The Recount, John Battelle and John Heilemann’s video news site, is “suspending operations” →

“Employees at Gannett’s newspapers, which include USA Today, The Indianapolis Star and the Detroit Free Press, began receiving layoff notifications Thursday, part of an effort to cut about 6 percent of the company’s roughly 3,440-person U.S. media division.”

“McClatchy, which owns the Star-Telegram and 29 other dailies, has posted at least five on-call positions ranging from Accountability Reporter to Visual Journalist. Block Communications, the owner of the Post-Gazette, has eight jobs listed including Investigative Reporter and Advertising Sales Rep that contain notices that the offered employment is in place of employees involved in an ongoing ‘labor dispute.'”

“The goal is to turn Men In Blazers into a full-fledged media company powered by the growth of soccer’s popularity in the United States.”

“‘It has been 30 years of struggle against corruption and impunity, against governmental abuses and terrorism, in favor of freedom transparency and accountability,’ [José Rubén] Zamora wrote in a final editorial, datelined from the prison cell where he is being held.”

“Selective news avoidance, where people actively try to avoid news often, even if they also continue to follow it at least some of the time, is almost as widespread for news on climate change as it is for news in general, ranging from 10% in Japan to 41% in India.”

“On LinkedIn, under posts eulogizing Twitter’s work on elections and content moderation, comments promoted openings at TikTok (threat researcher), DoorDash (community policy manager) and Twitch (trust and safety incident manager).”

“Created by Tom McCarthy, who helmed the Oscar-winning film ‘Spotlight,’ it stars Bellingham-raised actor Hilary Swank as hard-boiled reporter Eileen Fitzgerald, who moves to Alaska from New York after her previous job fell through. She begins working with intrepid local journalist Rosalind ‘Roz’ Friendly, played by Secwépemc actor Grace Dove, on an investigation into the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the state.”

“Future ended up being a hodgepodge of self-serving content. That’s what we have Medium for.”

“Your stolen attention, a uniquely ridiculous American decade, and the best sleep and time hacks no one ever tells you.” —LO