The Latest: L.A. Times legacy; Do people leave bosses or companies?; The perfect pandemic game

January 13, 2022

■ 'Night and day': The Biden administration and the press; 'One year into office, President Joe Biden’s administration has emphasized the importance of global press freedom and improved daily relations with U.S. media – but has yet to turn many promises into action ' (Committee to Protect Journalists)

■ '60 Minutes' streaming spinoff is canceled at Paramount Plus (Variety)

■ Why are prominent women of color leaving NPR? NPR’s ‘Black and brown journalists told me they doubt management's sincerity, particularly when disagreements over contracts, assignments or resources arise … NPR is trying very hard to do things the NPR-nice way , making the staffing decisions one person at a time, without looking across the entire organization' (NPR)

■ ‘I’m leaving because I’ve been doing it long enough . It’s great work, but it’s also relentless …The deadline devil dances frequently upon my shoulders’ (Charlotte Observer)

■ Tampa Bay Times CEO Paul Tash to retire , passing role to company president (Tampa Bay Times)

■ Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong wants the L.A. Times to be his ‘family legacy’ (Press Gazette)

■ 'It’s my anniversary! 25 YEARS covering the White House and five presidents!' (April D. Ryan)

■ When many news organizations are retreating from expensive office space, new Baltimore Banner announces 15,000 square-foot location downtown (CNN/Venetoulis Institute)

■ Major media outlets can't stop describing police violence as 'officer-involved' incidents (HuffPost) / Policing 2020: Local news reporting during a year of racial justice protests (Annenberg)

■ Finding a surprising story in a stack of medical bills (The New York Times)

■ John Adams, editor and journalism innovator, dies at 46 (Arizona Republic) / ‘One of a kind ': former AP Reporter Mike Cochran dies at 85 (AP)

■ Opinion: Why Wordle is the perfect pandemic game (The Washington Post)

Since the murder of George Floyd by police, there has been renewed attention to police misconduct and growing momentum for holding law enforcement accountable. But journalists struggle to get access to public records that could be used to reveal police conduct. The outcome of police discipline proceedings across the country are among our nation’s best kept secrets.

Register now to join the National Press Club Journalism Institute for an hour-long program at 11:30 a.m. ET on Monday, Jan. 24, to learn how to break into this hidden system.

" 'Slow it down.' Those three words have had a profound impact on me, and I’ve interpreted them in different ways over the years (recognizing all the while that they might not easily apply to deadline stories). Slow it down in digesting the material you’ve gathered. Slow it down in the time you spend to craft your long-form narrative. But, most of all, slow it down when it comes down to time – to moments that, when carefully and concisely shared, can add dimension to character development or to a tick-tock. This happened, this happened, this happened – wait, let’s take another beat on this moment – and then this happened and this happened…By slowing it down, you move yourself even further from stenography. You become a storyteller.."

-- New York Times journalist Dan Barry, "The Killing of Darlings"

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