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Reporters Without Borders:
RSF investigation into the death of Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah in Lebanon: one car had clear “press” markings and two strikes occurred ~30 seconds apart — Organisation: — RSF_en — Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has released a video reconstruction of the tragedy …
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@malonebarry, @ionacraig, @mehdirhasan, @rsf_inter, @malonebarry, Agence France-Presse, @antoinette_news, @mehdirhasan@threads.net and Reuters
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Mark Bendeich / Reuters:
The Israel Defense Forces tells Reuters and the AFP that the safety of their journalists in Gaza cannot be guaranteed, after the outlets sought assurances — Israel's military has told international news organisations Reuters and Agence France Presse that it cannot guarantee the safety …
Laurin-Whitney Gottbrath / Axios:
Some reporters in Gaza have been able to give intermittent updates via satellite connections, as a communications blackout since October 27 cuts off the Strip
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Committee to Protect …, NPR, The Guardian, @naomizeveloff, @pressfreedom, @middleeasteye, @joyce_karam, Middle East Eye, Associated Press, The Guardian, TIME, Politico, Rolling Stone and ABC7
David Montgomery / YouGov:
YouGov survey of 29,397 Americans: 85% own at least one physical book, 20% own one to 10, 14% own 11 to 25, and 13% own 26 to 50; 9% say they own 100+ e-books — Whether you sort your books by genre, author's name, the Dewey Decimal System, or the color of the spine, you're in the minority.
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@michellemanafy@journa.host, @yougovamerica, @dhmontgomery, @dhmontgomery, @markwgilson, @zjayres and @dhmontgomery
Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg:
Meta plans to offer Instagram and Facebook users in the EU, EEA, and Switzerland an ad-free option for €9.99 or €12.99 per month, alongside free with ads — - Plans cost €9.99 per month on the web, €12.99 on mobile — The model follows increasing EU regulations on data access
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Meta, more at Techmeme »
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: at a private meeting with bank executives last week, Biden fumed at the NYT for saying that an Israeli airstrike was behind the Gaza hospital explosion — The Scoop — President Joe Biden raged against The New York Times in a private White House meeting early last week …
Discussion:
@brianstelter and Politico
Steven Kurutz / New York Times:
A look at blue-collar influencers, including a trucker, a shepherd, and a fisherman, who have amassed large audiences by posting short videos of their workday — A new crop of popular social media personalities includes a trucker, a shepherd and a commercial fisherman.
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MIT Technology Review, more at Techmeme »
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
The UK's culture secretary, Lucy Frazer, wants to bolster internal regulatory structures at the BBC as part of a review set be released in the coming weeks — Review into national broadcaster will examine internal protocols, Lucy Frazer says — Rishi Sunak's government will seek …
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@anjliraval and GB News
Kristin Robinson / Billboard:
Sources: BMG terminated ~40 employees on October 27; memo: the layoffs effectively “discontinued” its international marketing department for recordings and more — About 40 employees were let go Thursday, including executive vp, global repertoire Fred Casimir and senior vp, global repertoire Jason Hradil.
Discussion:
CMU and @meetmusiclovers
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Elon Musk says X posts corrected by Community Notes will be “ineligible for revenue share” in order to “maximize the incentive for accuracy over sensationalism” — X posts that are corrected by Community Notes, the platform's crowd-sourced fact-checking system …
New York Times:
AI fakes related to the Israel-Hamas war have been limited and unconvincing, but the possibility of such fakes circulating leads some to dismiss genuine content — Fakes related to the conflict have been limited and largely unconvincing, but their presence has people doubting real evidence.
Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Ad holding company Omnicom agrees to acquire Flywheel, the digital commerce arm of UK-based B2B media company Ascential, for a net cash purchase price of ~$835M — Flywheel, part of Cannes Lions owner Ascential, aims to help brands sell on digital marketplaces such as Amazon
Discussion:
Adweek, Reuters and Omnicom Group Inc., more at Techmeme »
David Zweig / Silent Lunch, The David Zweig Newsletter:
How a mistranslation and copying bad reporting may have led to wide coverage that 500+ people died in the Gaza hospital blast; no outlet quoted a primary source — I asked a dozen reporters and news outlets for the source of a statement they attributed to Hamas. None of them answered.
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