“We know how that company operates, and we know what the possible impact is for all those newspapers in Missouri. And, unfortunately, it’s likely to be not a very good impact,” [Jeff Gordon, president of the United Media Guild] said. “These papers are already operating very small newsrooms, and there’s every reason to believe they’ll just get smaller with this move.”

“Tapping into agita among progressives about the new administration’s policies, they are fast becoming power brokers in Democratic politics and — party faithful hope — finally replicating the influential media ecosystem that Republicans have built over the past decade…For its devoted fans, who call themselves the Meidas Mighty, MeidasTouch presents an alternate reality in which Democrats are ascendant and Mr. Trump and Republicans are in a state of collapse. Titles of recent podcast episodes, which are also streamed on YouTube, include ‘Trump in Panic After Caving Like a Coward,’ ‘Trump Crumbles in Public as His Entire Life Unravels’ and ‘Democratic Leaders Destroy Trump in Red Districts.’”

“As part of the newsroom overhaul, the Post will divide its national desk into two sections that focus on national reporting, and politics and government coverage, respectively…Business, technology, health, science and climate teams will be brought together in a new department that focuses on ‘how businesses are transforming across the economy; how scientific and technological shifts are affecting daily life; and what it all means for people’s health, security and the planet.’”

“In January, Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee found that fake online accounts used for deception, known as sock puppets, among the pages relating to Palestine and Israel are ‘an ongoing issue’ which was ‘causing significant disruption.’ The committee is a group of editor-elected volunteers tasked with policing misconduct. The tensions have resulted in subtle edits of photos and text that allegedly reflect bias. Others are more obvious. For about six months last year, Wikipedia published two, radically different accounts of a deadly battle at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, though only one of them appeared in a Google search for the camp’s name.”

“In Friday’s ruling, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria wrote that the allegation of copyright infringement is ‘obviously a concrete injury sufficient for standing’ and that the authors have also ‘adequately alleged that Meta intentionally removed CMI [copyright management information] to conceal copyright infringement.’”

“At least 20 journalists have left the paper in the last year — including its best-known columnist and a beloved obituary writer — with several of them citing problems with the political slant of the stories presented under its new ownership. In particular, they pointed to The Sun’s use of stories from Fox45, a TV station owned by Smith’s right-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group.”

“In her new venture, Ms. Palmeri wants to speak to audiences from the underdeveloped territory of ‘the middle,’ she said, without a political agenda. ‘There isn’t really anyone there yet, and I want to try.’”

“Will’s decision to not…run the column that I wrote respectfully dissenting from Jeff’s edict – something that I have not experienced in almost two decades of column-writing – underscores that the traditional freedom of columnists to select the topics they wish to address and say what they think has been dangerously eroded.” — Post columnist and Associate Editor Ruth Marcus.