“Lee Enterprises, which purchased the Buffalo News in 2020, announced in February it would be printing editions at the Plain Dealer’s facility in Cleveland and trucking the papers in for local delivery. The last locally printed edition came off the press Saturday night, according to the guild.”

“If you were to make one single rule to follow when it comes to hiring journalists at a news organization it would be ‘Try to avoid hiring the direct family members of prominent politicians, for your political news outlet.’ And yet. And yet!”

The section, reintroduced in 2022, had last appeared in print in 2009. A new group of contributing writers includes critics like Sam Adler-Bell, Jane Hu, Margo Jefferson, and Sam Tanenhaus.

“[Journalist Armando Linares López] was at home when his phone buzzed, this time with a much more direct message on WhatsApp. ‘You were told to stop trashing the government,’ the text said. ‘I’m trying to be your friend, but if I can’t, you’re going to have problems with us.'”

“I wondered if he’d spent so much time within the technocratic echelon of American life that when Bankman-Fried embodied some of its worst traits — when he thought of people as ‘probability distributions’ or ran his companies with deliberate opacity, or chased an obscene level of wealth — Lewis could only see him as an especially quirky character, rather than a product of terrible dysfunction.”

A scam on TikTok featured a deepfake of MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, offering $2 iPhones.

County Highway will publish every two months. “The first issue launched in the summer with no advertising, but through word of mouth its 25,000 copies sold out.”

“Magic Switch allows users to instantly transform an existing design into another format, such as converting a blog into an email or social media post, without needing to manually change the layout or update the copy text.”