“The war in Gaza is unfolding on your cellphone. It’s being captured and narrated by Palestinians, trapped in the besieged enclave with cellphones, a command of English and large Instagram followings. While Israel and Egypt are preventing most journalists from entering Gaza, these Palestinians are documenting the devastation of Israel’s airstrikes and ground invasion in stories and reels. Their posts are intimate and raw — capturing images that mainstream media might consider too graphic to run.”

“‘Our building is literally shaking now,’ [Youmna Elsayed, a correspondent for Al Jazeera English] said during the broadcast on Oct. 30. Explosions echoed over Elsayed’s phone line. She was sitting alone in a room in her house where it was quieter. Airstrikes, she explained, made her youngest child scream.”

“The youth-skewing broadcaster is undergoing its latest round of layoffs this year as it winds down a number of long-running news programs. Sources told Deadline that less than 100 people are impacted.”

Meyer’s “breakthrough came in 1967, in the aftermath of the Detroit riot that summer. Mr. Meyer, by then a national correspondent for The Akron Beacon Journal in Ohio, had spent the previous year at Harvard on a Nieman fellowship for journalists, intending to study how pollsters used computers to manipulate data. Instead, he realized the possibility of using computers in his own work. He took courses, learned code and even devoted time to using an IBM mainframe computer.” Soon after, as a reporter for The Detroit Free Press, “Mr. Meyer immediately seized on a claim, common in the news media, that the rioters had mostly been poor, uneducated Black migrants from the South. He gathered as much demographic data as he could, ran it through a computer and got a much different picture: The rioters were more likely to be locally born, and were spread evenly across the socioeconomic spectrum. A year later, Mr. Meyer shared in the Pulitzer Prize for local general or spot news reporting, which went to The Detroit Free Press for its coverage of the riot.”

“The cartoon by Michael Ramirez, titled ‘Human Shields,’ drew criticism Wednesday, both for its message and the exaggerated features of its Palestinian subjects. In his cartoon, a man with a large nose and snarling mouth, labeled ‘Hamas,’ stands bound with ropes to four alarmed children and a cowering woman in a hijab. ‘How dare Israel attack civilians …’ he says.”

“Before [Bryan] West, 35, had the chance to file his first story on his new beat, he was getting criticism from two sides: journalism watchdogs and Ms. Swift’s fans.”

“Our contribution is not just that we provide a dollar amount for what is owed — which we estimate at between $11.9 to $13.9 billion a year in the U.S. — but we also provide details of our methodology so that others can replicate our work or use the same methods in their own markets. We benchmark our estimates against recent deals that have been made between news outlets and Google/Meta, but also with a database of news licensing agreements over decades. Our estimates take into account the value of news-related internet searches to Google, and the value created for Meta from the presence of news content, on Google and Facebook’s platforms. We believe this is a more accurate assessment of the value of news than Google’s figure that 2% of search queries are related to news.”

“My go-to analogy of the publishing business is a children’s soccer game. When the ball goes to one part of the field, a clump if kids surround it. It goes to another part of the field, the clump follows. The same pattern seen with SEO or video or commerce has happened with subscriptions, as publishers have looked to replicate the Times success. Even Condé Nast is pinning its future strategy on subscriptions (and commerce). The question remains when we will hit peak subscriptions. The recurring revenue model is nearly too attractive. The market is not limitless for subscriptions, particularly of news. In fact, the Times has achieved its success by morphing its strategy from a paywall for news articles to a multifaceted news and lifestyle bundle that’s future growth is more reliant on finding the next Wordle than the work of the Baghdad bureau.”

“Four months on, Threads has arguably become a significant competitor for X, and has done so a lot faster than many people expected: the app hit thirty million sign-ups within twenty-four hours of its launch; in a conference call on October 25, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s co-founder and CEO, said that it now has almost a hundred million monthly users, making it one of the fastest-growing apps in history, even beyond the initial sugar rush. And there are signs of growing usefulness for journalists, too—though that’s a more complicated story.”

“YouTube is debuting a new For You section for creators’ channels, personalized to whoever opens the page. It will start showing up on November 20th, according to a post from YouTube’s support account, which says the section will recommend ‘a mix of content from your channel to viewers based on their watch history.'”

“The failure rate for digital news nonprofits, over a long stretch of time, was on the order of 6%…The number was offered as a sort of proof of resilience, but I’m afraid it’s a sign of funder timidity, founder stubbornness and industry stagnation.”