“Many other Palestinian journalists remain in Gaza, working for regional media outlets or as freelancers for international outlets, such as well-known photojournalists Majdi Fathi and Ali Jadallah — but Baba’s position is unique. Americans hear his measured voice on the radio, reaching them over wailing sirens, scratchy phone lines and the sobs of the living — and they connect with him.”

“There have been concerns from within the BBC that Russian and Chinese state media are spending an ‘eyewatering’ £8bn a year, compared with the World Service’s £400m budget … There is also evidence that Russia has been targeting former World Service audiences where budget cuts have forced the BBC to retreat. When the BBC’s Arabic radio service withdrew from Lebanon, its radio frequency was taken over by the state-owned Russian Sputnik Radio.”

“The Spelling Bee Hive Mind is one of the most passionate NYT Games communities, as the Spelling Bee Forum receives an average of 1,000 comments per day. To date, there have been approximately 1 million comments submitted from the community across all Spelling Bee forums.”

“Two simple changes are needed urgently from Google. 1. Provide separate data in Search Console on the performance of links in AI search features (i.e. AI Overviews and AI Mode); 2. Allow publishers to decide whether their content is used for AI features whilst still appearing in search.”

“In a post on the social media platform X, Altman wrote: ‘We trained a new model that is good at creative writing (not sure yet how/when it will get released). This is the first time i have been really struck by something written by AI.’…Altman posted an example of the model’s output on X, after giving it the prompt: ‘Please write a metafictional literary short story about AI and grief.’ The story, narrated by an AI, begins with: ‘Before we go any further, I should admit this comes with instructions: be metafictional, be literary, be about AI and grief, and above all, be original. Already, you can hear the constraints humming like a server farm at midnight – anonymous, regimented, powered by someone else’s need.'”

“Beaudette, according to people familiar with the matter, had indicated to Tucker that she believed some teams could do more with fewer people, a belief that I’m told underpinned the current wave of layoffs. Indeed, leadership actually wanted to cut deeper into the technology team, but they were confronted with challenges because of union restrictions, I’m told.”

“There’s an absurd comedy in the current state of affairs. On one hand there is the federal government, trying and failing to ban TikTok from the United States; on the other there is TikTok, trying new ways to get its own user base to stop using it. Everyone seems to agree on the problem (using TikTok); everyone seems to agree on the solution (stop using TikTok). Everyone also agrees that people are going to use TikTok anyway. What can you do?”

“The Woods Hole Community Association had tried to keep CAI as a tenant, and said in a statement Tuesday that it was ‘very sorry’ that GBH made the decision to move CAI.” (See Nieman Lab’s previous reporting.)

“TMZ’s scoop of Jackson’s death was more than just a win for that outlet — it was a wake-up call for the media industry. ‘That changed the face of journalism, because we were trying to do things the old-fashioned way. We were trying to do things by the book, but we had to compete with these people who weren’t playing by the old rules,’ [former L.A. Times entertainment features reporter Chris] Lee said.”

“If a journalist uploads a dubious image to a detection tool, and the tool says that the photo is ’70 percent human’ and ’30 percent artificial,’ this tells the reporter very little about which of the image’s elements were digitally altered, and even less about its overall veracity.”

“Flow acquired Whalebone Magazine, a popular Montauk, New York-based lifestyle publication, in early 2024. That spring, The Flow Trip magazine was launched with Whalebone’s creative team and paid subscriptions.”