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New York Times:
Sources: the Trump campaign contacted X to prevent the circulation of links to the hacked JD Vance dossier posted by journalist Ken Klippenstein — Elon Musk is planting himself in Pennsylvania, has brought his brain trust to help and may even knock on doors himself.
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The Wrap, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Axios, Washington Post, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, New Republic, Alternet.org, @evilgalprods.bsky.social, @TheDailyEdge@universeodon.com, Raw Story, Business Insider, @kevincolliernbc@threads.net, emptywheel and Le Monde.fr, more at Techmeme »
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, Adweek, @isalara, @raywert, @davidclinchnews, @jbenton, @niemanlab@threads.net and Current
Bloomberg:
Sources: in negotiations with California lawmakers, Google insisted on taxpayer funding as a precondition to spending $110M to support the journalism industry — - Tech giant, state to spend $180 million to aid news industry — Company pushed for taxpayer funds; beat back tougher bills
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
The Gateway Pundit settles a defamation lawsuit with two Georgia election workers it falsely accused or wrongdoing and has removed articles about them — Website removed articles falsely accusing Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss of wrongdoing in 2020 election — The Gateway Pundit …
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CNN, Adweek, WAGA-TV, @gtconway3dg@threads.net, Washington Post, Georgia Recorder, New Republic and Missouri Independent
Jonah Valdez / The Intercept:
Israel releases US journalist Jeremy Loffredo after detaining him for his reporting on where Iranian missiles landed; Loffredo can't leave Israel until Oct. 20 — American journalist Jeremy Loffredo was released Friday morning by Israeli authorities after spending four days in Israeli detention following his arrest in the West Bank.
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The Guardian, The Dissenter, Democracy Now, New Republic, The Dissenter and The Grayzone
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 …
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The Wrap, Washington Post, FCC, Rolling Stone, Adweek, Raw Story, Ars Technica, The Guardian, HuffPost, Radio & Television …, Deadline, New Republic, Fox News, Above the Law, Political Wire, Joe.My.God., TVNewsCheck and Daily Mail
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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The Kyiv Independent, @annanemtsova, @olehnikolenko_, @aliide_n, @eurovanya, @reevellp, @rferlpress, @davidzaikin, @shustry, @avalaina, NPR, @lubinetzs, @ngumenyuk, @a_magazova, @gerashchenko_en, @judywoodruff, @dmokryk, @iwmf, Reuters, @den_kazansky, @yarotrof, @tetyanaukrainka, Al Jazeera, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Adweek, @vladaknowlton@threads.net, The Sun, Politico, NV, Meduza, RBC-Ukraine, The Kyiv Independent, Euronews, Committee to Protect …, Voice of America, IWMF, UPI and Reporters Without Borders
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.
Discussion:
@waterslicer, @adambumas, Adam Bumas on LinkedIn, Bloomberg and Just Jared
Brian Stelter / CNN:
The Atlantic says it is increasing its pace of print publication from 10 to 12 issues per year and announces some expansions to reporting staff in a memo — New York CNN — — The Atlantic is doing something exceedingly unusual for a magazine in 2024: increasing the number of issues it prints.
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.
Discussion:
People, E! Online and Los Angeles Times
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 …
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.