The Latest: What’s next for CNN; Fox v. Carlson; Messenger experiment; No-go on UFOs?

June 8, 2023

■ CNN tries to change the channel from wall-to-wall chaos (New York Times) / 'CNN’s new leadership team emails staff: “We understand how disorienting and unsettling it can be when we become the news and these recent changes can be difficult to navigate, both personally and professionally. …” ' (Oliver Darcy) / Who are the 4 people running CNN now? (New York Times) / Every major U.S. news organization is now officially helmed by a woman (Fortune)

■ Fox News says Tucker Carlson breached his contract (Axios)

■ Los Angeles Times Guild slams ‘deeply insulting’ layoffs in open letter (The Wrap) / ‘... In today’s town hall that Kevin Merida said the LA Times wasn’t being prepped for a sale .’ (Anousha Sakoui)

■ Court dismisses lawsuit alleging PBS violated digital subscribers’ privacy (Current)

■ Google to launch long-delayed news showcase product in U.S. this summer (Wall Street Journal)

■ Meta ramps up its threats to block the news (Columbia Journalism Review)

■ Prison agency rescinds censorship policy (New York Focus)

■ Peter Klein named executive editor of investigations at NBC News (Ad Week) / NBC's 'Nightly News' gets new logo with digital viewers in mind (Variety)

■ Wade Goodwyn, NPR’s longtime national correspondent , dies at 63 (The Wrap)

■ New PolitiFact reporter focuses on fact-checking LGBTQ issues and rhetoric (Poynter)

■ How a new Messenger experiment could usefully challenge news judgments (Second Rough Draft)

■ The Star Tribune is offering high school grads across Minnesota free one-year digital subscriptions (Nieman Journalism Lab)

■ Why ‘The New York Times,’ ‘The Washington Post,’ and Politico didn’t publish a seemingly bombshell report about UFOs (Vanity Fair)

■ The New York Times wants Keegan Michael-Key to invade your Wordle group chats (Hollywood Reporter)

"The reason why I started doing journalism on TikTok: to bring my reporting where audiences are . As a Spanish journalist based in Berlin and working for a global outlet, I’m also very happy to work together with a U.S. institution, because I have the impression that we often miss the wider perspective of the local issues we’re dealing with – and very often when it comes to online misinformation, it tends to have international ramifications."

-- Enrique Anarte, TikTok lead for LGBTQ+ coverage at Thomson Reuters Foundation, “Meet Openly’s Enrique Anarte, MediaWise’s newest ambassador”

“I actually had a burnout several years ago and going through it taught me several lessons. Sleep is super important. I invested in a good bed and pillows. I used to work all night long to meet an important deadline or catch up on work. Now I will work as hard as I can until midnight, but then I am off to bed. … I have also learned to recognize when I am getting overworked and super stressed and am at the breaking point. That is when I slow down and just accept I can’t do it all . I also learned not to feel guilty when that happens. Exercise is important. Being in nature is important. Finding something that will keep your mind off work is also important. Having experienced this has helped me recognize burnout in other people and I want to help others to try to find balance.”

-- Miranda Patrucic, investigative reporter and editor-in-chief of OCCRP, “From fact-checker to editor-in-chief: How one woman rose to the top at OCCRP”

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NPCJI tackles ethics in an age of disinformation with fall webinar series

The National Press Club Journalism Institute is joining forces with the family of broadcast legend Edward R. Murrow and NPCJI board member Michael Freedman this fall to produce a series of webinars titled “Why Murrow Matters: Ethics in an Age of Disinformation.”

Under a newly approved grant from Oklahoma City based Inasmuch Foundation, the Institute will develop and host a series of four discussion-oriented webinars providing practical lessons in exercising ethical journalistic decision-making in a time of technological innovation and disinformation campaigns.

Series topics will include:

Framing the disinformation crisis
Building a culture of credibility and trust
Media/information literacy in ethical civic engagement
Why Murrow Matters in the digital age

The series will be open – at no charge – to professionals in the field, as well as high school and college students and the public. To learn more about the series, click here.

The webinars will debut in Fall 2023. For periodic updates on the series, including event announcements, please complete this brief form. If you'd like to financially support this and other Institute programs, please consider a donation today or email Institute Executive Director Beth Francesco.

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