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What We’re ReadingWashington Post / Mary Ilyushina, Francesca Ebel, and Júlia Ledur
The notorious Russian jail holding U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich →“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.”The Guardian / Margaret Sullivan
Gay and trans people deserve to live without persecution in the US. Why is that so hard? →Often, in mainstream media, “audiences don’t get to see trans people as experts, even as human,” said Ari Drennen of Media Matters.Press Gazette / Bron Maher
Wired’s Gideon Lichfield and Quartz’s Zach Seward are leaving their publications →“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.”The Washington Post / Elahe Izadi
Cameron Barr to leave Washington Post after long tenure as managing 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.”The Rebooting / Brian Morrissey
The advertising cockroach →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.”Financial Times / David Sheppard and Samer Al-Atrush
Opec bans prominent media groups from Vienna meeting →“Reporters from Reuters, Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal have been denied invitations to Opec’s Vienna headquarters.”Press Gazette / Charlotte Tobitt
Why Barstool Sports is betting on success during a “dark time for media” →“We’re one half a media company and one half a creator network and we straddle that,” said Barstool Sports CEO Erika Ayers.The Walrus / Michelle Cyca
Nostalgia about newsrooms ignores how much they need to change →“Many staff members endured the worst elements of the newsroom culture without getting to participate in its promised benefits.”Media Nation / Dan Kennedy
“Something for the kitchen table”: Why print makes sense for some local news startups →“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.” Press Gazette / William Turvill
Study: AI news videos benefit from a human touch →“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 Washington Post / Paul Farhi
A Virginia Military Institute student newspaper won a major prize. But now there are questions. →“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 Baltimore Banner / Liz Bowie
Baltimore Banner CEO Imtiaz Patel to step down →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!) WSJ / Sarah E. Needleman
The Wall Street Journal profiled the diehards still mailing newspaper clips to family and friends →“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.”
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