June 2, 2026

Top stories

■ White House Correspondents Association plans new dinner for July 24 with heightened security (Variety) / Trump teases remarks could get 'nasty' as he hypes rescheduled Correspondents' Dinner (Raw Story) 


■ Statement on the banning of reporters from Pentagon press office (National Press Club) / ICYMI: Pentagon bars journalists from its press office, saying it has become a 'classified space' (Associated Press) 


■ ‘60 Minutes’ staff meeting turns hostile for new executive producer (Wall Street Journal) / ‘Just hours after Scott Pelley torched CBS News leadership, former “60 Minutes” executive producer Bill Owens joined the revolt, blasting Bari Weiss and rallying behind his former colleague.’ (Status) / Press freedom groups warn CNN is next after '60 Minutes' amid 'existential threat' of Paramount merger (The Wrap) / Paramount's Delrahim slams 'fear-mongering' and partisan politics clouding Warner Bros. deal (Los Angeles Times) 


■ PBS reduces station dues nearly 13% in FY27 budget (Current) / Report highlights risks to documentary films after rescission of pubmedia funding (Current) 


■ NBC News will put 'Kornacki Cam' on the L.A. mayoral, California gubernatorial races (Los Angeles Times)


■ Bloomberg launches personal finance website, TV show (Talking Biz News) / Yahoo Finance launches dedicated hub for AI news and analysis (Yahoo) 


■ At Glamour, a once-mighty magazine, a skeleton crew churns out shopping links (New York Times)


■ 'Access Hollywood' producer Rob Silverstein, Front Office Sports team up for daily TV news program (The Wrap) / Meet the accidental editor in chief of Muslim media (WIRED) / Photo welcomes archive director (New York Times) / Livia Albeck-Ripka joins National at The New York Times (New York Times) / Meet the Lexington Herald-Leader’s new service journalism reporter (Lexington Herald-Leader) / WSJ Pro hires Kroontje to cover bankruptcy (Talking Biz News) / Bloomberg taps Jones as senior editor for Asia-Pacific news desk (Talking Biz News) 


■ More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism (Nieman Journalism Lab)


■ With Monitor Local, The Maine Monitor expands to civic news — written by local residents — for rural counties (Nieman Journalism Lab)


■ New library resource offers access to history through newspapers (The Herald Star)

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Briefing: Covering the gas tax holiday debate


The Institute will host a briefing for national and regional journalists on the debate over a proposed gas tax suspension and what it could mean for consumers, transportation funding, inflation, and state budgets.


🗓️ Tuesday, June 9 | ⏰ 11 a.m. ET | 📍Zoom


As policymakers consider calls to suspend federal and state gas taxes in response to rising fuel prices, reporters have found themselves answering complex questions: Would consumers actually see meaningful savings at the pump? Who ultimately benefits from a gas tax holiday? And what are the tradeoffs for infrastructure funding and long-term transportation policy?


To help unpack the issue, Bipartisan Policy Center experts Andy Winkler and Andrew Lautz will walk journalists through what’s at stake at both the federal and state levels when it comes to the gas tax holiday proposals.


The briefing will draw on BPC’s recent analysis, including its “Hidden Cost of a Gas Tax Holiday” explainer and interactive Gas Tax Holiday Calculator, which examines how different policy scenarios could affect prices at the pump and transportation revenues.
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Attendees will walk away with a better understanding of:



  • How federal and state gas taxes work
  • The historical track record of gas tax holidays
  • Potential impacts on inflation, consumer prices, and infrastructure funding
  • Key data points and reporting angles for journalists covering the issue
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The price of ‘invisible labor’ in the newsroom


"The profession has become very good at celebrating trust, engagement, transparency, and public connection as outcomes. Newsrooms are much less comfortable recognising the labor that produces those outcomes, or at least makes them possible. Everyone wants the reporter who explains the process well, the editor who handles feedback with care, the engagement journalist who keeps the channel open, the newsroom leader who builds something more durable than a one-off interaction. Fewer people want to talk about the workload, the emotional drag, the exposure to harassment, or the simple fact that this work rarely fits neatly inside already overfull jobs. ... Taking this seriously begins with clearly naming the work. Relationship building is labor, not instinct. That sounds small, but unnamed work is easy to exploit."


-- Patrick Johnson, director of student media and assistant professor of journalism at Marquette University, excerpt from “Journalism's Invisible Labor: The price of managing reader relationships” (Journalism UK)

 
 
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