March 11, 2021

Top stories ■ Police posed as a reporter during Maine standoff (Bangor Daily News) / State Police acknowledge it was ‘not a good practice’ (MassLive) ■ Prosecutor defends failed effort to convict Iowa journalist (Associated Press)  ■ An online assault on a female journalist in the Philippines is a worldwide warning (Washington Post) / Tucker Carlson keeps attacking a New York Times reporter after the paper calls his tactics ‘calculated and cruel’ (Washington Post)  ■ Killer spills the entire plot to murder investigative journalist (Daily Beast)  ■ 'People will forget about us': The Capital Gazette shooting survivors, years later (NPR) / Earlier: 'We are the newsroom': Capital Gazette newspaper faces buyouts and downsizing (NPR Embedded) / 'I know he did it': Capital Gazette shooter awaits trial, staff become the story (NPR Embedded) / 'It's OK that we're alive': Capital Gazette staff return to work after the mass shooting (NPR Embedded) / 'A damn paper': The mass shooting at The Capital Gazette newspaper (NPR Embedded) ■ Breonna Taylor remembered by Black women journalists one year later (USA Today)  ■ Incoming Teen Vogue editor apologizes again for anti-Asian tweets (CNN) / Beauty brand Ulta pulls Teen Vogue ads over new editor-in-chief's old racist tweets (Daily Beast) / AAJA calls on Condé Nast to ensure its commitment to Asian American and Pacific Islander communities and employees (AAJA)  ■ What really happened at 'Reply All'? 'Unfortunately, the culture of so many of our newsrooms is such that our newsrooms only respond to public pressure and public embarrassment.' (New York Times) / What went wrong at Gimlet? Inside the 'Reply All' reckoning (Vulture) ■ Bon Appetit implosion inspires HBO Max comedy series (Hollywood Reporter) / Hollywood loses $10 billion a year due to lack of diversity, study finds (New York Times)  ■ CNN staff will begin returning to the office August (Oliver Darcy) / ViacomCBS eyes return to work after July 4 holiday (Variety)  ■ Atlanta Voice editor found dead; Marshall Latimore was 36 / Latimore suffered from congestive heart failure, his mother said (AL.com)  ■ Their dad died of COVID. Now they’re trying to get the clever word he made up into the dictionary. (Washington Post)

March 15 kicks off Sunshine Week, a time when journalists and news organizations promote open government and “sunshine” laws that require government business to be publicly accessible.  As part of Sunshine Week, the National Press Club Journalism Institute and the National Press Club’s press freedom team will host a discussion on public access to information and the role that investigative journalism plays in restoring public trust, with practical advice from Associated Press global investigations editor Ron Nixon and The Markup president Nabiha Syed, moderated by CQ Roll Call senior writer John Donnelly.  Registration is now open for this program, which will take place online from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. ET on Monday, March 15, 2021. The program is free to attend; donations will support the Institute’s press freedom work.

Manager's Minute: How to keep an ambitious team focused Our team wants to do everything and is overextended, starting to lose focus and getting tired. How can we decide what to stop doing? Jill Geisler, Bill Plante Chair in Leadership & Media Integrity at Loyola University Chicago and Freedom Forum Fellow in Women’s Leadership, on when to let things go to keep your team focused.

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Resources They’re speaking: Women covering the White House (March 24, 2 p.m. ET)  Belonging in the News: Conversations with Wesley Lowery and Maria Hinojosa  Dismantling systemic racism: The way forward for funders and newsrooms

Today’s journalists need to check more than their facts. In this cut-and-paste digital world, journalists also need to check their rights. Join the National Press Club Journalism Institute for an overview of copyright perils and solutions, presented by three lawyers with the Media & Entertainment Law Group from the Washington, D.C. office of Ballard Spahr LLP: Chuck Tobin, Alia Smith and Mara Gassmann. Participants will leave the program with:  Best practices for the “fair use” of unlicensed work Tips to calibrate how much is too much when quoting or using someone else’s work  Ways to quickly determine rights to an image and how to license it, even via social media Registration is now open for this program, which will take place online from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, March 31, 2021. The program is free to attend; donations will support the Institute’s programs.

National Press Club news Virtual MLB Opening Day with Fred Frommer & Phil Hochberg (April 1, 2 p.m. ET) Virtual Book Event: John Woodrow Cox, ‘Children Under Fire’ (April 12, 2 p.m. ET) NPC Virtual Book Event: Lisa Napoli, ‘Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie’ (April 29, 1 p.m. ET) Watch: Amie Parnes, Jonathan Allen say Democrats don’t realize how close their car was to being flipped by Trump train Interested in becoming a Club member? Learn more.

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