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An Israeli shell landed among journalists covering the clashes on the border in south Lebanon, killing Reuters photojournalist Issam Abdallah and injuring six — An Israeli shell landed in a gathering of international journalists covering clashes on the border in south Lebanon, killing one and leaving six others injured.
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Tel Aviv police assaulted and held BBC journalists at gunpoint on October 12; BBC: journalists “must be able to report on the conflict in Israel-Gaza freely” — BBC journalists covering the attack on Israel were assaulted and held at gunpoint after they were stopped by police in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.
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Daily Mail, Poynter, @matthewkeys@mastodon.social, Caitlin Johnstone, @tombateman, Deadline, CNN, Telegraph, The Desk and CBS News


Newsrooms and consumers alike wrestle with the fog of war in the Israel-Hamas conflict, as some media and political figures are comfortable misleading or lying — The public is enveloped in the fog of war. — As the world's eyes remain fixated on the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas …


How The Epoch Times, the Falun Gong-backed conservative nonprofit newspaper, used aggressive marketing to grow revenue 685% in two years, to $122M in 2021 — The conservative news outlet has amassed a fortune, growing its revenue by 685% in two years, according to tax documents.


The frenzied global interest and a potential sale value of ~£750M for UK's Telegraph Group shows influential national titles remain attractive to media barons — While falling sales suggest the demise of print, the industry has proved adaptable and remains attractive to media barons


How conservative talk radio and cable news hosts demanding more ideological purity created the ecosystem that precipitated Kevin McCarthy's downfall as Speaker — Talk radio and Fox News hosts created the political incentives that fueled Kevin McCarthy's ouster and today's speakership drama.
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@knittingknots2@mstdn.social and Kenneth Lagasse on LinkedIn


Major Hollywood unions including the WGA, DGA, IATSE, and Teamsters issue a statement calling for studios to resume negotiations with SAG-AFTRA — “Each day a fair contract addressing actors' unique priorities is delayed is another day working professionals across our industry suffer unnecessarily …
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NBC News, Reuters, Deadline, What's On Disney Plus, Los Angeles Times, Variety, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, NBC New York, The Verge, Next TV and Insider

In his last column as Columbia Journalism Review's EIC and publisher, Kyle Pope urges focusing on telling the audience the truth and not the audience's response — Four years ago, CJR published a print magazine titled “How They See Us,” about the gap between how journalists are perceived by the world and how they see themselves.
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@brianstelter and @brianstelter


Q&A with New York Review of Books' editor Emily Greenhouse on language to avoid, deferring to writers, the newspaper's mission, welcoming new writers, and more — Emily Greenhouse, interviewed by Daniel Drake … Emily Greenhouse is the Editor of The New York Review of Books.
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@freddydeknatel, @deepakadk, @gar_i_ma, @sansip and @nickburns


TikTok signs Disney as a publisher for the app's Pulse Premiere premium ad product and adds a dedicated content hub for Disney videos, music, trivia, and more — TikTok has landed Disney as its latest big-name publishing partner for its premium ad product, Pulse Premiere, announced earlier this year.
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TikTok, Deadline, What's On Disney Plus, Media Play News and Digital Music News


A look at the investigations and other high-impact work by college journalists, who are holding people in power accountable even as the news industry struggles — Within the past year, young journalists have produced investigations that led to the resignation of Stanford University's president …
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Susan McMillan on LinkedIn, @splc, @splc, @splc and @splc


French police investigate the suspected poisoning of Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian journalist who fled to Europe after denouncing the Ukraine war on live TV — French prosecutors are investigating a suspected poisoning Thursday of a Russian journalist who fled after denouncing the war in Ukraine on live TV.
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New York Post, Seán Moorhouse on LinkedIn, CBS News, Politico and The Daily Beast