Nearly a dozen mainstream media companies are gutting staff and scrambling to rescue their struggling businesses.
The media business is shrinking at the national, state and local levels — a scary, stark new reality for thousands of journalists.
Media cuts were so severe last year that most industry observers weren't expecting such intense cutbacks in 2024. But an ongoing bloodbath is decimating news outlets nationwide #AureFreePress#news#Journalist
New York Daily News staffers walked off the job Thursday — the paper’s first work stoppage in three decades — to protest “chronic cuts” by its hedge fund owners that “shrink the budget to fill their pockets.”
About 40 members of the Daily News union walked a picket line in the rain around a Midtown Manhattan office building where the News maintains a co-working space that can fit only six people, according to union leaders. #AureFreePress#news#Journalist#Journalism
Nearly all the copies of a small-town Colorado newspaper were stolen from newspaper racks on the same day the Ouray County Plaindealer published a story about charges being filed over rapes alleged to have occurred at an underage drinking party at the police chief’s house while the chief was asleep, the owner and publisher said Friday. #AureFreePress#news#Journalist#Journalism#colorado#Police
#Florida HB 757 is pretty horrible all the way around. If you care about #freespeech, #journalist rights and #freedom in general you should be lining up against it.
Florida (mostly #GOP) legislative panel OKs bill making it easier to sue media, others for defamation
David Tuller DrPH Interview with journalist Ed Yong
"Last month, Yong wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times in which he discussed what he learned as a #journalist from covering #longCovid. He & I spoke earlier today about the Times piece, how he came to grasp the seriousness of long #Covid, & related stuff." 35 minutes.
IMHO. I personally think that it's past time for all#Film#Media#News orgs etc. to SHOW what #Authoritarianism looks like ""in real life"" and what actually happens to people, their property and their freedoms.
-You, we, us, the people, own nothing and live in constant fear. PERIOD.-
"Something dangerous is happening in America"
-President Joe Biden
#CNN Runs #Gaza Coverage Past #Jerusalem Team Operating Under Shadow of #IDF#Censor
Whether reporting from the Middle East, the United States, or anywhere else across the globe, every CNN #journalist covering Israel and Palestine must submit their work for review by the news organization’s bureau in Jerusalem prior to publication, under a long-standing CNN policy. https://theintercept.com/2024/01/04/cnn-israel-gaza-idf-reporting/
NEW EPISODE Twilight of the #SovietUnion – Memoirs of a British #Journalist in #Moscow
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coldwarconversations.com/episode325/ @histodons