■ A journalist was accosted in Mississippi. Should we really be surprised? (Mississippi Today)

■ How Louisiana's Advocate is living through and covering Hurricane Ida (Poynter) / WCVB photographer woke up to 'totally blacked-out' New Orleans (WCVB)

■ ‘Afghans who worked for U.S. government-funded news outlets such as @voanews and @RFE/RL and their families--*550* people in all--remain in Afghanistan. Dire.’ (Paul Farhi) / ‘Staffers at USAGM - the federal agency that funds Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - are raising money for their Afghan colleagues who were able to get out - most of whom left everything behind. They need clothes and more.’ (David Folkenflik) / ‘I lost my best friend, we were journalists fleeing Kabul’ (Al Jazeera) / The war is 'not over for them': Reporters, activists urge press to stay focused on Afghan civilians (CNN) / Afghanistan: The end of the US mission, but what now for Afghanistan's media? (IFJ) 

■ Washington Post TikTok Guy Dave Jorgenson tests positive for COVID (Dave Jorgenson) / How to navigate COVID news without spiraling (MIT Technology Review) / Google delays its return to office until January due to COVID (New York Times) / When COVID struck the Wolitzers, mother and daughter authors Meg and Hilma bonded by creating a book. Let them tell you about it. (Washington Post)  

■ Washington Post strict internship requirements criticized (The Wrap) / ‘This requirement that @washingtonpost interns need previous experience in a major newsroom is *really heartbreaking.* I got my first major newsroom internship experience AT the Post, when Larry Nista took a chance on me. It literally launched my career. Now I'd be ineligible.’ (Sisi Wei) / 'I did this internship in summer 2012 and was without a car or license. Didn’t prioritize a license before college and was using public transportation. A couple of editors were unhappy I didn’t have a license but a top editor stepped in and said we would make it work. We did.' (Marissa Evans) 

■ Politico, The Hill lead Beltway media dealmaking (Axios) 

■ Scoop: Facebook's new moves to lower News Feed's political volume (Axios) / The silent partner cleaning up Facebook for $500 million a year (New York Times)

■ Perspective: Congress may be about to help local news. It can’t happen soon enough. (Washington Post)

■ Tampa Bay Times sells printing plant to Alden Global’s real estate arm for $21 million; ‘This is a real estate deal, not a newspaper deal,' said CEO Paul Tash (Tampa Bay Times)

■ Fortune CEO postpones major event after magazine staffers plan to picket it (Daily Beast) 

■ ‘CBS This Morning’ to get new name: ‘CBS Mornings’ (The Hollywood Reporter) / CBS News to launch ‘Mornings’ in bid to capture a.m. viewers across the week (Variety) 

■ Toronto weatherman’s dog crashes live forecast (The Wrap) / ‘Anthony Farnell worked from home for months last year but this is back in our @globalnewsto studios and @StormWeatherDog is usually crashing his person’s workplace.’ (Simon Ostler) 

■ What would your favorite news sources be like as people? Actor Alli Hurley plays role of AP, New York Times, Fox News, MSNBC (Alli Hurley) / ‘Not going to lie, I screamed when she got to AP…’ (Kimberlee Kruesi) / Hurley follows up with CNN, NBC NPR, PBS, and more (Alli Hurley) 

■ The high school football game that duped ESPN (Washington Post)

■ ‘Today marks the 100th day since my little brother Danny was wrongly detained in Myanmar apparently simply for doing his job as a journalist. Today, we call on Myanmar to release Danny on humanitarian grounds, and allow him to come home to us.' (Bryan Fenster) / Fenster's family keep pushing Myanmar to release detained Detroit journalist (The Detroit News) 

■ ‘Today is the deadline for [BBC correspondent] Sarah Rainsford to leave Russia - expelled for purely political reasons. Sarah was one of best informed & most considered foreign corrs in Moscow. Her expulsion is bad news for everyone who values fair reporting. @BBCNews continues to condemn decision.’ (Jonathan Munro) / ‘Our correspondent Sarah Rainsford reports on her expulsion from Russia.’ (BBC News Press Team)

■ Malta: PEN member targeted in spoof attack aimed at undermining press freedom (PEN)

"Avoid reducing sources to characters who can fill a hole in your story. Interviewees who have lost their homes, livelihoods or loved ones might feel all they have left is their personal story — telling it inaccurately will add pain atop of pain.  Ensure, therefore, that you’re infusing your reporting with compassion and complexity. Give readers a nuanced insight into the breadth of people’s experiences. Help them envisage how it feels to have your life disrupted or overturned."

-- From the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma "How to Cover Wildfires" guide

The second gathering of "You Are Here" will be Friday, September 10 at 11:30 a.m. ET. The topic will be, “What’s bringing you joy in journalism right now?”

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