“The Connections creator website is built and run by Anthony Salazar, a freelance web developer who runs the creative studio Swellgarfo. Earlier this month, striking New York Times tech workers used Salazar’s Connections tool to make their own strike-themed puzzle…Salazar tells The Verge that he will ‘definitely take down the archive.’ But he wants to keep the creator open, saying that it’s used by schools globally.”

“The problem of traditional media organizations is a problem of institution building, and the question of Rogan is a question of celebrity…I believe in the importance of building a paper or a news organization where no one person is more important than the other.”

“Union members passed a motion on Wednesday stating that selling the Sunday newspaper to Tortoise would be a ‘betrayal’ of the Scott Trust’s commitment to the Observer…If the strike of National Union of Journalists (NUJ) members goes ahead it would be the first such industrial action by the staff at the newspapers in decades.”

“The prospect of being separated from NBC News has raised alarms among journalists at the company, because MSNBC and CNBC routinely share reportage, contributors and more, and because much of MSNBC’s daytime schedule is filled with correspondents affiliated with the more traditional NBC News, not the opinion programs that are MSNBC’s most-watched properties.”

“Virality is a shallow, fleeting, even passive form of success; to become centrally relevant is harder. You have to be interesting—ideally, not just interesting but provocative—and quantity is vital, too, as it affords for a kind of digital malleability. If you record three-hour-long podcast episodes, as Rogan does, then you benefit from the fact that those episodes can be split into many short clips, which can recirculate forever on different platforms, creating rabbit holes.”

“Google had a top-down corporate policy of ‘Don’t save anything that could possibly make us look bad.’ And that makes Google look bad. If they’ve got nothing to hide, people think, why are they acting like they do?” – Agnieszka McPeak, a professor at Gonzaga University School of Law who has written about evidence destruction.

“Although science might not be partisan, it is political. To that end, calling science apolitical is a political statement that, given just months before an administration of climate deniers, anti-vaxers, and assorted catch-all bigots take office, whose political agenda depends upon a rejection of science, is also a cynically savvy one.”

“NBCUniversal, Comcast’s media division, is set to cleave off a bundle of cable channels that generate roughly $7 billion in revenue annually, including USA, Oxygen, E!, Syfy and Golf Channel, into a new public company. Comcast will keep the NBC broadcast network under NBCUniversal, along with Bravo, home to reality TV programs like Top Chef, the company’s theme parks and its Universal studio…Cable television, once a juggernaut that propelled the share prices of traditional media companies, has become a financial albatross.”

Alongside the usual accusations of the company stealing its material and having ChatGPT reproduce ANI’s content verbatim, “the suit also alleges that OpenAI has accredited statements and news – that never occurred – to ANI. ANI has argued that such ‘hallucinations’ pose ‘a real threat to ANI’s reputation’ and can lead to spread of fake news that can cause public disorder.” This seems to be the first time an Indian publisher has sued an AI company over IP.

Among other things the union is trying to get “reasonable” streaming residuals for the 94 writers in its unit, who work on shows like Frontline, NOVA, and American Masters, along with Ken Burns specials and PBS Kids shows. A strike could start as soon as this Friday.