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Theft occurred on day the Ouray County Plaindealer published story about alleged sexual assault at party at police chief’s houseNearly 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...

Online publication Polyester will train writer in honour of its managing editor who died last yearA new fellowship to train an aspiring working-class journalist is aiming to help diversify the media landscape while honouring the memory and spirit of Eden Young, who died in an accident last year.The Eden Young Fellowship for Aspiring Working Class Journalists aims to provide a year-long training and mentorship...

BBC host talks about cutting screen time and how some of the press are ‘obsessed with trying to do me’, in Guardian interview‘The levels of attack are extraordinary’: Gary Lineker on punditry, podcasts – and why he won’t stop speaking his mindGary Lineker has said he received threats after he retweeted then deleted a post by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural...

Former chief operating officer was lead architect of Facebook’s digital advertising-driven business modelSheryl Sandberg is to step down from the board of Facebook’s parent company, Meta, nearly two years after quitting her executive role at the business.Sandberg was the lead architect of Facebook’s digital advertising-driven business model as Meta’s chief operating officer. Continue reading...

Mark Thompson outlines strategy to staff in memo that bemoaned network’s lack of innovation and its outdated websiteCNN’s new chief executive says the company needs to recapture the “swagger and innovation” of its early days – and that, he says, increasingly means embracing a future outside of television.Mark Thompson, appointed CNN’s chief executive last fall after stints at the New York Times and the...

Reporter Casey Newton takes more than 170,000 subscribers elsewhere over company’s failure to police extremist contentPlatformer, a prominent tech newsletter founded by the veteran reporter Casey Newton, is leaving Substack over the company’s failure to police extremist content.In a post explaining the decision, Newton said his team had identified seven Substack publications “that conveyed explicit support for 1930s German Nazis and called for violence...

Annapoorani: the Goddess of Food criticised for depiction of deity and member of vegetarian caste cooking and eating meatNetflix is embroiled in a backlash in India from rightwing Hindu groups over a film accused of offending religious sentiments for its depiction of a deity and a member of a traditionally vegetarian caste cooking and eating meat.Annapoorani: the Goddess of Food, a film made in...

Hamza Wael Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuria died after two rockets were fired at car they were travelling in, witnesses sayMiddle Eastern crisis – live updatesAl Jazeera has accused Israel of the targeted killing of two of its journalists in Gaza as the head of the advocacy group Reporters without Borders decried a “never-ending slaughter” in the territory that had killed 79 journalists in the...

Swearwords increasingly used for emphasis and to build social bonds, rather than to insult, say academicsSwearing has become more widely acceptable over the past two decades because it is increasingly used for other purposes than to insult people, linguistics experts have said.“Fuck” and “shit”, the two most commonly used swearwords in the UK, are frequently used to emphasise a point in conversation or to...