Top news of the week: 05.06.2022.
Should Google pay for news in Brazil? It’s complicated
No solution is ideal. The worst thing that journalists can do, however, is to step aside and let media owners and platforms decide among themselves.
Anatomy of a fake
What a viral fake news story about "race-based grading" tells us about our media ecosystem
Journalism That Holds Power to Account
Louisiana sued thousands of homeowners for not following the rules in spending grants after Katrina. After a joint news investigation, the state says it hopes a federal agency will approve ...
“I’m Doing It My Way”: How Katy Tur Battled Sexism and Family Drama on Her Rise to Media Stardom
Before she became a household name for locking horns with Donald Trump, the NBC News correspondent faced the realities of what it meant to thrive on TV—and where her difficult relationship ...
Sun-Times names Jennifer Kho executive editor
The former managing editor of HuffPost and Guardian US will be the first woman and first person of color to lead the paper’s newsroom in its 178-year history.
Google writes to all Canadian MPs as it steps up campaign against Online News Act
Google has stepped up its campaign against Canada’s Online News Act, insisting that the legislation could “break” its search engine.
BBC says article on trans women did not meet accuracy standards
Article claiming some lesbians feel pressured into sex by trans women found to have fallen beneath standards
Seattle police stopped investigating new adult sexual assaults this year, memo shows
The Seattle Police Department's sexual assault unit staff has been so depleted that it stopped assigning new adult sexual assault cases. Victims must wait while prosecutions are ...