The Latest: All-female ‘SportsCenter’; Variety story retraction?; News Emmy nominations

July 27, 2023

■ ESPN tests all-female 'SportsCenter' in bid to spotlight women's sports for bigger crowd (Variety)

■ ‘According to an email I just obtained, Vice has yet to make good on its severance payments . … The email says the company is still waiting on court approval to make payments for people who were laid off after the company filed for bankruptcy ("post-petition severance"). These payments are capped under the bankruptcy code at $15,150, another point of contention.’ (Ben Mullin) / How Vice Media went bankrupt (Ad Week)

■ Counter-coalition formed to fight local broadcasters over distribution rules (Axios)

■ State approves Texas A&M journalism major amid Kathleen McElroy hiring scandal (Houston Chronicle) / Texas A&M faculty worry about damage from recent scandals (Texas Tribune)

■ Adweek names Will Lee chief executive officer (Ad Week) / Yahoo Sports hires Baker to head up newsletters (Sports Business Journal) / Hearst TV names Kenneth Murphy VP, information technology (Broadcasting & Cable)

■ Deep South Today has unionized with NABET-CWA (Deep South Today Union)

■ ‘We at 60 Minutes are mourning the loss of our longtime producer, Katie Spikes …Katie exemplified the best of 60 Minutes, in her work at CBS News for three decades, and as our beloved colleague and friend.’ (60 Minutes)

■ One-year anniversary of José Rubén Zamora’s imprisonment reignites calls for journalist’s release amid deteriorating press freedom in Guatemala (Committee to Protect Journalists)

■ How one NPR podcast set in India preserves the use of Hindi (Nieman Journalism Lab)

■ The Guardian’s editorial code has been updated – here’s what to expect (The Guardian)

■ Conservatives bombarded with Facebook misinformation far more than liberals in 2020 election, study suggests (Forbes)

■ What one journalism school learned after taking over a rural weekly newspaper (Nieman Journalism Lab)

■ 2023 news and documentary Emmy nominations revealed (The Hollywood Reporter) / CNN leads news and doc Emmy nomination tally ; canceled 'Vice News Tonight' dominates among programs (Variety)

“How we measure successful writing changes depending on what the writer is trying to accomplish, and good writers are flexible enough to adapt to different scenarios . They make intentional decisions around three elements: audience, purpose, and context. Who am I writing for, to what end, and in what circumstance? Answering these questions can offer guidance on, for instance, when to use a particular word rather than its synonym.”

-- Laura Hartenberger, writer and lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles Writing Programs, “What AI teaches us about good writing”

“If you’re interested in getting into data journalism, visual journalism, there’s so many different roles in newsrooms that you can take. There are people that are generalists, that have a little bit of everything or specialists or there are people like we have hired people that mainly focus on design or coding. There are newsrooms where you don’t have to code at all for your job, where you can just design pieces in illustrator and data wrapper. Don’t limit yourself by what you think a visual journalist is .”

-- Will Chase, member of the Axios Data Visualization team, "Behind the scenes with Axios Data Visualization"

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