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Investigating cold cases: How two journalists dug into decades-old civil rights era killings“In many active cold cases, law enforcement wonât share case files with the press or public because the investigation is ongoing. Both reporters said that they instead had to obtain access by filing FOIA requests.” By Ngozi Monica Cole. |
“Public music stations play a major part in the independent music ecosystem, offering left-of-center music programming, curated recommendations from syndicated NPR shows, and exposure for local artists that other stations donât tend to play.”
• • •“This kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles: itâs big fat bribe..” →—Stephen Colbert during a monologue about Paramountâs settlement with Trump (Associated Press / David Bauder)• • •The Guardian / Amy HawkinsOxford University Press to stop publishing China-sponsored science journal →“Several papers published in FSR have attracted criticism because they study genetic data from Uyghurs and other heavily surveilled ethnic minorities in China. Critics say subjects in the studies may not have freely consented to their DNA samples being used in the research.”
NBC News / Sahil Kapur, Frank Thorp V, and Gabrielle KhoriatySenate Republicans vote to advance spending cuts, including $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting →“Thune said Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., who had concerns about rural broadcasting, struck an agreement with the White House that ‘allows them to reprogram some funding that would address the 28 stations around the country that receive funding through CPB that are on our Native American reservations.'”
Columbia Journalism Review / Lucy SchillerCovering measles for Mennonites →“For some, the MPOST is one of the only pieces of printed information allowed inside the home, besides ‘the Bible, catechisms, or hymnals.'”
• • •“It is either the first or second most trusted news brand in the States, and it is the largest English-language news website in the world. So we have the right to play in the market” →—BBC Commercial CEO Tom Fussell on their news site's new U.S. paywall (The Hollywood Reporter / Georg Szalai)• • •Status / Oliver DarcyJessica Lessinâs glitchy Mark Zuckerberg interview raised eyebrows in tech-media circles →“In Silicon Valley circles, itâs widely understood that Lessin and Zuckerberg are friends. Her husband, Sam Lessin, is a former Facebook executive and longtime Zuckerberg confidant.”
Variety / Todd SpanglerFour New York Times culture critics will be reassigned as paper seeks replacements →“While it has long been the practice in the newsroom to shift the roles of reporters, editors and bureau chiefs to bring different ideas and experience to important beats and coverage areas, weâve done this far less with our roster of critics.” (Jon Pareles had been chief pop critic since 1988.) “But it is important to bring different perspectives to core disciplines as we help our coverage expand beyond the traditional review.”
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