“Chevron presents the Standard as an investment in the Richmond community. The public relations firm operating the Standard wrote, ‘This site would tell the stories other outlets had lost the resources to tell.’ But not all of the stories.”

“‘We’re in a time of information abundance,’ says Brian Moritz, a sports media researcher at St. Bonaventure University. ‘But actual journalists—the people who hold systems and power structures accountable—they’re being totally phased out.'”

“A core part of [Nick] Thompson’s strategy was to figure out how much readers would be willing to pay for a subscription. He ended up raising subscription prices by more than 50%, and made it harder for people to read stories without paying … Subscriptions now account for two-thirds of revenue, compared with a little less than half when Thompson took the helm.”

“Martin Innes, an expert on digital disinformation at Cardiff University in Wales, said he and his colleagues tracked 45 social media accounts that posted a spurious claim about Catherine to a Kremlin-linked disinformation network, which has previously spread divisive stories about Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as about France’s support for Ukraine.”

“The piece, filed in Tech Gate by an alleged human named Bourbiza Mohamed — who racks up bylines on stories about video games, Bitcoin and NASA every five minutes or so — was published four hours after Poynter’s story. It had Poynter’s art and logo, and followed the same structure as Kelly McBride’s article, but nearly every sentence was rewritten with peculiar word choices. For example, the Tech Gate article says: ‘Consider of it (sic) like a meals prep package. A lot of the function is completed, however you even now must roll up your sleeves and perform a little little (sic) bit of labor.’ Compare that to McBride’s piece: ‘Think of it like a meal prep kit. Most of the work is done, but you still have to roll up your sleeves and do a bit of labor.'”

“‘Like many other media outlets, GBH is facing financial headwinds,’ [chief executive Susan] Goldberg said in a statement, in response to Globe questions. ‘We are looking at a variety of ways to address this, including eliminating end-of-year bonuses across the organization. While final decisions have not yet been made, layoffs are not off the table.'”

“Two journalists who were cornered and attacked by the Minnesota State Patrol as they covered protests over George Floyd’s murder for the Los Angeles Times will soon settle a lawsuit with the state for $1.2 million. The pair, one current and one former L.A. Times employee, alleged the troopers violated their 1st Amendment rights.”

“BDG has also streamlined its editorial strategy from covering ‘as many content categories and capturing as many category specific dollars as possible from advertisers’ to… focusing on ‘three to four categories at most on a lifestyle site and moving the more niche categories like travel or food onto very specific sites, instead of trying to spread them out over the portfolio,’ [senior vice president of marketing and audience development and head of social Wes] Bonner said. BDG is also focusing its efforts on social channels other than Facebook and X, such as Instagram and TikTok.”

“A few weeks back, LinkedIn said that premium subscriptions brought in $1.7 billion last year (the kinds of numbers that Musk can only dream of over at X).”

“The announcement comes more than 20 years after Life, which was initially founded in New York City in 1883, stopped its regular publications.”

“MSNBC President Rashida Jones participated in recruiting former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel earlier this month and McDaniel was offered a more lucrative contributor contract after she agreed to appear on MSNBC and not just NBC News, according to people familiar with the matter.”

“The failure to implement adequate policy for social media sites both internally and with external regulation has already led to deadly results, like January 6th. And that happened before the emergence of LLMs. Now, I fear that the convergence of unregulated social media and prevalence of Generative AI could lead to a ‘November surprise’ in this year’s elections.”