“There’s not much hostility toward experts in unhurried realms of inquiry like numismatics or number theory. It’s when uncertainty collides with urgency that the authorities enter the fray, convene commissions, and issue findings. Those who accept the sanctioned conclusions gain official backing. Those who don’t are ruled out of bounds. No longer recognized as colleagues with legitimate hypotheses, they risk being treated as crackpots, deniers, and conspiracy theorists…But in science, and in intellectual inquiry more broadly, where you draw the line matters enormously.”

Yoshino will oversee the Features, Sports, Local, Investigations and Data teams at the Post. She will be one of four managing editors at the Post, alongside Jason Anders (who came from the Wall Street Journal earlier this month), Liz Seymour (a Post veteran) and Peter Spiegel (who came from the Financial Times in January).

“The work of [the National Geodetic Survey, the oldest scientific agency in the U.S.], says Tim Burch, the executive director of the National Society of Professional Surveyors, ‘is kind of like oxygen. You don’t know you need it until it’s not there.’”

“Alicia Sams, who co-produced the film, told me that she received a call from the executive producer of American Masters, Michael Kantor, at the beginning of April. It was less than a week after a contentious congressional hearing in which the network was accused of being a ‘radical left-wing echo chamber’ that is ‘brainwashing and trans-ing children.’ According to Sams, Kantor said that Disaster Is My Muse would need one further edit before it could be shown: The filmmakers had to remove a short sequence where [Art Spiegelman, author of Maus] reads aloud from the one of the few comic strips about Trump that he’s ever published, in a zine associated with the Women’s March in 2017. There was no opportunity for negotiation, Sams said.”

“The statement published this week, signed by leading media voices from 23 countries, described the draft bill as being in line with ‘the authoritarian tactics’ seen in Russia under Vladimir Putin, in a reference to the country’s ‘foreign agent’ law…The Hungarian legislation, which would allow the government to blacklist organisations, levy steep fines on them and ban them from receiving donations, had been written ‘so broadly that it could be applied to virtually any organisation involved in public life or debate,’ it said.”

“There are so many factors to consider when putting together a list. I not only want to feature the best books, but I also want diversity of topic, of tone, of author background, of publisher size, of general popularity. I use my expertise to weigh my choices and game them out to create a balanced list that reflects both my personal taste plus the voice of the outlet I’m writing for. I would wager to say that ChatGPT can’t do this, and now it’s just a matter of convincing the world, including media bosses and readers alike, that there is value in what I do.”

“This isn’t just a contract dispute, it’s a test of whether journalists have a say in how AI is used in our work. With no federal rules in place, union contracts remain one of the only enforceable frameworks for AI accountability on a national scale.” — Newsguild president Jon Schleuss.

“’We understand that a settlement will be made,’ [a CBS News staffer] said. ‘We also understand that an apology [to Trump] is likely. We also understand that in doing so, CBS News will be very badly damaged.’”

“Requests or audits were made against the [Hong Kong Journalists Association], at least eight independent media outlets, and at least 20 journalists and their family members…the tax department had told one journalist that they had to pay a profit tax for a company they did not run, and had cited a registration number that did not exist. Another company was told it was being audited for profits made during the year before it was even founded. One journalist had their income ‘assessed’ as double the amount they had actually earned, and was issued a demand for prepayment of tax on the ‘under-reported’ income.”

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told reporters the $6.2 million infusion was “short-term emergency funding designed as a safety net for the [network’s] independent journalism.” Sweden has also pledged $2 million, but those funds haven’t arrived yet. RFE/RL is suing the Trump administration for the full $75 million that has been appropriated for it for the rest of the fiscal year.

“The mistake that we’ve seen so many media outlets make is thinking they know how an audience feels.”