September 23, 2022

Scheduling note: This newsletter will be off for Rosh Hashanah and will return to your inboxes on Wednesday, Sept. 28.

■ Did a Las Vegas politician hide a violent side before allegedly murdering a journalist? (Rolling Stone) / Las Vegas Review-Journal moves to protect information in slain reporter's seized devices (Review-Journal) 

■ Wisconsin man assaults newspaper delivery person, police say (Leader Telegram)

■ LA news anchor fired after off-script tribute to former colleague (The Wrap) 

■ Gingrich insults NBC News reporter after Jan. 6 question: ‘I think you have a learning disability’ (The Hill)

■ ‘There’s no way to brush it to the side’: CNN insists January 6 coverage won’t be sidelined under new regime (Vanity Fair) / The midterm election’s most dominant toxic narratives (New York Times)  

■ 'Deceptive' Chicago City Wire hitting mailboxes looks like a newspaper. But it's really a conservative campaign mailer (Block Club Chicago) 

■ Facebook reverses ‘permanent’ ban on conservative children’s book publisher after Fox News jumps in (Mediaite) / Microsoft won’t label fake news as false in attempt to avoid ‘censorship’ cries (Bloomberg) / Where online hate speech can bring the police to your door (New York Times) 

■ ‘McDonald's will have to defend itself against a $10 billion lawsuit from media mogul Byron Allen over an allegation that the fast food chain doesn't advertise with Black-owned media.’ (CNN)

■ Baltimore Banner announces it’s adding a public editor, apologizes for op-ed that 'very clearly caused pain to people, particularly in the transgender community' (The Baltimore Banner)  

■ 'NPR’s CEO, John Lansing, today announced that the network will create position of chief content officer, to oversee its news, programming, digital and other divisions. In a memo, Lansing said new exec would "chart the unified vision for all NPR content"' (David Folkenflik) / Peacock moves into adult animation with NPR parody series 'In The Know’ (Deadline) 

■ Nina Totenberg had a beautiful friendship with RBG. Her book about it is an embarrassment. (POLITICO) 

Press freedom

■ Jury rules against Project Veritas in lawsuit (New York Times) / Verdict upends Project Veritas’s journalism defense in infiltration case (Washington Post) 

■ Dominion’s lawsuit is no slam dunk—but neither is Fox News’ defense (Vanity Fair)

■ Nicaragua takes Spanish-language CNN off the air amid government crackdown (The Hill) 

Most people know what it is to get hungry. But persistent hunger and a lack of access to convenient and affordable healthy foods is something much more, disproportionately affecting communities already underrepresented in news coverage. Food insecurity can be difficult for journalists to cover consistently because of its seeming invisibility. 

Join the National Press Club Journalism Institute at 11:30 a.m. ET on Friday, Oct. 21 for a discussion via Zoom about what journalists can cover at the intersection of food access, community impact, and systemic racism. 

"Splitting the infinitive or compound form of a verb often is necessary for clarity and ease of reading. For example: How has your health been? But if splitting a verb results in an awkward sentence, don’t do it. She wants to write clearly. Not: She wants to clearly write."

-- AP Stylebook via Twitter