The Latest: Politico top editor exit; AP stops naming suspects; How to get results if you're not the boss

June 15, 2021

■ Here's what went on inside that off-the-record meeting with top editors and the DOJ (CNN) / ’DOJ's readout of the meeting between AG Merrick Garland and media executives yesterday says DOJ will change its regulations to bar seizing reporter phone/email records in hunts for their sources in leak investigations. There has been a question of how it would be codified.’ (Charlie Savage) / The Barbara Starr question: Why did Trump’s Justice Department want CNN Pentagon reporter’s emails ? (Washington Post)

■ YouTube took down Ron Johnson's controversial remarks on COVID-19 . The Milwaukee Press Club has reposted the entire interview. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

■ BBC journalist Nicholas Watt hounded & harassed by anti-lockdown protestors in ‘horrifying’ video (Deadline) / Boris Johnson condemns 'disgraceful hounding' of BBC journalist (BBC)

■ Local Fox reporter: I got fired after my on-air Project Veritas stunt (Daily Beast)

■ ‘In a huge departure, @AP will no longer name suspects in brief stories about minor crimes in which there is little chance AP will provide coverage beyond the initial arrest. This is an effort to minimize harm on suspects who later gain employment or just move on in their lives.’ (Farnoush Amiri) / Why we're no longer naming suspects in minor crime stories (AP Definitive Source ) / ‘If you were unaware, this is happening across the nation. We have also revised and are rolling out our new crime coverage guidelines that focus on community first.’ (P. Kim Bui)

■ CNN’s Don Lemon: ‘We’re living in two different realities as Black and White people’ (Washington Post)

■ NY Times defends '1619 Project' as states seek to ban critical race theory (The Wrap)

■ WNYC staffers terrified of editor-in-chief's 'vendettas' (Daily Beast)

■ The Pulitzers did not pick a winner for cartooning this year. Artists feel ‘mystified’ and ‘insulted.’ (Washington Post) / The Pulitzers didn't name a winner in editorial cartooning. That's unusual, but not unprecedented . (Poynter)

■ Pentagon Papers researcher Linda Amster gets her due (Washington Post)

■ Nonprofit journalism grew in 2020 — and individual donors played an increasingly large part (Nieman Lab)

■ The newsletters business is booming, and Substack along with it. But one big thing still stands between writers and their readers: Google and its mysterious Gmail inbox filter. (L.A. Times)

■ How I photographed the Washington Monument lightning strike (Washington Post)

■ Must-read responses : My daughter just decided she wants to be a journalist when she grows up. What is your best advice for a 9-year-old aspiring reporter? (Josh Stearns)

Seeking applicants: Share info on this $5,000 broadcast journalism scholarship

We've extended the application deadline for the inaugural Wes Vernon Broadcast Scholarship. Students will have until Aug. 1 to apply for this scholarship, which will provide $5,000 annually to a student who demonstrates a commitment to a career in broadcast journalism and can be renewed up to three years for a total of $20,000 toward educational expenses.

Please share this opportunity with students or interns in your network interested in a broadcast journalism career. For scholarship criteria and the application, click here.

This opportunity supports diversity within the field and honors longtime radio journalist Wes Vernon, a former National Press Club member. While developing the scholarship criteria and its impact, Vernon’s family emphasized its desire for students of all ages and backgrounds to be considered.

Preference will go to students entering or enrolled in a community college, although the award is open to any student — whether an incoming freshman or a mid-career professional changing careers — pursuing an education in broadcast journalism.

Funded by the Robertson-Powell Foundation, the scholarship recipient will be selected annually by the National Press Club’s Scholarship Committee and is administered by the National Press Club Journalism Institute.

Applications are due Aug. 1, 2021.

Manager's Minute: I often lead projects but I’m not the boss, what’s the best way to get results?

Jill Geisler, Bill Plante Chair in Leadership & Media Integrity at Loyola University Chicago and Freedom Forum Fellow in Women’s Leadership, with advice on what to do when you have responsibility without authority.

Get more career advice: Read Jill's columns | Watch Manager's Minute videos

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