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Journalists accepted into Beehiiv’s Media Collective pay no monthly fee for its service and receive legal support, a healthcare stipend, and audience-engagement help for two years. So who gets in? @GoPreezy tells @megreenwell on The Kicker.

"The questions I had for him were ones I'd been thinking about all fall," @politico @DashaBurns told @ivanlnagy of calling Trump live on election night. More on how we all watched the midterms:

Political Journalists in Disarray: Midterms missteps, a notable apology, and a sturgeon rescue in this week's Laurels and Darts by @bgrueskin.

How we watched the midterms, by @ivanlnagy.

Kate Knibbs, a senior reporter at Wired, joins Journalism 2050 hosts @emilybell, @heatherchaplin, and Samuel Earle to discuss the rise of prediction markets and what it means for journalism.

On the Kicker, @GoPreezy on why it is never too early or too late to build an audience. Listen to with host @megreenwell.

Novaya Gazeta is shutting down. But a new archival project from Kronika grants it electronic immortality. By @JoelSimonSays.

The midterms pushed data centers center stage, as media, activists, and politicians questioned AI’s ever-expanding infrastructure. Read Lindsay Muscato.

In recent months, Americans wagered more than 1.3 billion dollars on the midterms via Kalshi, whose CEO, Tarek Mansour, tells @ivanlnagy that he wants to "depolarize the conversation."

Americans bet on the midterms as prediction markets became a source of news. Read @ivanlnagy.

“Part of it is she’s an incumbent, and part of it is it’s an image that’s cultivated by her PR people and by the Maine media to give the impression that she’s something she’s not.” Read Rob Wolfe on the Susan Collins Effect.

Voters may punish Donald Trump at the polls this week. But he has already shattered the norms of political journalism. Read Jem Bartholomew.

The Plain Dealer decides to make an endorsement. Plus: Handing Trump a win, and cataloguing his family’s corruption. Read this week's Laurels and Darts by @banikarim.

The @towcenter’s updated AI deals tracker reveals a complex landscape with striking geographic inequities. Read Klaudia Jaźwińska and Aisvarya Chandrasekar.

On the Kicker, @GoPreezy details how journalists fit into Beehiiv’s business strategy, who should consider starting a newsletter, and why Substack is definitely not the competition, with host @megreenwell.

Sports desks are disappearing. But some creative, patient journalists are uncovering major scandals.

Fatima Khan, an independent journalist from New Delhi, press freedom is diminishing in India—but she has hope for Gen Z.

At the Barents Observer, a Norwegian news outlet located nine miles from the Russian border, a team of Russian journalists cover their country from exile.

Britain’s public service broadcaster is aggressively defending itself against Donald Trump in Florida. Can it use the legal process to break news? By Jem Bartholomew,

You should watch how Shelby Wilder, a Newsmax foreign correspondent, has delivered vivid coverage of the Ukraine-Russia war to an audience in and around the MAGAverse. Read this week's Laurels and Darts, by @bgrueskin.