“As The Guardian and The Oregonian/OregonLive have reported, Fox News on Sept. 4 used footage from the 2020 protests after the police killing of George Floyd and said it was from 2025. We found two clear cases from that night as well as one that seemed to match a scene filmed at a key site of the 2020 protests. Fox also mislabeled two other dates of actions shown on screen, and one broadcast implied that a protest from elsewhere was happening in Portland.”

“The BBC’s leadership is facing a looming deadline over how to reply to Trump’s legal threat to file a case in a Florida court. It follows the editing of a Trump speech in an edition of Panorama, which was a significant factor in the resignation of director general Tim Davie and Deborah Turness, its head of news.”

“Condé Nast didn’t just kill its own relevance with a large swath of loyal Gen Z readers — it dealt a blow to the larger ecosystem of feminist media.”

“‘The team is responsible for ensuring editorial standards are met on scripts and provides daily reporting guidance. They literally uphold journalistic standards,’ one CBS News reporter said, adding that it would be ‘crazy’ for the network to dissolve Standards and Practices.”

“The proceeds will benefit public television stations across the country that have been grappling with the Trump administration’s cancellation of $1.1 billion in funding for public media.”

“Two officials told the Financial Times that the European Commission was opening a probe into claims that Google demoted publishers carrying ‘third party’ promotional content such as sponsored editorial articles, which media groups claim are key to their business model…If found guilty of non-compliance, companies face hefty fines that could amount to up to 10% of their global turnover.”

“Even expanding beyond the top 100, 66.3% of the hosts of the top 592 podcasts were male, and 79.2% were white. In both gender and race, podcasts trail other parts of the entertainment industry — 50% of the top 100 films of 2024 had a female lead, and among the most popular TV shows of last year, 44.9% of the series regulars were from an underrepresented racial/ethnic group.”

The total amount that Kansas’s Marion County will pay to three journalists and a city councilor for raiding the offices of the Marion Country Record, its publisher’s home, and the home of the city councilor in 2023

“Meta explained it’s interested in the podcast community because it sees the potential in becoming the de facto place for people to talk about shows and engage with creators. Today, such discussions are distributed across social media, on places like Reddit, X, Facebook and Instagram, as well as on the platforms where podcasts are streamed, like YouTube and Spotify (the latter added support for comments last year).”

“[In] crossing the picket line at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [by agreeing to be profiled], Weiss is using the services of scab reporters to further solidify her Pittsburgh ties to justify her extreme right-wing politics. The decision to cross the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette picket line is also a scary sign to the unionized staffers at CBS News, who have been pushing back. While Pittsburgh is a union town, Weiss’s politics represent the anti-union extremism of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.” 

“The EU’s executive branch, the European Commission, plans to designate WhatsApp’s open channels as a ‘Very Large Online Platform’ under the Digital Services Act, meaning it must meet high standards for content moderation and transparency, according to people familiar with the matter.”