A strategic review found that “we would need to change the commissioning approach radically, so that the subjects it covers match Wellcome’s priority areas…As Mosaic has always had a free rein to commission content that wasn’t tied to a specific Wellcome viewpoint, we felt that a tight focus on a few issues would change its ethos and character too much…It just wasn’t possible to square the circle in the end.”

“So far, McClatchy has 200,000 digital subscribers and nearly 500,000 ‘paid digital relationships,’ which include print subscribers who have activated their digital accounts. This year, for the first time, its revenue is split 50-50 between subscriptions and advertising. But given that the chain’s total circulation is close to 1 million (1.3 million on Sundays), it has a long way to go.”

“The natural question at this point is ‘are we done?’ The honest answer is No.”

“On Cyber Monday, The Wall Street Journal and Wired both recorded the biggest single day of subscription sales in their histories. On Black Friday, Barron’s experienced the same. And New York magazine, which began offering promotions on Friday, logged its best four-day sales stretch ever.”

“Anti-vaccine Instagram users have been getting around the controls by employing more than 40 cryptic hashtags such as #learntherisk and #justasking.”

“Researchers at NATO’s Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, a military organization based in Riga, Latvia’s capital, whose mandate includes identifying potential foreign online interference, were able to purchase roughly 54,000 inauthentic social media interactions — either fake followers, likes, comments or views of online content — with little, if any, pushback from some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names.”

“Today’s Front Pages will remain active on the Newseum’s website and via its app.”

As of Friday morning it showed 31 newsroom jobs lost and 120 non-newsroom jobs lost.

“In an age when editors of monthlies must compete, seemingly impossibly, with the daily dopamine hits of ’grams and memes and TikToks, The World of Interiors appears to occupy an earlier, more dignified era.”