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Since November 2024, Serbia had a sharp rise in attacks on journalists amid political unrest, including 23 physical assaults and 128 total attacks and threats (Attila Mong/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/alarming-escal

Alarming escalation in attacks on journalists amid political crisis in Serbia - Committee to Protect Journalists
Berlin, June 3, 2025—What journalists called a “witch hunt” atmosphere against government critics in Serbia one year ago has since escalated into a rise in attacks and threats against the press, following a deadly railway station collapse in November 2024 that triggered a widespread anti-corruption movement. Initial protests demanding accountability for the tragedy have turned...

Smashing! 😻
https://smashingconf.com/freiburg-2025/speakers/matthias-ott

Matthias Ott — Freiburg in Germany, September 8–11.
Matthias is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer. He teaches interface prototyping at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design and runs workshops on modern web design, design engineering, and prototyping. He writes Own Your Web, a newsletter about personal websites, and blogs about design, development, CSS, the open web, and more on matthiasott.com.

Some creatives and academics are rejecting AI on environmental and ethical grounds, and describe the pressure they feel to use AI to "keep up" with others (Emine Saner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

A BBC journalist describes being detained and held at gunpoint with five other journalists and a cameraman by the Israel Defense Forces in Syria on May 9 (Feras Kilani/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4grldkeyv5o

Held at gunpoint: BBC team detained by Israeli forces in southern Syria
BBC Arabic's Feras Kilani and his colleagues were held at gunpoint, bound and strip-searched while filming in the Golan Heights.

The Sun appoints Jack Elsom as political editor, replacing Harry Cole, who is relocating to the US to become editor at large, and drops its business page (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/me

Sun names new political editor and drops business page
Jack Elsom replaces Harry Cole who has new US-based role on TV and Youtube.

An analysis of 61 settlements signed by Channel 4 staff who left amid employment disputes between 2017 and 2021 shows it paid out ~£5M and all but two had NDAs (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/channel-4-denies-using-nda-zelda-pe…

Channel 4 Says It Doesn’t Use NDAs, But Documents Reveal Company Is Curbing Free Speech Of Aggrieved Ex-Employees
Channel 4 described itself as the "defender of free speech," but documents reveal it is restricting what former staffers can say about the company.

The New European rebrands as The New World, expands its coverage, and moves to a magazine format; the title made £2.6M in 2024 revenue and had 35K subscribers (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a9b5d243-d905-42c4-b62c-1f640175005a…

‘Remainer’ paper New European rebrands to push beyond Brexit roots
Title formed after 2016 UK vote is relaunching as The New World to reflect coverage of global politics and culture

UK-based BBC Persian journalists say their families in Iran are being terrorised and punished by the Iranian regime, with a sharp escalation in 2025 (Tom Levitt/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/global-dev…

Major Indian newsrooms aired misinformation during the conflict with Pakistan in May, saying Pakistani cities had been destroyed and airing unrelated visuals (Karishma Mehrotra/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/

How misinformation overtook Indian newsrooms amid conflict with Pakistan
Journalists from some of India’s largest news networks spoke to The Post about why falsehoods filled the airwaves during a crucial and dangerous moment.

A look at the roles affected by cuts of 100 at Business Insider, which has lost half its traffic over five years and shifted away from being traffic-focused (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/b…

Why Business Insider is axing 100-plus staff and who is leaving
Business Insider cuts: Big names and big salaries are among journalists sacked by Business Insider. Full list confirmed leavers.