“…Just Security recently launched a 21-point ‘American Autocracy Threat Tracker’ — an incredible resource for the public that doubles as a series of assignments that editors should be giving their reporters …the authors write that Trump, along with his advisors and associates, ‘have publicly discussed hundreds of actions to be taken during a second Trump presidency that directly threaten democracy.’”

“It’s not like AI is ridding us of the internal combustion engine. People will be outraged to see how much more energy is being consumed by AI in the coming years, as well as how it will flood the zone with disinformation about climate change.”

“While Russia has long sought ways to influence public discourse in the United States, the fake news organizations — at least five, so far — represent a technological leap in its efforts to find new platforms to dupe unsuspecting American readers.”

“A former disability accessibility manager for The New York Times claims the newspaper threatened her with a poor performance review for continuing to sound the alarm over the company’s disability access problems before ultimately firing her shortly after she informed the Times she needed time off for brain surgery.”

“NYT Games product design director Jennifer Scheerer told TechCrunch in an interview that the company redesigned the app to convert it from a place that was initially just for crosswords into a hub for all of its games.”

“…when you look at Fortress’s essentially 14 years in the newspaper market—how they were able to own the GateHouse chain from 2005 to 2013, when they took it into bankruptcy, and then restart in 2013 and 2014 as New Media Investment Group, before finally merging with Gannett in 2019—when you look at that trajectory, to me it’s an astounding failure.”

“Employees were laid off Tuesday and Wednesday, primarily in the audio and podcast production departments. The CPR newsroom, which has been the site of much of CPR’s growth since 2019, was spared any cuts.”

“When Ella [Gershkovich] worried about him writing articles critical of the Russian government or economy, her son explained that he was an ‘accredited journalist,’ his mother recalls, repeating the phrase as though it were a magic shield.”