“Right now we have tabloid television, not broadcast news, offering a ghoulish voyeurism and simplified spectacle”

“Don’t rush to put your hidden cameras back on … but we do think it’s worth noting that journalists have been limiting their reporting techniques for decades based, at least in part, on an incorrect ruling that has essentially been rescinded.”

“Meta said there are now 1 million active subscriptions to Instagram creators, just over a year after the subscriptions feature launched.”

“Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, has been in custody since Oct. 18.”

“TikTok didn’t respond to questions about whether it had paid out all of the $1 billion.”

“Meta and other tech companies have raced to launch generative AI ad products and virtual assistants in recent months in response to the frenzy over the debut last year of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, which can provide human-like written responses to questions and other prompts. The companies have released little information so far about the safety guard rails they plan to impose on those systems, making Meta’s decision on political ads one of the industry’s most significant AI policy choices to come to light to date.”

“We got so tired of hearing everyone ask ‘why isn’t there a Defector for games?’ that we decided to make our own,” one co-owner posted.

Execs at half a dozen publishers told Digiday anywhere between 15% and 37% of their traffic can get blocked at times. The issue hasn’t improved, even for their lifestyle content.

Joan B. Kroc, the widow of the man who built McDonald’s into a global fast-food juggernaut, left NPR $222 million.

“We have been accused many times in both countries of working for nefarious purposes for the government of the other. Defending ourselves has incurred enormous legal costs, and, far worse, made it increasingly difficult for us to attract investors, advertisers, and sponsors. While our subscription offerings have been growing strongly and steadily, we are not yet in a position to rely on these revenues to sustain our operations.”

Journalists have lost “an invaluable source—a peerless guide to the insider maneuverings, power politics, and especially the moral questions at the heart of international climate negotiations.” More than that, the world—and the Global South, in particular—has lost perhaps its most talented communicator of the case for global climate justice.