“I went to Fredericksburg, where Logan now lives, on that February evening because I wanted to know what had happened in the decade since. I wanted to understand how, after years of association with the tick-tick-tick of 60 Minutes, she had slipped into a world bracketed by MyPillow discount codes and LaraLoganGold.com. How a career built on pursuing the truth had become so unmoored from it.”

“Patty Stonesifer, the founding chief executive of the Gates Foundation and a director on Amazon’s board, was named the interim CEO of The Post on Monday, starting immediately, and is leading the search for Ryan’s replacement.”

About 20 journalists will lose their jobs. “The publication [is] shifting away from having one beat reporter per sports team to broader coverage ‘telling the most compelling stories for fans across the teams in a given league, drawing on both local and national reporting expertise,'” according to a memo send to staff

“Patty Stonesifer, the founding chief executive of the Gates Foundation and more recently the director of the Amazon board, was named the interim CEO of The Post on Monday, starting immediately, and is leading the search for Ryan’s replacement.”

“Going forward, company managers will no longer investigate harassment complaints themselves. ‘All allegations related to sexual harassment will be investigated by independent, external third parties rather than by GNM senior managers,’ the company said in a message to staff obtained by The Times.”

“The manifesto provided critical clues to his identity, and six months and two weeks later, the Unabomber — Theodore Kaczynski, who died in a federal prison cell on Saturday — was captured. But to many in the profession, acceding to Mr. Kaczynski’s demands set a terrible precedent, undermining journalistic independence and doing the bidding of law enforcement.”

“No matter how qualified the candidate, the next leader of CNN will struggle against the larger pressures building against the entire cable-television industry. CNN’s overall ratings have slumped badly, losing just over one-third of its viewers on average during 2022, a phenomenon that some observers say reflects consumers’ declining appetite for news after the boom years of the frenetic Trump era.”

“Apple is currently planning a release of the cheaper model for as early as the end of 2025, meaning it won’t debut for about two years after the original Vision Pro. At the same time, Apple is already working on a second-generation Vision Pro with a faster processor, indicating it’s intent on a two-product strategy for the device in line with the standard iPhone and iPhone Pro models.”

“In an all-hands meeting, Mr. Zuckerberg offered an explanation for recent layoffs and for the first time laid out a vision for how Meta’s work in artificial intelligence would blend with its plans for the virtual reality it calls the metaverse. Mr. Zuckerberg’s talk was an attempt to rally staff after the most tumultuous period in his company’s 19-year history.”

“Carlson’s first two Twitter episodes were straight-to-camera monologues. He plans to keep iterating with longer, more varied episodes and the addition of guests, Axios is told.”

“So there wasn’t any pressure from executive leadership at NBC?” “I didn’t feel it, but, you know, maybe there was. I mean, I’m also self-aware. I certainly wanted to do this before somebody told me I should do this. How’s that?”

“The reason for confidence at the Telegraph is that despite the tangle its owners find themselves embroiled in, the group is in better shape than in recent years as a digitally focused subscription strategy increasingly bears commercial fruit.”

“She was eventually selected as a CatchLight Local Fellow, a position supported by California-based nonprofit CatchLight, which pairs visual journalists with community-based news organizations in underrepresented markets.”

“The survey found that 75% of Japanese encounter fake news but only 19% said they know how to verify it, including the use of fact-checking websites. In Vietnam, which topped the survey, 81% said they know how to confirm news stories. In South Korea, which placed ninth — ahead of last place Japan — only 34% responded the same way.”

“For his entire time in the public eye, Mr. Berlusconi — 5-foot-5, pudgy in build, creative in hairline and tangerine in complexion — towered over all other debate topics.”

“It means these communities are no longer publicly accessible, even to Reddit users previously subscribed to them…Moderators began planning the actions last week after the developers of some of Reddit’s most-beloved third-party apps said they wouldn’t be able to afford the platform’s updated API pricing.”

“It would enter a space that had been enlivened by the arrival of The City in 2019 and Hell Gate three years later, digital publications devoted to covering New York City. But it would distinguish itself by concentrating on the way that power is exercised in Albany and how it filters down and affects almost everything. Against trend, there would be very little in the way of takes or opinion.”

“The text was, at the time, just another blip in a friendly relationship between top CNN executives and Cuomo, who had emerged as a hero to liberals across the country appalled by President Donald Trump’s handling of the pandemic. CNN had benefited from the governor’s ascension to national prominence and had briefly aided in it by allowing him to appear on air alongside his brother, who hosted CNN’s 9 p.m. primetime show.”

“Although I’ve warned about AI-generated misinformation on Ars Technica as well, I’m still optimistic that people who are cognizant of these issues can get through the coming decade with factual electronic knowledge at hand. But just in case I’m wrong, a little voice in the back of my head reasoned that it would be nice to have a good summary of human knowledge in print, vetted by professionals and fixed in a form where it can’t be tampered with after the fact—whether by humans, AI, or mere link rot.”

“The report notes [Guardian Media Group] has ‘removed beef completely from the menus’ and ensured more than half of food options are vegan or vegetarian.”

“Ad spending will increase 5.9% this year to $874.5 billion, excluding U.S. political advertising, the report said. That figure is slightly behind global inflation as predicted by the International Monetary Fund, meaning it represents a slight decline in real terms, said Kate Scott-Dawkins, president of business intelligence at GroupM, in a presentation Thursday.”

“On 10 June 1838, with the Myall Creek Station manager away, a dozen stockmen led by John Henry Fleming rounded up and brutally killed at least 28 Wirrayaraay women, children and elderly people while their young men were away helping another settler.”

“The articles in question made a range of amendments: adding the word ‘coup’ to describe the Maidan revolution; changing a description of Ukraine’s former ‘pro-Russian president’ to read ‘pro-Russian elected government’; adding references to a ‘pro-western government’ that had ‘suppressed ethnic Russians’; and on several occasions adding references to Russian concerns about ‘neo-Nazi elements’ in Ukraine.”