“We have determined that our prior projections for traffic, subscriptions, and advertising growth for the past two years — and into 2024 — have been overly optimistic and we are working to find ways to return our business to a healthier place in the coming year.”

“[Editor Kathleen] Kingsbury said the section gets ‘a lot of interest from lawmakers and politicians who would like to write for us…98% of the time, the answer is no.'”

“My personal worry is that for a long time, we sought to diversify the voices — you know, who is telling the stories? And we tried to give agency to people from different parts of the world. Now we’re giving a voice to machines.”

“The striking workers are asking readers not to click on any Reviewed links while the walkout is ongoing. Shopping holidays, like Amazon’s Prime Days and Black Friday, are the site’s biggest revenue drivers.”

“The spies used the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, to try to induce the politicians and others to visit websites designed to install a hacking software known as Predator, according to the probe.”

“The earlier policy said only verified accounts would be considered for newsworthy posts. But since X has made it possible for people to get verified by paying for a subscription under Elon Musk’s leadership, the new version of the policy says posts only by ‘a high-profile account’ counts as a newsworthy post. However, the updated page doesn’t give any details on what kind of accounts are considered ‘high-profile.’”

In Spanish: “In the case of El País, users will have access to daily summaries of the most talked about, featured videos, audios and updates on relevant topics of the moment. The objective is also to combat misinformation by publishing specific content to debunk viral hoaxes.”

“Key to this wider attack on the media has been the government’s push for ‘re-Polonization,’ or the idea that Poland is so encircled by external enemies—not only Russia, but also Germany and other Western countries—that the media must be brought back under domestic ownership (EU rules be damned).”

“…the launch of La Tribune Dimanche was a longstanding project and was not about going to war with rival papers, but it enters the market at the moment when France’s only standalone Sunday paper, Le Journal du Dimanche, has been radically overhauled as a showcase of identity politics and far-right ideas after a takeover by the conservative Catholic billionnaire Vincent Bolloré.”

Slate’s social team took a humorous approach to it all, tweeting out a string of link posts with the simple text, ‘Whoa—you have GOT to read this.’”

“It was the second time in less than a month he had appeared before a judge to appeal an August decision to extend his pre-trial detention through November. On Sept. 19, the court declined to hear the appeal, citing unspecified procedural violations.”

“After The Washington Post contacted Amazon for comment, Alexa’s responses changed. To questions The Post had flagged to the company, Alexa answered, ‘I’m sorry. I’m not able to answer that.’ Other questions still prompt the device to say there was election fraud in 2020.”

“…Reporters and editors at the station questioned why management allowed the budget gap to grow so large, and why management continued to bring on new hires even as the budget gap increased. At the same time, employees voiced their frustration that while journalists were losing their jobs, no one in management was facing a pay cut.”

“You’re just going to see us increasingly find ways to be able to support newsrooms and high-quality news content and journalists, and make sure that they’re being successful on Linkedin, because we think it’s really important.”

“While Threads captured only a fraction of the conversation you would have once found on Twitter, it was a serviceable place to understand the biggest beats of the weekend: Hamas’ attacks; Israel’s pledges of retaliation; and charged conversations about what should happen next.”

“Rather than being shown verified and fact-checked information, X users were presented with video game footage passed off as footage of a Hamas attack and images of firework celebrations in Algeria presented as Israeli strikes on Hamas.”