The Latest: Insider strike ends; Fox’s ‘wannabe dictator’ graphic; Bilateral support for jailed journalist; Indy’s news startups

June 14, 2023

■ How CNN broke the news from Trump's arraignment despite a courtroom ban on electronics (CNN) / ‘CNN's efforts to get the news out of the courtroom yesterday involved the hiring of local high school students to run lines written on a notepad to pay phones that only called out to local numbers …’ (Jeremy Herb)

■ TV news covered Trump’s Miami arraignment with wall-to-wall coverage (New York Times) / Why CNN and MSNBC didn’t carry Trump’s post-arraignment speech live (Vanity Fair) / ‘Cameras capturing the moment we were let out of the courtroom where Former President Donald Trump was arraigned.’ (Rachel Scott)

■ Fox News shocks with ‘wannabe dictator’ graphic during Biden speech (Washington Post) / ‘... The company just responded with the following statement and zero additional explanation : “The chyron was taken down immediately and was addressed.” ’ (Ken Bensinger) / Get out you stupid b***h': Donald Trump crowd turns on journalist over question (Huff Post)

■ Big tech bashes Senate movement on news bargaining bill (Broadcasting & Cable)

■ Worldwide, online news is looking a lot more like TikTok and a lot less like ‘shared articles’ (Nieman Journalism Lab) / ‘Trust in the news has fallen , across markets, by a further 2 percentage points in the last year, reversing – in many countries – the gains made at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic.’ (Brian Stelter) / Overview and key findings of the 2023 Digital News Report (Reuters Institute)

■ Nobel laureate Maria Ressa says research by Oxford institute can be used against reporters (The Guardian) / ‘We are sorry our work has been abused and Maria Ressa thinks our methods represent a risk. We listen to input from many-including her-and reviewed the research with our Advisory Board.’ (Rasmus Kleis Nielson)

■ The bitter strike at Insider — longest ever in digital media — is over (Washington Post) / Video: Insider editor in chief tore down union posters amid strike (New York Post)

■ Indianapolis news startups offer more places to click (Axios)

■ Ryan Spoon named new president of Yahoo Sports (Sports Business Journal) / NBC News’ Catherine Kim receives RTDNA’s 2023 Loren Tobia Leadership Award (TVNewser) / WETA hires Devin Karambelas as VP for television programming and operations (Current)

■ Nexstar stations in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Tampa to become CW affils on Sept. 1 (TV News Check) / ABC Chicago first to debut new ABC-owned group graphics package (NewscastStudio)

■ Gannett plans to move printing of The Pueblo Chieftain in Colorado to Denver, affecting ~51 employees, and is putting the Chieftain's building on the market (KRDO)

■ Why one local newsroom startup in Chicago succeeded where others failed (Poynter)

Press Freedom

■ A court in Guatemala has sentenced a prominent journalist to 6 years in jail (NPR) / National Press Club statement on the conviction and sentencing of Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora (NPC/JI)

■ McCurtain County investigation length prompts journalist to flee (ABC News Channel 8 Tulsa) / ICYMI: National Press Club condemns violent threats by local officials against Oklahoma journalists (NPC/JI)

■ Journalist sues DA’s office for blocking details of police misconduct (Daily Hampshire Gazette)

"At the end of the day, our greatest measure of success is earning the support of our readers . What might earn that support for one reader is going to be very different than another reader. For some of our readers, that might be a big investigation, or some of our readers might support us because we break stories first. But for other readers it might be because we're covering something that's going on at their kids’ school that maybe doesn't have a big interest citywide. Certainly traffic is important, but we look at it, I would say, differently and from a more holistic view. At the end of the day, our biggest metric is the support and trust of our readers."

-- Stephanie Lulay, executive editor and co-founder of Block Club Chicago, “Investigations, collaborations and alligators”

“Don’t let (only) your job define you. It’s common for people to view their career as an essential part of their identity. After all, the first question we ask when meeting a new person is what they do for a living. But investing too much of your identity in your job can be problematic . ... Think of it like financial planning, where diversification is smart. If your social, emotional, financial, and even spiritual growth is tied up with your professional growth, that’s actually a risk — particularly if you lose your job or no longer find fulfillment in it.”

-- Michael Errigo, Washington Post reporter, "3 professional development tips that prioritize work-life balance"

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