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The Washington Post's choices with respect to covering the flag outside Justice Alito's house illustrate how deferential the coverage of SCOTUS was before Dobbs — In January 2021, the Washington Post's Supreme Court reporter and his editors agreed: The upside-down American flag seen flying …
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The Washington Post says it knew about the upside-down US flag at Justice Alito's house in 2021 but did not report it as it didn't seem related to politics — In January 2021, Martha-Ann Alito said the flag, a symbol embraced by election deniers, was raised outside her home in response to a neighborhood dispute.
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The Washington Post's decision not to report on the Alito flag story multiple times since 2021, even as SCOTUS ethics stories came out, raises many questions — Last week, many of us learned from The New York Times that an upside-down American flag had been temporarily raised over the Alito household in the days after January 6, 2021.


Meta adds safety features to CrowdTangle for use during the EU elections, in a bid to address EU concerns over Meta's plan to shut down the tool in August 2024 — Meta Platforms (META.O) has added safety features to its misinformation tracking tool CrowdTangle for use during European Parliament elections …
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@mathver, @clothildegouj, @orestepollicino, @rajiinio and @bravebosom


Martine Croxall, one of the four female BBC journalists who brought a tribunal claim against the BBC, returns to screen after being off-air for more than a year — BBC news presenter Martine Croxall has returned to screen after being off-air for more than a year, while her legal battle with her employer still plays out.
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Metro.co.uk, The i Paper, Daily Express, London Evening Standard, @trevjrho, @martinebbc, The Times and The Guardian


As traffic from social media drops, nonprofit news outlets are experimenting with in-person outreach to distribute journalism to new and underserved audiences — As social platforms falter for news, a number of nonprofit outlets are rethinking distribution for impact and in-person engagement.


OpenAI seems to be uninterested in doing content licensing deals with partisan news sites, like left-leaning HuffPost or right-wing outlets like Breitbart News — The News — The partisan publishers that thrived during the social media age — most of all, high-flying right-wing outlets …
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Garbage Day, @semaforben, @maxwelltani and The Atlantic


Q&A with Netflix's Ted Sarandos on the state of Hollywood, shifting US tastes, programming strategy, ads, corporate activism, YouTube, live events, AI, and more — Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times — If you're anything like me, you probably spent some large portion of this week sitting on your couch watching Netflix.
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A look at efforts to revive the community newspaper The Black Lens in Spokane, WA, as a printed monthly distributed by the Spokesman-Review for now — The Spokane community revived the paper to capture the nuance of the Black community - beyond the ‘feel-good stories’
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@andrewbuncombe and @andrewbuncombe


Payroll provider Cast & Crew says California is disputing the common Hollywood practice of paying workers through loan-out companies instead of directly — The California state department charged with disbursing unemployment benefits has disputed the practice of paying compensation …
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Doug Smith on LinkedIn, @sagaftranews, SAG-AFTRA, Deadline and Variety


Australia's Nine commissions an independent review after complaints against former TV news boss Darren Wick and acknowledges “cultural issues” in its newsrooms — Chief executive Mike Sneesby acknowledges ‘very tough time’ for staff and ‘distress and frustration’ reports on allegations had caused
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Mumbrella, Crikey and Sydney Morning Herald


Q&A with Radio Ambulante's cofounders on the launch of Radio Ambulante Records, the podcast company's label, which they see as a community building exercise — “So much of podcast music is background, feels like filler sometimes, but with our composers, it never is.”