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El Salvador's Journalists Association is moving its legal status out of the country in response to a new law that imposes a 30% tax on foreign donations to NGOs (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-nayib-buk…

Journalism association to leave El Salvador over government pressure
El Salvador’s Journalists Association is moving its legal status out of the country in response to a foreign agents law passed earlier this year. The law has been perceived as a way to pressure critical voices in the Central American nation. Founded in 1936, the association said Wednesday that to continue defending journalists’ rights and freedom of the press it would have to move to another country, which it did not name. The association announced plans in September to close its offices. E…

Ich hab einen Forschungsartikel gelesen, mit Gewinn: https://metadaten.community/t/measuring-bibliometric-coverage-of-german-law-journals/864

Russische Journalistin Owsjannikowa zum "ausländischen Agenten" erklärt
Russische Behörden haben die durch ihren Anti-Kriegs-Protest im russischen Staatsfernsehen bekanntgewordene und inzwischen ins Ausland geflohene Journalistin Marina Owsjannikowa zum "ausländischen Agenten" erklärt. Das meldete die russische staatliche Nachrichtenagentur Tass unter Berufung auf das Justizministerium.
Mit der Bez…
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Protest gegen Ukraine-Krieg: Russische TV-Journalistin zu Haft verurteilt
Ihr Protest gegen den Ukraine-Krieg live im russischen Fernsehen hatte für Aufsehen gesorgt. Nach weiteren Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Kreml verließ die Journalistin Owsjannikowa das Land. Nun ist sie in Abwesenheit verurteilt worden.

How can AI agents support journalists' work? An experiment with designing an LLM-driven intelligent reporting system
Vasileios Maltezos, Roman Kyrychenko, Aleksi Knuutila
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01193

How can AI agents support journalists' work? An experiment with designing an LLM-driven intelligent reporting system
The integration of artificial intelligence into journalistic practices represents a transformative shift in how news is gathered, analyzed, and disseminated. Large language models (LLMs), particularly those with agentic capabilities, offer unprecedented opportunities for enhancing journalistic workflows while simultaneously presenting complex challenges for newsroom integration. This research explores how agentic LLMs can support journalists' workflows, based on insights from journalist intervi…

Los Angeles police officers arrested journalist
💥Anthony Orendorff
-- while he was documenting a federal immigration raid in Pacoima on June 19.
❌He spent four days behind bars without bail on charges of battery of an officer
before the case was dropped and he was released. 
“It’s bittersweet because I’m out, but there’s a lot of people still in,” Orendorff said.
“There’s a lot of people we still got to fight for.
But this is a win for us … this is…

LAPD Arrest of Journalist at ICE Raid Fuels Press Freedom Fears
Anthony Orendorff was jailed for four days without bail before charges were dropped.

The Guardian adds seven people to its audio and video journalism team as the outlet invests in audio and video content (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk-news/guardian-ann…

Guardian announces seven new hires in audio and video journalism
The Guardian is expanding its audio and video journalism team with eight new recruits announced.

With the rise of easily created deepfake videos, scammers and others on social media are increasingly exploiting the likenesses of broadcast journalists (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/scammers-are-usin…

Scammers are using video deepfakes of journalists to peddle products online
Broadcast journalists around the world are being targeted amid an explosion in deepfake scams. Are social media platforms doing enough to counter them?

Rupert Murdoch, the 94-year-old media baron whose fortunes have risen in tandem with Trump’s political ascent,
has turned into an unlikely foe.
Trump has bristled over a Wall Street Journal report that he allegedly sent a suggestive letter to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003.
Trump denied sending the message, calling it a “fake,”
and last month he filed a $10-billion defamation suit against Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co., Murdoch and …

Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump: Inside their tangled relationship
Trump sued Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp. for $10 billion over the Wall Street Journal's report that Trump allegedly sent a sexually suggestive letter to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday decades ago.

A profile of WSJ EIC Emma Tucker, who has positioned WSJ as a rival to NYT through investigative journalism, without falling foul of Murdoch's politics (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-intera

CPJ says Mario Guevara was deported early Friday to his native El Salvador, after spending months in custody following his arrest while covering a protest (Liam Reilly/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/media/mario-guevara-journalist-deported-ice-el-salv…

Live-streaming journalist deported to El Salvador after months in ICE custody
The reporter was arrested while reporting from a “No Kings Day” protest in June and was deported on Friday — a major blow to press freedoms, say groups including the ACLU.