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Agence France-Presse:
Ukrainian reporter Victoria Roshchyna, who disappeared in August 2023 in occupied east Ukraine, has died in Russian detention, according to Ukrainian officials — Victoria Roshchyna disappeared in August last year after travelling to Russian-held east Ukraine for a report
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Ahead of Hurricane Milton, NPR revised its CMS to enable 200+ member stations to publish text-only versions of their sites, accessible when bandwidth is scarce — In normal times, text-only websites are a niche interest. But a natural disaster is not normal times.
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TVNewsCheck, @jbenton, @isalara, @davidclinchnews, @raywert, @niemanlab@threads.net and Current
Liam Reilly / CNN:
The FCC's chair denounces Trump's “threats against free speech” after he called for CBS to lose its license, the second time this week she defends broadcasters — New York CNN — — Federal Communications Commission chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel denounced former President Donald Trump's …
Adam Bumas / Wired:
A look at the tensions between Letterboxd moderators and users when an anime classic was removed by curators from its Top 250 and top 100 animation movies lists — When the movie review site removed an anime classic, it put its community's loyalty and passion to the test.
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@adambumas, Adam Bumas on LinkedIn, @waterslicer, Just Jared and Bloomberg
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Study: five major US newspapers gave the latest filing in Trump's indictment over the 2020 election a small fraction of the coverage they gave Clinton's emails — In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, major newspapers are giving former President Donald Trump's federal criminal indictment …
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Google tests a “quick view” feature that displays full recipes without leaving Search; the company says it has agreements with participating recipe bloggers — Google is testing yet another feature aimed at keeping users on search results pages — this time targeting the popular recipe blog industry.
Angela Yang / NBC News:
YouTube star Piper Rockelle's mother Tiffany Smith agrees to pay a $1.85M settlement to 11 teen content creators who accused her of abuse and exploitation — Tiffany Smith, the mother of YouTube star Piper Rockelle, was sued in 2022 by 11 teen content creators who alleged she abused them emotionally, physically and sexually.
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Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
PayPal formally launches PayPal Ads, which looks to help US marketers tap into data about transactions across PayPal's platforms, including Venmo and Honey — - PayPal is set to launch an ads business, starting in the US. — The company intends to offer ads across its own properties, as well as retailers.
Tim De Chant / TechCrunch:
Scope3, which makes tools to monitor the carbon footprint of digital ads, raised $25M led by GV to expand into tools for tracking the environmental cost of AI — It was the banana that did it. — Brian O'Kelley, who had recently sold his previous startup, ad platform AppNexus …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Legendary Entertainment is in advanced talks to buy out Dalian Wanda's stake in the studio; Legendary and Apollo would take control after the deal — - Wanda acquired Legendary for about $3.5 billion in 2016 — An announcement could come as soon as in coming days
Olzhas Auyezov / Reuters:
A Kyrgyzstan court sentences two journalists to prison and two more to probation after finding them guilty of inciting unrest; seven more were found not guilty — A court in Kyrgyzstan on Thursday sentenced two journalists to prison terms and two more to probation after finding them guilty …
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The Diplomat, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Reporters Without Borders and Committee to Protect …
Sacha Biazzo / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at issues at Global Press, which trains women journalists in the developing world and is terminating 37 reporters' contracts amid a fundraising crunch — A nonprofit that trains women journalists in the developing world is recalibrating its model amid a fundraising crunch.
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Global Press Journal and Townhall
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