April 2, 2025

■ Advertisers look for flexibility as uncertainty around tariffs swirls (CNBC) / News/Media Alliance urges administration to forgo additional, targeted newsprint tariffs under consideration (News/Media Alliance) / ICYMI: Trump’s tariffs are causing chaos for newspapers (Columbia Journalism Review) 

■ Conservative cable channel Newsmax shares plunge more than 70% after a dizzying 2-day surge (CNBC) / Why is Newsmax, the right-wing channel, suddenly worth more than U.S. Steel? (New York Times) 

■ AppLovin and Amazon emerge as TikTok bidders ahead of Trump’s deadline (Wall Street Journal) / Amazon's last-minute bid for TikTok comes as a US ban on the platform is set to take effect Saturday (Associated Press) 

■ CNBC strikes distribution deals with Apple, Roku for CNBC+ (Variety)

■ Rupert Murdoch's News Corp completes Foxtel Group sale to DAZN (Variety)

■ CBS put ‘Evening News’ through a massive overhaul. Now it needs people to watch. (Variety)

■ Newsquest now employing 36 'AI-assisted reporters' (Press Gazette) / Bloomberg and the bots (Status) 

■ Chuck Todd, former ‘Meet the Press’ moderator, starts podcast network (New York Times) / CNN appoints Oren Liebermann to Jerusalem bureau chief role (CNN) / WSJ. Magazine announces three new team members (WSJ. Magazine via Editor and Publisher) / WSJ's Mandhana becomes chief correspondent in Singapore (Talking Biz News) / Candice Wilder joins Mississippi Today as new higher education reporter (Mississippi Today) / STAT News hires Payne as Washington correspondent (Talking Biz News) / Reporter Perry Robinson returns to WAFB (WAFB) 

■ How to leak to a journalist (Nieman Journalism Lab) 

■ ‘GBH News Rooted’ reimagines ‘Basic Black’ as digital-first series, continues focus on Black audience (Current)

3 photography tips for journalists

“A good photograph brings readers to a story and has the potential to reach people from different backgrounds and reduce the political divide. Poorly executed photography can also turn them away. …

1. Light is the key to beautiful photos. Try to plan your in-person trips during early morning or late afternoon. Midday light is painful. If you are indoors, look for natural light from a window. Try turning off artificial light like lamps and fluorescent lights — they turn people red or green, bringing color into a frame that can be difficult to correct.

2. Look at your background. Make sure there is nothing bright or distracting there. Low depth-of-field, or portrait mode if you have a smartphone, can help clean things up. Look for things sticking out of people’s heads in the background.

3. Try different angles and get close to people. The first step in becoming a good photographer is to not be afraid of getting close. A photograph is rarely too close, but is often too distant. ... Get up high, get down on your knees. See the world from different perspectives.”

-- Andrea Bruce, photographer and educator, excerpt from "15 photojournalism tips for reporters, from the founder of Down in the County" (Better News)

Resources

• Snack & Learn: Centering immigrant communities in your reporting (April 9, 1 pm ET)
• Public Health Journalism: How community health workers can be the key to your reporting (April 29, noon ET)
• Video: Finding sustainable work you love in an era of relentless layoffs (Association of Health Care Journalists)

This newsletter is written & edited by the National Press Club Journalism Institute staff: Beth Francesco, Holly Butcher Grant, Elliot C. Williams, and Mitch Harle. Send us your questions and suggestions for topics to cover.

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