“Hearst and The New York Times both announced updates to their in-person attendance requirements over the summer, asking employees to come into the office three days a week. Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal’s union is negotiating the publisher’s in-office mandate, proposing a three-day cap on in-office work.”

“What’s behind the blurb arms race? Two things: the switch across the arts from a traditional critical culture to an internet-centered one driven by influencers and reliant on user reviews, combined with a superstar system where a handful of titles account for the great majority of sales.”

“Traditionally, local papers in America heavily cover high school sports because parents love seeing their kids’ names in the paper. But Brodbeck has banned youth sports coverage from his sites because he was irked by the number of reader complaints it generated.”

“America is entering its most important, pivotal year since 1860, and the U.S. media is doing a terrible job explaining what is actually happening.”

“Telegram is king, for both sides.”

“The Worthington Christian [] defeated the Westerville North [] 2-1 in an Ohio boys soccer game on Saturday.”

“[His] ultimate objective, he told me, is to cover the full cost of tuition for low-income students while expanding the reimbursement options for those who are better positioned to take out loans.”

“Fox quietly amended the digital story and then removed it from its website following more complaints from the Marines. It has not corrected the erroneous report or explained its reasons for removing the article in the month since it was published.”

“Semafor broke the news last week that a leading contender for the job is Mark Thompson, the former New York Times and BBC chief. But the company has also spoken to another prominent British journalist, James Harding, who led BBC News from 2013 to 2017 and then founded the British digital media outlet Tortoise.”

“The winning projects include exceptional journalism by local outlets such as LAist, the Miami Herald, GBH News and Borderless Magazine; nonprofit news organizations including Iowa Public Radio, Radio Free Asia and The 19th; leading international media such as LA NACION and impressive collaborations like Story Killers and The Great Salt Lake Collaborative, each of which involved over a dozen organizations.”

“At the center of everything were a business owner, a police chief and a newspaper.”

“This creates the worst of all worlds: either news link blocking by the Internet companies in order to comply with the law or no deals until the system is fully operational in 2025 and into 2026. Moreover, if Google joins Meta in news link blocking, the CRTC will be developing a bargaining system that does not apply to any Internet company.”

“On August 1st, an AI chatbot tool was added to Macworld, PCWorld, Tech Advisor, and TechHive, promising that readers can ‘get [their] tech questions answered by AI, based only on stories and reviews by our experts.'” But: “Smart Answers struggles with queries that seem straightforward.”