“The yellow-walled, four-story building was built in the shape of the letter K. Former inmates describe a facility designed to instill fear, isolation and despair.”

Often, in mainstream media, “audiences don’t get to see trans people as experts, even as human,” said Ari Drennen of Media Matters.

“Lichfield, himself formerly a global news and then senior editor at Quartz, has led Condé Nast‘s technology magazine since March 2021 … Seward, meanwhile, was not only Quartz’s editor-in-chief but one of its co-founders, serving variously since 2012 as executive editor, chief product officer and chief executive editor.”

“Cameron Barr, The Washington Post’s senior managing editor, will leave the company at the end of June, the paper announced Thursday, capping his tenure as one of the longest-serving managing editors in the paper’s history.”

Longtime Publicis ad executive and newsletterer Rishad Tobaccowala has a go-to line about ad agencies: “They say we’re like dinosaurs. But we’re like cockroaches. We are cockroaches. Everybody hates us. Nobody likes to see us. But cockroaches have outlived everyone. We scurry out of corners.”

“Reporters from Reuters, Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal have been denied invitations to Opec’s Vienna headquarters.”

“We’re one half a media company and one half a creator network and we straddle that,” said Barstool Sports CEO Erika Ayers.

“Many staff members endured the worst elements of the newsroom culture without getting to participate in its promised benefits.”

“Greg Bestwick, president of the nonprofit board that publishes [The Harpswell Anchor in Maine], said print was not something he and his fellow founders especially wanted to offer. What changed their mind, he explained, was that a survey of the community revealed that 95% wanted something they could hold in their hands.”

“The researchers found that human videos tended to rate more favourably in terms of ‘telling respondents things they didn’t know’, ‘professionalism’, ‘factfilledness,’ being ‘engaging’, ‘comprehensiveness’, ‘story flow’ and ‘understatedness’.”

“The press association is now investigating whether the paper’s win was tainted by an undisclosed conflict of interest — the fact that the Cadet’s ‘senior mentor’ is a VMI alumnus who has waged a legal battle against the school diversity programs the student journalists have been covering.”

The digital nonprofit news site has been publishing for less than a year and has 100 employees. Patel will join Gannett, the nation’s largest newspaper chain. (It’s a head-scratcher!)

“The most recent clip from his mother was an obituary for his former barber, which struck him as thoughtful and somewhat odd … Coscia’s mother once sent him a clipping of an advice column suggesting parents not bring babies to restaurants, he said. She had joined Coscia and his wife at a restaurant just two weeks earlier. Coscia’s oldest son had colic and cried through the whole meal.”