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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Fox News has not interviewed Trump in 100+ days, nor aired his recent rallies live; sources: the snubs are intentional and extend to the highest levels of Fox — The former president hasn't been interviewed on the Rupert Murdoch-owned cable network in more than 100 days, and other Republicans often get the attention he once did.
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Kathleen Kingsbury / The New York Times Company:
Nicholas Kristof returns to The New York Times as a columnist after stepping down to run for governor of Oregon; Kristof began writing NYT columns in 2001 — The journalist who first started here in 1984 and began writing columns for us in 2001 returns to Times Opinion.
Clark Hoyt / Mercury News:
Jerry Ceppos, who was the dean of two journalism schools and the managing editor of The Mercury News when the newspaper won two Pulitzer Prizes, dies at 75 — He led the organization to two Pulitzer Prizes while focusing its lens on technology and diversity
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Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
A profile of The Washington Post's Sally Buzbee, including interviews with her and colleagues on newsroom restructuring, Twitter, and managing a remote team — The executive editor opens up about her first frenetic year atop the masthead—tackling everything from newsroom restructuring to Twitter tumult …
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Mediaite, @dansewell, @jayrosen_nyu, @froomkin, @brianstelter, @neilmcmahon, @kriscoratti and @digitalsista
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Luck, John Lasseter's first film as head of Skydance Animation, debuts on Apple TV+ on August 5; Lasseter was ousted from Pixar in 2017 over workplace behavior — John Lasseter was toppled five years ago by allegations about his workplace behavior. He's back with an animated film and a studio that could be Pixar 2.0.
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@brycecovert and @nytimesbusiness
Kent Faulk / AL.com:
Alabama prison officials examined female reporters' clothing and tried to block an AL.com reporter from witnessing an execution because her skirt was too short — Alabama prison officials examined female reporters' clothing and tried to block a female reporter with AL.com …
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Reggie Ugwu / New York Times:
A profile of Sam Sanders, the founding host of NPR's It's Been a Minute show who left public radio after 12 years to launch a pop culture podcast for Vulture — After 12 years at NPR, the former host of “It's Been a Minute” is stepping out with a new pop culture podcast — uncensored, uninhibited and unbothered.
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Oscar Lopez / New York Times:
Guatemalan authorities arrested journalist José Rubén Zamora, elPeriódico's president and a vocal government critic, and raided the outlet's offices on Friday — José Rubén Zamora, an award-winning journalist and president of the elPeriódico newspaper …
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Eric Lach / New Yorker:
A look at the tracker built by NYC nonprofit news outlet City Limits to count people in the city's shelters, “a wonderful example of public-service journalism” — A nonprofit news outlet has spent the past half year publishing more complete data on homelessness.
Kristin Robinson / Billboard:
Q&A with Keith Bernstein, whose online service Tempo will allow companies that want to use music legally to input a playlist of songs and figure out licensing — Crunch Digital's Keith Bernstein on empowering new businesses to know more about proper licensing. “Music has value,” he says, “and music is undervalued.”
Angela Fu / Poynter:
A look at Outside's aggressive and successful anti-union campaign, which included the argument that a union would jeopardize its ability to attract VC money — Outside Magazine ran an aggressive anti-union campaign that highlighted the company's unique funding structure, current and former staff say
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Police arrest a man with a loaded gun outside the Brooklyn home of an Iranian American journalist who was the target of a 2021 Iran-orchestrated kidnapping plot — Masih Alinejad, a journalist who lives in Brooklyn, was the target of an international kidnapping plot last year, according to a federal indictment and the writer.