“it sure can feel like journalism needs a miracle these days. But to me, all this shows that the news industry doesn’t need a miracle — it just needs decent regulation”

“It turns out there’s no money in connecting people to each other, but there’s a fortune in putting ads between vertically scrolling videos that lots of people watch.”

“Brut’s subscriber growth puts it within reach of the Daily Mail, which has 5.6 million subscribers on TikTok and is the app’s most popular European media outlet.”

“Wiener Zeitung, a Vienna-based daily newspaper, will no longer print daily editions after a recent law change meant it had ceased to be profitable as a print product. The law … ended a legal requirement for companies to pay to publish public announcements in the print edition of the newspaper, terminating Wiener Zeitung’s role as an official gazette.”

“The Cadet at Virginia Military Institute won for a package of 15 articles covering the contentious implementation of diversity, equity and inclusion training at the school. The decision set off questions about the award process as reporting later revealed that one of the submitted articles failed to disclose a conflict of interest and included lines that were possibly plagiarized.”

The Uncovered project — which Nieman Lab wrote about in 2021 — involved 19 community newspapers across the state, though two papers have since folded.

At least seven of the images came from the same stock photo archive, including one for “David Roberts,” described as the Bournemouth Observer’s “esteemed editor” with “a career in journalism that spans decades.”

“The students’ article posted on May 9 and within hours attracted thousands of page views and media attention. Within days came a dizzying series of announcements: that an external Title IX investigation was already underway; three unnamed staffers had been placed on paid administrative leave; Amherst-Pelham Regional Public Schools Superintendent Michael Morris was taking an immediate leave for health reasons; and the education union was calling on Doreen Cunningham, the assistant superintendent for diversity, equity, and human resources, to resign. She has since been placed on administrative leave.”

“This idea that the more social media companies collaborate, the more they start to behave like a cartel that results in a pretty homogeneous Internet. I agree that’s a problem and a risk.”

Nine of the nation’s ten top-selling magazines are now being printed by a single printer, Walstead, headquartered in London.

Yelena Milashina is a well-known journalist for the Novaya Gazeta newspaper. “While being beaten, they were told: ‘You have been warned. Get out of here and don’t write anything.'”

“Former employees said Amazon seemed happy to mine Goodreads for its user-generated data and otherwise let it limp along with limited resources.”

The main Threads mobile app will launch on July 6th.

“‘Alaska Weather’ has been must-see TV for 47 years in a state where extreme weather dictates everyday life. But the daily program, the only weather show produced by the National Weather Service, will have its last on-air broadcast Friday, with business considerations ending its distribution to public television stations in Juneau and Fairbanks.”

“The most emblematic example of Bolloré’s rightwing media push came when Vivendi gutted the staff of 24-hour news channel i-Télé in 2016. It was rebranded as CNews, a Fox News-like outlet that has since become an incubator for rightwing personalities, including the 2022 presidential hopeful Éric Zemmour.”

“You can go a long way with a reasonably consistent, one-dimensional identity online if it has certain features: smart strategies for posting content, an attractive profile picture, a degree of spice and sassiness … Our online discourse is deeply vulnerable to this kind of character.”