“Chen said Wirecutter has a dedicated social team whose job it is to read comments on articles, gather feedback and use that to help guide editorial direction. That team has been noting an interest in style coverage for several years.”

Hasan’s approach can be seen as an explicit rebuke to outdated journalistic norms in general and complacent coverage of Trump in particular. At the top of his first show on MSNBC, he laid out a mission statement: ‘People sometimes say journalists shouldn’t be biased,’ he said. ‘No. Journalists should have a bias: a bias toward democracy.'”

“In newsrooms, it’s rare for me to hear editors refer to themselves as facilitators or hosts, but that’s a role they often play.”

“The letter came in response to a public conversation on Twitter earlier this month among Gannett staffers and other journalists about unpaid overtime work. Rebekah Sanders, a reporter at The Arizona Republic, tweeted, ‘Don’t work for nothing’ after sharing her past experiences with unpaid overtime. Michael Braga, an editor at the paper, endorsed the practice, tweeting in reply, ‘Every business exploits the young — it’s called gaining experience, and I don’t regret it one bit.'”

There are three fundamental questions newsrooms should ask themselves about environmental journalism: who should tell this story? What should they be expected to know in order to tell the story accurately? And how should the story be told?

“The Oversight Board, a semi-independent body that reviews Facebook’s moderation policies, announced on Tuesday that it wants more information about the ‘cross-check’ system Facebook uses to ‘review content decisions relating to some high-profile users.’ Cross-check is getting called into question because of a report from The Wall Street Journal that claimed the system lets high-profile users break the rules.”

“The lawsuit alleges that the newspaper convinced Mary Trump to ‘smuggle records out of her attorney’s office and turn them over to the Times’ despite a confidentiality agreement she signed in 2001 while settling a legal battle over the will of Frederick Trump, Donald’s father and Mary’s grandfather.”

“There are plenty of people who leave good-paying jobs because they don’t feel they are valued in other ways that truly matter. They don’t feel trusted. They don’t feel supported. They don’t feel respected. It’s not that they need to feel supremely important at work. They just don’t want to feel unimportant.”

“Punchbowl News has denied that it is behind the cybersquatting.”

[Alleged QAnon head Ron Watkins’] fans aren’t all thrilled about the NFT move, however. Some of his Telegram followers didn’t understand what NFTs are or why he’s selling screenshots of tweets, while others decried the move as a cynical cash grab. ‘Q told us if true Patriots had info they would NEVRR [sic] CHARGE for that information,’ wrote follower Barb Watson.”