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Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
Internal Slack messages show senior NYT editors dismissed suggestions from some staff that the paper hedge in its initial framing of the Gaza hospital explosion  —  Internal messages obtained by Vanity Fair offer a glimpse into the newsroom decision-making process and reveal pushback among …
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CNN:
Asked about their coverage of the hospital blast in Gaza, the WSJ declines to comment, the AP and Al Jazeera ignore inquiries, Reuters and CNN admit no fault
Shruti Rajkumar / HuffPost:
Scholastic drops plans to separate books based on themes about race and gender at US school fairs, after criticism that segregating books enabled censorship  —  The publisher had said it would segregate books with themes on race and gender at school fairs in order to navigate a rash of bans across the country.
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple raises the monthly US price of Apple TV+ from $6.99 to $9.99, News+ from $9.99 to $12.99, Arcade from $4.99 to $6.99, and Apple One from $16.95 to $19.95  —  Apple today announced that it is increasing the prices of some of its subscription-based services, including Apple TV+ …
Financial Times:
The UK ICO finds that former NatWest CEO Dame Alison Rose disclosed confidential and misleading information to a journalist about Nigel Farage's bank account  —  ICO regulator finds Alison Rose disclosed confidential and misleading information to journalist in ‘de-banking’ row
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Sources: US Secretary of State Tony Blinken told US Jewish community leaders that he asked the Qatari prime minister to tone down Al Jazeera's war rhetoric  —  U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken told a group of American Jewish community leaders on Monday that he asked the Qatari prime minister less …
Vox Media:
Melissa Bell steps down as Vox's publisher; EIC Swati Sharma plans to expand her role to EIC and publisher, reporting to Vox Media President Pam Wasserstein  —  Today, Melissa Bell announced that she will be stepping down as publisher of Vox, and that editor-in-chief Swati Sharma …
Naomi Forman-Katz / Pew Research Center:
Survey: US adults who say they follow the news all or most of the time fell from 51% in 2016 to 38% in 2022; in 2022, 19% said they follow the news now and then  —  Americans are following the news less closely than they were a few years ago, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis.
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
WGAW apologizes for the “tremendous pain” caused by its silence on the Israel-Hamas war, saying that the guild generally takes stances only on domestic issues  —  The Writers Guild of America West issued an apology to its members on Tuesday for the harm caused by its decision …
 
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Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
A dozen female former Rolling Stone employees describe Jann Wenner's office culture as “a dictatorship” with “palpable fear” and “a horrible place for women”
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to update tvOS with a redesigned TV app around December and discontinue some of its Apple TV apps to steer more users toward the TV app
 

 
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David Pierce / The Verge:
Google releases a free Gemini app for iOS, letting users ask questions, chat via text, voice, or their camera, and use the conversational mode Gemini Live

Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Sources: the CFPB moves to place Google under formal federal supervision, an extraordinary move that may lead to regular inspections; Google fiercely resisted

John Voorhees / MacStories:
Apple updates Final Cut Pro for macOS and iPadOS, adding AI closed captions and Vision Pro spatial video editing on macOS, and Logic Pro for macOS and iPadOS

 
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