How Streaming Hurt Hollywood Writers

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This week, thousands of writers went on strike against Hollywood studios over what they say is an existential threat to their livelihoods.

John Koblin, a media reporter for The New York Times, explains how streaming turned the most prolific era in American entertainment into an industry-changing labor dispute.

GuestJohn Koblin () , a media reporter for The New York Times.

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• The dispute, which pits 11,500 television and screenwriters against the major studios, has shattered 15 years of labor peace in the entertainment business () .

• In the years since the entertainment industry’s last strike, sweeping technological change has upended the television and movie business () .

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