In the last month, Sam Stein, Burgess Everett, and now Jack Shafer have decided to leave Politico; sources: Alex Ward and Lara Seligman are leaving for the WSJ (Max Tani/Semafor)

Mediagazer: In the last month, Sam Stein, Burgess Everett, and now Jack Shafer have decided to leave Politico; sources: Alex Ward and Lara Seligman are leaving for the WSJ (Max Tani/Semafor)

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The Guardian:

Assange's plea deal doesn't create an official precedent, but he still had to plead guilty to violating the Espionage Act for a “crime” outlets commit regularly— Instead of just dropping the case, the Biden administration got a guilty plea and set a dangerous tone for reporters everywhere
Discussion: US District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands, Reuters, Al Jazeera, Slate, New York Times, 9to5Mac, The Atlantic, @rchusid@med-mastodon.com, The i Paper, ScheerPost.com, Fox News, NewsNation, Press Association, The Daily Beast, Freedom of the Press …, CBS News, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Washington Examiner

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US District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands: General Allegations — Conspiracy To Obtain and Disclose National Defense Information ) ) …

Charlie Savage /
New York Times: Assange's Plea Deal Sets a Chilling Precedent, but It Could Have Been Worse

Ben Lovejoy /
9to5Mac: Julian Assange freed after plea deal agreed with US DOJ @rchusid@med-mastodon.com: It is great that Assange is out of prison but by demanding a guilty plea, as opposed to dropping the charges, the Biden administration is damaging First Amendment rights and hindering the ability of the press to report on matters such as war crimes. — https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

Michael Day /
The i Paper: Assange release a bold move for Biden after leaks helped Trump win in 2016

Diego Ramos /
ScheerPost.com: Julian Assange Is (Nearly) Free: Live Coverage NewsNation: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stops in Bangkok on his way to a US court and later freedom Freedom of the Press Foundation: Justice Dept. and Julian Assange reach plea deal in case that threatens press freedom

David Greene /
Electronic Frontier Foundation: EFF Statement on Assange Plea Deal

Brady Knox /
Washington Examiner: Julian Assange reaches plea deal with DOJ that would grant him release from prison

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NBC News:

Julian Assange pleads guilty to a conspiracy charge as part of a deal with the US, letting him go free after spending five years in a British prison— The WikiLeaks founder has been held in a British prison for the last five years and fought extradition to the U.S. He is expected to return to Australia.

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@wikileaks, The Guardian, Washington Post, BBC, Semafor, @stella_assange, CBS News, CNN, Vanity Fair, Associated Press, Byline Times, Wired, @jimwaterson, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, ABC7, @stella_assange, @wikileaks, CAIR, @naughtfollowers@threads.net, @markcurtis30, @mikebutcher, @naughtfollowers@threads.net, @jack, The i Paper, @jeremyscahill, @craigmokhiber, ScheerPost.com, Reuters, Ars Technica, @jameeljaffer, @robertkennedyjr, CBS News, @jeffjarvis, Associated Press, @jamesrbuk, @benburgis, @autismcapital, @zcohencnn, @sgurman, Metro.co.uk, Engadget, The Intercept, Financial Times, Mediaite, Rolling Stone, The Wrap, Deadline, The Daily Beast, The Register, NewsNation, @mbrauchli@threads.net, Fox News, @lemonslayer.bsky.social, Deadline, @martinsfp@threads.net, Gizmodo, @joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org, Axios, New York Post, BBC, Politico, @lemonslayer.bsky.social, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Washington Post, TechCrunch, Washington Examiner, Committee to Protect … and The Reporters Committee …

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@wikileaks: JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a

Helen Davidson /
The Guardian: Julian Assange arrives in Saipan for court hearing which is expected to see him freed @stella_assange: Julian is free!!!! Words cannot express our immense gratitude to YOU- yes YOU, who have all mobilised for years and years to make this come true. THANK YOU. tHANK YOU. THANK YOU. Follow @WikiLeaks for more info soon... [video] CNN: Julian Assange agrees to plea deal with Biden administration that would allow him to avoid imprisonment in US

Eric Lutz /
Vanity Fair: Julian Assange, Glorified and Vilified Founder of WikiLeaks, to Be Set Free Associated Press: WikiLeaks' Julian Assange arrives at court before guilty plea in deal with US securing his freedom

Steve Hopkins /
Byline Times: Julian Assange's Wife Urges Supporters to Keep ‘Eyes’ on Case as He is Freed from UK Prison and Set to Appear Before US Judge

Dell Cameron /
Wired: The Julian Assange Saga Is Finally Over

Jim Waterson /
@jimwaterson: All international news stories eventually become Flight Radar stories. Looks as though news organisations still have a few hours to get someone to the Northern Mariana Islands. https://fr24.com/... [image]

Katharine Gemmell /
Bloomberg: How Wikileaks Founder Assange Won Fight to Avoid Prison ABC7: WikiLeaks' Julian Assange lands in Saipan before guilty plea in deal with US securing his freedom

@stella_assange:
Julian calling into Sydney from Stansted airport last night (his day time). #AssangeJet #AssangeFree [image]

Ibrahim Hooper /
CAIR: CAIR Welcomes Plea Deal to Set Julian Assange Free @naughtfollowers@threads.net: Questions for people? Whats the difference between Will Lewis and Julian Assange? 🤔

Mark Curtis /
@markcurtis30: Today I will be remembering all those British ‘journalists’ who failed to support Julian's release, and who showed themselves to be on the side of states committing crimes rather on the side of those revealing them. Next, we have to demolish the UK national media.

Mike Butcher /
@mikebutcher: It would appear the US has decided enough is enough. It's let Assange fly to Australia on a guilty plea for one charge and taken his years of incarceration in leu. https://www.bbc.com/...

@naughtfollowers@threads.net:
People have super weird blindspots over Assange. Even very smart people who supposedly believe in ethics and morals. Ethics don't mean sh*t if you're willing to jettison them in furtherance of what you think is a higher import. What Assange exposed was important in some instances. …

Kyriakos Petrakos /
The i Paper: ‘Rest, recreation and an autobiography’: Assange's former lawyer on what happens next

Jeremy Scahill /
@jeremyscahill: Julian Assange has finally been freed. Until yesterday, there was a strong possibility he would have died in prison and this deal no doubt will anger some very powerful people. He shouldn't have had to plead to any charges but nonetheless his liberation is a moment to celebrate.

Craig Mokhiber /
@craigmokhiber: Political prisoner Julian Assange, persecuted for years for the crime of journalism, simply for telling the truth about U.S. war crimes, is free. A moment of light in an age of darkness .

Kyle Anzalone /
ScheerPost.com: Assange Released from Prison After Agreeing To Plead Guilty to Espionage Act Violation

Jon Brodkin /
Ars Technica: Julian Assange to plead guilty but is going home after long extradition fight

Jameel Jaffer /
@jameeljaffer: Good for Assange. Good for Biden. Bad for press freedom, but not the catastrophe it could have been. https://theintercept.com/...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr /
@robertkennedyjr: Julian Assange struck a plea deal and will go free! I am overjoyed. He's a generational hero. The bad news is that he had to plea guilty to conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense info. Which means the US security state succeeded in criminalizing journalism and @jeffjarvis: A proper outcome involving a difficult case and person, I think: Julian Assange expected to plead guilty to US charge in deal that could end his imprisonment - court filing https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

Associated Press:
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty in deal with US and return to Australia

James Ball /
@jamesrbuk: The practical choice Assange faced after years in jail and years in the embassy before it was to take a ‘bad’ deal or face trial and detention in the USA. For the US, this was a chance to save face given Assange's sentence would likely be shorter than time served.

James Ball /
@jamesrbuk: Many journalists - myself included - and many who are no fans of Assange said the prosecution was a risk to press freedom. A plea deal doesn't change that, and is something Assange would only agree through sheer necessity.

James Ball /
@jamesrbuk: Absolutely *huge* development in the Assange case that could see him free from prison in the near future: he's on the cusp of a plea deal with US authorities. https://www.bbc.com/...

Ben Burgis /
@benburgis: Thank God. What's been done to this man is truly vile—an assault on press freedom certainly, but also just an obscenity in basic human terms. @autismcapital: 🚨 BREAKING: Julian Assange strikes a plea deal with the US which sentences him to the time he already served in British prison. He is now free to return to Australia, where he was born. [image]

Zachary Cohen /
@zcohencnn: News: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge related to his alleged role in one of the largest US government breaches of classified material. Deal w/ DOJ will allow him to avoid imprisonment in US, per court docs. https://www.cnn.com/...

Sadie Gurman /
@sgurman: NEW: Julian Assange is set to plead guilty in his espionage case, in an agreement that will allow the WikiLeaks founder to walk free after spending more than a decade holed up and imprisoned in London, largely to avoid being sent to the U.S. w/@aviswanatha https://www.wsj.com/...

Gergana Krasteva /
Metro.co.uk: How Julian Assange went from facing stealth rape claims to private jet to freedom

Stefania Palma /
Financial Times: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange expected to be freed in US plea deal

Charisma Madarang /
Rolling Stone: Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange to Plead Guilty In Exchange for Release

Sharon Knolle /
The Wrap: Julian Assange Takes US Justice Department Deal, Avoids Additional Jail Time

Denise Petski /
Deadline: Julian Assange To Plead Guilty In Exchange For Release

Simon Sharwood /
The Register: Julian Assange to go free in guilty plea deal with US

Marcus Brauchli /
@mbrauchli@threads.net: Assange has many odious qualities . But the U.S. government's attempt to prosecute a foreign national for persuading a U.S. citizen to give up classified documents that never should have been in a low-level soldier's hands was plainly a failure of U.S. secrets handling more than a case of spying. … @lemonslayer.bsky.social: Seems that after the proceedings are complete Assange will then immediately fly to Australia. Guessing all of this was part of the deal. 👇 — storage.courtlistener.com/recap/ gov.us... [image]

Melanie Goodfellow /
Deadline: U.S. Authorities Drop Julian Assange Extradition Demand & Strike Plea Deal; Outcome Hailed As “Historic Victory” For Press Freedom @martinsfp@threads.net: Wow. “In return for pleading guilty to Conspiracy to Obtain and Disclose National Defence Information, Assange will be sentenced to time served, 62 months - the time he has already spent in a British prison. ” He will then be free to return to Australia, the country of his birth.

Joe Ortiz /
@joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org: I'm totally shocked that this is going to be all over soon. What the US did to #Assange (like him or hate him) is so cruel and vile not to mention that this was a major attack on human rights and press freedom. And he's going to walk free after all of the hell he's been through over the past decade (if you include his embassy stay). …

Natalie Daher /
Axios: Julian Assange strikes plea deal with U.S.

Allie Griffin /
New York Post: Julian Assange expected to be freed after 5 years in UK prison under US plea deal

Bernd Debusmann Jr /
BBC: Julian Assange to plead guilty in deal with US

@lemonslayer.bsky.social:
Here is the court document. 👇 — storage.courtlistener.com/recap/ gov.us...

Richard Lawler /
The Verge: Julian Assange is ‘free,’ will plead guilty to leaking national security secrets

Anna Heim /
TechCrunch: Julian Assange is free

Brady Knox /
Washington Examiner: Julian Assange reaches plea deal with DOJ that would grant him release from prison

Wall Street Journal:

Sources: The New York Times is working to move its top podcasts behind a paywall, with the goal of eventually tying most, if not all, to a subscription service— Publisher plans to limit access to shows like ‘Serial’ to subscribers, cap number of free episodes of ‘The Daily’

Discussion:
@paulconstant.com and @balsam.bsky.social

Engadget:

Reddit says it will update its robots.txt “to be as clear as possible” that companies using an automated agent to access Reddit need to abide by its terms— The warning comes after reports that AI companies regularly ignore instructions not to scrape.

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Reddit Upvoted, TechCrunch and Reuters, more at Techmeme »

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Aisha Malik /
TechCrunch: Reddit's upcoming changes attempt to safeguard the platform against AI crawlers

Harshita Mary Varghese /
Reuters: Reddit to update web standard to block automated website scraping

Axios:

The Associated Press is launching The AP Fund for Journalism, an independent 501(c)3 charitable organization to raise $100M+ to expand state and local news— - “It will help to sustain what we do, grow what we do, and add new and incremental journalism services for the industry," Veerasingham told Axios in an interview.

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Nancy Watzman /
Nancy Watzman on LinkedIn: Did you know that AP got its start back in 1846 when when newsrooms joined together to share resources for covering the Mexican American war? …

Rep. Mike Collins /
@repmikecollins: Just in time for the November election! It's just philanthropy!

Julie Pace /
Julie Pace on LinkedIn: So excited about this new initiative at AP - the next step in the commitment we've made to supporting state and local news across the U.S. since our founding nearly 200 years ago. …

Chris Krewson /
@ckrewson: The Associated Press wants to raise one-fifth of a Press Forward to fund itself...

Paul Roetzer /
@paulroetzer: The frontier AI model companies (@Google, @OpenAI, @Anthropic, etc) should fund this. Save local journalism, which is necessary to a functioning democracy, and do licensing deals to infuse real-time news into AI systems.

Sara Fischer /
@sarafischer: NEW: @AP launching a nonprofit to raise philanthropy dollars for local news — Looking to raise at least $100M initially — The “AP Fund for Journalism” will be a 501(c)3 charitable organization with a separate board More on @axios https://www.axios.com/...

Adam Chitwood /
The Wrap: Associated Press to Launch Nonprofit to Help Fund Local News

Matthew Foldi /
@matthewfoldi: This is a four alarm fire for Republicans The Associated Press—which shared office space with Palestinian terrorists for years—is going to launch an all out war on the GOP with fake news in your backyard @mattdpearce@threads.net: I say this with all the respect for AP in the world. It's the most successful American journalism cooperative in existence — but its durability has been its ability to spread costs around (by purchasing journalists' labor and disseminating their work), not from trying draw from the same philanthropic revenue pool as its members. https://www.cjr.org/...

Joel Simon /
Columbia Journalism Review: The Associated Press finds a new way to combat news deserts

The Verge:

Q&A with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters on updating the company's famous culture memo, its advertising ambitions, bundling, game streaming, AI use cases, and more— The co-CEO who replaced co-founder Reed Hastings details the company's new culture memo, its ad ambitions, and what's next for Netflix.

Discussion:
Business Insider, Next TV, Variety and New York Times

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Jaures Yip /
Business Insider: Netflix co-CEO explains why the company keeps increasing prices for ad-free plans

Daniel Frankel /
Next TV: Netflix Releases Version 4.0 of Its ‘Culture Memo’: Shorter New Iteration Provides Some Boundaries to Abject Personal Freedom

Todd Spangler /
Variety: Netflix Updates Its Famous Culture Memo: ‘Netflix Sucks Today Compared to Where We Can Be Tomorrow’

Nicole Sperling /
New York Times: Responsibility Over Freedom: How Netflix's Culture Has Changed

Financial Times:

Polish state energy group Orlen plans to sell its media company Polska Press, acquired under the former right-wing government, to show political independence— Orlen's acquisition of newspaper business under former rightwing government has drawn criticism

Discussion:
@raphaelminder, @j_jaraczewski, @cookcommunicat1, @bdstanley, Telewizja Polska S.A and @staunovo

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Raphael Minder /
@raphaelminder: Orlen, Poland's gas and oil company, will sell its “absolutely unnecessary” media company Polska Press. New CEO also pledges to resign if Tusk government interferes in his strategy. https://www.ft.com/... via @ft

Jakub Jaraczewski /
@j_jaraczewski: @BDStanley @pswidlicki I am old enough to remember Obajtek claiming that buying Polska Press will help Orlen leverage big data competences in a mutispectoral environment, or some other nonsense. @cookcommunicat1: Poland's Orlen must be the only oil and gas company in the free world to have owned its own media business...

Ben Stanley /
@bdstanley: Turns out an energy giant *doesn't* actually have a strictly commercial need for a large printing and distribution network that just so happens to make it possible to print and distribute pro-government propaganda.

David Kennedy /
Telewizja Polska S.A: Polish energy giant says its media group is for sale

The Free Press:

Former NPR editor Uri Berliner, who wrote a Free Press essay criticizing NPR, is joining The Free Press as senior editor, after resigning from NPR in April— Is dropshipping a scam? Why did Niall Ferguson's debut Free Press column provoke so many responses? Why are Americans divided on foreign policy?

Discussion:
@mikedrucker, @bariweiss, The Wrap, Mediaite and Fox News

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Mike Drucker /
@mikedrucker: Look, I get it. Working for the Free Press is like writing on easy mode. You can say whatever fact free shit you want and idiots will slap their hands together like trained baby seals given a nice treat.

Bari Weiss /
@bariweiss: Thrilled to welcome @uberliner to @TheFP. [image]

Lucas Manfredi /
The Wrap: Uri Berliner, NPR Editor Who Wrote Free Press Essay Criticizing NPR Bias, Joins The Free Press

David Gilmour /
Mediaite: Ex-NPR Editor Who Quit After Scorched Earth Essay Accusing Outlet of Liberal Bias Joins Bari Weiss' Free Press

Variety:

MTV appears to have fully pulled down MTV News website, scrubbing two decades' worth of content from its archives; Paramount Global shut down MTV News in 2023— Some two decades' worth of content published on MTVNews.com is no longer available after MTV appears to have fully pulled down the site.

Discussion:
@patrickhosken, Wendy L. Wilson on LinkedIn, @alannabennett, Jarvis Holliday on LinkedIn, Angela Matusik on LinkedIn, @jill_krajewski@threads.net, The Ankler, @matthewkeyslive, Boing Boing, @bloodravenlib@mas.to, Alena Bubniak on LinkedIn, Cord Cutters News, TVNewsCheck, Consequence, The Wrap, @stephentotilo, @crystalbell, @hiattb, @sam_piroton, @brendonkleen14, @kevdgrussing, @film_girl, @jemaswad, @tirhakahlove, @annetdonahue, @meelztv, @jhoffman, @lymoula, @dangillmor@mastodon.social, The Verge, The A.V. Club, @martinsfp@threads.net, @kalihays1@threads.net, @kashana.bsky.social, @lakewitchhouse.bsky.social, @jaytingle.bsky.social, @smi.bsky.social, @greene.haus, @mirrorman.bsky.social and Fiona Apple Rocks

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Patrick Hosken /
@patrickhosken: So, https://mtvnews.com/ no longer exists. Eight years of my life are gone without a trace. All because it didn't fit some executives' bottom lines. Infuriating is too small a word

Wendy L. Wilson /
Wendy L. Wilson on LinkedIn: I have seen so much money spent on frivolous nonsense at various companies but it amazes me that a few dollars cannot be used to invest in retaining a digital archive. … @alannabennett: Archives should never disappear. Full-stop. This is what they mean when they say we're in a digital dark age. There will be no evidence of the incredible cultural journalism that so many people contributed to. If this happens with BuzzFeed News...I STG https://x.com/...

Jarvis Holliday /
Jarvis Holliday on LinkedIn: For about a 10-year period, beginning in the early 2000s, MTVNews-dot-com was the website I visited most. …

Angela Matusik /
Angela Matusik on LinkedIn: Another vast chunk of cultural history gone because digital archives don't fit in shifting corporate culture. What is happening to us? …

Jill Krajewski /
@jill_krajewski@threads.net: this just happened to mtv and will happen to everyone 🙃

Sean McNulty /
The Ankler: ☀️'Shrek' Revived at UNI Amid Streaming Animation Boom

Matthew Keys /
@matthewkeyslive: Paramount could have sold the MTV News archive to any number of companies that would have been happy to include their pop culture journalism in their archives. I can think of at least five that would have made serious bids for the content.

A. Rivera /
@bloodravenlib@mas.to: Another net loss. The CMT site is also gone. — >MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offline — https://variety.com/... #MTv #CMT #preservation #archives #news #Internet #history

Alena Bubniak /
Alena Bubniak on LinkedIn: How frustrating. More than two decades' worth of content gone in the snap of a finger. And that's just one site. …

Luke Bouma /
Cord Cutters News: Paramount Deletes 20 Years of MTV News Articles as It Shuts Down Its Website

Todd Spangler /
TVNewsCheck: MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offline

Alex Young /
Consequence: MTV News Takes Down 30-Year Digital Archive

Ross A. Lincoln /
The Wrap: MTV News Website Shuttered, Archives Deleted

Stephen Totilo /
@stephentotilo: Found some of my articles on the Wayback Machine, but this really sucks. My four years of games coverage—a who's who of interview subjects—more or less gone. And that's just my little gaming corner of a larger output of great coverage of music, movies, politics and more

Crystal Bell /
@crystalbell: sickening (derogatory) to see the entire @mtvnews archive wiped from the internet. decades of music history gone...including some very early k-pop stories.

Brian Hiatt /
@hiattb: This is disgraceful. They've completely wiped the MTV News archive. Decades of pop culture history research material gone, and why? https://x.com/...

Brendon Kleen /
@brendonkleen14: The post-Grantland crew that went to MTV News did insane, awesome work and deserved way more time to build Paramount keeps taking Ls

Kevin D. Grüssing /
@kevdgrussing: So the first act of the new 3 headed CEO is to wipe out MTV News' archive for pennies in the couch cushion. Cool stuff!

Christina Warren /
@film_girl: This whole trend of nuking archives or even delisting stuff from Google for SEO reasons that aren't even accurate is so bad for so many reasons. MTV News in the 2010s did some exceptional work and losing it all is so pointlessly dumb.

Jem Aswad /
@jemaswad: This is a travesty: Decades of https://mtvnews.com/ have disappeared from the internet, just like that. My heart goes out to my colleagues, especially @teamshaheem, whose years of Mixtape Mondays and beyond are such an important part of hip-hop history. @tirhakahlove: mtvnews was my first longish term gig. first place i had a consistent check and the first sign that i could do this for the long term. damn near everyone i worked with there is making big waves in media/art against all the odds. this shit stinks.

Anne T Donahue /
@annetdonahue: shameful. and relatedly: mtv news never did get around to formally letting me go alongside everybody in 2017, so i still consider myself milton from office space, stuck somewhere in the basement. @meelztv: We did an episode of Retro Diaries to talk about JAY-Z's 2002 and the primary resource for it was MTV News. The archived articles by Shaheem Reid and others were great first hand resources on how it all went down. They might as well pack MTV up as a whole at this point.

Jordan Hoffman /
@jhoffman: Everything published at MTV News (or Film dot com) has been eliminated. My oral history of GALAXY QUEST lives only at the Wayback Machine archive now. https://web.archive.org/... @lymoula: there was archived stuff on mtv news that was the only way i was able to verify certain key pieces of information throughout the nearly 5 years of doing @RapRankings. this is a massive loss. https://x.com/...

Dan Gillmor /
@dangillmor@mastodon.social: Anyone who creates media that third parties publish should always, always make a back-up of what appeared online. — I learned this the hard way when a former employer disappeared years worth of my blog from a major news organization's website. …

Andrew Liszewski /
The Verge: The MTV News archive has been taken offline

Matt Schimkowitz /
The A.V. Club: MTV News website becomes the latest casualty of our Digital Dark Age

@martinsfp@threads.net:
I hope the FT never does this the 1000+ posts I published on TNW years ago. Yes, I know, I should scrape them....

Kali Hays /
@kalihays1@threads.net: remember when all those cool grantland (rip) writers landed there when mtvnews tried a little relaunch and then they got the chance to do basically nothing before that ended, too. @kashana.bsky.social: Thank goodness everybody's destroying information to keep us safe from the danger of knowing anything. [embedded post] @lakewitchhouse.bsky.social: gen x tuning into mtv to hear from kurt loder that kurt cobain died was our walter cronkite announcing the assassination of JFK moment. Walter Cronkurt [embedded post]

Jay Schiavone /
@jaytingle.bsky.social: Thank goodness they destroyed all that information. That's going to be a huge saving.

Stacy-Marie Ishmael /
@smi.bsky.social: every time this happens i am angry on behalf of everyone this has happened to, me included [embedded post]

Greg Greene /
@greene.haus: Was Paramount running out of room on the web, or something? Did it need to spare a server for ‘NCIS’ streams on Paramount+? Sheesh. [embedded post]

Jess /
@mirrorman.bsky.social: Gotta make room for nineteen seasons of “Real Douchebags of Summerhouse Beach”.

Semafor:

In the last month, Sam Stein, Burgess Everett, and now Jack Shafer have decided to leave Politico; sources: Alex Ward and Lara Seligman are leaving for the WSJ— The unfolding internal crisis at the Washington Post has obscured drama playing out across the river in Rosslyn, Virginia.

Discussion:
@dylanbyers, @vruz@mastodon.social, @semaforben, @vincentmorris, @scottnover, @leighgiangreco and @maxwelltani

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Dylan Byers /
@dylanbyers: NEW via @maxwelltani: Several top reporters leaving POLITICO: - Alex Ward (to WSJ) - Lara Seligman (to WSJ) - Jack Shafer (to *tbd) + comes on heels of: - Sam Stein (to Bulwark) - Burgess Everett (to Semafor) https://www.semafor.com/... @vruz@mastodon.social: @Mediagazer — It was always a centrist outlet, of course they'd go further to the right during a year of election.

Ben Smith /
@semaforben: End of an era @jackshafer!! And a fitting set of @maxwelltani scoops: https://www.semafor.com/...

Vincent Morris /
@vincentmorris: Big loss for @politico again... all strong journos

Scott Nover /
@scottnover: The end of an era: @jackshafer is the best we have

Leigh Giangreco /
@leighgiangreco: The kicker of this @maxwelltani piece can be summed up by, of course, The Godfather [image]

Max Tani /
@maxwelltani: New from me: In the last month, five major journalists have decided to leave Politico. In addition to some of the names already announced publicly, @alexbward and @laraseligman are leaving for the Journal, I'm told. @jackshafer also confirmed he's leaving https://www.semafor.com/...

Press Gazette:

Fact checkers at UK news agency PA Media and Full Fact say AI content has proved less problematic than expected so far during the country's general election— Fact checkers spending more time on verifying claims made by politicians than on fake AI-generated content.

Reuters:

Evan Gershkovich will stand trial for espionage on Wednesday in closed-door proceedings, meaning no reporters, friends, or family will be allowed— U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich will stand trial for espionage in Russia on Wednesday in a court whose proceedings are classified as a state secret.

Discussion:
Voice of America and Talking Biz News

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Chris Roush /