“The BBC said that parts of its content had been reproduced verbatim by Perplexity, and that links to the BBC website have appeared in search results, including content that has only recently been made available online.”

“The Google Calendar invite goes out to 18 staffers, more than half of whom joined the magazine in the past six months and almost all of whom have been poached from The Washington Post, including Ashley Parker, Isaac Stanley Becker, Nick Miroff, Shane Harris, Missy Ryan, Jenna Johnson, and Michael Scherer. More veteran Atlantic heavyweights like Mark Leibovich, Tim Alberta, McKay Coppins, and Elaina Plott also are invited, as are the top brass, including editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg and his deputy, Adrienne LaFrance.”

(Separately: Abundance coauthor Derek Thompson is leaving The Atlantic to start a Substack.)

—BBC statement on why it will not air a documentary about doctors working in Gaza (BBC News / Steven McIntosh)

“Post average circulation has dropped below 100,000 for the first time in more than 55 years.”

—Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara, just before he was arrested covering an Atlanta "No Kings" protest Saturday; he now faces deportation. (CNN / Marlon Sorto, Brian Stelter, and Caroll Alvarado)

“The Huckabee Post straddles a line, as do many elements of the Trump administration, between government service and media entrepreneurship.”

The total annual subscription revenue of all publishers on Substack, according to sources. Around 10% of that goes to Substack itself. (Newcomer / Eric Newcomer)

“Some theorists have even proposed that we’re returning to a kind of oral culture — what the historian Walter Ong described as a ‘secondary orality,’ in which gab and give-and-take are enhanced by the presence of text. The ascendance of podcasts, newsletters, and memes has lent credence to this view. The Joe Rogan Experience could be understood as a couple of guys around a campfire, passing on knowledge through conversation, like the ancient Greeks.”

“As access shatters, rituals vanish, as do the moments that make sports communal — a bar full of strangers cheering for the same team, the generational ties passed down through the seasons. Those experiences fade under a system that dictates that the more you can pay, the more you can see — until the game disappears behind another paywall.”

USAGM “told employees placed on administrative leave to immediately return to their roles providing counter-programming to Iranian state media as the conflict between the two nations escalated Friday, according to an email seen by Politico and three people familiar with the situation.”