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September 7, 2022

■ Man arrested for newspaper delivery driver shooting (FOX2now)

■ Longtime Washington Post tech chief Shailesh Prakash leaving for Google (Axios) / Read the memo from Fred Ryan about Shailesh Prakash's departure from the Post (via Ben Mullin) / 'At today's Washington Post town hall, reporter Valerie Strauss asked publisher Fred Ryan whether peoples' jobs were at risk if they didn't come into the office enough . Ryan got flustered and replied that managers hadn't been asked to take roll and that he didn't want to debate.' (Andrew Beaujon)

■ POLITICO owner addresses Trump prayer email controversy: ‘Sometimes you need context ’ (The Wrap)

■ How did President Biden go from zero to hero in the public arena so quickly? (The Journalist’s Resource)

■ Judge orders White House to turn over emails press secretary, Fauci sent Big Tech (New York Post)

■ Semafor aims to be the source for ‘intelligent news consumers ’ who are ‘unhappy’ and ‘screaming from the rooftops’ (Nieman Journalism Lab)

■ Brian McGrory to step down as Globe editor (Boston Globe) / Yes, it’s true: Brian McGrory is leaving the Globe and heading to Boston University (Dan Kennedy) / 'Brian's role in helping convince the Henrys to buy the Globe (in the face of several much, much worse options) would have been legacy enough. He added to it with major journalistic and business accomplishments , even before the pandemic — when the Globe did not cut newsroom staff.' (Curt Woodward)

■ What it’s like to report on the Jackson water crisis as a local journalist (Poynter)

■ A paper in tiny Crestone, Colorado, is ‘on the leading edge’ of legacy newspapers going nonprofit (Colorado Public Radio)

■ Oklahoma-born war correspondent says teacher inspired him (KFOR)

■ Jen Psaki hopes to bring passion for ‘debunking’ and ‘calling out BS’ to MSNBC Show: ‘My business is not rage’ (The Wrap)

■ Kara Swisher to debut ‘much more sassy’ podcast this month with Vox Media (Hollywood Reporter)

■ How sharing news online makes people overestimate their knowledge of It (The Swaddle) / Twitter expands its crowdsourced fact-checking program ‘Birdwatch’ ahead of US midterms (TechCrunch) / Fact-checkers respond to Twitter’s new edit feature (Poynter)

■ Mets field reporter hilariously got hounded for a foul ball that he caught during broadcast (For The Win)

■ Is it sus that Merriam-Webster just added pumpkin spice ? (NPR)

Press freedom

■ Opinion: My high school paper published a ‘pride’ issue. Then we got canceled . (Washington Post)

■ Hong Kong police arrest chairman of largest journalist group (Associated Press via Washington Post)

■ White House reporter presses Karine Jean-Pierre over death of fellow Al Jazeera journalist: 'Feels almost like our government doesn't have our back ' (Mediaite) / U.S. says it will press Israel on rules of engagement after Al Jazeera journalist's killing (Reuters ) / ‘Chris Van Hollen, a Democratic senator for Maryland, repeated his call for an independent US investigation into Abu Aqleh’s killing’ (The Guardian)

We’re inviting student journalists of all experience levels to join us on Sept. 23 at 2 p.m. ET for a virtual question-and-answer session with internship coordinators from C-SPAN, Dow Jones News Fund, and NPR. Working in the nation’s capital can be a life-changing experience, and we’ll provide guidance to help student journalists plan their internship applications.

“In managing relationships with sources, I lay out boundaries for them explicitly and frequently, always reminding people of my role . I don't expect somebody who doesn't have a lot of exposure to the media to always remember that. What they tell me can end up in a story unless they ask you that it doesn't. I also, of course, go over stories thoroughly with sources before anything is published, to make sure that someone doesn't accidentally share something too vulnerable because they relaxed at the moment and opened up.”

-- Caitlin Dickerson, staff writer at The Atlantic, shares advice for immigration reporting

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