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November 12, 2021

■ Cat and mouse: Inside the media “scrum” as reporters lik e CNN’s Manu Raju reveal their tricks of the trade … and former Senator Jeff Flake discloses all the times he pretended to talk on his phone while walking past press . (Politico)

■ Milwaukee-based citizen journalist takes witness stand in Rittenhouse trial (CBS 58 News)

■ Anchor away: The disappearing of Brian Williams (Politico)

■ No, David Fahrenthold is not really trying to send Josh Dawsey into space (Washingtonian) / ‘When David Fahrenthold calls and asks if you have signed the petition he started and is passing around, and then you find the petition …’ (Josh Dawsey)

■ Raquel Coronell Uribe ’23 will lead The Harvard Crimson, becoming the paper’s first Latinx president in its 148-year history (The Harvard Crimson)

■ Project Veritas: Journalists or political spie s? (New York Times)

■ Amazon’s spinmasters: Behind the internet giant’s battle with the press (The Information)

■ A Nike executive’s new book reveals that he killed a man . Here’s what he left out. (New York Times)

Press freedom

■ American journalist Danny Fenster sentenced to 11 years in prison in Myanmar (CNN)

■ Family of jailed Chinese chronicler of Wuhan lockdown pleads for her release (Washington Post)

■ COVID-19 worsened environment for media in southern Africa, especially print journalism (VOA)

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Austin Tice is a Marine combat veteran, a seventh-generation Texan from Houston, a graduate of Georgetown University, and an award-winning journalist who has been unjustly detained in Syria since 2012.

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