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■ Trump administration to remove 4 major news outlets from Pentagon office space (New York Times) / And so it begins — Trump’s attacks on the media (Poynter) / National Press Club statement (NPC)
■ NPR and PBS first target in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s DOGE crosshairs (POLITICO) / ‘In a note to staff this morning, NPR’s CEO said House Republicans are planning a hearing on bias in federally funded media …’ (Max Tani) / NPR and PBS face a moment of truth (Columbia Journalism Review)
■ Rupert Murdoch and Larry Ellison watch as Donald Trump meets press in Oval Office … (Deadline) / ‘Trump, with Rupert Murdoch in the Oval Office today, says the Wall Street Journal is “wrong” about his trade policies and ribs Murdoch saying he’ll “have to talk to him” about the Journal.’ (Dominick Mastrangelo)
■ CBS to hand over Harris interview after Trump, FCC pressure. What to know. (Washington Post) / The FCC’s battle with CBS over its Harris interview is raising red flags (CNN) / FCC chairman who revived ‘60 Minutes’ inquiry once said newsroom decisions 'should be beyond the reach of any government official' (TV News Check) / ‘If Democrats are concerned about the FCC investigating broadcast news orgs, they're not making it a priority. …” (Max Tani)
■ U.S. aid freeze spells uncertain future for international media (Voice of America)
■ L.A. Times owner boosts RFK Jr. online, as writer says paper cut his critique (NPR)
■ BuzzFeed seeks to counter right-wing vibe shift (Semafor)
■ Chuck Todd is leaving NBC (CNN) / Dave Howitt, Sinclair programming SVP, to retire (TV News Check) / ‘After 10 years at NBC News, I've left to join a local news startup in Midcoast Maine.’ (Alex Seitz-Wald) / Jay Shaylor will be the new 'Morning Edition' and 'Up First' executive producer (NPR) / Sarah Frostenson named visual enterprise editor for politics and democracy (Washington Post) / NBC Chicago to add renowned journalist Chuck Goudie to Investigates team (NBC 5 Chicago) / Meet the Post Independent’s newest reporter (Post Independent) / Lesley Goldberg joins Ankler Media as company celebrates third anniversary (Ankler Media)
■ ‘The Sopranos’ featured it. Now, The Star-Ledger newspaper is stopping print editions. (CBS News)
■ Breaker aims to roil New York media, starting Downtown (Semafor)
■ The Post and Courier announces strategic shift in print delivery schedule, reflecting digital growth and evolution (The Post and Courier)
■ Paramount, Nielsen strike new measurement deal, ending months-long feud (Variety)
■ Reporters apologize after awkwardly interrupting Babyface’s Grammys interview in favor of Chappell Roan (People)
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National Press Club Journalism Institute and Common Health Coalition announce 2025 Public Health Reporting Fellows
Five mid-career journalists have been selected as the inaugural Public Health Reporting Fellowship cohort and will receive funds to support reporting projects that cover public health issues critical to this time. The fellowship is coordinated by the National Press Club Journalism Institute with backing from the Common Health Coalition.
The fellows will conduct investigations into the growing disparities in and solutions for disease prevention and health care for immigrant workers, rural populations, and elder communities, among other topics.
The Common Health Coalition, which brings together leading health care organizations in pursuit of a more unified health system, has invested $50,000 to start the fellowship program at the Institute.
Meet the 2025 cohort
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Ted Alcorn, an independent journalist who reports on health and justice for numerous publications and an adjunct at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service. His project will focus on the large and growing health disparities between rural and urban areas in cancer treatment and outcomes. | |
Jamal Jordan, a multimedia documentarian currently working as an audience editor at The Washington Post. He’s the author of “Queer Love in Color,” a book of photos and stories based on his New York Times project of the same name. He plans to report on the ways public health officials, organizers, and community members have addressed America’s loneliness epidemic among senior citizens as a public health issue. | |
Eleanor Klibanoff, the Texas Tribune’s women’s health reporter based in Austin, where she covers abortion, maternal health care, gender-based violence, and LGBTQ issues. She will report on maternal healthcare among rural communities. | |
Lygia Navarro is an award-winning bilingual and disabled independent journalist working in long-form narrative print and audio with a focus on health and Latine stories. She plans to investigate the immigrant workers most affected by H5N1 and how public policy could be improved for the benefit of these workers and the health of the whole country. | |
Amanda Seitz is a healthcare policy reporter for The Associated Press based in Washington, D.C. She reports on how complex decisions made in the nation's capital shape the way people around the country receive health care. Her project will uncover the impact President Donald Trump’s immigration policies have on U.S. public health and how community organizations in Texas are trying to reach migrants to provide health care, despite their concerns about mass deportations and arrests. | |
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Thank you to our 2025 judges
Three journalists well known for their deep understanding of public health issues and reporting selected the cohort. The judges included:
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Dr. Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA, an internist, infectious disease specialist, and epidemiologist trained at Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Washington, and Harvard University. She is also a CBS News Medical Contributor, a Senior Fellow KFF, and Editor-at-Large for Public Health at KFF Health News. | |
Pien Huang, a reporter on NPR’s Science desk covering public health and health disparities. She also guest hosts on NPR news programs and narrates the “Moments in History” series on the NPR One app. | |
Joanne Kenen, the Journalist in Residence at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she also teaches about the changing political and economic landscape of U.S. media and how it affects public health practitioners. She is a contributing writer to Politico Magazine, Politico “Nightly,” and a regular panelist on Kaiser Health News’ “What the Health” podcast. | |
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Join us Friday: Briefing on public trust and the government
As the Trump administration implements sweeping changes across federal agencies — such as the shuttering of USAID, potential purge of agents at the FBI, and a "buyout plan" offered to an estimated 2 million federal employees — journalists are at a pivotal moment to shape the public’s understanding of these actions and new policies.
Join the Institute and the Partnership for Public Service on Friday, Feb. 7, at noon ET for a briefing with Max Stier, the Partnership’s CEO and president.
At a time when trust in the federal government is at near-record lows, this session will equip journalists with the practical tools to cover how federal policy and changes in the civil service will impact communities across the country.
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Emerging Journalists: Don’t wait to publish your great work
“What is good about this moment, is that aspiring journalists can do the work right now, without waiting for a newspaper, TV station or radio outlet to publish them. They can create platforms on Tik Tok, YouTube, Substack and elsewhere that earn money right now, building their brand with work entirely under their control, rather than count on a larger institution’s permission to create work inside that larger brand. Now, just like when I was starting, employers in journalism mostly want to know you can do the job before they give you the job. Which means finding the best opportunities to create great work and learn the right way to cover the news – how to fact check, be fair to all perspectives, be transparent and avoid conflicts of interest.”
-- Eric Deggans, TV critic, media analyst, and guest host at NPR, excerpt from Your First Byline interview
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