The Latest: 'It's not journalism'; CNN vs. Chris Cuomo; Managing through the holidays

December 7, 2021

Top stories

■ KARE 11 outed a whistleblower to the Minneapolis police. He killed himself. (Unicorn Riot)

■ Former paperboys await justice after suing Gannett for allowing sexual abuse four decades ago (Poynter)

■ CNN and Chris Cuomo are on the brink of all-out war (Vanity Fair) / Chris Cuomo will not receive severance , CNN president says (WSJ) / Chris Cuomo prepping to sue CNN for more than $18M over contract: sources (New York Post) / ‘BREAKING: Chris Cuomo and CNN have lawyered up over his firing, reports @MattBelloni. Cuomo has hired litigator Bryan Freedman, who handled Megyn Kelly's NBC exit, and CNN is working with WarnerMedia litigator Daniel Petrocelli.’ (Puck) / CNN's Jeff Zucker: Diversity is 'a factor' in finding Chris Cuomo replacement (The Wrap) / CNN’s Chris Cuomo mess: Behind Jeff Zucker’s difficult decisions (Hollywood Reporter) / 61 percent indicate CNN was right to remove Cuomo : poll (The Hill) / Publisher pulls Chris Cuomo’s upcoming book , originally titled ‘Deep Denial’ (New York Times)

■ Yamiche Alcindor joins NBC News as Washington correspondent (Variety) / Marc Caputo leaves Politico , heads to NBC (Marc Caputo) / NBC News is on a prodigious hiring bender , pushes digital (Mediaite)

■ The 19th taps Julia B. Chan as new editor-in-chief (Axios)

■ Meet the reporter who always seems to get a copy of the hottest tell-all Trump book first. (Washington Post)

■ 'It's not journalism': Brooke Shields calls teenage Barbara Walters interview 'practically criminal ' (The Wrap)

■ Greg Tate, a ‘godfather of hip-hop journalism ,’ dies at 64 (Variety) / 'Hit me hard just now hearing Greg Tate has passed. He was the godfather of hip-hop criticism. I learned a lot just listening to him in the offices of the Village Voice and reading his column, Enter My Cipher. His writing was lyrical , eminently readable, hugely influential. rip' (Edmund Lee)

■ 'I’ve never known a better editor than Fred Hiatt — or a better person': Donald Graham on the legacy of Washington Post editorial page editor (Washington Post) / Fred Hiatt led with wisdom , wit and a transfixing whisper (Washington Post)

■ KU journalist is one of the last journalists to interview Bob Dole (WIBW) / My front row seat for Bob Dole’s doomed White House run (Politico)

Press freedom

■ France detains suspect in murder of Jamal Khashoggi at Paris airport (Washington Post)

■ Op-Ed: Arresting reporters in L.A. sends a dangerous message to repressive governments (L.A. Times) / More than 50 journalists arrested or detained while on the job in the US in 2021 (Press Freedom Tracker)

■ New libel complaint against Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa (International Center for Journalists)

■ Bloomberg News China staffer Haze Fan still detained one year on (Bloomberg) / China may soon not have a single free journalist left , damning report finds (The Independent)

■ Hong Kong warns Wall Street Journal of legal action over election editorial (CNN)

"But like the high tides invading Miami Beach, the climate change story is leaking into the newsroom . Climate now is just as much a business and foreign policy story as it is a science topic. Local reporters need to be adept at spotting climate impacts in their communities and telling stories about the people affected by them. Business reporters need to understand the risks to the economy of potential stranded assets as oil and gas companies have to shift — perhaps suddenly — to renewables, leaving many of their proven, valuable reserves in the ground."

-- Andrew Freedman, climate and energy reporter at Axios, via Nieman Lab Predictions for Journalism 2022

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