February 10, 2021

Top stories ■ CNN at a crossroads: What will AT&T do next? (Hollywood Reporter)  ■ How right-wing radio stoked anger before the Capitol siege (New York Times) / Perspective: The Jan. 6 images were already disturbing. The impeachment-trial video makes them terrifying. (Washington Post) ■ ’We never confronted this level of conspiracy thinking in the U.S. previously. Journalism as a profession is not terribly well prepared to cover them,' says Washington Post editor Marty Baron (Der Spiegel) ■ Facebook to pilot new ways to reduce political content (POLITICO) / Twitter CFO says Trump's ban is permanent, even if he runs for office again (CNN)   ■ ‘It’s chaos’: Behind the scenes of Donald McNeil’s New York Times exit (Vanity Fair)  ■ Bill advances to ban use of 1619 Project in Iowa schools (Des Moines Register)  ■ As newspapers close across Chicago suburbs, one local nonprofit newsroom steps in (Columbia Journalism Review)  ■ At 23, South Philly photographer becomes the youngest to shoot a Vanity Fair cover (Philadelphia Inquirer) / This photographer documented the positive impact of a new supermarket that opened in a food desert (BuzzFeed News) / Visualizing 500,000 deaths from COVID-19 in the US (National Geographic) ■ Can better corrections improve news readers’ trust? (Poynter)  ■ Charlie Rose resurfaces to pen tribute to Cicely Tyson via email (Hollywood Reporter)  ■ PBS, Radiolab, lead winners of 2021 Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Awards (Variety) / The New York Times is up for two Oscars (New York Times)  ■ 8-year-old calls out NPR for lack of dinosaur stories (NPR)

Manager's Minute: How to read code words about your boss If a boss or potential boss is described as 'hard-charging' or 'passionate,' are these code words and what should they (and other code words) tell me? Jill Geisler, Bill Plante Chair in Leadership & Media Integrity at Loyola U Chicago and Freedom Forum Fellow in Women's Leadership, explains in this one-minute video how to interpret language used to characterize leaders.

Email us a question you'd like Jill to answer. Click here to read Jill’s previous posts. Correction: The link for 20 questions to answer about your boss is here. (We apologize for including the wrong link yesterday.)

Visual journalists have been on the front lines of the pandemic, injured at protests and attacked at the Capitol insurrection. Holding a camera makes those who are reporting on events a visible target for law enforcement or people angry at the media. And working remotely is not an option when you’re the community’s eyes and ears at the scene. So how do we care for photojournalists facing more pressure than ever under exhausting and dangerous circumstances?  Join the National Press Club Journalism Institute and the National Press Photographers Association for honest answers to this question from visual journalists who understand the challenges and importance of capturing history. Registration is now open for this program, which will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EST on Friday, February 12, 2021. The panel will feature:  Nicole Frugé, director of photography, San Francisco Chronicle Rich Glickstein, recovering photojournalist, trauma therapist and social worker  Michael Santiago, staff news photojournalist, Getty Images Moderator: Akili Ramsess, executive director, NPPA

Resources Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund   SPJ Journalist’s Toolbox Tools of the Month: Transcription favorites   What I learned from teaching solutions journalism during a terrible year

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