allow employers to force young people to work long hours at the risk of being fired. He also questioned the rationale for letting teens as young as 14-year-olds work overnight shifts during the school week. Instead of, ya know, sleeping. 'This bill is going to lead to exploitation of minors, exploitation of children,' he said. Sen. Tracie Davis agreed, and said that if the bill becomes law, teens across the state will face sleep deprivation, academic decline, or feel increased pressure if they are working to help with their family's finances. Davis said there is something 'detrimentally wrong' with the bill that 'takes away basic safeguards' for children. So why are legislators seemingly trying to remove these 'basic safeguards?' Smith suggested it may be to fill employment gaps that are a result of the state's immigration policies. Jobs that were formerly held by undocumented people are now vacant, and during a panel last week, Gov. Ron DeSantis made it sound like Smith was on target. 'Yes, we had people that left because of those rules, but you've also been able to hire other people,' DeSantis said, per Pensacola News Journal. 'And what's wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time now? I mean, that's how it used to be when I was growing up.' On March 25, the bill was found 'favorable' by the Commerce and Tourism Committee and now awaits action from the Regulated Industries of SheKnows Brilliant Boy Names You Didn't Know Were Invented by Authors Gorgeous Girl Names You Didn't Know Were Invented by Authors Every Endearing Nickname the Royal Family Has For One Another, From Lou-Bugs to Lottie
CBS News
25-03-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
Florida Senate panel advances bill to further roll back child labor restrictions
A year after lawmakers relaxed the state's child labor laws, a divided Florida Senate panel on Tuesday gave initial approval to a measure that would further roll back work restrictions for kids as young as 14. The proposal, which builds on the 2024 law, sparked heated debate, with critics of the plan saying it would lead to exploitation of children and proponents calling it a "parental rights" issue. The bill (SB 918) would do away with restrictions on 16- and 17-year-olds, who would be able to work more than eight hours a day on school nights and over 30 hours a week while school is in session, without mandated breaks. In addition, the measure aims to remove restrictions for 14- and 15-year-olds who have graduated from high school, are home-schooled or attend virtual school. Bill sponsor Jay Collins, R-Tampa, told the Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee that the bill would bring Florida into line with federal labor laws. Most of the jobs held by teens are in safe environments such as grocery stores, according to Collins. "Ultimately, we're not talking about 'The Jungle' by Upton Sinclair. We're talking about them working at Publix, at Piggly Wiggly or jobs within the industry," Collins said, referring to the book that exposed bad working conditions in the meatpacking industry. "This is a parental rights thing. Parents know their kids best." But Sen. Carlos Guillermo Smith, D-Orlando, said the bill could allow employers to force young people to work long hours or risk being fired. Smith suggested the changes are being floated to help fill employment gaps triggered by the state's crackdown on illegal immigration. Smith also questioned the rationale for allowing children as young as 14 to work overnight hours on a school night if they are home-schooled or enrolled in virtual school. "This bill is going to lead to exploitation of minors, exploitation of children," Smith argued. Sen. Tracie Davis, D-Jacksonville, reiterated comments from various young people who spoke against the proposal and outlined potential problems if the bill becomes law, such as sleep deprivation, academic decline or increased pressure on students who are working to help their families financially. The bill "takes away basic safeguards" for children, Davis said. "There is something detrimentally wrong with what we're doing here in this legislation," she added. The Legislature last year passed a law that maintained a 30-hour work week limit for 16- and 17-year-olds when school is in session, but it allowed parents, guardians or school superintendents to waive the 30-hour limit.
