“In conversations with two dozen staffers at outlets like The New York Times, ABC and Al Jazeera, some of whom are working in the war zone, I heard about four overwhelming and overlapping challenges: dangerous conditions, factual disputes, distortions and disinformation.”

“Of the two dozen journalists who have died, 20 were Palestinian, three were Israeli and one was Lebanese. At least eight other journalists have been reported injured, while three others are believed missing or detained, according to the CPJ.”

“A Gannett spokesperson took issue with the Guild claim that the writers weren’t real people, pointing to the LinkedIn page of one AdVon Commerce writer whose named appeared on a Reviewed article. At the top of his account, that writer touted his experience in ‘polishing AI generative text.'”

“When I was in St. Paul, we had a business news staff, and I was surprised—I was surprised then, I’m no longer surprised—at how many people in our trade, in journalism, are essentially innumerate. They’re not illiterate. They’re pretty literate, most of them [laughs]. But they have been innumerate. They do not understand how money works.”

“Engagement metrics are down across the board. App downloads fell roughly 38% globally between October 2022 and September 2023, according to Sensor Tower estimates. In the U.S., mobile app downloads fell 57% in the same time period. Data from Data.AI, another app tracking firm, shows similar trends.” Usage, average time spent daily per user, and web traffic have all also decreased, while user churn is up. But hey, “Traffic to Elon Musk’s personal profile and posts were up 96% year-over-year in September.”

“If [Caroline] Ellison liked ‘stuff’ and ‘things,’ [Sam] Bankman-Fried liked ‘heh’ and ‘yup.’ Both alleged co-conspirator Nishad Singh and former FTX lawyer Can Sun gave testimony that Bankman-Fried responded to them with ‘yup’ or ‘yup, yup.’ He also seems to use ‘oof’ a lot.”

“From 2020 to 2022, the latest Gannett released newsroom-level demographic information was Sept. 1. As October draws to a close with no report in sight, some journalists are wondering whether Gannett has stopped its annual disclosures. The subject has been a point of discussion among union leaders at various Gannett papers, said Indianapolis Star photojournalist Jenna Watson, who heads the Indianapolis NewsGuild as its president.”

“When hundreds of Northwestern students arrived at their classes in the Technological Institute Wednesday morning, they found imitated front pages of The Daily Northwestern lying on their desks…an article headlined ‘Northwestern complicit in genocide of Palestinians’ parodied the University’s response to the Israel-Hamas war. The article featured fabricated quotes from University administrators and a metaphor comparing Ozzis — reusable food containers offered by on-campus dining halls — to civilian hostages taken by Hamas.”

“Jennifer Nelson, a senior staff attorney at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, said it’s unusual to have this much testimony in a case be inaccessible to the public. ‘The court has an obligation to make sure that any closure is narrowly tailored to address any potential harm that could come from the public airing of testimony,’ Nelson told me. ‘I struggle to understand how one individual’s entire testimony could be behind closed doors — that does not appear to be narrowly tailored at all.'”

“Wael al-Dahdouh has been a steady face of wartime news out of Gaza for Al Jazeera Arabic viewers. But on Wednesday night, his work turned personal when he learned that the strikes he had covered from the ground all day had claimed the lives of his wife, teenage son, daughter and grandson, and eight other members of his extended family.”

When Sanders left NPR after 12 years to launch the show, the move was covered by The New York Times, Bloomberg, and more.

The Gaza Health Ministry is an agency of the Hamas-controlled government. The Post published a Q&A for readers on citing its figures.

“Meta has harnessed powerful and unprecedented technologies to entice, engage, and ultimately ensnare youth and teens,” according to the complaint filed in the Oakland, California federal court. “Its motive is profit.”