The New York Times Friday November 21, 2025
Meta did not break the law when it bought its nascent rivals Instagram and WhatsApp, a federal judge said on Tuesday. The ruling in a much-watched antitrust case hands a major win to the $1.51 trillion company and deals a blow to the government’s efforts to rein in the power of tech giants, notes Thee New York Times. Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia said in an 89-page ruling that Meta did not create a monopoly in social networking through the acquisitions and that the market has continued to expand with rivals including TikTok and YouTube.
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David Schonauer Friday November 21, 2025
Newspaper archives are at risk around the United States: Often, noted the Columbia Journalism Review recently, they are lost when newspapers shutter, move to smaller offices, or are purchased.
Photographs, more time-consuming to digitize than text, are particularly vulnerable, and copyright issues can make repurposing them complex. Some newspapers partner with universities to preserve their
archives; others turn to libraries and historical societies. Many … Read the full Story >>
BBC Thursday November 20, 2025
Photographer and former Irish News picture editor Brendan Murphy, who captured many unforgettable moments from throughout the Troubles in Northern Ireland, died on Nov. 11 at age 84, notes the BBC. "His photographs were more than records of history; they were acts of witness, empathy, and truth,” said photographer Cathal McNaughton in a tribute. Murphy’s book Eyewitness: Four Decades of Northern Life was published in 2003.
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The New York Times Thursday November 20, 2025
“What is happening to the city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine may look like just another blood bath in a long war — an obscure crossroads, now largely in ruins, being captured bit by bit by Russian forces.” So writes New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks, who made several trips to Pokrovsk between the summer of 2023 and February of this year. “Russia, as it has elsewhere in Ukraine, struck evacuees with drones. This indiscriminate killing of civilians in cars and on bicycles has come to be known in Ukraine as ‘human safaris,’” Hicks notes.
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