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The Weekly Wrap: February 28, 2025 From the week

The Washington Post’s TikTok guy will publish a Post-produced news series on his personal channel Most news publishers stop short of producing content for an individual journalist’s accounts. “Because, as the thinking goes, what happens if that person leaves and takes all their audience with them?” By Sarah Scire.

A new public policy agenda has a vision for “local news for the people” The Media Power Collaborative compares local news to public goods like safe roads and public education. Will excluding newspaper chains and hedge fund owners make public funding for local news any easier to achieve? By Sarah Scire.

How gender affects sources’ attitudes toward interviews Plus: Dilemmas about disclosing AI use, the state of job satisfaction for Black journalists, and the growing challenges facing reporters in rural America. By Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis.

Jeff Bezos declares opinions questioning “free markets” no longer welcome at The Washington Post Months after insisting he would never allow his personal interests to influence the Post’s content, one of the world’s richest men decides opinions contrary to his “will be left to be published by others.” By Joshua Benton.

Journalism school needs to do more to prepare students for the hard parts A labor focus in journalism education, we argue, can inoculate students to better face uncertain futures. By Jacob L. Nelson and Nicole S. Cohen.

Student press freedom isn’t universal Student journalists outside the U.S. navigate restrictions without First Amendment protections. By Leanne Yoon.

As Facebook abandons fact-checking, it’s also offering bonuses for viral content Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed. By Craig Silverman, ProPublica.

The New York Editorial Board is picking up where The New York Times left off After The New York Times stopped endorsing in local races, an “Occupy Wall Street-style collective” of journalists stepped in to fill the gap. By Neel Dhanesha.

Heavyweight is coming back as a Pushkin podcastUnionization may offer extra benefits (but also extra work) for women journalists, according to a new study

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