“The Marshall Project Guild will be part of the NewsGuild of New York, CWA Local 31003, and as a ‘wall-to-wall’ union will represent about 50 staffers on the editorial and business sides. The union, which has the support of more than 80 percent of the staff, is receiving voluntary recognition.”

“It’s highly unusual for the Times to conduct a leak investigation, with multiple staffers saying this is the first such internal probe they can recall taking place. ‘It’s not something we do,’ said one. ‘That kind of witch hunt is really concerning.'”

“TinyLetter has languished over the past decade. But it’s hard not to be a little sad when even a humble little service is sunsetted, especially one that contributed to such a strong and particular moment of internet culture. How many platforms had a distinct voice?”

“The case could complicate a long-delayed bid by the owner of Truth Social to go public — and deliver former president Donald Trump a financial lifeline.”

“At every turn, when The New York Times reporters ran into obstacles confirming tips, they turned to anonymous Israeli officials or witnesses who’d already been interviewed repeatedly in the press. Months after setting off on their assignment, the reporters found themselves exactly where they had begun, relying overwhelmingly on the word of Israeli officials, soldiers, and Zaka workers to substantiate their claim that more than 30 bodies of women and girls were discovered with signs of sexual abuse.”

“One of the unfortunate aspects of the U.S. attorney’s case, [Tim Burke’s lawyer Mark] Rasch said, is that it implies that unless someone works for an outlet like the New York Times or Wall Street Journal, ‘the government treats you as if you’re not a journalist. And that has got to stop.'”

“More journalists are creating portfolio careers where they work full-time writing for one publication, but do television, podcasts or events for other outlets that may reach a different audience or have more expertise in a particular medium.”

“Ad spend gains are now going to a ‘third wave’ of ‘retail media’, such as Amazon and Walmart, and to Tiktok, the data shows. The first two historic waves of ad spend were search (which mostly went to Alphabet’s Google) and then social (dominated by Meta’s Facebook and Instagram), according to Alex Brownsell, head of content at WARC Media.”

“The move by the group – which include publishers in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain and Sweden – comes as antitrust regulators also crack down on Google’s ad tech business.”

“The Intercept’s suit lists both OpenAI and its most prominent investor Microsoft as defendants, while the joint suit filed by Raw Story and AlterNet only lists OpenAI. The complaints are otherwise nearly identical, and the law firm Loevy & Loevy is representing all three outlets in the suits. Raw Story and AlterNet’s suit did not include Microsoft because of a partnership with MSN that helps fund their investigative reporting, according to [CEO John] Byrne.”

“Refinery29, founded in 2005, was one of the early digital-media players to gain relevance among millennial women, with revenue generated through ads, events and licensing deals. Vice was drawn to Refinery29 as a way to complement its male-heavy audience and draw in new advertisers.”

“Onyx Elm, a popular writer of Dramione fanfiction, recently announced that they’re deleting all of their writing from the internet.”

“Such a position is not a panacea for restoring the public trust, but it’s a good start.”

“They think you are a moron who will go to any website or party or TikTok with ‘Sports Illustrated’ or ‘Vice’ or ‘Deadspin’ slapped on it, even if the things you find there are made by underpaid contractors or ad teams or wholly fake people.”

Tests include a “headline helper” to give journalists headline options, a pilot to convert news articles into multiple languages, and an experiment to let generative AI label content.

“Television news has different demands than print. If nothing’s happening, they still need to show something. And, technically, precinct-level results are real results, real tallies of votes. It’s something to show until vote counting is done: the mechanics of how that process works and some updates on it. But there’s no point in reading out those results as though they are indicative of statewide (or even county!) patterns. There’s not even any point in reading out statewide results with, say, 10 percent of votes in; without a sense of where those votes came from and what’s outstanding, that doesn’t tell you much either.”

“The financial peril facing the Center for Public Integrity threatens to extinguish a newsroom of about 30 journalists that has watchdogged powerful institutions for decades…Before [chief executive Paul] Cheung resigned, he was the focus of a complaint that included a Slack message he sent to another employee saying they needed to ‘fudge some $$$’ for a presentation to a foundation.”