“[The report] draws on interviews with 37 reporters, editors, publishers, freelancers, and social media/audience engagement managers from throughout the U.S. about their experiences with and thoughts about their newsrooms’ social media policies.”

“The shift, proposed to occur by the end of January, likely would result in the loss of more than 100 jobs, most of them full-time.”

“Ms. Moss, who continues to work for the Fulton County elections board, and Ms. Freeman, a temporary employee during the 2020 election, were ensnared by the Trump-supporting media and Mr. Trump himself after Gateway Pundit published dozens of false stories about them, starting last December and continuing through this November. The stories called the two women ‘crooked Democrats’ and claimed that they ‘pulled out suitcases full of ballots and began counting those ballots without election monitors in the room.’”

“Dorsey’s departure from Twitter, coming shortly after Bezos left Amazon, seemingly marks a new phase of tech skepticism in Washington, a shift away from the ‘brilliant founder’ narrative and into a more mature critique of these companies as powerful institutions. Without memeable leaders like Dorsey or Bezos to haul in for splashy, dunk-filled hearings, lawmakers will have more incentive to work on the boring stuff: actually writing policy to change these companies’ behaviors.”

“This marks Clare’s return to The New Yorker, where she previously worked as a fact checker for nearly two years, starting in 2014.”

“The legal brief submitted by The Post, the New York Times, CNN, NBC News and others creates strange bedfellows. It aligns some of the biggest news organizations with one of their harshest critics.”

“This free course will teach you to recognize telltale signs of hype and distortion, spot the most common kinds of statistical trickery, assess the quality of scientific evidence, and recognize when sources have financial conflicts of interest.”

“With the acquisition, Ogden Newspapers will publish 54 daily newspapers and a number of weekly newspapers and magazines in 18 states, according to The Aspen Times, which is owned by Swift. Terms of the deal, set to close Dec. 31, were not released.”

“Ms. Reichl has committed to producing a month’s worth of free daily newsletters as a writer in residence. If the project takes off and she likes the process, she said, she will begin a newsletter that requires a subscription. Ms. Reichl joins a collection of food writers who will debut Dec. 1 as part of what the platform is calling ‘Substack Food.’”

“’Some say the world will end in fire,’ wrote the poet Robert Frost — and for much of 2021, Associated Press photographers captured scenes of a world ablaze, amid rumblings of ruin.”