Giphy has hundreds of millions of daily users and earns revenue through branded content.

“I don’t want this to be true, but it is getting harder and harder to argue that it is a mere coincidence that large media companies are criticizing big tech out of one side of their mouth and asking for money — or else! — out of the other.”

“The Committee to Protect Journalists issued guidelines to reporters who cover anti-lockdown protests. ‘Remain alert to the risk of people spitting / coughing close to or on you, either accidentally or deliberately,’ it says.”

“Tribune Publishing and the Chicago Tribune Guild agreed Wednesday to a three-week furlough for all unionized newsroom employees making $40,000 or more as a cost-saving measure during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

These fresh cuts are despite gaining 50,000 new digital subscribers over the past two months.

“The Times has lured journalists like Charlie Warzel, Davey Alba, Sheera Frenkel, Sapna Maheshwari, Jane Bradley, Roxanne Emadi, and Reggie Ugwu. In all, there are more than 20 ex-BuzzFeeders who belong to the Times’ #BuzzFriends channel on Slack.”

The Post would not say how many subscribers the newsletter has but claimed it has a 40 percent open rate. “We’re always focused on habit-forming features, and we’re continuing to double down on that.”

“These journalistic conventions are so all-pervasive that we barely notice them. But they’re extremely pernicious, and they need to stop. They both reflect and grotesquely amplify a tendency that badly misleads readers. That happened widely in 2016, to President Trump’s great benefit. It’s now happening again.”