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Sarah Palin loses her defamation retrial against The New York Times (LINK) — 22 April 2025 .

— Palin first filed her lawsuit against the Times and former editor James Bennet in June 2017 after the paper ran an editorial alleging Palin had engaged in "political incitement" ahead of the 2011 shooting of Gabby Giffords. According to Palin's lawsuit, the editorial incorrectly claimed an advertisement run by the former governor's political action committee placed "Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized cross hairs." The Times released a correction less than 24 hours later, clarifying that "no such link was established" but noting that the error did not "undercut or weaken the argument of the piece".

Voice of America must be restored and fired VOA workers should return to work, judge rules (LINK) — 22 April 2025.

'60 Minutes' chief resigns, saying show's independence was compromised (LINK) — 22 April 2025.

NPR: A survey of more than 500 political scientists finds that the vast majority think the United States is moving swiftly from liberal democracy toward some form of authoritarianism. — (LINK) — 22 April 2025.

Judge declines to further enforce order restoring AP access to White House (LINK) — 18 April 2025.

— U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, an appointee of President Trump, said he's inclined to agree with the government that its new policy — which eliminates a permanent slot for all wire services but makes them eligible for selection as part of the pool's daily print journalist rotation — does not, on its face, discriminate against the AP.

Four journalists accused of working for Kremlin foe Navalny are convicted of extremism — 15 April 2025 (LINK)

The Trump White House is axing the wire service spot from the coverage pool, the latest salvo in its battle with the AP (LINK) — 15 April 2025.

Who falls for fake news? Study reveals surprising patterns — 9 April 2025 (LINK)

— Those in Generation Z (aged 23-28), women, conservatives, and less-educated individuals were more likely to believe misinformation. Interestingly, many were accurate in assessing their own limitations: Gen Z and women, in particular, recognized their weaknesses, while those with more education tended to overestimate their skills.

Israel strikes tents near hospitals in Gaza, killing 2 reporters and wounding 6 (LINK) — ground.news: 169 media reports (LINK) — 7 April 2025

Swedish journalist jailed in Turkey on terrorism, insults to President charges — 31 March 2025 (LINK)

At least 42 journalists behind bars in Turkey — (LINK)

allgemeiner: The media are ignoring the Gaza protests against Hamas — 31 March 2025 (LINK)

Google news on Turkey protests — (LINK)

Turkey: Hundreds of thousands join growing Istanbul protest — 29 March 2025 (LINK)

Voice of America wins in court, for now, as judge blocks Trump administration from firing staff — 29 March 2025 (LINK)

DHS official placed on administrative leave after adding conservative reporter to sensitive email chain about forthcoming operation: — 28 March 2025 (LINK)

— None of the officials in a Trump senior group chat discussing an attack on Yemen Houthis — including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, and Vice President JD Vance — have faced repercussions over the leak. President Donald Trump has assigned Waltz to probe his own mistake of adding The Atlantic editor-in-chief to the group chat.

Trump seeks revenge on MSNBC legal analyst in new executive order — 25 March 2025 (LINK)

— A few weeks after targeting another firm which had re-hired a lawyer who had worked in the Manhattan district attorney's office during its investigation into Trump, the president singled out Jenner & Block. A primary reason: it once employed Andrew Weissmann, a current MSNBC legal analyst and former deputy to Robert Mueller, the special counsel who led an investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign's ties to Russia.

Trump puts journalists at US-funded media outlets on leave: Hundreds of staff at Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe and other outlets received a weekend email saying they will be barred from their offices and should surrender press passes and office-issued equipment. — 15 March 2025 (LINK)

Voice of America ending contracts with Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France Presse. — 14 March 2025 (LINK)

Right Side Broadcasting Network, the White House's favoured outlet of reporter Brian Glenn (the one who scolded Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit and is Marjorie Taylor-Greene's manfriend), took payments of $192K for covering Trump. — 6 March 2025 (LINK)

— Glenn acknowledged the payments in a brief interview, describing them as "production" costs.

White House seizes control of press pool, will decide which outlets cover events with president. — 25 February 2025 (LINK)

How four major newsrooms are using AI. — 21 February 2025 (LINK)

— According to Semafor, NYT management is now supplying AI training to its journalists, debuting an internal AI tool called "Echo", and approving usage of external AI tools including Google's Vertex AI, a few Amazon AI products, and ironically, Microsoft's Copilot and a non-ChatGPT tool from OpenAI.

— Quartz: G/O Media has become a major proponent of AI in the newsroom.

— AP: it uses AI for translation, transcription, headlines, research, and even some automated articles, but general blogs are still left to human hands.

— The Washington Post: bot called "Ask the Post AI" takes questions, spits out a brief AI-generated response trained on Washington Post content, and then lists relevant articles below in a Google-like manner.

U.K. Daily Mail: DOGE cuts U.S. government's 'pricey' media subscriptions after discovering shocking $8million bill to left-leaning sites: cuts The Economist, The New York Times, Politico, Bloomberg News, The Associated Press and Reuters. — 19 February 2025 (LINK)

White House Press Secretary says AP was blocked from Oval Office event to hold it "accountable" for not changing name of Gulf Of Mexico. — 13 February 2025 (LINK)

'Disgraceful Manipulation': Fox accused of covering up loud boos for Donald Trump at the Super Bowl with fake crowd cheers. — 9 February 2025 (LINK)

Musk calls for shutting down US-funded outlets Radio Free Europe, Voice of America. — 9 February 2025 (LINK)

CNN and The Washington Post are getting booted from the Pentagon, too. — 8 February 2025 (LINK)

Trump Calls for '60 Minutes' and CBS to be 'terminated'. — 6 February 2025 (LINK)

— "CBS and 60 Minutes defrauded the public by doing something which has never, to this extent, been seen before," Trump fumed Thursday. "They 100% removed Kamala's horrible election changing answers to questions, and replaced them with completely different, and far better, answers, taken from another part of the interview."

— Transcripts released by CBS Wednesday discredited his claim, showing the network's flagship newsmagazine made routine edits to the Harris interview for time and clarity.

NY Post: Uncut '60 Minutes' Kamala Harris interview reveals 'word salad' responses were heavily edited by CBS — snipped Israel answer to just 20 words. — 5 February 2025 (LINK)

NBC chief political analyst and former "Meet The Press" moderator Chuck Todd exiting NBC News after nearly 20 years as Trump starts second term. — 31 January 2025 (LINK)

— "Being a real political journalist isn't about building a brand, it's about reporting what's happening and explaining why it's happening and letting the public absorb the facts without judging them for coming to a different conclusion. If you do this job seeking popularity, or to simply be an activist, you are doing this job incorrectly," he said.

Trump says he will issue an executive order Monday to get TikTok back up, suggests a joint venture with US ownership. — 19 January 2025 (LINK) — ground.news: 66 media reports (LINK)

Biden administration looks for ways to keep TikTok available in the U.S., NBC reports. — 15 January 2025 (LINK) — ground.news: 14 media reports (LINK)

The Washington Post's internet traffic tanks. — 13 January 2025 (LINK)

FactCheck.org: Meta is ending its partnership with U.S. fact-checking organizations, such as ours. — 11 January 2025 (LINK)

The Washington Post lays off roughly 100 staffers as star journalists exit. — 7 January 2025 (LINK)

Indian investigative journalist found dead inside septic tank. — 3 January 2025 (LINK) — ground.news: 90 media reports (LINK)

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