Chelsea Women appoint the Athletic’s GM as new CEO in surprise move
Chelsea have appointed Aki Mandhar of the Athletic as the first chief executive of their women’s team
August 2024
Jewish creatives allegedly threatened after WhatsApp doxing consider suing New York Times
Jeremy Liebler says ‘all legal avenues are being explored’ after Melbourne-based New York Times reporter downloaded and shared group chat then spread by activists
Zionist Federation leader says Australia-based NYT journalist should be sacked over doxed list
It was an ‘egregious breach of trust’ that Natasha Frost shared logs of Jewish WhatsApp chat with 600 members, Jeremy Leibler says
New York Times will no longer endorse candidates outside presidential races
Paper says its editorial board will cease endorsement process for New York elections
July 2024
New York Times editorial board declares Trump ‘unfit to lead’
Board calls Trump ‘a chilling choice against this national moment’ days before Republican national convention
June 2024
New York Times urges Joe Biden to drop out of presidential race
Editorial board says exiting is ‘greatest public service’ president can perform after disastrous debate performance
US Congress faces growing calls to withdraw Netanyahu invitation: ‘a terrible mistake’
Notable Israelis add their voices to oppose invite extended by Mike Johnson, which Democrats plan to boycott
News and tech media mostly quiet after UN chief calls for ban on ads for oil and gas
The Guardian contacted 11 major organizations that run fossil-fuel ads after Wednesday’s speech by António Guterres
May 2024
Wordle v Worldle: legal battle ensues over game names
Wordle, the New York Times-owned word game, says that Worldle, a browser-based geography game, is too similarly named
Weekly Beast
News Corp editors try to impress as Rebekah Brooks and Lachlan Murdoch land in Sydney
Amanda Meade
The editor-in-chief of the Australian rolls out questionable readership figures and plugs for its new true crime podcast. Plus: Seven news boss rallies the troops
Danger and opportunity for news industry as AI woos it for vital human-written copy
With large language models needing quality data, some publishers are offering theirs at a price while others are blocking access
March 2024
The Lede review: Calvin Trillin on the golden age of American reporting
Microsoft asks to dismiss New York Times’s ‘doomsday’ copyright lawsuit
February 2024
OpenAI claims New York Times ‘hacked’ ChatGPT to build copyright lawsuit
In a filing Monday, OpenAI claims a ‘hired gun’ took ‘tens of thousands of attempts to generate the highly anomalous results’
‘Unlike 9/11, we’re fighting back’: Arab Americans in Dearborn are resilient in the face of Islamophobia
Lessons learned from anti-Arab attacks in the early 2000s help a new generation respond to hateful rhetoric and threats
Weekly Beast
New boss Luke McIlveen’s reverence for Ray Hadley unnerves SMH and Age staff
Amanda Meade
Past praise of shock jock and mockery of serious journalism causes shudder as Nine newsrooms divided. Plus: Phillip Adams puts Late Night Live to bed
January 2024
Back UK creative sector or gamble on AI, Getty Images boss tells Sunak
Image library CEO speaks out amid anger over harvesting of material for ‘training data’ for AI companies
Is it OK to speculate about Taylor Swift’s sexuality?
Arwa Mahdawi
I take more offence at the idea that it’s upsetting to discuss a public person’s sexuality in 2024 – especially when no one seems perturbed at gossip about celebrities’ straight sex lives
New York Times faces backlash for essay speculating on Taylor Swift’s sexuality
A 5,000-word opinion piece has been called ‘untrue’ and ‘invasive’ for suggesting the singer was sending coded queer messages in her music
December 2023
New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
Lawsuit says companies gave NYT content ‘particular emphasis’ and ‘seek to free-ride’ on paper’s investment in its journalism
