“The retreat comes after Yahoo, TechCrunch’s former parent company, sold the business to private equity firm Regent in March. While TechCrunch has yet to confirm how many people have been laid off, several European editorial staff members announced via social media posts they were seeking new roles.”

The public media station is laying off 45 employees “due to funding cuts, rising costs, and stagnant revenues … GBH is one of the largest producers of PBS programming in the country, with programs such as Frontline, Masterpiece, and NOVA. It also operates an NPR news station, creates educational programming, produces podcasts, and more.”

“The list also recommended a book called Mark Zuckerberg Autobiography: The Man Behind the Code, supposedly written by an author named Jasper Robin. While a Goodreads page exists for the book, which claims it is only 61 pages long, the page has no reviews or other information. It is not available for purchase on Amazon or from any other retailers.”

“Angelo ‘A.D.’ Amorosi — a journalist who has written stories for PhillyVoice, the Inquirer and Philadelphia Magazine, among other news outlets — was one of nine defendants charged in December following an investigation into prescription fraud at the former Broad Street Family Pharmacy…Between 2016 and 2021, prosecutors said the couple who owned the pharmacy paid some of their customers cash to bring in prescriptions for expensive drugs. The pharmacy would then submit false claims to Medicare and Medicaid, billing them for prescriptions that were rarely filled, prosecutors said. Most of the fraudulent claims were for HIV medications and the antipsychotic drug Latuda, which pay out high reimbursements.”

“But by engaging with current affairs, if not hot-button politics, in his latest iteration—however absurdly—I think he has become the perfect comedian with a conscience of this unmoored media moment, operating in grayer areas than the exasperated earnestness of an Oliver or a Stewart.”

“…Lake has enthusiastically embraced the task of eliminating the USAGM organizations’ ability to cover news abroad, promising to reduce them to their ‘statutory minimum,’ while laying off hundreds of its workers and placing the rest on paid leave while federal courts consider the limits of her powers to cut it down.”

“Meta’s ad platform already offers some AI tools that can generate variations of existing ads and make minor changes to them before targeting the ads to users on Facebook and Instagram. Now, the company aims to help brands create advertising concepts from scratch.”

“What is really behind it, in a nutshell, is [an effort] to chill us. There aren’t any damages. I mean, he accused us of editing Kamala Harris in a way to help her win the election. But he won the election.”

“The experts established that 52 out of 100 videos offering advice on dealing with trauma, neurodivergence, anxiety, depression and severe mental illness contained some misinformation, and that many others were vague or unhelpful.”

“Ninety percent of the money would go to journalism operations in Oregon with at least a hundred thousand dollars in revenue, a majority of which is generated by editorial content, but 10 percent—a significant carve-out—would support a civic information consortium tasked with providing grants to rural operations and startups.”

“In spring 2022, NHPR journalist Lauren Chooljian published a story detailing allegations of sexual assault and harassment by [Eric] Spofford. Over the next few months Chooljian’s home in Melrose, Massachusetts, her former home in New Hampshire, and the homes of her parents and editor, Dan Barrick, were all vandalized.”