“By Friday morning, the link to the 31 phantom news headlines had been removed from Bilal’s main campaign site…On Friday afternoon, Bilal’s campaign restored the 31 headlines to the campaign site and added a note to the bottom: ‘Public Disclaimer: While we endeavor to keep the information up-to-date and correct, we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the website or the information provided.'”

“The journalism jobs currently being slashed at what seems like every single publication in America are not migrating into jobs at publications that utilize some new form of technology. They are just going away. ‘Creative destruction,’ so beloved by economic theorists, can be scary but beneficial in the long term. This is not that. This is just destruction.”

“The episode highlights how X’s ability to deal with spam has been hobbled by [Elon] Musk’s cost-cutting since he took control of the platform in October 2022. X has cut back on staffing to monitor content on the platform since Musk bought it. Now it is struggling to deal with the ad spam.”

“Reach said it will partner with Amazon on sharing ‘contextual’ first-party data, for example allowing advertisers to know what articles people are looking at, with the US tech group using the information to sell more targeted advertising on the UK publisher’s sites.”

“‘Authors are writing these incredible books, and yet when they ask me questions, the thing that keeps them up at night is, “How do I create this brand?”‘ says literary agent Carly Watters. It’s not that they want to be spending their time doing it, it’s that they feel they have to. ‘I think that millennials and Gen Xers really feel like sellouts. It’s not what they imagined their career to look like. It inherently feels wrong with their value system.'”

“And even as its GenX and old millennial fans aged and tastemaking shifted to platforms and influencers, Pitchfork remained the premier publication for music criticism, its year-end lists synonymous with critical acclaim. Now it will be an arm of a men’s magazine whose business revolves around searchable e-commerce lists for the best chore coats.”

“‘Guinean authorities should immediately roll back the wave of censorship efforts unleashed on the press in recent months, including the suspension or blocking of outlets, arrests of journalists, and repression of those who stand up for press freedom,’ said Angela Quintal, CPJ’s Africa program coordinator, from New York.”

“The connections are an extreme blurring of friendship and fortune and raise questions among some shareholders about the independence of the board members charged with overseeing the chief executive. Such conflicts could run afoul of the loose rules governing what qualifies as independence at publicly traded companies.”

“…it can also be an enormously helpful news gathering tool, giving reporters the ability to see exactly what information a company has added (or removed) from a website, and a way to see details that people or companies might be trying to scrub from the web. Or, if a site is blocked in your region, Google’s cache can work as a great alternative to a VPN.”

“As part of Tegna’s investment, 6AM will include news and weather from Tegna’s local broadcast stations in its daily newsletters in overlapping markets, the company said in a statement. It will also promote Tegna’s morning newscasts in those emails, and will integrate local sports headlines from Tegna’s local sports network ‘Locked On,’ into its coverage.”

“Under the new deal, Rogan will be able to expand [his] audience outside of Spotify, which has pivoted away from its exclusivity model in an effort to cut costs and grow advertising revenue.”

“I can understand why some job seekers grasped at The Messenger’s straws. It’s tough out there. But if you’re an employed journalist recruited by a rich guy with lofty notions about saving the industry, you should run. Fast.”

“Most analysts believe the figure is only the tip of an iceberg of scientific fraud…The startling rise in the publication of sham science papers has its roots in China, where young doctors and scientists seeking promotion were required to have published scientific papers. Shadow organizations — known as ‘paper mills’ — began to supply fabricated work for publication in journals there.”

“The company has spent months openly worrying that the cable-TV bundle was losing its appeal because programmers were increasingly moving their highest-profile content exclusively to their streaming platforms. Its chief executive even wondered whether it still made sense to be in the pay-TV business, which he called ‘broken.'”

“By actively trying to get scooped up into the LLMs that power generative AIs, Politico is going against the trend for news publishers, many of whom have outright blocked the web crawlers deployed by Google and OpenAI. [Politico VP for product/design Max] Leroy said that with the deployment of new Google answer formats like Search Generative Experience, ‘when they’re citing different sources — we want to be in those.'”

“We’re offering free Ghost(Pro) accounts and support from our team for the next year for up to 10,000 subscribers, to help you get a new publication up and running.”

“From its inception, the program ‘La Verdrag’ was meant to radically transform the way the LGBTQ+ community is viewed in Mexican society. First broadcast in October, the program goes against the grain in a highly “macho” country where nearly 4 in every 5 people identify as Catholic.”

Around 20 staffers were laid off, and “the cuts focused on the bureau’s economics reporters in Washington, which will be folded into the newspaper’s New York-based business team. The bureau’s team covering U.S.-China news will be shuttered.”