Here are audio and video from some of the big stories I've commented about in the media.
The most recent stories appear first, and within each story the clips are in chronological order except as noted.
Writers and actors Strikes (2023)
See my coverage at Puck news and reverse chron from March 23, 2023 forward.
The Writers Guild Battle Against the Agents
See my coverage in The Hollywood Reporter (upwards of 100 stories) and these appearances (reverse chron):
May 5, 2020: Showbiz Sandbox (WGA court decision)
Aug. 6, 2019: KCRW Press Play
July 9, 2019: KCRW Press Play
May 23, 2019: Spectrum News 1 Inside the Issues (and here)
March 7, 2019: Digital Production Buzz podcast
March 8, 2019: KCRW The Business
March 11, 2019: Showbiz Sandbox podcast
March 13, 2019: LA Times op-ed
March 20, 2019: Monocle 24 (London-based live podcast) (at 31:50)
April 5, 2019: NY Times
April 9, 2019: KCRW Press Play
April 11, 2019: Marketplace radio
April 15, 2019: KCRW Press Play
April 25, 2019: Digital Production Buzz
May 9, 2019: Digital Production Buzz
Driverless Cars
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Residuals
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The Sony Hack
North Korean agents hacked Sony. The fallout was dramatic.
Dec. 11, 2014: Digital Production Buzz
Dec. 15, 2014: Marketplace
Dec. 18, 2014: KPCC Airtalk
Dec. 17, 2014: Australian Broadcasting Company radio
Dec. 23, 2014: CNBC, NPR All Things Considered
Aereo
Aereo was a service that allowed you to watch live broadcast TV via the Internet, but they didn't pay licensing fees to the networks. That led to a Supreme Court case, which the company lost.
The New Zealand Hobbit Crisis
As my book The New Zealand Hobbit Crisis recounts, in 2010 an attempt to unionize actors on The Hobbit quickly spun out of the unions' control and led to unexpected results.
Writers Guild Strike and SAG Stalemate (2007-09)
As my book Hollywood on Strike! details, Hollywood from 2007-2009 was wracked by labor troubles, first a hundred-day writers strike and then more than a year of stalemate and stalled contract talks in the Screen Actors Guild. Here is that story told through audio and video.
