Ryan Evans, a former British soldier working as a safety advisor for Reuters, was killed in the attack on a hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk. Two Reuters journalists are also being treated in a hospital; one is seriously injured, the news agency said.

“You drop out and you die immediately, or you partner with them and you probably just die slowly, because eventually they’re not going to need you either.”

“First things first: We’re doing this all with the blessing of Daily Kos, from founder Markos Moulitsas on down … Newsrooms across the country have faced cutbacks as advertising revenues have plummeted, and Daily Kos is no exception. At the same time, we know that so many people have come to count on the service we provide. We want to be sustainable for years to come.”

“Tice, a Marine veteran, was covering the Syrian civil war as a freelance journalist when he disappeared on Aug. 14, 2012.”

“In Chicago, in 1968, it was electric. You knew it was the story and, to quote one of the sayings at the time, the whole world was watching.”

“The Senegalese Council of Press Distributors and Publishers, an organization representing both private and public media companies, claimed that the government had frozen banks accounts belonging to the media outlets, allegedly for owing back taxes, ‘seized production equipment’ and ‘unilaterally and illegally terminated advertising contracts.'”

“The hope was that their presence would engage members of Gen Z and Gen Alpha and get them interested in the Games. Mostly, that didn’t pan out.”

In a memo this afternoon to staff, New York Public Radio CEO LaFontaine Oliver said “without swift action, we will soon face significant questions about our ability to continue to serve New York.”

“Our job in the campaign is to make the windmill. It is the vice president’s job to make the wind.”

“While AP style has evolved on many fronts over the years, there are no immediate plans to change the guidance on possessives, said Amanda Barrett, AP’s vice president for news standards and inclusion.”

“Crooked will give at least 30 days’ notice before using AI in any way that materially impacts bargaining unit employees. By March 31, 2025, Crooked will develop a public-facing AI policy.”

“Subscribers to X Premium, which grants access to Grok, have been posting everything from Barack Obama doing cocaine to Donald Trump with a pregnant woman who (vaguely) resembles Kamala Harris to Trump and Harris pointing guns…OpenAI, by contrast, will refuse prompts for real people, Nazi symbols, ‘harmful stereotypes or misinformation,’ and other potentially controversial subjects on top of predictable no-go zones like porn. Unlike Grok, it also adds an identifying watermark to images it does make.”

“While the ideas of Gamergate may live on in the far right and the GOP, the aggressive, harassing fandom behaviors are not limited to a political party…’I think a lot of people who were involved in Gamergate, you see now having more of a sort of radical leftist kind of ideology, because they’ve seen that’s where they’re going to get more clout,’ [says Jessica O’Donnell, author of a book on Gamergate]. ‘It’s more about picking the winning team, rather than the team to win.’ In other words, Gamergate was the internet—and it’s everywhere now.”

“Two years on, most…productivity gains haven’t materialized. And we’ve seen something peculiar and slightly unexpected happen: People have started forming relationships with AI systems. We talk to them, say please and thank you, and have started to invite AIs into our lives as friends, lovers, mentors, therapists, and teachers.”

“When the time of choosing arrives, it is a paper’s editorial watchdogs that let readers know who has played it straight, who’s been lying, who has potential, and who has conflicts of interest. Local endorsements are as much a form of public service as is warning readers about a coming snowstorm, a road closure, or the outbreak of a disease. They also serve as a carrot-and-stick incentive to candidates to tackle and discuss problems and solutions.”

“’It’s disappointing that the prosecutors clearly established we committed no crime, and the search and raid were wrong and shouldn’t have happened,’ [Eric Meyer, the Marion County Record’s publisher] told The Post. ‘To date, no one in local government in any of these positions has ever admitted: We have messed up. And it would be nice to for them to admit that.'”

“This podcast is taking a different lens to the Wirecutter sensibility,” [Cliff Levy, deputy publisher of Wirecutter] said. “It’s not about telling you what to buy…It’s about being helpful.”

“The move would be Washington’s first push to dismantle a company for illegal monopolization since unsuccessful efforts to break up Microsoft Corp. two decades ago. Less severe options include forcing Google to share more data with competitors and measures to prevent it from gaining an unfair advantage in AI products.”

“Shuttering this critical tool in another brazen blow to transparency across its platforms,” the Real Facebook Oversight Board, a coalition of academics and civil rights groups, said in a statement. “RIP Crowdtangle.”

A forensic analysis of Sacramento-based CapRadio found over $760,000 in “unsupported” payments, or payments that couldn’t be backed up with an expense report or receipts. More than half those mysterious payments – some $460,000 – were made to a single CapRadio executive. A spokesperson for the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office confirmed it was investigating former CapRadio GM Jun Reina.

Linda Henry, CEO and co-owner of the Globe, says audio doesn’t attract subscribers.

“Politico, The New York Times and The Washington Post have written about a potential hack of the campaign and described what they had in broad terms. Their decisions stand in marked contrast to the 2016 presidential campaign, when a Russian hack exposed emails to and from Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta. The website Wikileaks published a trove of these embarrassing missives, and mainstream news organizations covered them avidly.”

“The company says the 2024 Olympics, which closed Sunday with a ceremony from Stade de France and a handoff to the next summer games in Los Angeles, averaged a combined 30.6 million viewers across all platforms for its ‘Paris Prime’ daytime telecast (2-5 p.m. ET in the United States) and nightly primetime shows. That’s a huge improvement — 82 percent — on the last Summer Olympics three years ago in Tokyo, which averaged 16.9 million cross-platform viewers for daytime and prime telecasts.”

“If you ask CNN executives about their sense of urgency, they’ll reply: it took ten years for Thompson to enact a digital transformation of the Times, and he’s drawing upon that playbook here. ‘Turning a great news organization towards the future is not a one-day affair,’ Thompson wrote to staff in July. ‘It happens in stages and over time.’ The fate of CNN may depend on whether, absent devoted support from a publisher-family, executives and shareholders can be expected to show patience.'”

“18 minutes after the conversation was supposed to begin, Musk claimed that X was the target of a ‘massive DDOS attack’ that had made it impossible for the Space to proceed as planned. The rest of X appears to be working normally, however, and a source at the company confirmed to The Verge that there wasn’t actually a denial-of-service attack. Another X staffer said there was a ’99 percent’ chance Elon was lying about an attack.”

“Prediction marketplace Polymarket, which lets users bet on real-world events, is partnering with AI-powered search engine Perplexity to display news summaries of events. When users click on an event on Polymarket, they will now see a summary of news related to the event based on search results from Perplexity. There’s also a search box that you can use to ask more questions.”

“A growing number of news outlets are moving away from political endorsements. In 2022, the second-largest newspaper operator in the country, Alden Global Capital, announced that its 200 newspapers would no longer endorse candidates in races for president, Senate and governor, saying readers were “often confused” about the distinction between news and opinion. The new owners of The Baltimore Sun said in January that they would also stop making endorsements.”

“The study is among the first to quantify the effects of Instagram’s decision to limit political content from its recommendation algorithms unless a user opts in to seeing such posts … But critics say the company’s definition of political is unclear, and is stifling credible information from activists, news organizations and marginalized creators during an unprecedented global election year.”

“The most important thing is the intention to spend as much time as possible with the populations we intend to study. We are talking about months, or even years, to understand the places.”

“Some, such as Yahoo, Puck, and New York Times Opinion, have launched new Reddit accounts in the last several months. Others, such as Rolling Stone, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Independent, the AP, and Newsweek, have restarted existing accounts or dedicated more resources to them.”

Among the proposals asking device users (repeatedly) which search engine they want to use; a panel of “truly independent” experts to monitor the company’s compliance; spinning off services that benefit from the search monopoly; a ban on exclusive search deals with browser makers; disconnecting user data that comes from Chrome and from search.

“Today on LinkedIn, it’s hard to miss Boomer, Millennial and Gen X executives oversharing bicep photos from the gym; former colleagues posting haikus; musings about the Venn diagram of love, loss and leadership; questionably qualified ‘wellness gurus’ recycling workout-routine video content; and even complaints from disgruntled candidates trying to cancel companies that rejected or ignored them.”

“Nearly three years later, with Musk at the helm of the site he renamed X, the billionaire’s feed often reads more like a right-wing activist account, with alarmist posts about immigration and missives against ‘woke’ ideology.”

“It exists and even thrives — in Vermont. Front Porch Forum counts nearly half the state’s adults as active members. More than Facebook, Nextdoor, Craigslist or their local newspaper, the site is where Vermonters go to interact with their neighbors online — generally without disparaging each other.”

“The editor of Psychic News has to admit that, no, he did not see his magazine’s financial crisis coming.”

“The new donation will aim to explore ‘how AI companies can collaborate with news publishers to promote a thriving internet ecosystem,’ according to chief executive Aravind Srinivas.”

“Ad revenue growth was aided by the arrival of new users and deepening engagement, according to the company. More than half of the growth came from performance advertising, it added, referring to ads focused more on generating clicks or purchases than building a brand.”

“Getty’s goal is that for key moments photos hit their wire in as little as 26 seconds from when they were taken — a feat that requires a tremendous combination of technology and human efficiency.”

“She has created, or at least created space at, a cool kids’ table all her own, positioning herself as a teller of dangerous truths while becoming a kind of brand ambassador for the views and passions of her audience, which often seem to track neatly with her own: that elite universities have lost the plot; that legacy outlets have lost their minds; that Ms. Weiss knows the way forward.”

“We were forced to accelerate a conversation we’ve been having internally: the question of how to transform our U.S. print product to better suit what consumers want today.”

“Vice President Kamala Harris’ tweets remain searchable as usual.”

“Meanwhile, we have begun to take legal steps against AI aggressors, the egregious aggregators, who are predatory in the confiscation of our content. ‘Open source’ can never be a justification for ‘open slather.'”

“‘I have spent my time as governor highlighting the need to be as transparent as possible and have the press here,’ he said at the time. ‘We have to got to ensure that there is a safe spot for journalism to tell the story.'”

“She had been part of Google since the company’s beginnings in the late 199os. She was working at the chipmaker Intel at the time and rented the garage of her Menlo Park, Calif., home to friends Larry Page and Sergey Brin for $1,700 a month.”

“Launched in 2021, Hearst Television’s free, add-supported streaming service Very Local offers 24-hour access to local news, weather and original series from Hearst and its local stations. Available in the 26 U.S. media markets the company operates in, it also provides access to Very Local original series on-demand.”

“Spurred by the success of documentaries streaming on Hulu, Max and Netflix that have been set at Northwell Health’s network of 21 hospitals and hundreds of clinics across New York City and Long Island, the system recently established a production company of its own to work on more projects.”

“The initiative, called the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, was formed in 2019 by the World Federation of Advertisers, major marketers, social-media companies and ad agency groups to tackle hate speech, bullying and divisive fake content.”

“What connects a dad living in Lahore in Pakistan, an amateur hockey player from Nova Scotia – and a man named Kevin from Houston, Texas? They’re all linked to Channel3Now – a website whose story giving a false name for the 17-year-old charged over the Southport attack was widely quoted in viral posts on X. Channel3Now also wrongly suggested the attacker was an asylum seeker who arrived in the UK by boat last year.”

“An examination by The New York Times found that the company, which is a major source of Mr. Trump’s wealth, is increasingly reliant on revenue from an obscure corner of the ad market: a niche, sometimes called ‘the patriotic economy,’ that caters to hard-core Trump fans and Christian conservatives.”

“Sky’s North of England producer Hope Yeomans also reported seeing other journalists targeted. She wrote: ‘We have seen other journalists targeted by rioters – telling us that we are all working for the government and are preventing the truth. We have had colleagues who have had their camera equipment smashed and stolen.'”

“One of the biggest challenges is maintaining momentum while figuring out how to translate that into sustainable income. I have a big presence on Twitter, but the monetization there doesn’t compare to YouTube and TikTok. For example, with the Young Thug trial in Atlanta that I’ve been covering, I’ve focused more on TikTok and YouTube over Twitter because of the greater monetization potential.”

“This is one small example of the global fallout from Spotify’s haphazard rush into — and out of — podcasting… In Latin America, the company was so dominant that its name is synonymous with the podcast boom itself, as well as the bust that podcast producers find themselves in today.”

“A new Tow Center analysis of campaign finance records and nonprofit filings reveals four political action committees and four nonprofit organizations paid a network of partisan pay-for-play news sites controlled by Metric Media over $14 million in 2021-2022. The investigation demonstrates millions more flowing to partisan ‘pink slime’ news sites than previously reported. The payments can be traced to organizations tied to conservative megadonors, including shipping magnate Richard Uihlein, billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel, and oil and gas billionaire Tim Dunn.”

“All of these posts celebrate and elevate a particular idea of a person: a normal guy who is uncomplicated and decent. He isn’t cool, and he knows it—a self-awareness that brings a kind of liberation. From a strategic standpoint, the Harris campaign seems to understand that the Dad is exactly the right meme to counter the alienating and extremely online tendencies of the right wing.”

“The Instagram campaign deliberately targeted a group of users labelled as ‘unknown’ in its advertising system, which Google knew skewed towards under-18s, these people said. Meanwhile, documents seen by the FT suggest steps were taken to ensure the true intent of the campaign was disguised.”

“‘It’s not possible, really, ever, to grow at the rates that investment firms want,’ King said. ‘The people creating stuff say, ‘Hey, that’s not possible.’ The people funding the stuff say, ‘We don’t really care. Do more.’ And you just end up with this conflict of ideas and expectations.'”

“‘I make $55,000 a year covering, arguably, our most important sports beat,’ said Maggie Vanoni, 27, a Hearst reporter who covers the powerhouse University of Connecticut’s women’s basketball team. ‘I can’t afford my rent right now.'”

“Vox Media’s deal with Heyward is an acknowledgement of the company’s increasing reliance on a multi-platform strategy for its growing audio business. Like other podcast companies, Vox Media has in recent months increasingly focused on ramping up the video component to many of its chat shows to tap into the massive audiences for those on platforms like YouTube and TikTok.”

“It was later revealed that Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner, one of the co-moderators of the Trump panel, wasn’t even an NABJ member – despite the organization appearing to require other hosts and interviewers to maintain a current membership.”

“Darcy’s new venture, called Status, will be similar to the daily media digest that he helped lead for four years at CNN, with a mix of reporting and analysis. Topics will range from Silicon Valley to presidential politics to the effects of artificial intelligence technology on news consumption.”

“The internet was the perfect size, ‘the perfect kind of machine to spread things out,’ [Blair Witch Project co-director Eduardo Sanchez] said. ‘There was enough time, enough room for the misinformation that we got out there.’ ‘Obviously,’ he added, ‘we had no idea what was going to happen.'”

“Google has said it will work to decrease the visibility of obituary spam sites, but Check My Ad’s report suggests the search engine company has nevertheless profited from that very content: HausaNew.com.ng, which published an obituary about Sylver, appears to have had ads on the site that are served by Google.”

The Free Press, Camden Herald, The Republican Journal and The Courier-Gazette are merging to create what they say will be “a single, stronger newsroom” which will be “positioned and better resourced to continue to cover the complex issues that affect the region in the decades to come.” Among other things, they’re planning on opening a cafe called the Villager Cafe next year, which — alongside breakfast, lunch, and coffee — will serve as a “community center that hosts events related to local journalism, brings people together to talk about complex issues, and showcases local talent with concerts, readings, discussions and more.”

“In August 2020, anticipating Harris might run again in the future, he snapped up 15 Harris-related domain names, combined with ‘every sort of folksy white man I could think of who was big at the time.’ Those include Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and, of course, Walz.”

The Free Ad-Supported TV channel will carry original CNN programming, including shows like “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” and “Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta.” Phil Nelson, executive VP of CNN international commercial, says the company has “additional channels planned to launch in the months ahead.”

“According to a study by Cumulus Media and Signal Hill Insights, podcast consumers ages 18 to 34 outpace older demographics in watching video podcasts and in letting them just play as background, in the app or in some other tab on their computer. Victoria Chamberlin, who teaches a course on podcasting at Catholic University of America, says of her students: ‘Something that struck me is that they all talk about podcasts through visual language only. Almost always, they say, ‘Well, I watch this podcast or show.””

“In tearing down Game Informer’s website, GameStop has torn the nervous system out of a huge part of gaming media’s dying body. You now can’t read any old Game Informer posts, and most of the old links pointing towards them work anymore. Where Game Informer once stood there’s now nothing but a gaping black hole, with torn wires hanging around its edges. Were it not for the Internet Archive (and Wikipedia editors’ herculean efforts in substituting its links with archived substitutes) salvaging some old stories and links, it would be as though the site had never existed in the first place.”

“A new study from the Center for Community News at UVM surveyed leaders at 73 news-academic programs across 37 states and Washington D.C. to quantify the extraordinary reach and impact of university-led local news reporting.”

“‘The post you are seeing now is of a poor man that is being used to generate revenue,’ he says in Hindi, pointing with his pen to an image of a skeletal elderly man hunched over being eaten by hundreds of bugs. ‘The Indian audience is very emotional. After seeing photos like this, they Like, Comment and share them. So you too should create a page like this, upload photos and make money through Performance bonus.'”

“A perfect occasion is the information vacuum that occurs after a tragedy such as Southport: while the authorities remain silent (by protocol or ignorance), hoaxers fill the gap with self-serving speculation or outright lies.”

“The top election officials from Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Washington told Musk that X’s AI chatbot, Grok, produced false information about state ballot deadlines shortly after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race.”

“Maduro’s attack on social media platforms comes on the heels of a wave of repression by his regime against any resistance to his self-declared win in the presidential election…Maduro’s request for the removal of WhatsApp is a quick aboutface, after having relied on social media to help soften his image ahead of the July 28 election.”

“Media executives in India put their rivalries aside to collaborate on Shakti, a joint project connecting fact-checkers and news publishers to combat election misinformation. The project, backed with funding from Google News Initiative, involved the translation and distribution of fact-check reports among roughly 50 newsrooms.”

“In a letter to Times staff, Chairman and CEO Conan Gallaty said employees have until Aug. 16 to decide if they want to seek a buyout package that maxes out at 12 weeks pay. Layoffs would follow later this month if the savings fall short of the target, Gallaty wrote.”

“The NCTJ’s 2023 Diversity in Journalism report said 72% of UK journalists were from professional or upper class backgrounds compared to 44% of all UK workers – and that this trend is currently higher among more junior journalists.”

“Led by a figure with close links to the ruling Fidesz party and granted the power to draw upon the intelligence services without judicial oversight, the office was set up by Orbán’s government, formally to monitor foreign influence. But in practice, critics say, it is serving not as an independent state body, but as a tool to apply pressure on government critics.”

“CNET, which attracted 38 million visitors in June according to SimilarWeb, has had several owners since it was founded three decades ago. CBS bought it in 2008 at an eye-popping valuation of $1.8 billion. The digital media company Red Ventures bought it in 2020 for about $500 million.”

“Split newsrooms work until they don’t. For news organizations that can afford the costs and attract the talent, they can incubate ideas and execute them deftly, without the bureaucratic wrangling that legacy staffs often impose. But if they’re successful—as Politico Pro was, and as the sites at the Times, Post, and Journal were—the main company will reabsorb them, like the burying beetles that eat their young to ensure the species will survive.”

“In 2008, [Lydia Chavez] and her colleagues launched Mission Local, a local news blog that covered San Francisco’s Mission District. It quickly gained traction within the community, and in 2014 Lydia spun it out into its own independent news organization. Today, it’s fully sustained by a mix of large and small donors.”

Venezuela’s National Telecommunications Commission “is calling directly to the owners and producers of media outlets to specifically mandate that they can’t report anything related to [opposition leaders Edmundo González Urrutia and Maria Corina Machado], protests, or the data from NGOs that reveal deaths, injuries, and arbitrary detentions by security forces and colectivos. According to local NGOs and media, 19 people were killed in the context of protests, and 711 have been victims of arbitrary detentions and 119 of enforced disappearance.”

“Our industry often hyper-focuses on questions of testosterone and chromosomes, because these are the metrics often being debated on an international stage. But why are some genetic advantages considered fair, and some not? And how and when should the playing field be leveled?”

“On Monday morning, John Micklethwait, Bloomberg’s editor-in-chief, reportedly sent staff an email saying that the outlet has taken disciplinary action against a ‘number of those involved’ in breaking the embargo. ‘Even if our story mercifully ended up making no difference, it was a clear violation of the editorial standards which have made this newsroom so trusted around the world,’ the email reads.”

“A former Nvidia employee, whom 404 Media granted anonymity to speak about internal Nvidia processes, said that employees were asked to scrape videos from Netflix, YouTube, and other sources to train an AI model for Nvidia … Emails viewed by 404 Media show project managers discussing using 20 to 30 virtual machines in Amazon Web Services to download 80 years-worth of videos per day.”

“Five secretaries of state plan to send an open letter to billionaire Elon Musk on Monday, urging him to ‘immediately implement changes’ to X’s AI chatbot Grok, after it shared with millions of users false information suggesting that Kamala Harris was not eligible to appear on the 2024 presidential ballot.”

“The publisher redesigned its website, inserting more ad units, multimedia and recirculation tools, and hired a direct sales team for the first time in its 178-year-old history. To diversify its revenue further, it launched a donation platform in November and an affiliate marketing operation in March. Following the overhaul, the publisher has seen upticks in its traffic, digital ad revenue—from both direct and programmatic sources—and video consumption, according to chief revenue officer Kristin Heitmann.”

“’The fact that the Israeli claims haven’t been backed up by solid evidence doesn’t mean our reporting was inaccurate or misleading, that we have walked it back or that there is a correctable error here,’ Elena Cherney, the Wall Street Journal’s chief news editor, wrote in an email earlier this year seen by Semafor. That one of the paper’s biggest and most impactful stories about the war was based on information it could not verify is a startling acknowledgement.'”

“‘When you’re the Olympic broadcaster, your audience is everybody. And, it’s young and old. It’s multigenerational, multicultural,’ said Zenkel. ‘There are certainly audiences, especially among younger generations, who spend more time on short-form content than they do on longer, more traditional, programming. And we will reach them through these platforms.’”

“Trending Now, which aggregates the top B2B stories in sectors such as construction into AI-generated newsletters, received the legal letter days after Press Gazette reported on the fact it had passed one million subscriptions. Buzzfeed also sent a similar letter to Press Gazette, saying our story was adding to Trending Now’s ‘infringement’ because it featured two screenshots of the brand’s website in which the logo was visible.”

The company is talking with Judi Dench, Awkwafina and Keegan-Michael Key, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the project is confidential. Representatives for Meta declined to comment … While it’s not entirely clear how Meta will be using the voices, it has discussed a chatbot that could serve as a digital assistant, à la Apple’s Siri, or a friend, the people said. Users could speak with a chatbot that has the voice of Awkwafina, for example.”

“Talks inside the BBC have focused on protecting future audiences from upsetting repeats of his most visible work in news and on state occasions, such as the funerals of Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II: ‘We are actively considering the availability of our archive,’ a BBC spokesperson said. ‘While we don’t routinely delete content from the BBC archive, as it is a matter of historical record, we do consider the continued use and reuse of material.'”

“An audio engineer at Crooked Media in Los Angeles and a member of the bargaining committee, added that given the company’s progressive roots, the hope is this contract could provide a way forward for others in the podcasting and media industry. ‘We all know Crooked is a progressive media company, espouses progressive values, and we really think that Crooked basically has an opportunity to set an industry standard, show everybody else how it’s done, how it could be if we choose to live those values.'”

“The original headline in the Boston Globe, which ran on Friday, read ‘Transgender boxer advances.’ It appeared on an Associated Press wire report written by Greg Beacham, which does not misidentify Khelif. In the retraction note, the storied New England paper admitted it made a ‘significant error’ in the headline. ‘This editing lapse is regrettable and unacceptable and we apologize to Khelif, to Associated Press writer Greg Beacham, and to you, our readers.'”

“[Trump’s team] said, ‘Well, can you not fact check? He’s not going to take the stage if you fact-check.'” (Trump did go on stage.)

“The Russian Federation had a few final items of protocol to tick through with the man who had become its most famous prisoner…they had another piece of writing they required from him, an official request for presidential clemency. The text, moreover, should be addressed to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. The pro forma printout included a long blank space the prison could fill out if desired, or simply, as expected, leave blank. In the formal high Russian he had honed over 16 months imprisonment, the Journal’s Russia correspondent filled the page. The last line submitted a proposal of his own: After his release, would Putin be willing to sit down for an interview?”

“It may never be clear if Gershkovich was targeted for specific reporting, or simply because the Kremlin needed a hostage to further negotiations for a prisoner swap with the west, after numerous arrests of high-profile Russian assets and officers.”

“Since Russia imprisoned Mr. Gershkovich in March 2023, The Journal has pushed to keep his detainment top of mind.” (Nieman Lab also covered the Journal’s efforts here.)

The 32-year-old’s release was secured as part of the largest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War. Read a letter from Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Emma Tucker here.

“Mr. Lemon did not sign a contract cementing the agreement, which he believed would be a launchpad for his new show after CNN fired him last year, the lawsuit said. Mr. Musk told him during a phone call that there was no need to ‘fill out paperwork’ and reassured Mr. Lemon that X would financially support the show even if he did not like the views Mr. Lemon espoused, according to the court filing.”

“The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accuses Abraham Shafi of defrauding investors by making misleading statements about the company’s growth. IRL – which was once considered a potential rival to Facebook – took its name from its intention to get its online users to meet up in real life. However, the initial optimism evaporated after it emerged most of IRL’s users were bots, with the platform shutting in 2023.”

“In Futurism’s testing, ChatGPT regularly cited DNyuz’ plagiarism factory as an authoritative and original source. And even after we alerted OpenAI to the issue, ChatGPT continued basing its answers on DNuyz’s stolen content.”