“President Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, was fired Friday, after less than a week on the job, according to three people familiar with the matter.”

“Levine, wearing a protective vest clearly marked ‘PRESS’ on front and back, was knocked to the ground, kicked repeatedly and stripped of her cameras and phone.

She was treated at hospitals in Ramallah and Israel for lacerations across her body and a broken rib, and will need surgery on one hand after a finger was ripped open, exposing bone.”

“For many journalists and creators, betting companies became their most reliable source of revenue…The end of such a significant source of advertising would inevitably put pressure on media companies’ budgets, potentially leading to layoffs, and put independent content creators in a difficult position.”

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“Viewers in the U.K., watching the channel live on YouTube, may not realize they still need a TV license to do that.

But with no guardrails around who’s watching, no ability — for now anyway — for the BBC to insist you prove you’ve paid the fee before you can access its YouTube channels (or its own streaming channels), it’s going to be hard to enforce.”

“Local news sustainability isn’t one-size-fits-all. So, we needed to make sure the answers this chat service provides are high-quality and reliable,” said Leah Becerra, product director for the help desk. “We trust humans to do that more so than AI.”

The help desk is a free resource to connect local news organizations with digital resources, experts, and “affordable hands-on help through Digital On-Demand Services fractional support.”

“The takeover of Halk TV further narrows the availability of news sources critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government in Turkey, which ranks 163rd out of 180 countries, according to the Reporters Without Borders world press freedom index.

Several other major broadcasters, including Habertürk, Bloomberg HT, and Show TV, have been placed under state trusteeship in recent years.”

The number of articles Cris Tolomia wrote for Quartz’s website on October 8. Almost all of the news on Quartz’s homepage is produced by Tolomia, who appears to be making heavy use of AI. (Press Gazette / Rob Waugh)