June 1, 2022

■ Video: Law enforcement officials say journalists will be charged for being on Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District property (San Antonio Express-News) / Children's questions to journalist mom about Uvalde shooting leave her speechless (mlive.com) / The unsettling photographs depicting American gun culture (The Atlantic) / ICYMI: Do we really need to see photos of mass shootings? (Columbia Journalism Review) / Don't let the cameras turn away (The Atlantic) 

■ Russian journalist to auction Nobel medal to benefit Ukraine (New York Times) / A cartoon producer turned war reporter (New York Times) 

■ Trial diary: A journalist sits on a Baltimore jury (ProPublica) 

■ Opinion: The Supreme Court search for a leaker springs its own leak (Washington Post) 

■ Top executive Sheryl Sandberg is leaving Facebook (Washington Post)

■ CNN made its debut as the first 24-hour news channel on June 1, 1980. These are the network’s defining moments since June 1, 1980 (CNN)

■ Tucker Carlson gets a lesson in trolling after he criticizes BTS’ White House visit (Los Angeles Times) 

■ As The Times' pop critic, I saw some 150 concerts at the Bowl. This one topped them all (Los Angeles Times) 

■ How one reporter tried to work remotely in Paris on a $100 budget (Washington Post)

Press freedom

■ 4 homes tied to journalist hit with bricks, graffitied with spray paint (Washington Post) / Law enforcement investigating vandalism targeting homes of New Hampshire Public Radio journalists (New Hampshire Public Radio) / ‘5 incidents of vandalism targeting journalists. The c-word spray-painted in red on my parents’ garage. 2 separate times. The c-word in red on Daniel Barric’s front door. And on a house I used to live in. Bricks thrown through windows. Here’s my house. It’s not okay.’ (Lauren Chooljian) 

■ Johnny Depp and Amber Heard each defamed each other, jury rules (Variety) / Monica Lewinsky's verdict on the Johnny Depp–Amber Heard trial: We are all guilty (Vanity Fair) 

■ Judge: No 'speck' of proof in Palin's libel case against NYT (AP)

"Words are magical — the elements that create the alchemy that is writing. They also present the writer with a constant challenge: We can’t assume that the meaning of what we’ve etched onto a page is understood the same way by our readers. The bar can be especially high for journalists, who delve into myriad subcultures, each with its own language, and must translate that for a general audience. We have to strive for precision and clarity, then grapple with the consequences of confusion."

-- Jacqui Banaszynski, reporter, editor, and educator via NiemanStoryboard

New York Times writer and author Elizabeth Williamson is among journalists confronting the rampant rise and spread of conspiracy theories through her reporting and research. Her current work has focused around unraveling the targeted misinformation and lies spread after the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Conn., the surviving families’ lawsuits against Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and the election disinformation fueling the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack. 

In this instructional program with the National Press Club Journalism Institute, Williamson will share her reporting and research process, along with insights she gained as she connected the dots on how conspiracy theories grow. Williamson, whose critically-acclaimed book “Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth” published this spring, will describe how she threaded together more than 400 interviews, 10,000 pages of court testimony and other records, and on-the-ground reporting to trace a line from conspiracy theories around Sandy Hook to Jan. 6, 2021. 

Registration is open for this program, which will take place on Friday, June 10 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ET.