Mediagazer: The Nashville Banner, which served the city for 122 years until 1998, plans to relaunch as a nonprofit news site with Scripps' local TV station as its partner (Chris Davis/WTVF-TV)

1:00 AM ET, October 31, 2022

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Analysis: how Google's ad business funnels revenue to prolific purveyors of health, election, and climate disinformation in Europe, Latin America, and Africa — Google is funneling revenue to some of the web's most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found.

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Ben Smith / Semafor:

A look at a complaint against The China Project, a US-based news company, alleging it acts as a foreign agent and China influenced its coverage, which it denies — Shannon Van Sant's career neatly tracks the American media's romance and disillusion with China.

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The Wire files a complaint against its researcher Devesh Kumar with Delhi Police, a day after police charged its journalists for forgery and other infractions — The complaint has been filed against Devesh Kumar who is allegedly involved in the fabrication of documents and forgery in connection …

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Jonathan M. Katz / The Racket:

Erik Wemple's reassessment of The New York Times firing James Bennet over the Tom Cotton op-ed is part of an effort to rewrite the 2020 civil rights protests — Sometimes, history changes unexpectedly toward the good. And then, powerful people with something to lose try to change it back.

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Karl Bode / Techdirt:

Renewed calls from telecom giants to tax companies like Netflix in the US and the EU over costs for traffic usage is set to reignite the net neutrality wars — from the please-pay-me-billions-of-dollars-for- no-sensible-reason dept — Telecom lobbyists have been working overtime in both the US and EU …

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Chris Davis / WTVF-TV:

The Nashville Banner, which served the city for 122 years until 1998, plans to relaunch as a nonprofit news site with Scripps' local TV station as its partner — NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — In Demetria Kalodimos's office, a motto can be found all over: Real people, true stories.

Discussion: @henryrothenberg and MediaPost

Attila Mong / Committee to Protect Journalists:

In Greece, unsolved journalist murders, threats such as arson attacks, and wiretapping of reporters' phones are worsening a climate of fear and self-censorship — In Greece, two unsolved journalist killings over the last 12 years as well as threats of violence and physical attacks …

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Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire:

Report: Amazon laid off ~150 people, or 50% of the team working on Amp, an app that lets DJs host live “radio shows”, take calls, and play Amazon Music tracks — In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant's hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more.

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

A US federal district court judge orders Starbucks union organizers in western New York to give Starbucks their messages to journalists; the union has appealed — A federal judge has ordered the organization behind a unionization drive at Starbucks stores in western New York to turn …

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Pew Research Center:

Survey: 50% of US 18-29-year-olds say they have some or a lot of trust in information from social media, versus 56% who say the same about national news outlets — Americans have long been much more likely to trust information from local and national news organizations than information on social media sites.

Discussion: MediaPost, @michaelbolden, @serwewx, @gottfriedjeff and The Hill

Eli Pariser / Wired:

Elon Musk's ad-dependent Twitter isn't the global town square democracies need; we need an overlapping ecosystem of smaller publicly owned digital social spaces — This is a moment to choose a different path, inspired by the lessons of thriving offline communities.

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Liz Robbins / Poynter:

A look at the “piecemeal” coverage of immigrant communities in North Carolina, where, out of nearly 300 media outlets, three reporters are dedicated to the beat — New research from Define American reveals insufficiencies in how news outlets report on such communities and how important it is to improve

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Alex Heath / The Verge:

CNBC and Bloomberg ran headlines saying Elon Musk cut Twitter staff, based on two people with boxes outside the company's office; one used a meme as his name — In videos circulating on Twitter Friday morning, two men carrying boxes are seen standing near the entrance to Twitter's San Francisco building …