The Latest: Fox agrees to $1M fine; Median editor & reporter wages; I broke my boss’s ‘no surprises’ rule. Now what?

June 29, 2021

■ Fox News agrees to $1 million fine for violating human rights law (Daily Beast)

■ Facebook recruits dozens of writers and jumps into newsletters with new Bulletin product (CNN)

■ ‘I don’t see what the solution is here ’: New York Times editor speaks truth about social media (Washington Post)

■ “ ‘Is it as good as the book?’ is a question movie critics often hear, whether the book in question is a Harry Potter adventure or something more highbrow. ‘Is it as good as the tweets?’ is a new one, at least for this movie critic, and in the case of “Zola” it opens a surprisingly interesting line of inquiry.” (New York Times)

■ Why it’s so important that UNC trustees give Nikole Hannah-Jones the tenure she deserves (Washington Post)

■ Annual State of the Media newspaper fact sheet shows ‘median wages for editors in 2020 were about $50,000 , while for reporters, the figure was about $36,000’ (Pew) / Related: Media trends and facts on audio and podcasts and public broadcasting (Pew)

■ Lawsuit against Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard to move forward; The plaintiff is Francesca Viola, who commented on the website with a pseudonym when she was a journalism professor at Temple University (Reason) / Earlier: Account that posted conspiracy theories and anti-Muslim remarks may belong to Temple professor (Washington Post) / Temple professor outed as user behind controversial commenting account, criticizes 'doxxing' (Philadelphia Inquirer) / Opinion: In Temple 'doxxing' case, news orgs should learn a lesson about respecting readers (Philadelphia Inquirer)

■ 5 formerly or currently incarcerated writers on what freedom means to them (Harper’s Bazaar)

■ U.S. to restrict travel to Belarus after journalist’s detention (Bloomberg) / Opinion: The Indian government continues to harass journalists. I’m facing prison over a tweet . (Washington Post)

■ Hanan Elatr, Egyptian woman who married Jamal Khashoggi , obtains signed Islamic marriage certificate (Washington Post)

■ Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation launches fundraising campaign with $6 million in new support (Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation)

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Manager's Minute: I didn’t tell my boss about a problem, breaking the ‘no surprises’ rule, and my solution didn’t work. Now what do I do?

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