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Um. Wow. Below, the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of October 19-23–the week, nb, following the discovery that The Flight of Balloon Boy was, indeed, a hoax. A ploy for attention. For media attention.
Anyhow:
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Condé Nast folded a beloved magazine that treated youth and feminism as political topics, not trends.
The president set out to undermine public broadcasters in the US. Now, with help from British allies, he’s taking his strategy global.
Media outlets in France and beyond are building shared infrastructure to regain their independence from big tech platforms.
I was editor in chief of Hungary’s most-read independent daily until a pro-government media network bought the newspaper. It’s the fifth time in thirty years that politics has cost me my job—and it’s all about Orbán holding on to power.
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