The Objective / Alexis Allison
The New York Times / Katie Robertson
Sewell Chan named editor of Columbia Journalism Review →“I want CJR to be a voice for working journalists who face existential challenges — from hedge fund owners to authoritarian leaders to online harassment — and to explain to the public why fact-based news is more important than ever.”
The Atlantic / Brian Stelter
How much of the chaos at The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos’ fault? →“He has kept his hands off the Post’s news coverage, even when it dinged Amazon, even when it stung him personally. But some staffers now believe that he was too hands-off for his and the paper’s own good — his attention elsewhere while the executives he’d selected flailed. It’s clear in retrospect that the Post’s business operations needed more inspiration and more accountability. All of the runway Bezos gave the Post did not produce sustained profitability.”
The Daily Beast / Harry Lambert
Forbes / Rashi Shrivastava
The Guardian / Sam Levine
New York / Kevin T. Dugan
Sandy Hook families are fighting over what do with Infowars →“One group…wants the company to go into bankruptcy and then be sold off by a court-appointed trustee. It’s a solution that would end Infowars but wouldn’t necessarily stop Jones from taking his rants elsewhere. A group of families who filed suit in Texas wants to go another route: take control of his company’s assets and sell them off. In this scenario, Infowars and Jones could still broadcast, but the deal could increase how much the families get paid, at least in the short term.”
The Wall Street Journal / Anne Steele and Alexandra Bruell
The Washington Post / Jeremy Barr
The Verge / Jordan Pearson
The RIAA versus AI, explained →“These lawsuits, which are spearheaded by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), tackle music rather than the written word. But like The New York Times’ lawsuit against OpenAI, they pose a question that could reshape the tech landscape as we know it: can AI firms simply take whatever they want, turn it into a product worth billions, and claim it was fair use?”
Digiday / Krystal Scanlon
Press Gazette / Clara Aberneithie
Mind the London news gap: The boroughs which have little coverage of local government →“South East London appears the least covered, with Greenwich, Lewisham, Bexley and Bromley having one news outlet each. Hammersmith and Fulham, and Sutton were identified as the only London boroughs with no media outlet providing frequent coverage of council matters. Their populations were 183,200 and 209,600 respectively, according to the 2021 census.”
Press Gazette / Charlotte Tobitt
What happened when British GQ stopped trying to “feed the algorithm” →“…lots of short-form news, a lot of quick fashion news, all of which was still within GQ’s world but from an audience perspective wasn’t really serving us long term. It meant that we had a lot of churn, a lot of people coming in for that quickfire content and then leaving again without really accessing the broader spectrum of what we do as a brand. So we really made a conscious decision to slow things down, not necessarily feed the news cycle.”