“While these reporters (and many more) will undoubtedly tap their sources to ferret information out of the White House, Trump has a habit of breaking news himself by posting on social media at inopportune times, including late at night and on weekends. [Chief White House correspondent for The New York Times Peter Baker] says that after learning from 2016, news organizations have a responsibility to ‘recognize that we’re not going to jump on every single stray voltage that comes out of his phone.'”

“[Federal attorney general] Mark Dreyfus has also agreed to repeal parts of the law that make it a criminal offense to publish any information stamped ‘protected’, ‘secret’ or ‘top secret’ – meaning actual or likely harm is determined by the content of a document, not just the label on it.”

“…in his rant, Trump demanded that the Times show obeisance to him because he won the election, perhaps providing an early glimpse of how he will seek to cow the media into submission.”

“’Sourcing and linking to tweets as sufficient evidence of a conversation, or a thing worth reporting on, I found even in the heyday of that ecosystem to be unproductive and limiting,’ said Shamira Ibrahim, a writer and editor at Africa Is a Country. To Ibrahim, it takes away from the practice of nurturing beats and sources in depth. ‘I think social media is always going to be part of the story, but not the whole story, and I try to engage with writers who understand that or help them get to that place.’”

“According to the UNESCO study, 62% of surveyed creators said they don’t vet the accuracy of content before sharing it with their followers. Roughly one-third of influencers said they shared information without checking its validity if it originated from a source that they trusted, while 37% said they verified information with a fact-checking site before circulation.”

“The essence of our work is to contextualize the changes in peoples’ daily lives, influenced by the rise in international oil prices or the arrival of a devastating pandemic. Extreme climatic events necessarily lead to this connection. What we saw in 2024, with events such as the mega drought in the Amazon, was proof that, like never before, an entire generation of journalists is now talking about climate change and its unprecedented impacts.”

“With all eyes on the search giant’s dominance, and the government proposing a forced divestiture of Chrome, you’d think that Google would strive not to highlight its influence over the web.”

“X calls itself ‘the sole owner’ of X accounts, and states that it ‘does not consent’ to the sale of the Infowars accounts, as doing so would ‘undermine X Corp.’s rightful ownership of the property it licenses to Free Speech Systems [Infowars], Jones, or any other account holder on the X platform.’ Again, X accounts are transferred in bankruptcy all the time with no drama and with no objection from X.”

“Google is once, twice, three times a monopolist,” the DOJ says.

“Once the piece is ready to be published, Maryam removes all traces of her reporting from her devices, including deleting every email and call log, except for contacts with her immediate family. ‘If the Taliban checks my phone [and finds something], it will not be good for me. So, I delete everything,’ she said. She only publishes the article after she has confirmed again that her subjects are comfortable with everything they’re quoted as saying. ‘It’s my job to keep her safe,’ she said.”