The Present Age / Parker Molloy
As NPR exits, it becomes increasingly clear that Elon Musk doesn’t understand Twitter →“Musk seems to think that news organizations like NPR or the New York Times — which had its gold verification checkmark removed in early April after the newspaper informed its employees that it wasn’t planning to pay Musk’s $10,000 per month fee to keep its verification and would not be reimbursing employees who choose to pay for the lower-priced personal ‘verification’ — need Twitter. The truth is that Twitter needs organizations like NPR and the Times.”
Nieman Reports / Kendra Pierre-Louis
NBC News / Jane C. Timm and Amanda Terkel
The Washington Post / Azi Paybarah and Jayne Orenstein
Local journalists covering shootings share their pain on air →“The workplace attack in Louisville was the 16th mass killing in the United States in which four or more people were fatally shot in 2023, according to a database maintained by Northeastern University, the Associated Press and USA Today. As the number of people killed and injured by this type of violence increases, so do the number of people directly touched by it, including the local journalists who are called to work at those scenes.”
The New York Times / Ben Mullin
Columbia Journalism Review / Feven Merid
Substack / Noah Berlatsky
Vanity Fair / Gabriel Sherman
Inside Rupert Murdoch’s Succession drama →“With the $1.6 billion Dominion lawsuit threatening to hobble Fox News, the ink on his divorce to Jerry Hall still wet, and his broken engagement to Ann Lesley Smith even fresher, it’s been a chaotic 12 months for the 92-year-old conservative media baron. As Fox and family insiders tell it, this could just be the beginning.”
National Catholic Register
A Nicaraguan journalist was arrested for reporting on Holy Week celebrations in the country →“Ticay’s arrest took place in the context of the dictatorship’s decision to prohibit processions and religious activities on the streets. According to a recent report, more than 3,000 Holy Week processions were banned in 2023. After the journalist was taken into custody, various media outlets reported that he was transferred to the prison known as ‘El Chipote,’ where the dictatorship now holds several Catholics, including priests.”
The New Yorker / Melissa del Bosque
The covert mission to solve a Mexican journalist’s murder →“The murders of [Miroslava Breach] and [Javier Valdez Cárdenas] and the exile of [Patricia Mayorga] had a chilling effect on colleagues left behind. Marcela Turati, one of the country’s most renowned investigative journalists and editors, told me that it felt as though journalism itself was dying in Mexico.”