March 6, 2023

■ Inner workings of Fox News on display in defamation case (WSJ) / Fox News stands in legal peril. It says defamation loss would harm all media (NPR) / Fox libel defense at odds with top GOP presidential foes (Associated Press) / Dems want to cut Fox off after lawsuit revelations (POLITICO) / Opinion: What is Fox News hiding in the Dominion lawsuit? (Washington Post) / FEC complaints filed over allegations Murdoch gave Kushner unaired Biden political ads (The Hill) / Inside the panic at Fox News after the 2020 Election (New York Times) 

■ CNN decimates Trump’s CPAC speech: ‘Full of half truths, lies, and absolute whoppers’ (The Wrap) / 2024 coverage is shaping up to be the same as always (Columbia Journalism Review)

■ The Washington Post Publisher Fred Ryan's conflict of interest: As The Reagan Library board chair, he may deny Fox or the Post the venue for election debates (Semafor)

■ Vox retires Recode and The Goods branding, absorbs into technology and culture coverage (Vox)

■ The Washington Post looks to bring in new subscribers with its first in-house game, ‘On the Record’ (Digiday)

■ Leland Vittert to moderate NewsNation’s ‘The Hill’ (The Wrap) / Monica Drake takes on a new role (New York Times) / ‘WaPo editor Sally Buzbee notifies staffers over email that The Washington Post is hiring a new managing editor with oversight of key coverage areas.’ (Ben Mullin)

■ ‘On a respirator’: Newspaper startup in Winsted misses payroll (Hartford Business) / Winsted Citizen: Ralph Nader gets the press but leaves his 'gifted' newspaper in the lurch (Editor & Publisher)

■ A Dallas reporter called the mayor 'bruh.' Was her firing too harsh? (Washington Post) / ‘The Guild has filed an unfair labor practice complaint regarding the Company’s actions surrounding Meghan’s firing.’ (Dallas News Guild) / Yes, I was fired. Here’s what’s missing from the viral stories. (Meghan Mangrum)

■ The last New Jersey reporter on Capitol Hill just got laid off (Washington Post)

■ Bernadette Carey Smith, barrier-breaking reporter, dies at 83 (Washington Post) 

■ CNN anchor Kasie Hunt and husband Matt Rivera delivered baby ‘on the bathroom floor’ (Los Angeles Times) 

■ ‘Black Girl Missing’ dramatizes the toll of missing white woman syndrome (Poynter)

■ Hoda Kotb returns to ‘Today’ after daughter’s hospitalization (Hollywood Reporter)

■ Wired tells readers what it will use generative AI for — and what’s off-limits (Nieman Lab)

■ Dalit journalist takes on India’s caste injustices (New York Times) 

■ The $2 billion question of who you are at work (New York Times) / Are you a cubicle cat or a couch koala? Test your office personality. (New York Times) 

Press freedom 

■ Want to get paid to blog about DeSantis? Report earnings to the state, bill says. (Tampa Bay Times) 

■ Guatemala journalists warn free press under threat (Agence France-Presse via France 24) / Statement on persecution of journalists in Guatemala (United States Department of State) 

■ How fake copyright complaints are muzzling journalists (BBC News) 

■ Russian journalist Andrey Novashov’s case demonstrates how authorities are using wartime censorship measures to silence members of the press who report independently on sensitive issues (CPJ)

■ Cameroonian businessman charged with complicity in torture after journalist's murder (Reuters)

“Please, firmly reject the normalization of untruths. I just cannot emphasize this point enough. It’s in our collective responsibility to call misinformation and disinformation what they are. Not harmless chatter, but unsafe. If we are not clear-sighted and vigilant, we risk our society deteriorating into a way of life where veracity becomes subservient to propaganda, rather than upheld as a guiding principle for creating and sustaining a just social order.”

-- Anthony Fauci, former chief medical advisor to the president of the United States, remarks during NPC president Eileen O’Reilly inauguration

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