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👋 Hi friends,
Welcome to the latest edition of Newley’s Notes, a weekly newsletter containing my recent Wall Street Journal stories, must-read links on tech and life, and funny dog videos.
✨ Image of the week, above: another excellent Hong Kong vanity plate. YOLO VIBE.
🏆 Brag of the week: I’m so proud that our WSJ Facebook Files team, led by the great Jeff Horwitz, won this year’s Loeb Award for beat reporting.
Here’s the full list of winners. More details are in this Newley.com blog post.
That means in addition to the Loeb, our team has taken home a Polk Award, a SABEW, and an award from the Deadline Club.
I’m lucky to work with such phenomenal colleagues.
🚨 Programming note: There will be no NN next week. I’ll return after that.
My WSJ latest:
🆕 My most recent story, an exclusive out Wednesday: Meta Officials Cite Security Concerns for Failing to Release Full India Hate-Speech Study.
It begins:
Executives at Meta Platforms Inc. privately told rights groups that security concerns prevented them from releasing details of its investigation into hate speech on its services in India, according to audio recordings heard by The Wall Street Journal.
Here are 10 items worth your time this week:
1) 🇷🇺 Lots of news about Russia’s war in Ukraine. First, many thousands of Russians are crossing borders into Kazakhstan, Armenia, Georgia and other countries following Putin’s announcement of a broad mobilization for new troops…
2) 🔫 …Meanwhile: Putin said in a speech that Russia is annexing four regions of Ukraine, a move that is illegal…
3) ⚠️ …and not long afterward, Russia lost control of the city of Lyman – in one of those very regions it has claimed…
4) 🇺🇦 …Now Ukraine is forging ahead in a bold counteroffensive, and there is increased risk that Putin could deploy nuclear weapons. Got all that?
5) 🚀 In happier news: NASA sent a spacecraft hurtling into an asteroid 7 million miles away to test the ability to change its orbit, addressing a potential future doomsday scenario ripped from the “Armageddon” screenplay.
6) 🪨 Please meet Kurt Steiner, the world’s best stone skipper.
7) 🚶♀️Here are the world’s 33 coolest streets, according to TimeOut.
8) 🛍️ Looria shows the most popular products discussed on Reddit.
9) 🗺 How athletes are creating art using GPS trackers.
10) 😂 Video the week: “French TV show invited people with unusual laughs to sit together…the outcome is” effing “brilliant.” (Don’t miss the replies.)
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🦴 Dog-related video of the week:
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💡 Quote of the week:
“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you are doing.” – W. Edwards Deming
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👊 Fist bump from Hong Kong,
Newley