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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
A look at The Gleaner, a local Kentucky newspaper, now a ghost newsroom with no full-time staff, as the loss of local papers grew to 2.5/week on average in 2023 — Rise of ‘ghost newsrooms’ spawns effort by local news startups to fill the void — The Gleaner, the local newspaper in Henderson …
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Local News Initiative, John C Abell on LinkedIn, Dan Barkin on LinkedIn, Editor and Publisher, RTDNA and Medill
Jane Martinson / The Guardian:
The UK government's potential scrutiny of Abu Dhabi's role in the Telegraph purchase is welcome after its failure to do so with the Independent — Intervention over a UAE-backed bid is welcome, but it's unlikely to signal a new era of media-ownership transparency
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Bloomberg, Financial Times and Reuters
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The Guardian:
Sources: the UK culture minister's probe into Abu Dhabi-backed bid for The Telegraph could be stifled by the Foreign Office, which aims to boost UAE relations — Foreign Office could stifle possible inquiry into bid from Abu Dhabi-backed fund RedBird IMI in absence of cabinet secretary
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Telegraph
New York Times:
Internal docs: X may lose ~$75M in ad revenue by 2023 end as Amazon, Microsoft, and other major brands halted or consider halting ads; X says it may lose $11M — Internal documents show companies like Airbnb, Coca-Cola and Microsoft have halted ads, or are at risk of doing so …
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New York Post, @fmhilton@mastodon.sdf.org, @carnage4life@mas.to, Newser, @jason_kint, @nash076, @chronotope, @profcarroll, @rmac18, @blowryontv, @profgalloway@threads.net, @rmac18, The Hill, @karaswisher@threads.net, @drewharwell@threads.net, Reuters and The Information, more at Techmeme »
Yona Tr Golding / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Paul Caruana Galizia, son of murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia of Malta, on writing about her death, choosing his own media career, and more — Writing was a compulsion for investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Known for her candid and witty prose …
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@occupyjusticema
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Charles Peters, the founding editor of The Washington Monthly, a small political journal that challenged liberal and conservative orthodoxies, dies at 96 — His political journal challenged liberal and conservative orthodoxies for decades. — Charles Peters, the founding editor of The Washington Monthly …
Yashraj Sharma / Wired:
Ahead of elections in India in December and 2024, political parties are courting social media influencers to reach rural voters while dodging media interviews — Major political parties in India are courting social media influencers to reach rural voters, paying for reach and dodging tough questions.
Discussion:
@wired, @yashjournals, MIT Technology Review and Financial Times, more at Techmeme »
Bloomberg:
RT and Sputnik have created mirror sites, like swentr.com, which have a fraction of the originals' traffic but allow them to bypass EU sanctions — - Mirror websites help Russia evade sanctions that block RT.com — EU measures fail to stop Kremlin disinformation campaigns
Discussion:
Lutz Güllner on LinkedIn and Felix Kartte on LinkedIn
Philip Reeves / NPR:
A snapshot from the Media Hub in Riga, Latvia, which offers refuge to exiled Russian and Belarusian journalists, like Kirill Martynov of Novaya Gazeta Europe — Russian independent news media is still functioning from Riga, Latvia. The exile presents challenges to newsgathering and press freedom.
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@niemanlab and @kincaid323
Columbia Journalism Review:
An analysis of The New York Times and The Washington Post from September 1, 2022, until Election Day showed both favored political horse-race news, not policy — Researchers examine the self-serving fiction of ‘objective’ political news — Seven years ago, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election …
Jeremy Sharon / The Times of Israel:
Israel's communication minister proposes a resolution halting all state business with Haaretz because the left-wing daily “undermines the goals of the war” — Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi proposes a government resolution to halt any state advertising …
Discussion:
@karol, @haaretzcom, @wideofthepost, @kymtje, @genzdemagogue, @dmitryopines, @jaketapper, @alivelshi, Mediaite, @trekbek.bsky.social and CBC News
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Elon Musk says X plans to start showing preview headlines for links again, but did not offer details on a timeline or give an example of how the cards will look — Elon Musk said that X, formerly Twitter, will start showing headlines in preview cards with URLs on the platform again after removing titles last month.
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@robertfreundlaw, @radishharmers, @elonmusk, Media Voices, @nexuist, @drmistercody, @carnage4life@mas.to, Business Insider, The Messenger, The Wrap and Variety
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