“We are thrilled to announce that we are re-establishing a bureau in Vietnam, and that Damien Cave will take on the exciting mission of leading it…The Times’s return to Vietnam is a sign of Asia’s rise as an important economic and political power center.”

“His call for federal censorship of a broadcaster for merely correcting his blatant falsehoods may offer insights into how the budding authoritarian plans to govern if he is allowed to return to the Oval Office. But as a historian of conservative news, I am also struck by what this episode reveals about the distorted memories of Trump and his supporters — regarding their movement’s relationship to both the FCC and to ABC.”

“Traditionally, publishers have relied on aggressive print pricing to counter declining advertising revenues. However, there’s been a noticeable shift toward more conservative strategies in recent years, bringing the concept of the ‘print runway’ to the forefront. Decision-makers are now focused on how they can sustain print revenue while reducing costs and funding their digital transformation.”

“I was really fascinated at this idea that to do the most passive brain rot-y activity of scrolling mindlessly on my phone, there was a real human labor cost and that these spiritual and physical and scientific laws of equivalence still apply to the internet.”

“Why would any publisher think that filling the internet with low-quality product recommendations, monetized by affiliate links, for which you have to rely on Google search for the majority of your traffic, was ever going to work?…Ecommerce platforms are getting tired of the massive amount of low-quality affiliate traffic they are getting, and are taking their own steps to only pay for clicks that directly contribute to real sales in a meaningful way.”

“The experimental feature lives within NotebookLM, the AI note-taking app Google launched last year, and will have AI hosts ‘summarize your material, make connections between topics, and banter back and forth.'”

“Rupert was moved to act, in part, because he worried James and his sisters would align to block Lachlan’s management of the companies, people close to the Murdochs said. He told people he was concerned that James, who has been critical of Fox News — especially since the aftermath of the 2020 election — would moderate the channel’s content, undermining its appeal to conservative audiences.”

“David Knowles, 32, who worked on the successful weekday podcast ‘Ukraine: The Latest,’ died while on holiday in Gibraltar on Sunday after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest…His podcast on the Russia-Ukraine war was described as a runaway success with almost 100 million downloads. Mr. Knowles was last year added to a list of people banned from entering Russia, alongside many other U.K. journalists because of their work covering the conflict.”

“We do not believe you maintain a workplace where staff can build long-term careers, nor have you protected essential standards of editorial integrity…management’s refusal to implement stronger oversight over the contributor network — over the objections of staff members — frequently leads to situations where unvetted articles from contributors create outrage from readers and cause damage to the company’s image as a trusted news brand.”

“Among U.K. publishers, The Times has put the highest price on opting out of sharing data, at £6.99 per month, ahead of News U.K. stablemate The Sun’s ‘Pay to Reject’ offering on £4.99. Next is The Independent’s ‘Independent Ad-Free’ on £4, Mail Online’s ‘Mail Essential’ on £2.70, and Reach national websites the Mirror and Express with ‘Privacy Plus’ at £1.99 each.”

“You’d think that a social media algorithm would focus on the things that you like and serve you as much of that content as possible. TikTok and YouTube seem to have mastered this concept, but there’s one place online where the conventional rules of social media don’t seem to apply: Instagram Reels.”

“Jones points to Luis Paez-Pumar’s column for Defector, where he writes that ESPN is ‘feeding existing soccer and lacrosse journalists’ work into a machine aimed at making them obsolete’ rather than hiring them to do this work.”

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“You can get to the results by clicking the three dots next to a specific link in the results, then click ‘More about this page’ to get to a link to the Wayback Machine page, the post says.”

“The broadcaster, streamer, and publisher is waiting on a report that it commissioned into alleged inappropriate behavior by senior staff, and its response to the allegations. Nine expects to receive the report in October, [CEO Mike] Sneesby said on Thursday.”

“Dovid Efune, publisher of the New York Sun, made his pitch Wednesday to RedBird IMI, the Abu Dhabi-backed fund that has been forced by the British government to unload the publication over concerns over foreign influence in the domestic press.”

“‘I want to spend as much of our money as possible on journalists,’ [founder Joshi] Herrmann said. ‘We are going to save a lot of money by publishing on Ghost and using custom websites rather than Substack, and that’s important for us because we’re not a media giant, we need to spend our income carefully.'”

“Each post on Bluesky can contain one video, which can also include attached subtitles. Users will be limited to uploading 25 videos or 10GB of video per day as the feature first launches, though these limits may be adjusted over time, Bluesky says.”

“It was like we had all gathered over the body of a specific period on the internet to pay our respects… At the time, the idea was that the internet would make it possible for people to make a living without the compromises made by corporate culture.”

“For the past seven years, [Kate] Lamble has covered the Grenfell Tower inquiry — listening to hours and hours of often heartbreaking testimony — until last week, two days after the inquiry published its final report, when she announced she had been made redundant and would be leaving the BBC.”

“The project has moved at breakneck speed and has been cloaked in mystery and secrecy. Musk has yet to make a public appearance, and officials from the local utility who were briefed on the project signed nondisclosure agreements, according to the utility’s spokeswoman. The NDAs were first reported by Forbes. The news dropped on Memphis in a press conference in June that was announced with little notice and caught members of the City Council, environmental agencies and the community off guard.”