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Katie Notopoulos / Business Insider:
Columbia University's student radio station WKCR deftly covered live news late on April 30 as police entered the campus, amplified via Instagram Live and Twitch — - On Tuesday night, the NYPD entered Columbia University to break up ongoing protests. — Other press couldn't go on campus …
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Hadas Gold / CNN:
Journalists covering protests on college campuses have been denied access and faced assaults and arrest, as some student media websites struggle with outages — Journalists tasked with covering violent unrest on college campuses across the US have been arrested and barred access as police moved …
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Daily Bruin, @jangelooff, @brianstelter@threads.net, @hadas_gold, @paulglader, @jangelooff and The NewsGuild
Student Press Law Center:
In a statement, the Student Press Law Center says it's disturbed by reports of assaults and arrest threats against student journalists, and offers legal help — - Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) — In the midst of protests occurring at college campuses across …
Jack Marshall / TOOLKITS:
LinkedIn is testing Sponsored Editorial Content, letting publishers like the WSJ stitch pre-roll ads into their organic video content on the platform — LinkedIn is testing a new program enabling publishers to stitch pre-roll ads from partners directly into the organic video content they post to the platform.
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The Rebooting
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Karissa Bell / Engadget:
LinkedIn launches three Wordle-style puzzle games: theme-based guessing game Pinpoint, Sudoku and Minesweeper-style crossover Queens, and trivia game Crossclimb — How long until “What I learned about B2B sales from playing Crossclimb”? — LinkedIn, the professional network known …
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CNN, GeekWire, Mark Oehlert on LinkedIn, MediaPost, The Verge and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Audible tests a lower-priced AU$8.99/month tier, Audible Standard, in Australia, without credits that roll over, as Spotify expands its audiobook offerings — - Audible's new Standard Plan in Australia is about 50% cheaper — Subscribers receive one title a month but don't own the works
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@ashleycarman@threads.net
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Poll of US adults: 53% are very concerned about news outlets reporting disinformation during the 2024 election; 42% worry about use of AI to create stories — Even as many Americans say they learn about the 2024 election campaign from national news outlets, a disquieting poll reveals some serious trust issues.
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The Hill, Mediaite, @brianstelter and @brianstelter
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Source: Gannett has paused hiring for some jobs in its smaller community newsrooms, after executives promised to restaff them in 2023 and early this year — Outlets with few or no staff members likely to stay that way for a while — For most of 2023 year and all of 2024 so far …
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@jeffjarvis@threads.net, @poynter and @seloesch
Matt Pearce:
A California state senator unveils a bill to impose a data-mining fee on Big Tech companies to fund $500M a year in local journalism jobs through tax credits — Right about now, California Sen. Steve Glazer is unveiling a bill to impose a data-mining fee on Big Tech to fund $500 million in local journalism jobs a year.
Discussion:
Matt Pearce on LinkedIn and Free Press
Umar Shakir / The Verge:
Snapchat announces the ability to edit messages for up to five minutes after sending them, rolling out “soon” and available first for Snapchat+ subscribers — Snap is launching a slew of new features in Snapchat, including the ability to edit already sent messages allowing you to rectify a …
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Engadget, TechCrunch and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
Marko Zivkovic / AppleInsider:
Source: Apple is testing an AI-enabled Safari browser with a Web Eraser feature for better content blocking, AI-powered text summarization, a new UI, and more — Apple is testing a version of its Safari web browser that includes UI tweaks, advanced content blocking features …
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@siddhantsahu92, BGR, Glenn Gabe on LinkedIn, @tomgara, @chronotope, @scottkrauss, Quartz and 9to5Mac
Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
Paul Farhi's weeklong unpaid suspension from The Washington Post in 2022 has been rescinded under a deal between WaPo and the Washington-Baltimore News Guild — Paul Farhi, a veteran media reporter and former top writer at The Washington Post, announced on Wednesday that he had won …
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