“Many of these sources said it is within Playbook, the outlet’s signature newsletter product, that disharmony has been most apparent…some staffers who spoke with The Daily Beast suggested the newsletter has become the ultimate manifestation of a ‘sugar high’ approach to news gathering, with an allegedly increased reliance on ‘hot takes’ and sensationalist subjects.”

“Management is not happy. In the Times all-company Slack, David Perpich, whose title is head of standalone products, which means he oversees things like Wirecutter and the Cooking product — and whose grandfather is Arthur Ochs Sulzberger — posted a message saying that, while the institution understood the right to strike, management was ‘disappointed.'”

“For The Storm Lake Times, a family-run paper in northwestern Iowa, it could mean $200,000 in federal subsidies the first year and nearly $500,000 over the four years after that…And Gannett, the largest newspaper chain in the country, could receive $37.5 million the first year and tens of millions after that.”

“The continued growth appears to be both an individual success story and a reflection of a news industry that is emerging well from the Covid-19 pandemic, with Bloomberg chief executive Justin B Smith telling Press Gazette ‘the truth is, everyone’s doing well this year.'”

“Prior to 2017, [Times international president Stephen] Dunbar-Johnson says that NYT had taken a position of ‘balanced coverage’ on the subject of climate change. ‘We were always going to look for the other side of the story.’ He says it was executive editor Dean Baquet who pushed for the publication to take climate coverage more seriously, recognizing it as scientific fact, a man-made phenomenon and the biggest story of our time, which was when we realized we needed to cover the hell out of it, in-depth and consistently.'”

“You’re basically on your own, and you won’t get better at pitching until you get a ton of rejections and look at what you’re doing wrong. The curriculum should include how to make money, and that includes pitch workshopping.”

“Australia’s defense minister on Wednesday won a defamation case over a six-word tweet that called him a ‘rape apologist.’ Critics and experts said the court case exemplified the conservative government’s heavy-handed approach toward regulating damaging commentary on social media…The case also represented a troubling shift as politicians bring more lawsuits against ordinary citizens, they said.”

First it was two NRK journalists, who were detained for more than 30 hours and had their video footage deleted. Than a third, who had previously uncovered worker deaths in World Cup construction, was arrested for “assault.”

“Based on a full-text analysis of 763,887 Wall Street Journal articles published from 1984 to 2017, the authors find that news coverage of particular topics, like signs of a looming recession, predicts 25% of average fluctuations in stock market returns.”

You know who else approved a “poison pill” to guard against a takeover by Alden Global Capital? Tribune Publishing. Any idea who owns Tribune Publishing now?

“Very few principles are as firmly entrenched in First Amendment law as the doctrine of ‘prior restraint’…Nonetheless, every now and then, local judges begin to wonder, like the attorney played by Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny, whether the Court is really…serious about that.”

“The dismantling of General Electric, Toshiba, Johnson & Johnson, Siemens, DowDuPont, United Technologies and other sprawling business empires in recent years has been heralded as the end of the conglomerate and the demise of the idea that brilliant management teams can succeed operating in very different industries. But just as those giants of traditional industry are being dismembered, today’s tech giants have arisen as latter-day conglomerates — what some even call ‘neo-conglomerates.'”

“Lytvynenko and Silverman recommended the tool WeVerify, a verification plugin that works with Chrome. Once installed, the plugin gives users the option to run a photograph through various search engines including TinEye, Bing, and Yandex, also allowing the user to highlight a specific part of the image and only search for that. Yandex also has facial recognition capabilities — though that technology still demands additional verification.”

“If publishers really want to keep the internet free, they too need to think in terms of user experience — those they offer their users, of course, but also those they offer to the brands they hope to attract. So that’s the world as it stands: users want experiences, and businesses want outcomes. Nice ads alone don’t cut it.” (Fair warning: Piece written by adtech exec.)

“I was angry at First Look Media. I was just angry at the whole system…Of course First Look Media fell behind [in paying Winner’s legal bills to the degree she says they agreed to]. You know what I mean? They don’t have to pay anymore.”

The president of Report for America is calling for stronger antitrust enforcement and the passage of the Build Back Better bill, which contains a payroll tax credit to help news organizations hire and keep local journalists.