Boston Globe / Aidan Ryan
Mississippi Today / Adam Ganucheau
Press Gazette / Charlotte Tobitt
The Hollywood Reporter / Alex Weprin
Yahoo Sports’ Paris Olympics plan? A team of gold medalists as correspondents →“The sports platform has hired seven-time Olympic gold medalist Allyson Felix, who will provide coverage and analysis of track and field events; three-time gold medalist Kerri Walsh Jennings, who will cover beach volleyball; five-time gold medalist Missy Franklin and silver medalist Katie Hoff, who will provide coverage of swimming events; and gold medalist Shawn Johnson East, who will cover gymnastics events for Yahoo.”
BleepingComputer / Lawrence Abrams
Forbes / Sarah Emerson and Rashi Shrivastava
Buzzy AI search engine Perplexity is directly ripping off content from news outlets →“Multiple posts that have been ‘curated’ by the Perplexity team on its platform are strikingly similar to original stories from multiple publications, including Forbes, CNBC and Bloomberg. The posts, which have already gathered tens of thousands of views, do not mention the publications by name in the article text — the only attributions are small, easy-to-miss logos that link out to them.”
The Counteroffensive / Myroslava Tanska-Vikulova and Tim Mak
The journalist death toll in Ukraine hits 81 →“Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, 81 media workers have been killed. 10 while carrying out journalistic activities, while 71 journalists died as a result of Russian shelling.”
Reporters Without Borders
R.I.P. Christophe Deloire, director general of Reporters Without Borders, dead at 53 →“Christophe Deloire had held the post since 2012 and for 12 years transformed the association, marked by renewed growth and impact, into a global champion for the defence of journalism…Deloire was a tireless defender, on every continent, of the freedom, independence and pluralism of journalism, in a context of information chaos. Journalism was his life’s struggle, which he fought with unshakeable conviction.”
The Guardian / Dharna Noor
Publishers are mostly quiet after the UN secretary general called for ban on ads for oil and gas →“‘Stop taking fossil-fuel advertising,’ António Guterres implored in a major speech on Wednesday after railing against energy companies for ‘distorting the truth, deceiving the public, and sowing doubt’ about the climate crisis. ‘Many in the fossil-fuel industry have shamelessly greenwashed, even as they have sought to delay climate action with lobbying, legal threats, and massive ad campaigns,’ Guterres said.”
Press Gazette / Bron Maher
NOTUS / Evan McMorris-Santoro and Alex Roarty
It’s 2024. Elon Musk rules Twitter. But the political world is still addicted. →“The argument is over; the hellsite is back. It’s a win for Musk, but one that people absolutely do not want to hand to him. In interviews, users said Twitter is not what it was, but also it’s not as bad as it was in the most chaotic days after it became Musk’s to do with as he pleases. People do not like to be on it, but they also once again have to be.”
Canadian Press / Mickey Djuric
The Guardian / Edward Helmore
Alex Jones to liquidate assets to help meet Sandy Hook judgment →“Under a liquidation, the families, who have not yet received any of the payment owed by Jones, are less likely to see any money. But Jones would be forced to sell most of what he owns, including his company and its assets, though he could keep his home and other personal belongings, according to the Associated Press.”