The Latest: McClatchy-Report for America split; The importance of encouragement; ‘Lay it out’ for sources

November 5, 2021

Top stories

■ McClatchy to decline future Report for America participation, following hedge-fund critiques (Columbia Journalism Review)

■ CEO interview: Business booms for Bloomberg Media thanks to ad ‘windfall’ and 350,000 subs (Press Gazette) / At Gannett, digital subscriptions are up and debt is down (Poynter)

■ Soaring newsprint costs make life even harder for newspapers (Economist)

■ This is a rallying cry: News publishers need a unified front and bold strategy to keep the LJSA in Congress’ reconciliation bill (E&P)

■ A year after the election, America has turned the news off (Columbia Journalism Review)

■ ‘TV is still the most used source for climate news by far. … Only 19% of the people surveyed for #DNR20 said the news media were doing a bad job in providing accurate information about the climate crisis.’ (Reuters Institute) / How people access news about climate change (Digital News Report)

■ Jeffrey Toobin: Rudy Giuliani’s ‘clearly libelous’ leaked deposition video a ‘disaster’ for Fox News (Mediaite)

■ UNC-Chapel Hill journalism school names interim dean (News & Observer) / A 148-year-old newspaper is the latest recruit to UGA’s journalism school (Poynter)

■ How ProPublica used genomic sequencing data to track an ongoing salmonella outbreak (ProPublica)

■ CNN's milk report: Why right-wing misinformation will always get amplified by the mainstream media (Salon)

Press freedom

■ Kansas Legislature edits video of public hearing to omit profane rant targeting a journalist (Poynter)

■ 'Crazy Fat Lady' reporter strikes blow for First Amendment in victory at Fifth Circuit (Law.com)

■ Chinese journalist imprisoned over Covid reporting in desperate need of medical care , says family (CNN)

■ Belarus journalists charged, detained over alleged Facebook interactions with banned outlets (CPJ)

"Sometimes the people you're talking to have never sat across from a journalist before and they don't understand the reporting process. The best thing you can do is kind of lay it out for them. Show them: Here's how we get from point A to point B."

-- Shelly Conlon, watchdog coach for three newsrooms with The Argus Leader (South Dakota), from NPCJI panel on transforming education coverage

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The best leaders understand the importance of encouragement

Resourcefulness and resilience are the driving forces behind every good story, photo, video, graphic, newscast, program, podcast, interview, documentary, and community service project that we’re seeing and hearing today.

Those qualities – resourcefulness and resilience – need to be supported with empathy, appreciation, and respect . We can share that from the inside, as co-workers and managers.

-- Jill Geisler, Bill Plante Chair in Leadership & Media Integrity at Loyola University Chicago and Freedom Forum Fellow in Women’s Leadership

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