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Alaska newsrooms, including The Alaska Beacon and The Anchorage Daily News, are joining forces to cover the midterm elections amid severe resource constraints (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/business/media/alaska-journalis…

Alaska’s Journalists Join Forces to Cover the Midterms
The state’s challenging geography and newspapers’ broader economic struggles have stretched reporters in Alaska, just as its competitive U.S. Senate race has grabbed national attention.

Journal and Conference Submission Process and Timelines (2026) - What does 'normal' or success look like when submitting a paper? #PhD #research -

Journal and Conference Submission Process and Timelines (2026)
What does normal or success look like when submitting a paper? #PhD #research

SK Hynix says its SSD subsidiary Solidigm has halted a review of a potential US IPO to fund a new US chip fab, citing "market conditions and share price trends" (P.R. Venkat/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.…

An article on the Fall of Scientific American.
Scientific publishers should be independent. But:
"Springer Nature felt that Scientific American’s criticism of Trump was threatening their broader business—selling subscriptions to their scientific journals. The federal government was a major client."
Scientific American will be for many Semantic Web researchers a special place because of that one article by Tim Berners-Lee, Jim Hendler and Ora Lassila. Thus it's…

The Fall of “Scientific American”
When the beloved science publication got too political, its corporate owners stepped in. Now its future is uncertain.

Eleven days after Ukraine's Starshield terminals started mysteriously malfunctioning,
there is still nobody in Washington who will take responsibility,
while Trump administration officials continue pointing fingers firmly at SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
https://…

Analysis: Ukraine’s Starshield access is still crippled, and no one is taking the blame
Eleven days after Ukraine's Starshield terminals started mysteriously malfunctioning, there is still nobody in Washington who wants to take responsibility, while Trump administration officials continue pointing fingers firmly at SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The Wall Street Journal reported on Oct. 23 that U.S. President Donald Trump had ordered Musk on Oct. 21 to lift the restrictions on Ukraine's Starshield terminals, claiming Trump was "frustrated the system's speeds remained capped at around 100 mi

Hyphen, a news outlet focused on Muslim life in the UK and Europe, is set to close after its UAE-based backers withdrew funding, affecting around 18 journalists (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Lifestyle and news site for British Muslims Hyphen set to close
UAE-based backers of the site have withdrawn funding.

Journal and Conference Submission Process and Timelines (2026) - What does 'normal' or success look like when submitting a paper? #PhD #research -

Journal and Conference Submission Process and Timelines (2026)
What does normal or success look like when submitting a paper? #PhD #research

Sources: Christianity Today lost 50% of its 79 staff to layoffs or resignations, amid complaints its new leadership is pushing back on independent journalism (Ruth Graham/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/us/c…

Why a Pillar of Christian Journalism is in Turmoil
Former employees of Christianity Today say new leadership has been pushing back on independent journalism. About half of its staff members have left or been laid off over 14 months.

WSJ's Doppler News AI has ingested 25M TikTok videos, ~500K podcast episodes, thousands of cable news segments, and more to help identify voter priorities (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/the-wall

How The Sun made video the "anchor of the newsroom", expanding its video team from 25 to 80 staffers within a year and publishing two to three videos daily (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Video is now literally at the heart of The Sun newsroom
The Sun has made video the “anchor of the newsroom” by building a studio in the centre to showcase its journalists.