July 26, 2022

Top stories

■ Man arrested for punching Portland journalist in the face (KGW) 


■ Two St. Louis reporters were rescued Tuesday morning after getting stuck in flood waters. One reporter interviewed the crew who rescued her (KSDK)


■ Maybe don’t illustrate your stories about lethally hot weather with fun beach pics (Nieman Journalism Lab) 


■ As monkeypox numbers grow, a journalist who had the disease speaks out (WTTW) 


■ Inside the New Yorker’s flame war with fired editor Erin Overbey (Daily Beast) 


■ Author Paul Pringle responds to attacks by former L.A. Times editors over his book’s account of their alleged attempts to water down his explosive story of scandal at USC (Los Angeles Magazine)


■ 'Sally Buzbee emailed editors at the Washington Post yesterday saying they need to be enforcing the paper's three-day-a-week return to office policy' (Max Tani) 


■ My latest theory about the SCOTUS leaker (David Lat) / '...by the end of that April week the justices discovered that the news organization Politico had obtained Alito’s first draft of the Dobbs ruling from February. Roberts and his colleagues spent a few anxious days quietly awaiting publication of the document, stretching through the afternoon of May 2, when all nine were together for a live-streamed memorial at the court for the late Justice John Paul Stevens. Politico first published its story about the draft that night at 8:32 p.m.' (CNN) 


■ How Saudi’s PR flack worked the White House press corps (POLITICO)


■ Will Republicans shut out the press in 2024? (Vanity Fair) / ‘Republicans "are increasingly shirking sit-down interviews, barring journalists from 2022 events, and skipping debates—an aversion to media scrutiny that could upend how the next presidential election cycle is covered," writes Charlotte Klein’ (Michael Calderone)


■ Americans are avoiding the news. What can journalists do? (WBUR) / ‘People get bored quickly’: How UK teens turned to social media for their news (The Guardian) 


■ Tony Dow still alive; Leave It To Beaver actor's death announced prematurely (TVLine) / 'An obituary of the actor Tony Dow was published in error. The Times based the confirmation of his death on a Facebook post by his representatives, which has since been deleted.' (New York Times) / ‘The Washington Post published an obituary for actor Tony Dow based on a post on Mr. Dow’s official Facebook page and after confirmation by his manager. His family now says they reported Mr. Dow’s death in error.’ (Washington Post)


■ Lesley Stahl's husband Aaron Latham, journalist and urban cowboy screenwriter, dead at 78 (People)


■ Ask Amy: Should obituaries include ex-spouses? (Washington Post)


Press freedom


■ She’s a human being who was killed in cold blood’: Family of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh demands U.S. action (POLITICO) / Al Jazeera reporter's family meets Blinken to demand justice in her killing (Reuters)


■ ‘Covering a lawless land’: Brazilian journalists on reporting in the Amazon after Dom Phillips’ and Bruno Pereira’s killings (Committee to Protect Journalists)


■ Was this journalist poisoned by Putin's private army? (Daily Beast)

“Climate journalism reminds me of producing cricket journalism in a country that only plays soccer, where so much pre-existing knowledge is always assumed, so much jargon is being used. The IPCC is no longer being explained. In the United States we speak of 1.5 degrees Celsius warming where most people have no idea what that even means because they use Fahrenheit. It's these basics.”


-- Wolfgang Blau, co-founder, Oxford Climate Journalism Network, Podcast: “How journalists can better cover the climate crisis

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