Media Ecosystem Observatory issues report on the first year of Meta’s news ban in Canada

Canadian news media engagement is down, less news is being consumed, and many Canadians do not even realize the shift has occurred. MEO’s Information Ecosystem Brief, “Old News, New Reality: A Year of Meta’s News Ban in Canada”, looks at what happened when Meta banned news for users in Canada.

Actual horse racing journalists on political ‘horse race journalism’

Black and white image labeled "Lawn, Belmont" showing a fence and hedge in the foreground, men wearing dress staw hats standing around, horse track stands behind them topped with flags

A Poynter story takes a step back and considers the term used negatively to describe play-by-play style coverage of political campaigns and elections: how the comparison does and does not fit—and what it can reveal

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Three weeks’ worth of articles: Obituaries, artificial intelligence, damaging storms, the case for charging genocide in Gaza, the viral Chabad tunnel story and online antisemitism, and housing—social in Vienna and enshittified at Airbnb