April 7, 2021

Top stories ■ CBS shake-up: TV station executives exit following L.A. Times investigation (L.A. Times)  ■ Brooke Baldwin criticizes CNN for gender pay disparity on her way out (The Wrap) / Anchor Brooke Baldwin claims CNN's leadership too male-dominated (New York Post)  ■ Stephen A. Smith apologizes after slamming ESPN on ESPN (New York Post) ■ CNN’s Jim Acosta leaves White House scrum for weekend news battle (Variety)  ■ Reuters newsroom is majority white and male (Talking Biz News)  ■ Teen Vogue announces executive editor Danielle Kwateng in first tweet since March (The Wrap) / 'We at Teen Vogue have read your comments and emails and we have seen the pain and frustration caused by resurfaced social media posts. While our staff continued doing the groundbreaking and progressive work we're known for, we stopped posting it on social media as we turned inward and had a lot of tough discussions about who we are and what comes next.' (Teen Vogue)  ■ Tribune journalists are close to an improbable win in quest for new owners (New York Times) / Meet the Tribune’s potential savior: Hansjorg Wyss (Crain's Chicago Business) / Due diligence underway for all of Tribune, as Hartford group forms to buy Courant (New York Post)  ■ DeSantis complains again about '60 Minutes’ story, gets vaccinated off-camera (Orlando Sentinel) / Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is taking his ‘60 Minutes’ feud all the way to the bank (Vanity Fair) / ‘Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, in a just-concluded press conference, claimed that 60 Minutes spread malicious and knowing falsehoods about his vaccination program. "CBS certainly knew it was a big lie," he said, using the buzzwords of a defamation claim.’ (Erik Wemple) / ‘I did speak with @60Minutes. Never said I didn't. They were very nice, but I told them that the @publix story was “bullshit”. Walked them through the whole process.The fact that I didn't sit down on “camera” because I am responding to a 100 year emergency doesn't change the truth’ (Jared Moskowitz) / Why hasn't the mainstream media pilloried 60 Minutes for spreading misinformation? (Reason)  ■ Data reveals the topics reporters are asking the White House about the most (CNN)  ■ Twitter won’t let National Archives revive @realDonaldTrump (Politico) / Pence signs a seven-figure book deal, but Trump and other administration alums face a tough market in publishing (CNN) ■ IRE names veteran journalist as next executive director (IRE) / Veteran editor and educator Stephen Buckley to join journalism faculty of Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy (DeWitt Wallace Center) / Earlier: Duke hires New York Times columnist Frank Bruni as journalism professor (Duke Chronicle)  ■ This Toronto neighborhood paper's book reviewer is … Margaret Atwood (Poynter)  ■ ‘The Problem with Jon Stewart’ will debut this fall (Hollywood Reporter) ■ This photographer’s story about her daughter is tender and yearning (Washington Post) ■ How Amanda Gorman became so much more than a literary star (Vogue) ■ DC airport's infamous Gate 35X is gone but not forgiven (Washington Post) ■ Remembering Frank Jacobs, the ‘poet lauridiot’ of Mad magazine who inspired comics like ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic (Washington Post) ■ Joe Krebs, Channel 4 reporter and ‘steadfast soldier’ of D.C. morning news, dies at 78 (Washington Post) ■ Rochester naming Community Center in honor of journalist James Foley (Foster's Daily Democrat)

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Manager's Minute: I worry I'm a bad boss. How can I tell for sure? Jill Geisler, Bill Plante Chair in Leadership & Media Integrity at Loyola University Chicago and Freedom Forum Fellow in Women’s Leadership, on what separates the good bosses from the bad ones.

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Making an impression on a potential employer starts long before an email or phone call. By then, your digital footprint has done the talking … don’t let it send someone walking. “Career Connection: Defining your digital footprint” is a weeklong series of hands-on workshops to help you create and maintain the journalism/writing identity you want to showcase to sources, employers, and publishers. The class will meet from noon to 1 p.m. ET daily, from Monday, May 10 to Friday, May 14. Designed to focus on accomplishing practical tasks in short bursts, each daily program will highlight parts of your digital identity — social media channels and your portfolio site/blog. You’ll receive specific instruction and follow along by building and shaping your digital profiles in real time. Registration is open for this program, which includes each of the five classes. Registration is $100/$75 for National Press Club members.

Resources Toolkit: Mental health for journalists  Using your military skills to report on conflict (April 8, 5:30 p.m. ET)  Tackling misinformation: Lessons from 2020 for 2021 (Apr 16, 12 p.m. ET)

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