Mediagazer: Columbia Journalism School names Margaret Sullivan as executive director for the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security, starting on January 1 (Columbia Journalism School)

2:00 PM ET, November 2, 2023

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After Bulgaria expelled a Russian journalist for a state-owned outlet, Russia summons a Bulgarian correspondent in Moscow to the foreign ministry — Russia on Thursday warned Bulgaria that it would retaliate against Sofia for its decision to expel a Russian journalist on national security grounds …

Discussion: Fox News

Eve Sampson / ICIJ:
Q&A with Patrick Forbes, the director of “The Price of Truth” documentary on Dmitry Muratov, on his attempts to keep Russia's last independent newspaper going

Discussion: @eveksampson

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Discussion: Voice of San Diego, Andy Donohue on LinkedIn and The Atlantic

Columbia Journalism School:

Columbia Journalism School names Margaret Sullivan as executive director for the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security, starting on January 1 — Margaret Sullivan, weekly columnist for the Guardian US, will become the Executive Director for the Craig Newmark Center …

Discussion: @sulliview, @craignewmark, @sulliview and @columbiajourn

Mia Sato / The Verge:

Meta announces new creator tools, including a Reels A/B testing tool to test different versions of Reels and see which perform best — Creators on Facebook are getting a handful of new tools on the platform — including the ability to test how different Reels perform against each other.

Discussion: Engadget and Meta, more at Techmeme »

Bloomberg:

The FTC says Jeff Bezos personally ordered Amazon execs to accept more junk ads to boost profits; Amazon used disappearing Signal chats from June 2019 to 2022 — - FTC releases less redacted antitrust complaint against Amazon — Amazon counters that the FTC is ‘wrong on facts and the law’

Discussion: The Verge, Reuters and Washington Post, more at Techmeme »

Jared Newman / TechHive:

Amazon adds advertisements for physical products, such as earbuds, to Fire TV's top feature carousel, which until now has only promoted streaming video content — Amazon will hawk products straight from the top carousel and bring ads into search results. — CORD-CUTTER CONFIDENTIAL

Discussion: MediaPost, @techhive, @Newmy@writing.exchange, AdExchanger and Cord Cutters News, more at Techmeme »

The Hollywood Reporter:

HBO's Casey Bloys concedes that creating Twitter accounts to undermine TV critics was a “very, very dumb idea to vent my frustration” — The HBO CEO apologized for the accounts that trolled critics posting about network programming on social media.

Erin Woo / The Information:

Source: TikTok users sent $250M+ worth of digital gifts to US livestreamers in Q3; TikTok takes a 50% cut and is on track to earn $500M in US tips in 2023 — A young man with a shaved head and leather jacket bounces up and down in New York's Union Square, chanting “TGIF” as viewers send him a stream of tips costing a few cents each.

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Gerardo Arbaiza / Reuters:

El Salvador's Congress repeals a law that criminalized the publication of gang messages, which critics said unjustly targeted journalists; no arrests were made — El Salvador's Congress repealed a law on Wednesday that criminalized the publication of gang messages, as ruling party leaders declared victory …

Sophia Stewart / Publishers Weekly:

Scholastic employees, represented by the News Guild of New York, staged a one-day work stoppage on November 1 after the publisher's rejection of a wage proposal — Unionized workers at Scholastic staged a one-day work stoppage on November 1 following the children's publisher's rejection …

Discussion: @newsguild, @gaufre, @nyguild, @brerva and The NewsGuild

Committee to Protect Journalists:

At least 27 local and international journalists covering recent political rallies in Bangladesh's Dhaka were attacked by demonstrators and the police — Bangladesh authorities must immediately and impartially investigate the assaults on at least 27 journalists covering recent political rallies …

Burcu Karakas / Reuters:

Turkey arrests two high-profile journalists under its “disinformation” law: RSF says 20+ journalists, mostly local reporters, are being targeted by the 2022 law — Free speech advocates expressed their concerns on Thursday over a widening state crackdown on press freedom …

Discussion: Balkan Insight

Amanda Chicago Lewis / The Verge:

A critical look at the SEO industry: users complain that Google isn't as useful anymore, some experts complain it's harder to game Google's algorithm, and more — As the public begins to believe Google isn't as useful anymore, what happens to the cottage industry of search engine optimization experts …

Discussion: Chris Moran on LinkedIn, David C. Baker on LinkedIn, @michellemanafy@journa.host, David Iwanow on LinkedIn, @wexler, @teamamittiwari, @lilyraynyc, @raymartinezseo, @geekinchief, @lilyraynyc, @debramastaler, @aleyda, @duaneforrester, @kevin_indig, Joy Youell on LinkedIn, @cyrusshepard, @rustybrick, @aleyda, @dannysullivan, @dr_pete, @lilyraynyc, @jane_seidel, Pedro Dias on LinkedIn, Duane Forrester on LinkedIn, Molly Willis on LinkedIn, @mariyadelano@threads.net, @mariyadelano@threads.net, @soupsoup@threads.net, @reckless1280@threads.net, Search Engine Land, I Love SEO, @reckless1280@threads.net, @miasato.2@threads.net, @reckless1280@threads.net, @rustybrick@threads.net, The Verge, Danny Sullivan, @dismantl@infosec.exchange, @metacurity@infosec.exchange, @WarnerCrocker@mastodon.social and @ryne@androiddev.social, more at Techmeme »

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Arlene Getz / Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ's Global Impunity Index: 261 journalists were murdered in retaliation for their work over the past decade; Haiti becomes the third-worst impunity offender

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Mike Corder / Associated Press:
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