Many news orgs are "all-in" on AI, fearful of repeating the errors of the early digital era, but what if the real risk lies in handing chunks of our business, our civic function, and our values to a handful of hyperscalers? @alixdunn.com prodded me to think that through with her for @themaybe.org

AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats. "They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services" apnews.com/article/trum...

Despite Zohran Mamdani's coalition-building among South Asian New Yorkers, caste barely figured in the campaign. @yashicadutt.bsky.social spoke with Dalit canvassers and parsed his legislative record on an issue that animates both supporters and his critics on the Hindu right.

Vital work from @lighthousereports.com and Sudan War Monitor. sudanwarmonitor.com/p/rsf-ethnic...

As Google's news czar Richard Gingras was a hugely influential presence in the conversation over journalism and big tech for 15 years, but he seldom faced more than mildly skeptical questioning. In Vienna last month @antelava.bsky.social flipped the script www.codastory.com/authoritaria...

I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.

The most slept-on ballot question in NY was no. 1, allowing the expansion of xc ski facilities at Mt Van Hoevenberg in exchange for land being added to the Adirondack park. It looks like passing narrowly after supporters did almost nothing to explain its merits. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n... 1/

NYT or THE CITY. You decide.

Total turnout is already near 1 million As points of reference:

This is a cute, savvy-seeming headline, confirmed by 3 Republican sources, and no-one else. It's also a woefully inadequate way to map the legal, fiscal, and messaging terrain that Trump and the next mayor will battle over.

Federal agents many in masks at Broadway and Canal moments ago questioning a man, a bunch more agents just walked away. "Can i call my mom," the man asks, he's now being loaded into a car and being driven away. More TK @thecity.nyc

Remember when the internet was this resilient, decentralized thing, designed to route around problems?

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

New in @niemanreports.org: Media watchers say recent court orders have given Gautam Adani, the Adani Group's billionaire owner, increasing censorship powers over his critics, representing a grave threat to press freedom in India. niemanreports.org/india-lawfar...

Anyone from the AI world who thinks ‘agentic AI will replace journalists’ should read this piece. Anyone who thinks ‘public service journalism is dead’ should read this piece (or revise their understanding of ‘public service’)

Lastly, from a business pov: this is such a dogshit deal. Spending $150 million for a publication that has fewer than 200k paid subs subscribers, no advertising, and revenue about $10 mill a year. This is not a money making business but instead an outrage making business. And now it’s CBS.

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Peak college application season for high school seniors and their families, and some pretty clear signaling from UMich in this full page ad in the print edition of today's Times.

And what has consistently fueled popular resistance to authoritarian leaders from Kenya to Ukraine and beyond? Corruption.

This likely won't be the last deportation for committing an act of journalism, and it is a warning that indiscriminate arrests by local police around protests will be used as tools and pretexts.

Georgia (the country) is on the frontlines of resisting Russian style repression. Aggressive tactics targeting the independent media have continued escalating, including the case of Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli (see thread). cpj.org/2025/10/geor...

In the absence of BLS data, we are reliant on a patchwork of less rigorous fallbacks, and they aren't any cheerier than the official numbers www.linkedin.com/pulse/octobe...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

This is what the Indian government does to civil servants it doesn't like and can't fire.

I never do stuff like this but what the heck ... it's the start of a new era in public media ..

Absolutely clear documentation of assaults on at least two journalists by ICE officers, who also caused a serious injury to a third. There must be accountability for these attacks on reporters and on their first amendment rights.

One likely winner is emerging from the years-long fight to build a casino in New York City. It's Donald freaking Trump. nymag.com/intelligence...

Something like this happened to me too: I had my doctor call in a prescription (asthma) but they couldn’t find it initially. They clearly wanted to give me the vaccine but were stumped. I finally suggested they looks at my scripts and they found one for an asthma inhaler. I got my vaccine.

Kathy Hochul's executive order should make it easy for everyone in New York to get a COVID vaccine without a prescription, and without citing an underlying condition. The reality in local pharmacies is very different. @lauren-hartley.bsky.social has this guide to navigating the uncertainty.

This deal should arguably discussed in the same breath as other pro-Trump media acquisitions, adding the gaming giant to a list that includes CBS, Paramount, TikTok and potentially CNN and Warner Bros.

The Rikers beat is perhaps the most brutal in New York City local news, and yet @reuvenblau.bsky.social covers it with consistent care and kindness. That doesn't make his stories easier to read, but it does makes them better: more human, no less urgent, more insistent on the possibility of change

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

The New York Times has upped its spending on security almost 10-fold. That's not an option for most of us, but @joelsimonsays.bsky.social sets out a basic program for newsrooms facing a growing threat.

"David, who is gay, was wearing a rainbow Pride wristband as he says he was simply trying to pee when he was arrested." New from @gwynnefitz.bsky.social / @thecity.nyc:

Impunity for Eric Adams has implications far beyond New York City @noahshachtman.bsky.social argues in this dense and comprehensive accounting. Less explicit, but equally important: local news outlets (and the campaign finance board) are crucial elements of the remaining accountability system.

If you want to understand this Trump administration's rampant corruption ... you have to go back to Eric Adams, and how they made the case against him disappear. I got a bunch of new details on this deep dive for @nytimes.com ... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Sir, you’re not supposed to keep the money in the bag

CPJ - Israel's targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen's capital, which killed 31 journalists and media support workers, is the second deadliest single attack on the press ever recorded. cpj.org/2025/09/israels-killi...

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

“Back in 2003, some lawyers came by here to say the train was coming this way,” said Hector Quiroz, an owner of the restaurant since 1999. “So, I guess it’s finally getting here.” — via @jmartineznyc.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/19/s...

I wrote this just after the 2016 election when I was newly arrived from India. "Some media owners, already ensconced, will tack to the prevailing wind. Gently at first, so you hardly notice it. Completely in the end."

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

For house and senate Dems already chafing at their New York City-heavy leadership, endless questions over Schumer's and Jeffries's non-endorsement of Zohran Mamdani are a fresh source of annoyance @rileyrogerson.bsky.social and @daniellamicaela.bsky.social report for @notus.com

I currently subscribe to @propublica.org, @boltsmag.org, @thecity.nyc and @the-downballot.com. Independent journalism has never been more important than it is right now, so I recommend finding a few news sources you trust and showing them some love.

"NYPD data shows 22 deaths in custody in 2024 and 18 in 2023. Both counts are a considerable increase over the tally in each of the prior seven years, 2016 to 2022, when the annual totals ranged from six to 12." @yoavgonen.bsky.social and @reuvenblau.bsky.social on a bleak tally.

The Eric Adams fundraiser charged with bribing her way into a city shelter program for her Queens hotels is now also charged with helping the program boss liquidate part of that alleged bribe — a $107,000 Mercedes — as the feds closed in.

Being Rupert Murdoch is a full time job that only Rupert Murdoch is really good at. Larry Ellison is about to discover that media assets aren't an unalloyed source of power, and that owning them presents a giant, hyper-complex attack surface for your other businesses.

Support your favorite independent news outlet, folks.

Kathy Hochul's gradually increased willingness to visibly stake out positions seems to be working.