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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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CNN, Deadline, Telegraph, The Desk and @tombateman


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.
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@michelemccarthy@c.im, Shannon Webster on LinkedIn, @beyerstein and Mediaite


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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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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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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@deepakadk, @freddydeknatel, @sansip, @gar_i_ma 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, Media Play News, What's On Disney Plus 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 …


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, Politico, CBS News and The Daily Beast


An interview with MailOnline Head of Social Video Phil Harvey on the news publisher's TikTok strategy; the outlet's main TikTok account has 6.9M+ followers — Don't be surprised if you hear a member of Gen Z saying the Daily Mail “slays” on Tiktok or that it's gone “hard af” with its “fire edits”.
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@pressgazette, @pressgazette and Press Gazette


A look at The Debut: Dream Academy, Hybe Chairman Bang Si-Hyuk's project to form a US-based group of women from around the world that replicates BTS' success — With the world's biggest boy band on hiatus, Bang Si-Hyuk wants to replicate the formula that changed music—but with even more global appeal.
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@business, @bw, @minyoongiswagg7, @lucas_shaw and The Information