The Latest: Maddow’s MSNBC successor named; LAPD shoves, clubs journalists covering protests; Publisher gives away newspaper to fight in Ukraine

June 27, 2022

Top stories

■ Fox News analyst expresses disbelief after younger brother shot dead in Chicago (The Hill)

■ Alex Wagner to succeed Rachel Maddow at MSNBC; ‘Ms. Wagner is the only Asian American to host a prime-time cable news program.’ (New York Times) / ‘MSNBC says Alex Wagner is the only Asian American to anchor a primetime hour on cable news , but Joie Chen co-anchored CNN's "The World Today" with Wolf Blitzer and Jim Moret in the late 90s and early 2000s’ (Brian Steinberg)

■ CNN anchor Christi Paul announces exit on air (The Wrap)

■ ‘The pending acquisition of TEGNA by Standard General would create the nation’s largest minority owned, women-led broadcasting company.’ (Forbes)

■ Ethnic media was devastated by Covid. Now publishers are struggling to self-fund . (NBC News)

■ ‘The Mount Olive Tribune recorded history, informed and entertained readers and kept a watch on officials and tax dollars for 118 years. Our long watch ends with our last edition on June 29, 2022’ (Hendersonville Times-News) / 175 years of the Chicago Tribune: How the newsroom — and city — has evolved since June 10, 1847 (Chicago Tribune)

■ A Minnesota publisher just gave away his newspaper to fight in Ukraine (Washington Post)

■ The Tributary, covering Florida's largest city, will be a worker-directed nonprofit (Nieman Journalism Lab) / 'He became the paper ': For Tampa Bay Times' Paul Tash, a legacy of change (Tampa Bay Times) / 'The newspaper that serves the Villages retirement community in Central Florida is now among the top 25 papers in print circulation nationwide -- and the only one to show growth (again, in print) over the past year.' (Bill Grueskin)

■ I left my husband for the most hated man in America: Martin Shkreli was the reviled ‘pharma bro’ hedge funder who inflated the price of life-saving drugs and was jailed for fraud. Christie Smythe was the reporter who quit her marriage and job for him . Why?' (Sunday Times Magazine)

■ Twitter is the go-to social media site for U.S. journalists, but not for the public (Pew Research Center) / Meet Keffals, the trans Twitch streamer delivering news to LGBTQ teens (Washington Post) / In France, YouTubers deliver political news to young audiences (New York Times)

Press freedom

■ LAPD treatment of journalists denounced , again, after abortion rights protest downtown (Los Angeles Times) / ‘Here’s the stunning moment an LAPD officer grabbed and shoved female journalist @TinaDesireeBerg to the ground while she was recording an arrest at an abortion rights protest in Los Angeles this weekend. Absolutely outrageous.’ (Kate Cagle) / 'A journalist in LA clubbed in the stomach by an LAPD officer, knocking him to the ground. Another journalist shoved by a different officer.' (Tyler Valeska)

■ Action needed on Austin Tice , says family of US journalist missing in Syria (VOA)

■ Supreme Court declines to revisit landmark First Amendment decision , leaving higher bar for libel in place (CNN) / Clarence Thomas signals interest in making it easier to sue media (The Hill)

■ Partner of killed Ukrainian journalist explains why she wanted to see photo of his body (CNN) / Dom Phillips family bids farewell to British journalist murdered in the Amazon (Reuters via New York Post)

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