May 16, 2023

■ WSJ is eliminating usage of courtesy titles (Talking Biz News) 

■ CNN's CEO stands by Trump town hall but acknowledges production weaknesses, sources say (CNBC) / CNN’s ratings dropped below Newsmax 2 days after Trump town hall (The Wrap) 

■ Fox News, Dominion both slam report saying Tucker Carlson’s ouster was a settlement condition: ‘Categorically false’ (The Wrap) / The report: Tucker Carlson's Fox News exit tied to Dominion lawsuit (Variety)

■ Vice Media bankruptcy: CNN, HBO, A&E networks among creditors list (Hollywood Reporter) 

■ Foreign investors in Forbes buyout revealed (Axios) 

■ ChatGPT’s Sam Altman warns Congress that AI ‘can go quite wrong’ (Wall Street Journal) 

■ No need to shoot The Messenger: Its muddled ideas are doing the job (Nieman Journalism Lab) 

■ Dotdash Meredith debuts intent-based ad targeting tool (Axios) 

■ TelevisaUnivision ready to do ad deals on Nielsen measurement data others won't embrace (Variety)  

■ ‘The world’s largest Black group chat’: Behind the mission to preserve Black Twitter (The 19th via Nieman Journalism Lab)

■ How the media made a villain out of Jordan Neely (HuffPost)

■ Former journalist charged with bias crimes in Portland deemed unfit to stand trial (OPB)

■ George Santos staffer faces discipline for menacing sexual comments to reporter (Daily Beast) 

■ The return to the office has stalled (Wall Street Journal)  

■ Brain break: The types of notable people that newspaper crosswords mention the most, visualized (Digg) 

Press freedom

■ CBI conducts searches in alleged espionage case against freelance defense journalist (The Hindu)

■ After 6 months, Yucatán police officers linked to aggression against Mérida journalist (The Yucatan Times)  

■ Silencing dissent: Journalists in Sudan face threats, raids (Al Jazeera) 

■ A newspaper's closing deals a blow to a nation's democracy (New York Times)

"A number of people that we knew shared their book proposals with us. The most successful were the ones that almost paragraph by paragraph stated what the book will do and how. We took a lot of time to think about what we wanted each chapter to accomplish, how we felt they could unfold."

-- Robert Samuels, author and staff writer at The New Yorker, interview on writing a book about George Floyd's life that won the Pulitzer Prize

"Some of the best and most vivid interviews I’ve ever done in my career came from people who grew up around George Floyd and could tell a story and could mimic his cadences and could bring him to life, in a way that you rarely see from some of the polished people that I talk to in my day job as a political reporter. And some of that unfiltered journalism, that unfiltered storytelling from those sources and those people in George Floyd’s life, was really what brought this book to life."

-- Toluse Olorunnipa, author and White House Bureau Chief at the Washington Post, interview on writing a book about George Floyd's life that won the Pulitzer Prize

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