The Latest: Leading CNN from a distance; Those late night work emails; What mothers photographed

May 6, 2022

■ 'Pro-Life Spider-Man' hangs abortion banners on New York Times building (New York Post) / Scooping the Supreme Court (New Yorker)

■ One week into his new job, CNN’s new boss is already having his manage-from-above strategy questioned and second-guessed. ‘Licht intends to manage CNN as a sort of anti-Jeff Zucker : a delegator-in-chief who won’t have the control room perpetually on hold’ (Puck)’

■ CBS CEO addresses low morale at CBS News , wants staff to curb 'routine' work emails after hours (The Wrap)

■ Chuck Todd's 'Meet The Press Daily' jumps from MSNBC to streaming (Variety) / Symone Sanders doesn’t want her MSNBC show to be predictable: ‘I have a reputation for telling it like it is ’ (Hollywood Reporter)

■ Fox News’ Peter Doocy throws a curve ball at Jen Psaki after she announces she’s leaving the White House (Deadline)

■ 'Today' show anchor Savannah Guthrie tests positive for COVID-19 again , is isolating ahead of Mother's Day (People)

■ Stress, love, joy—what mothers photographed during the pandemic (National Geographic)

■ Weekend reading: After 15 years writing about startups this journalist became an entrepreneur (Forbes) / The war in Ukraine, as seen on Russian TV (New York Times) / Column: What the death of my journalist friend taught me about grief (L.A. Times)

Press freedom

■ Ninth journalist killed in Mexico this year as foreign criticism mounts (Reuters)

■ Belarusian journalist found severely beaten in Ukraine (CPJ)

■ In some tiny countries, big progress made on press freedom (VOA)

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Manager's minute: What's the cost of bad management?

Advice from Jill Geisler, Bill Plante Chair in Leadership & Media Integrity at Loyola University Chicago and Freedom Forum Fellow in Women’s Leadership

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