The Latest: Journalists refusing vaccinations; Katie Couric banned; When do I give up on an underperformer?

October 5, 2021

Top stories

■ Former White House press secretary says her 'enabling' cost lives during pandemic (The Hill) / ‘Stephanie Grisham admits lying about John Kelly, calling it one of her "biggest regrets." Also says she "probably wasn't" honest during her Fox News interviews.’ (Alli Hedges Maser) / ‘I was part of something unusually evil ’: In Kansas with Stephanie Grisham, who does not believe she will be redeemed. (New York magazine) / 'Grisham seems to have given more interviews in the past week about having *been* White House press secretary than she did in all the months when she actually was the White House press secretary.' (Paul Farhi)

■ Dozens of Fox News employees in the Washington bureau apparently refuse vaccination , preferring daily nasal swabs (The Bulwark)

■ Nebraska meteorologist latest Gray TV newser to lose job after refusing vaccine mandate (Ad Week) / ESPN’s Sage Steele pulled off air after anti-vax remarks – and a positive COVID test (The Wrap)

■ To capture the scope of COVID's toll, this photographer spent 30 hours on one photo (NPR)

■ Facebook exec: We're not like Big Tobacco because so many people use our product (Vanity Fair) / Whistle-blower unites Democrats and Republicans in calling for regulation of Facebook (New York Times)

■ Dallas Morning News rejects ad hammering AT&T for backing sponsors of Texas abortion bill, Democratic super PAC says (CNBC)

■ How hundreds of journalists kept the Pandora Papers a secret (Axios via Yahoo)

■ 'Today’s the fourth anniversary of the publication of the Weinstein story. Here’s a short 🧵 on what’s happened to one of our bravest sources since—or rather, what she’s managed to make happen.' (Jodi Kantor)

■ Ozy Media is accused in a lawsuit of ‘fraudulent conduct .’ (New York Times) / Ozy shows that serious Black media needs a new business model (New York Times)

■ CloudFlare explains how Facebook suddenly disappeared from the internet (Mathew Ingram) / Twitter's new subscription product could include ad-free journalism (CNN)

■ What if Monica Lewinsky had Twitter in 1998 ? (New York Times)

■ Read the memo from POLITICO Editor In Chief Matt Kaminski to staff about managing editor Blake Hounshell's departure (Sara Fischer)

■ HuffPost's Danielle Belton sees the editor-in-chief role as being 'newsroom therapist ’ (Digiday)

■ Katie Couric banned from plugging her bombshell book on CBS (Page Six) / Do people who work in TV news watch ‘The Morning Show’? ‘I’ve done a few interviews with morning-show hosts and network evening shows and they all seem to watch the show.’ (Vulture) / Trent Crimm of 'Ted Lasso' did a major journalism don't (Mashable)

■ Longtime TV reporter, former Senator’s wife announces run for Congress (WCVB)

■ Charlotte Buchen, first female Arizona Republic news reporter , dies (azcentral.com)

Press Freedom

■ Journalists sue VOA parent agency for wrongful dismissal under Trump (Politico)

■ Metro Detroit journalist Danny Fenster faces new accusations of unlawful associations in Myanmar (WDET 101.9FM)

■ ‘This isn’t the India I dreamt of ’, says journalist Siddique Kappan’s wife, one year after his arrest (The Quint)

"Sometimes, the data we work with does not really answer the questions we ask. In other cases, we may forget to apply traditional journalism ethics during the data collection and analysis stages of the investigation: We should be careful not to cherry-pick statistics that support our point of view, miss the context, or focus so much on our question that we don’t listen to what the data says. Remember, in data journalism, data is our source and we need to respect it ."

-- Journalist Miriam Forero Ariza on "Tips to make sure you know how to read the numbers"

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