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César López Linares / LatAm Journalism Review: How independent Venezuelan outlets, operating from exile and in alliance with reporters who remain in the country, managed to cover Maduro's ouster -
Committee to Protect Journalists: Nicaraguan journalists who fled their country for Costa Rica amid a press freedom crisis say the regime's threats, harassment, and blackmail have followed them -
Alyssa Ray / The Wrap: PBS says it is ending PBS News Weekend, due to federal budget cuts; anchor John Yang says he'll be leaving PBS but many members of the show's team will remain -
Bloomberg: Chinese short-video app Kuaishou's stock has surged 88% over the past year, driven by the success of its Kling AI video generator, which has amassed 60M users -
Jennifer Swann / Wired: How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles -
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources: Paramount is seeking a strategic partner to invest in MTV as it aims to refocus MTV on music; Nielsen: MTV averaged <200K viewers in primetime in 2025 -
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: Italy fines Cloudflare €14.2M for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service; CEO Matthew Prince says he will discuss it with US officials -
Alex Reisner / The Atlantic: Researchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically prompted -
The Hollywood Reporter: X sues the National Music Publishers' Association and its members, claiming they conspired to force X into group licensing deals at inflated rates -
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News: The San Francisco Standard hires Elizabeth Ralph to oversee its Opinion section; Ralph is currently editor of Politico Magazine and Politico managing editor -
Titus Wu / Bloomberg Government: California's Department of Finance director says Gov. Gavin Newsom doesn't plan to commit more funding in 2026 to a Google partnership to help local newsrooms -
Danielle Riendeau / Game Developer: Two former Polygon editors say they are launching Mothership, a new game publication, on January 26, to analyze games through the lens of gender and identity