Newmark J-School / Newmark J-School
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Report for America / Sam Kille
28% of new Report for America corps members will work for digital-only newsrooms →“The corps members will begin their new assignments in July, arriving in newsrooms like the recently-launched Baltimore Banner, which is bringing back desperately needed coverage following cuts by hedge fund ownership at the city’s legacy newspaper; the Uvalde Leader-News, serving a Texas community still reeling from a devastating school shooting; Metro Puerto Rico, which looks to deepen its health reporting as the island faces an aging population and struggles to recover from recent hurricanes; and the People-Sentinel in Barnwell, S.C., which will open a bureau in a nearby county that no one’s covered in 10 years.”
The Nation / Maria Bustillos
The shuttering of BuzzFeed News is more evidence of a corporate culture hostile to the act of journalism →“Readers found that the people behind the bylines, whom they’d come to like and trust, were liable to have more interesting and more relatable perspectives on, say, the wild allegations of the Steele Dossier than anything they might find in the well-mannered pages of The New York Times or The Washington Post. For many younger readers, news itself now means something different, something more elastic, more intimate, and less distantly institutional, because of BuzzFeed.”
The Texas Observer / Michelle Pitcher
New York Times / Julia Moskin and Elizabeth A. Harris
Dawn Davis resigns as Bon Appétit editor →Davis is a veteran book editor who was hired in 2020 to put Bon Appétit magazine back on track after mass resignations and allegations of racism at its parent company, Condé Nast. She’ll return to Simon & Schuster.
Lenfest Institute for Journalism / Charles Jun
“What I learned unsubscribing from 22 newspapers” →“I found it a bit odd that I am even required to have a conversation about a decision I’ve already made — but there’s a reason publishers want to direct readers like me to customer service.” (More on the new “click to cancel” rules
here and
here.)