The Latest: Election Night plans: AP’s digital livestream, ‘marathon’ reporting & covering likely legal challenges; Trump & threats to journalists; NYT Tech Guild strike

Nov. 4, 2024

■ Trump says he doesn’t mind someone shooting at ‘fake news’ at rally (Washington Post) / Trump campaign defends his remarks about violence toward journalists (ABC News) / Trump sues CBS over ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Harris (CNN) / Trump hits Washington Post with FEC complaint in escalating battle with press (Axios)

■ The Washington Post isn’t alone: Roughly 3/4 of major American newspapers aren’t endorsing anyone for president this year (Nieman Journalism Lab)

■ Elon Musk’s misleading election claims have been viewed more than 2 billion times on X, analysis finds (CNN)

■ The 27 most consequential media figures of the 2024 election (Oliver Darcy) / MSNBC’s primetime ‘Avengers’: Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace and Joy Reid assemble to battle cable news’ old rules (Variety) / NBC's election night Republican pundit disclosed as foreign agent of Qatar / New York Times tech workers strike ahead of Election Day (Wall Street Journal)

■ Fox Corp beats revenue estimates on robust political advertising (Reuters) / Fox not interested in spinning off network : 'I don't see how we could ever do that' (The Wrap)

■ Gannett announces third quarter 2024 results & updated full year outlook (Gannett)

■ New York Times passes 11 million subscribers (New York Times)

■ Marc Benioff in talks to sell Time Inc. to Antenna Group (CNBC)

■ Alexandra Skores joins CNN as a reporter/writer covering transportation (CNN) / Danielle Allen and Robert Kagan join The Atlantic as contributing writers (The Atlantic) / Victoria Craw joins The Washington Post as breaking news reporter and editor in London (Washington Post) / Michele Norris joins MSNBC as a senior contributing editor following resignation from The Washington Post (Deadline) / Business Insider appoints Kate Ortega as director of newsroom operations (Business Insider) / Politico names Annie Allen as executive producer of events (POLITICO)

■ Can The Daily Beast claw its way back to relevance ? (New York Times)

■ 404 Media is partnering with Wired (404 Media)

■ How Uvalde’s newspaper kept going , despite unimaginable loss (New York Times)

Press freedom

■ U.S. says Iranian-American journalist held in Iran as tensions high following Israeli attack on country (Associated Press)

■ 85 percent of journalist killings go unpunished (UN News) / War makes it harder to hold journalists’ killers accountable , experts say (Voice of America)

Election 2024: Get to know your local election officials

“For election officials, it's really important for people to know that integrity matters to them. Truth matters to them. And trust matters to them. In order to have all of those things, it's really important for journalists to establish relationships with election officials. To get to know them — especially on their local level — so that integrity in the process can then transfer over to integrity in the article and in the information . … Most election officials don't have a public information officer, especially as you get down to the states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Maine, where it's more decentralized. They don't have someone on staff to do this for them, to do the communications for them. So understand that you have to earn their trust. And you have to establish that relationship before they're going to be willing to have those conversations with you.”

-- Tina Barton, senior elections expert, Committee for Safe and Secure Elections. Watch Barton on a recent Institute program discussing disinformation, elections & democracy:

Advice for future broadcasters

"This is a calling and not just a paycheck. This isn’t a platform to see yourself on TV. This is a career that is rewarding professionally but you aren’t going to get rich doing it. Find your voice as a journalist and your brand: What are you about? What can your viewer expect from a story you are following? Remember that your relationship with the viewers is the most important one you will have in your career . We owe our community that respect so that they can trust what we report. The credibility you bring to every story is what your viewers will expect."

Yami Virgin, anchor and reporter at FOX SA, excerpt from “FOX San Antonio's Yami Virgin reflects on longtime journalism career ”

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