This page hosts daily news stories about the media, social media, and the journalism industry. Get the latest Hirings and Firings, Media Transactions, Controversies, and more. MSNBC Rebrands as ‘MS NOW’ Under New Ownership MSNBC officially transitioned to a new identity as “MS NOW” on Saturday, following its separation fromContinue Reading
Mass protests demand transparency in the government investigation of flood-related corruption scandal., More than half a million Filipinos rallied in the capital Manila on Sunday to demand accountability for a government corruption scandal that has triggered a series of protests since August. Sunday’s protest is part of a three-day rallyContinue Reading
Bundled into vehicle with blacked-out windows, British journalist recounts detainment in US due to Palestinian support., Bundled into vehicle with blacked-out windows, British journalist recounts detainment in US due to Palestinian support. British journalist Sami Hamdi, who says he was held illegally for more than two weeks by United States immigrationContinue Reading
Hawaiian short-finned pilot whales are surprisingly voracious hunters, diving hundreds of meters beneath the Pacific to snatch squid in the dark. By tagging and tracking eight whales, researchers uncovered just how much energy these deep-sea forays require—and how many squid the whales must eat to stay fueled. Their calculations revealContinue Reading
Civil recovery order targets PlugwalkJoe’s illicit gains while he serves US sentence British prosecutors have secured a civil recovery order to seize crypto assets worth £4.11 million ($5.39 million) from Twitter hacker Joseph James O’Connor, clawing back the proceeds of a scam that used hijacked celebrity accounts to solicit digitalContinue Reading
Expect Sloppy Updates? On the eve of its Ignite conference, Microsoft has managed to break the first Extended Security Update (ESU) for many commercial Windows 10 customers.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the trailblazing civil rights leader, was hospitalized in Chicago on Wednesday due to symptoms from the neurodegenerative condition progressive supranuclear palsy., Read MoreContinue Reading
Lobbyists and representatives of Canada’s oil and gas industry are part of Canada’s official delegation to this year’s U.N. climate talks in Brazil, in keeping with the high number of fossil fuel representatives in attendance at the summit. About a dozen individuals representing fossil fuel interests were part of theContinue Reading
The UK government is running its events at the flagship COP30 climate summit in partnership with a major supplier to the fossil fuel industry, DeSmog can reveal. For the second year running, the UK pavilion is being sponsored by AVEVA, an industrial software firm with hundreds of oil and gasContinue Reading
Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, has open-sourced Valdi, a cross-platform mobile UI framework. The social media company typically keeps its technology in-house, but this marks a surprising move into open source territory. While there was no dedicated announcement for this on their news portal, The New Stack were theContinue Reading
A quick glance into the new features of Xfce 4.20 desktop environment. Xfce 4.20 desktop environment has arrived a few weeks back, and it’s packed with features and updates. This major release comes after two years since Xfce 4.18. Hence, it’s now more evolved, bringing experimental Wayland support, UI refinementsContinue Reading
In the early 2010s, seemingly everybody was talking about how television was in the midst of a “golden age.” This beatification of the medium in the teens emerged out of a long-simmering blog-level conversation about whether and how TV was (or had recently become) an “art form,” but now theContinue Reading
International student enrollment in U.S. higher education institutions has dropped sharply during the The Traitor administration’s immigration crackdown., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading