Jay Rosen

Well said, Julie.

I, too, do not care that you are not “surprised.”

Let Sherrilyn Ifill be heard all over the internet.

Yessir. Right away Sir.

Alden Global Capital fails in its attempt to get its tentacles on The Dallas Morning News A late bid to disrupt its sale to Hearst is foiled by a fourth-generation newspaper owner turning down more money.

You have probably read too many news items about hedge funds draining the lifeblood out of newspapers. Some of you have lived it with your own paper's demise. Treat yourself, then, to the story of one hedge fund's complete defeat.

Alden Global Capital is the name. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/alde...

Those are weaknesses, yes.

I share your frustration.

That can be an issue, yes.

That's a very real problem.

Thanks. I already did that.

From my 2020 post, "Today we are switching our coverage of Donald Trump to an emergency setting." pressthink.org/2020/03/toda...

What does that mean. Are you a bot?

Today we are switching our coverage of Donald Trump to an emergency setting - PressThink "This means our journalism will work in a different way, as we try to prevent the President from misinforming you through us."

See my post, "Today we are switching our coverage of Donald Trump to an emergency setting." pressthink.org/2020/03/toda...

From "Newsrooms Need to Get Tougher on All That Lying" by Richard Tofel. dicktofel.substack.com/p/newsrooms-...

Because they converted to nonprofit status years ago.

It's not public now? I don't understand.

Analysis | The Fact Checker rose in an era of false claims. Falsehoods are now winning. Longtime Fact Checker Glenn Kessler takes stock as he departs The Washington Post.

"Even as fact-checking surged in the past decade, so had the wave of false claims and narratives swamping the world."

Washington Post fact checker takes the buyout.

Reflects on what he saw, what he did.

Difficult to read without rage formation of some kind. Gift link: wapo.st/41kFq2G

Nonprofit news sites are built to generate impact — but these are also generating audiences In markets large and small, these nonprofit news organizations are achieving traffic numbers that many commercial outlets would envy. Here's our first monthly ranking of the top 25 nonprofit news site...

Top 25 nonprofit news sites, June 2025.
Ranked by estimated monthly visits.

www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/nonp...

Reply with the biggest surprise— for you, I mean.

That makes it worse, yes.

Traffic Apocalypse Google’s AI Overviews are killing click-throughs to news sites.

"Worldwide search traffic has fallen by 15% in the past year, estimates Similarweb, a digital intelligence platform. The culprit: AI search." www.cjr.org/analysis/tra...

Why does this matter? Lighter traffic to news sites means less ad revenue and fewer chances to convert readers into subscribers.

The authoritarian can go beyond lying to the press, or keeping journalists in the dark. Beyond intimidation. There's another route. He can reject reality on a mass scale, or discredit the whole idea that we can know what's happening in our world. Instead of jailing journalists nulify the real.

This is a journalism story. I don't mean how to cover the story, but things deeper than that. It's an attack on the conditions required for journalism to matter, on reality itself, and on the very idea that we can live in the world the way it is.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

When people complain about the news the way CBS tells it, someone at the company will listen to the complaints and decide if they're fair. But some people will get mad because they hate any news that criticizes the president, especially when it's true! CBS will have to listen and pretend it's fair.

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TGIF. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting's budget has been zeroed out, Skydance's takeover of Paramount has been approved, and James Carville has a "new hero" named Rupert Murdoch. Let's get to it...

Why not see for yourself? view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175...

😎 No problem at all.

No. Reports not to the president of CBS, but of the New Company formed by the merger.

I didn't know that about Gizmodo.

May have escaped your attention:

Among the conditions in Skydance’s merger with Paramount Global was an agreement to add an ombudsman specifically for complaints of bias at CBS. This person will be anchored in the business side, and report to the new company president. www.fcc.gov/ecfs/documen...

The Rise of Worker-Owned Journalism | On the Media | WNYC Studios Media co-ops are championing a new business model for journalism, free from corporate overlords. 

Yes that is happening.

www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

In more than one way

projectc.biz/top50creator...

I have already said I don't have a good answer to that first question.

If I were put in charge of a defense, I would be working toward a general strike.