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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES — SEPTEMBER 30, 2025  
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September 30, 2025
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_ Public pressure saves Kimmel’s show _

Martin Rowson, Guardian

 

* Defend the Movement and Our Media
* Why Community Radio Matters
* How AI is Transforming Journalism Education
* Kirk Assassination Sparks Security Surge at News Outlets
* Karen Attiah and Free Speech
* Mamdani’s Media Team
* Neon App Wants to Buy and Sell Your Data
* Kimmel Triumphant
* Saving Public Media
* Belva Davis 1932-2025

DEFEND THE MOVEMENT AND OUR MEDIA
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By Negin Owliaei and Maya Schenwar
Truthout

It’s critical for the media to jump in and correct the record —
it’s a core responsibility. But calling out hypocrisy and inaccuracy
alone won’t save us. We must also shed light on the various
mechanisms the administration and its allies have at their disposal to
enforce its terrifying agenda, as well as the complicity of
organizations willing to do their dirty work.

WHY COMMUNITY RADIO MATTERS
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By Rima Dael
Radio World

Community radio’s public- and community-affairs shows prioritize
community impact over journalism as product. Success is measured not
by ratings or clicks, but by whether a story helps neighbors take
action, inspires civic engagement or brings people together to solve
shared challenges.

HOW AI IS TRANSFORMING JOURNALISM EDUCATION
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By Gretel Kahn
Reuters Institute

Six professors from Cambodia, Peru, Serbia, Spain, the UK and the US
take stock of the state of journalism education in a world in which AI
can create pitches for students, do their research, and even write
their news articles – all with a well-crafted prompt.

KIRK ASSASSINATION SPARKS SECURITY SURGE AT NEWS OUTLETS
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By Joel Simon
Columbia Journalism Review

It appears the media onslaught is upon us, especially when one takes
into account the mounting legal and regulatory attacks. Individual
reporters and news organizations in the United States need to take
that seriously and to engage in the same kind of risk
assessment that those in other backsliding democracies have managed
to use effectively. 

KAREN ATTIAH AND FREE SPEECH
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By Ken Makin
The Christian Science Monitor

Karen Attiah, an award-winning journalist and professor, was
reportedly fired by _The Washington Post_ for a series of posts on
Bluesky in the aftermath of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s
death. The Attiah firing, along with MSNBC’s dismissal of Matthew
Dowd and the firing of two professors at Clemson University, is
representative of the inconsistencies of punishments for free speech.

MAMDANI’S MEDIA TEAM
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By Robin Andersen
CounterPunch

From the beginning, Mamdani was a longshot, labeled a “Muslim
socialist” by Andrew Cuomo, but Zohran Mamdani’s momentum was
building over social media and his creative, human-center media spoke
a compelling language of compassion that was absolutely believable.

NEON APP WANTS TO BUY AND SELL YOUR DATA
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By Sarah Perez
TechCrunch

A new app offering to record your phone calls and pay you for the
audio so it can sell the data to AI companies is, unbelievably, the
No. 2 app in Apple’s U.S. App Store’s Social Networking section.
The app, Neon Mobile, pitches itself as a moneymaking tool offering
“hundreds or even thousands of dollars per year” for access to
your audio conversations.

KIMMEL TRIUMPHANT
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By Alex Weprin
The Hollywood Reporter

Sinclair and Nexstar ended their preemption of ABC’s _Jimmy
Kimmel Live!_ Sinclair said it made the decision after “thoughtful
feedback from viewers, advertisers, and community leaders representing
a wide range of perspectives.” While Sinclair appears to have been
seeking notable concessions (including an ombudsman at ABC), a source
says that no editorial or content concessions were made by Disney.

SAVING PUBLIC MEDIA
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By Vince Stehle
Washington Monthly

The outlook for local public broadcasting has never seemed as dire as
in the past few months. Support for nearly 1,500 public media
stations—about 1,100 radio stations and 360 television
stations—now comes mainly from individual donors, with foundations
and corporations filling the balance. 

BELVA DAVIS 1932-2025
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By Scott Shafer
KQED

Belva Davis, an Emmy Award-winning journalist who broke the color
barrier in Bay Area radio and television in the 1960s, died Wednesday.
She was 92. Davis was the first Black woman to be hired as a
television journalist on the West Coast when she took a position with
KPIX-TV, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco, in 1966. She remained on
the air for nearly five decades at KPIX, KRON and KQED.

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* Free Press
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* media
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* community radio
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* artificial intelligence
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* Journalism
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* higher education
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* security
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* Karen Attiah
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* Washington Post
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* Zohran Mamdani
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* Neon app
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* Jimmy Kimmel
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* Nexstar
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* Sinclair Broadcast Group
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* public media
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* Belva Davis
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