July 9, 2021

Top stories ■ TV news crews are increasingly threatened with violence on the job (Washington Post) ■ Defense experts say Capital Gazette shooter was driven by mental disorders. Prosecutors say he was out for revenge. (Washington Post)  ■ An alleged Capitol rioter came disguised as a journalist, prosecutors say (BuzzFeed)  ■ Whether Republicans get vaccinated has a lot to do with whether they watch Fox News … or OANN (Five Thirty Eight)  ■ Rupert Murdoch made the decision to call Arizona for Biden, new book says. Fox News denies the allegations. (USA Today) / Trump, after agreeing to sit for a raft of book interviews, declares them a ‘total waste of time' (Washington Post)  ■ News Corp closes Knewz.com after launching Google News rival last year (Wall Street Journal)  ■ New owner of NY Daily News mulling bankruptcy (New York Post)  ■ ‘More than anything, he always wanted to be in control of your career’: Freelance photojournalists speak out against former New York Times editor David Furst (Washington Post) ■ ’I’m a biased journalist and I’m okay with that,’ says fired New York Times staffer (Washington Monthly)  ■ Defamation was considered a well-settled area of law. Then came social media. (Poynter)  ■ How Ronan Farrow spends his Sundays (New York Times)   ■ Louisiana teen becomes the first African American contestant to win National Spelling Bee (CNN) / National Spelling Bee win could be footnote to hoops career (Associated Press) ■ New signs honor Phoenix journalist Don Bolles at site of car bombing (KTAR) / Memphis to honor journalist Ida B. Wells with week-long celebration and statue unveiling (ABC 24)

"Everything has to live on its own. Tweets, Facebook copy, Instagram posts, headlines — all of it. Anything we do has to have all the information and context to be to complete. Do not assume the reader will read a full article. Assume they will only see whatever it is you’re sending out to the world." — Bobby Blanchard, director of audience at Texas Tribune, on using social media to share reporting

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