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1:00 AM ET, October 16, 2023

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BBC:
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.
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
How publishers are working around X removing preview headlines from posts with article links, like pasting the link 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 …
Boone Ashworth / Wired:
A look at the Whole Earth Catalog, a collection of product reviews, DIY guides, and magazines from 1968 to 1998 credited with seeding today's 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.
Alexandra Topping / The Guardian:
Critics say deep budget cuts could leave the BBC's flagship current affairs program, Newsnight, a shadow of its former self and weaken the license fee argument  —  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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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 …
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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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
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Ismail Shakil / Reuters:
News Media Canada, which represents Canada's top newspapers, backs many of Google's issues with the Online News Act, whose final rules could hit by December 19