☀️ Happy Thursday! This week we look at an arrest in India, a resignation in Kansas and the U.S. Supreme Court. The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here!
In today’s email:
- Top story: Indian police arrest news site’s editor amid tensions with China
- In other news: Police chief of Marion, Kansas, resigns after raid on newsroom
- Looking ahead: Supreme Court to consider two content moderation cases in the coming term
- Chart of the week: Top-ranked podcasts’ use of subscriptions and donations
🔥 Top story
The founder of an Indian news website was arrested this week and charged with receiving foreign money for pro-China propaganda.
Two-thirds of Indian adults say they have an unfavorable view of China, according to a spring 2023 Center survey, including 50% who have a very unfavorable view. India is the only middle-income country out of eight surveyed where a majority view China negatively.
🕵️ In other news
- Police chief of Marion, Kansas, resigns after August raid on local newsroom
- Mexican journalists assassinated amid cartel violence and government corruption
- The intense rivalry between NBA reporters Woj and Shams
- County Highway, a print-only publication in the style of a 19th-century newspaper
- EU proposes limits on social media companies’ ability to police independent journalism
- The Examination, a new nonprofit outlet covering global health
📅 Looking ahead
The Supreme Court has decided to take up two cases in its coming term involving conservative-backed laws in Florida and Texas that try to prevent social media companies from banning users for contentious rhetoric.
While 62% of Republicans said in a 2022 Center survey that people being able to speak their minds freely online is more important than people being able to feel welcome and safe, the same share of Democrats take the opposite view – and the partisan gap on this question has grown. Two-thirds of Republicans also say that many people take offensive content they see online too seriously.
📊 Chart of the week
As Patreon rolls out new features for content creators and their fans, our chart looks at how podcasts seek financial support from listeners. In a 2022 analysis of top-ranked podcasts in the U.S., we found that 31% of these podcasts offer a paid subscription and 5% ask for donations.
👋 That’s all for this week.
The Briefing is compiled by Pew Research Center staff, including Naomi Forman-Katz, Jacob Liedke, Sarah Naseer, Christopher St. Aubin, Luxuan Wang and Emily Tomasik. It is edited by Katerina Eva Matsa, Michael Lipka and Mark Jurkowitz, and copy edited by Anna Jackson.
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