“We identified the areas that saw the most action, based on the alerts. This is how it played out in some areas where Trump focused the most.”

“In the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington, the media organization said that the White House emailed three of the company’s five directors on Monday, telling them that their positions had been terminated. The administration did not offer any justification for the dismissals.”

“The publisher has lost ad spend from Netflix, as well as 25,000 subscribers, in recent months.”

“A coalition of 45 international journalists led by Paris-based Forbidden Stories and including The Washington Post has continued [Viktoriia] Roshchyna’s work and conducted a months-long investigation into her death, the Taganrog complex, and the network of prisons and ad hoc detention centers that stretches from occupied Ukraine to northern Russia.”

“Trump added that the outlets are ‘SICK’ and ‘TRULY THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!’ In a separate post, he lamented a ‘COMPROMISED AND CORRUPT’ press that ‘writes BAD STORIES, and CHEATS, BIG, ON POLLS.'”

“The journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was captured in the summer of 2023 near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station. It was at least her fourth reporting trip into the occupied territories. She was by this stage of the war the only Ukrainian journalist prepared to risk crossing the frontline in order to pierce the information blackout imposed by Russia. Roshchyna died after a year in detention, aged 27.”

“Earlier this month, The New York Times hired a full-time director of photography — primarily for podcasts. It might sound like a surprising move for a podcast, unless you’ve clocked what’s been happening at The Ezra Klein Show. Klein, once a disembodied voice, is now a bona fide millennial onscreen hottie, staring straight into the camera and engaging a new kind of audience…Podcasts aren’t just going visual; they’re becoming television.”

“In times like this, when there’s lots of chaos, you need a place for sense-making and you need people you can turn to who you can trust. Substack is their place. The voices that you know are not trying to sell you a particular agenda. Or if they are, they’re transparent about it. You learn to trust them over time.”

“Journalism drew the favorable post position No. 8 on Saturday night and was installed as the 3-1 morning-line favorite for the 151st Kentucky Derby…Journalism is a California-based horse trained by Michael McCarthy…The Derby will take place Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, with a post time of 6:57 p.m. ET.”

“Currently, if you read Wired’s review of the best office chairs and decide to purchase one through our link, we get a cut of the revenue and it supports our journalism. How will affiliate revenue work inside of ChatGPT shopping when the tool recommends an office chair that OpenAI knows is a good pick because Wired, among others, gave it a good review?”

“The report said public media was a ‘fully captured government mouthpiece’ in Hungary, and heading that way in Slovakia, where new laws have scrapped safeguards for editorial independence. Public media is also vulnerable in Croatia, Greece, Bulgaria and Italy, it said.”

“Bezos says he wants the opinion section to reflect what he calls ‘free markets and personal liberties.’ I don’t know any Post columnists who oppose personal freedoms, so I expected some clarity. What exactly does he mean?…What is he really proposing? What worries me most is that we’ve had no explanation. Bezos hasn’t spoken with the team. The paper’s reputation has already taken a hit.”

“On Tuesday morning, the social media platform Bluesky experienced back-to-back outages that prevented feeds from loading for many users around the world.” Related: Wait, how does a decentralized service like Bluesky go down?

“The U.S. tech giant profits from fraudulent adverts that steal the identities of high-profile individuals to exploit their reputations for honesty and financial expertise. Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf has written about his frustration that multiple Facebook and Instagram accounts have been set up purporting to be run by him promoting WhatsApp-based investment groups.”

“Since then RedBird IMI has been running an auction process, led by investment banks Raine and Robey Warshaw, at which former chancellor George Osborne is a partner. However, a buyer has so far failed to emerge who is willing or able to stump up the £500m it is seeking to recoup its full investment.”

“The chief executive officers are increasingly at odds over the computing power Microsoft provides to OpenAI, the access the startup gives the technology giant to its models and whether the Altman-led company’s AI systems will soon achieve humanlike intelligence, according to people familiar with their relationship.”