“Managing and sustaining funder collaboratives is challenging. Funders have different styles, time frames, values, risk tolerance and understanding of challenges. I’ve learned that attention to the process is as important as attention to the final outcomes, and gaining insights from the grantees, industry leaders and residents is important to creating a good strategy.”

“’Extremely Hardcore,’ named after the working style Musk quickly said he would require of Twitter’s employees, builds on [Zoë Schiffer’s] earlier reporting to provide the closest look yet at Musk’s destruction of what was once a foundational component of the global public square.”

“This obsession with verbal missteps reflects a basic flaw in the media’s idea of what a campaign is for. It’s not the national spelling bee. It’s not an obstacle course. It’s supposed to be a forum for candidates to discuss the issues that matter to voters – to describe their vision for our country.”

“I definitely want to go into journalism after I graduate,” said Sophia Harris, 20, a junior at Framingham State University and the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Gatepost. “The only thing holding me back is…the layoffs, high cost of living, now inflation, and that most people, when they start in journalism, they’re not making a ton of money.”

“The worrying trends of 21st-century American life, from the division of the country into red and blue enclaves to the tendency of social media algorithms to create self-confirming bubbles of like-minded people, have not eliminated the power of great journalism to catalyze changes.”

“There is mourning to be done publicly about the collapse of free media, and then a more private, humiliating one for journalists and writers everywhere who will simply never get another staff job again.”

“[The rules] effectively ban emotive content, which, given the horrors of most world news at the moment, gives the board something of a sterile feel. But it also provides a genuinely useful way to catch up on the facts of what is happening — the ‘what,’ not the more controversial ‘why’ or the ‘what it means.’”

“Today’s topics, as the section will be titled, are determined by Meta’s AI systems and are based on what people are engaging with on Threads, Meta told TechCrunch. These topics will be surfaced in the app in two places: on the Search page and in the For You feed.”

“The business of regional sports networks is collapsing, and profit at ESPN, the biggest sports media company in the world, is way down. Traditional media companies are paying more for fewer games while their audience — at least inside the cable bundle — is shrinking for everything but football.”

“Spotify data alchemist Glenn McDonald, who created EveryNoise, was one of the 1,500 employees who was let go [in December], but his layoff had wider-reaching implications; now that McDonald doesn’t have access to internal Spotify data, he can no longer maintain EveryNoise, which became a pivotal resource for the most obsessive music fans to track new releases and learn more about the sounds they love.”

“Political pundits offer different and very compelling reasons for why Modi keeps winning elections: the cult of personality, Hindutva, nationalism, an environment of polarization, and an inchoate opposition. But what many underestimate is how the political matrix has been remade by a society that now devours digital content.”

“Nattaphol Meksobhon, a reporter from an independent online news outlet Prachatai, and freelance photographer Nattaphon Phanphongsanon were arrested on Monday…The allegations stem from their news coverage last March of an activist spray painting an anarchist symbol and the number 112 with a strike through it on the wall of the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, located within the Grand Palace compound in Bangkok.”

“The Ministry has demanded that the magazine remove the story titled ‘Screams from the Army Post’ by Jatinder Kaur Tur which was published both in text and video format. Both these contents were to be removed within 24 hours as per the orders, according to The Caravan. The Ministry has said that if The Caravan does not remove the story, then the Government of India will block the URL of the story.”

“Being able to participate in democracy should not be this hard.”