The Latest: Ex-Fox News editor talks; Misinformation inoculation; Newspaper closed after LGBTQ issue

August 25, 2022

■ 'Senator called for my firing ': Ex-Fox News editor talks about 2020 election night (CNN) / Sean Hannity and other Fox stars face depositions in defamation suit (New York Times)

■ Florida pair pleads guilty to stealing diary from Biden’s daughter and selling it to Project Veritas (The Hill)

■ Facebook gave 13 newsworthy exemptions to politicians in the past year (Washington Post) / Facebook parent Meta shares details about newsworthy posts it leaves up (CNET)

■ Study finds ‘problematic news consumption ’ linked to poor mental and physical health (The Wrap)

■ Twitter labeled factual information about covid-19 as misinformation (Washington Post)

■ Can you inoculate people against misinformation before they even see it? This study says yes (Nieman Journalism Lab) / Spiders are caught in a global web of misinformation (New York Times) / Register now to learn how journalists can use psychological science to combat election misinformation (NPCJI)

■ We might never know how much the Internet is hiding from us (New York Times)

■ Jury awards Vanessa Bryant $16 million in suit over Kobe Bryant crash photos (New York Times)

■ Spectacular images revealed in weather photography competition (CNN)

Press freedom

■ Nebraska school officials close newspaper after LGBTQ issue (Associated Press via ABC News) / 'Northwest Public Schools has not told the media why the journalism program was canceled .' (KLKN) / 'The Northwest High School Saga had previously been reprimanded by the Northwest Public Schools for including students’ preferred pronouns in bylines and articles , and in the latest issue, school administrators forced a transgender staffer to use his deadname' (The Advocate) / ‘Nurseries of democracy ’: Northwest student journalism elimination a ‘Saga’ (The Independent)

■ Emmy-nominated American journalist denied entry into India (The Independent) / US journalist deported from Delhi airport while on personal visit, claims his family (Scroll)

■ Mexico arrests alleged mastermind of journalist's murder (Agence France Presse via Barron's)

New program called Voter Accessibility: Improving your election coverage for people with disabilities

Midterm elections are Nov. 8. Are you prepared to be a watchdog for disabled voters in your communities? What is your newsroom doing to ensure your election coverage is useful and accessible for disabled voters? How are you covering voter rights and accessibility leading up to and on Election Day?

More than 61 million Americans live with disabilities, yet they remain underrepresented in journalism produced by U.S. newsrooms. As a decisive midterm election approaches, recent coverage shows state and local measures intend to: reduce voting by absentee ballot, limit access at polling locations, and limit information explaining how people with disabilities can cast their ballots.

On Friday, Oct. 14 at 11:30 ET, join the National Press Club Journalism Institute for a virtual discussion among experts in voter access, disability representation, and accessible news coverage on best practices to cover disabled voters and to highlight voting access issues they may face. Registration for this program is open; it will take place on Zoom.

Panelists include:

Thomas Hicks, Chairman of the United States Election Assistance Commission
Jessica Huseman, Editorial director for VoteBeat
Hannah Wise, Central Region Audience Development Editor for McClatchy and creator of Disability Matters , a toolkit to help newsrooms to better serve the disability community

We hope you’ll join us for this important conversation, supported with funding from the Gannett Foundation. Please email Beth Francesco, deputy executive director for the Institute, with questions.

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