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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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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
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 …
Hassan Ammar / Associated Press:
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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The Times of Israel, Bloomberg, Doha News | Qatar, @cfwij, @malonebarry, Reuters, @risj_oxford, @erikasolomon, HuffPost, Talking Biz News, @antonioguterres, WGN-TV, @clickhere@mastodon.ie, Telegraph, @saulstaniforth, Associated Press, @presssec, @evanhill, @larichwine, Hesham Omran on LinkedIn, Press Gazette, @nadine_awadalla, @tamars, @cpjmena, @maishams, @timourazhari, @gebeilym, @alihashem_tv, @reuterspr, @matthewcassel, @fadimansour77, @hindhassannews, @lailaalarian, @spacecowgiirrl, @mahmoudramsey, @dalalmawad, @mattmcbradley, @bey_today, @treyyingst, Katharine Larsen on LinkedIn, @bissan_fakih, Deniz Uyar on LinkedIn, Voice of America, Washington Post, Christina Anagnostopoulos on LinkedIn, The Hill, @b9AcE@todon.eu, New York Times, Deadline, Lauren Young on LinkedIn, IFJ, New York Times, Mediaite, Committee to Protect …, New York Post, Politico, CNN, Insider, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Doha News | Qatar, Poynter, Rolling Stone, The Desk and The Daily Beast
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
How publishers are working around X dropping preview headlines from posts with article links, like posting the links twice or making full-on backend CMS changes — From posting the links twice to full-on back-end CMS changes, here's what we found. — The decision to strip headlines …
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@coreypein.bsky.social, Nieman Lab, @jnkappers, @pressgazette and One Man & His Blog
Boone Ashworth / Wired:
A look at the Whole Earth Catalog, a collection of product reviews, DIY guides, and cultural analysis from 1968-1998 credited with helping fuel startup culture — The seminal DIY catalogs, journals, and magazines printed by the techno-hippie publishing house are finally available online in digital form, all for free.
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@longnow, @stewartbrand, The Long Now Blog, @julianweisser and Boing Boing
Alexandra Topping / The Guardian:
Critics say deep budget cuts could leave BBC's flagship current affairs program Newsnight a shadow of its former self and weaken the argument for license fee — After losing its editor this week, programme faces shake-up that critics say could have long-term impact
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
The frenzied global interest and a potential ~£750M sale value for The Telegraph Media 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
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@jeffjarvis
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
Major Hollywood unions including the WGA, DGA, IATSE, and Teamsters issue a statement calling on the AMPTP to resume negotiations with SAG-AFTRA “immediately” — “Each day a fair contract addressing actors' unique priorities is delayed is another day working professionals across …
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Disney+ Hotstar reclaims the global on-demand video streaming record with 35M concurrent viewers of the India-Pakistan ICC Cricket World Cup match on October 14 — In India, few events garner as much attention as a cricket game. A high-profile match between neighbors India and Pakistan delivered …
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
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.
Brian Rosenwald / Politico:
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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The Guardian, Fox News, Insider, Kenneth Lagasse on LinkedIn, @knittingknots2@mstdn.social and CNN
Kyle Pope / Columbia Journalism Review:
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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@cjr, @brianstelter and @brianstelter
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