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Top news of the week: 12.06.2022.

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@mediatwit shared
On Jun 6, 2022
Latest News & Knight is out! @lavallee discusses takeaways from @knightfdn's first private "infrastructure summit" with local news publishers and support networks; plus a new Podcast Accelerator from @prx! Check it out. https://t.co/WwLovcJWxy
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Grappling with building a better infrastructure for local news

Grappling with building a better infrastructure for local news

At our recent summit in Miami we learned about the need for just-in-time support, bolstering culture

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On Jun 7, 2022
A liability. "Twitter used to be a necessity. What is it now?" https://t.co/MnGEKlvYDi
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Twitter used to be a necessity. What is it now?

Twitter used to be a necessity. What is it now?

But between Dean Baquet's leaked New York Times memo and Elon Musk's stutter-step pursuit to buy the platform, I've been seriously — and frequently — reconsidering my relationship with ...

@joshtpm shared
On Jun 10, 2022
Barry Sussman helped Woodward and Bernstein break the Watergate story, but he’s been erased from their narrative. https://t.co/wy48XqPkvA
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Why ‘The Watergate Three’ Are Remembered as a Duo

Why ‘The Watergate Three’ Are Remembered as a Duo

Doing great journalism requires an infrastructure, including a lot of talented people who don’t get bylines. Barry Sussman—the Watergate journalist named neither “Woodward” nor ...

@froomkin shared
On Jun 9, 2022
I'm curious, @annhornaday, if that manuscript indicates how the opening scene of the movie was lifted not from the book, but from the book by Barry Sussman, the late great Watergate editor who guided Woodstein and was elided from the movie entirely. https://t.co/XF1gB9g20j
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How ‘All the President’s Men’ went from buddy flick to masterpiece

How ‘All the President’s Men’ went from buddy flick to masterpiece

Early drafts of the screenplay struggled with how to depict Woodward and Bernstein

@ggreenwald shared
On Jun 6, 2022
RT @tomphillipsin: "We need an urgent search mission. We need the police, we need the army, we need firefighters, we need civil defense forces. We have no time to lose," said Indigenous leader @BetoMarubo https://t.co/7xwGnAIv0V
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Fears for safety of British journalist missing in Brazilian Amazon

Fears for safety of British journalist missing in Brazilian Amazon

Dom Phillips disappeared on a trip to one of the remotest corners of the Amazon days after receiving threats

@mediagazer shared
On Jun 9, 2022
Defector's Normal Gossip podcast, launched in early 2022, gets around 100K downloads per episode and helps boost subscription revenue for the worker-owned site (@sarahscire / Nieman Lab) https://t.co/EpZvVIvUTZ https://t.co/UlNgWI8WaN
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You didn’t hear this from me, but Defector is getting a subscriber boost from its podcast Normal Gossip

You didn’t hear this from me, but Defector is getting a subscriber boost from its podcast Normal Gossip

The sports and culture website earns 95% of its revenue from subscriptions. When Normal Gossip launched paid subscriptions last month, the podcast gave Defector its biggest one-week ...

@joshtpm shared
On Jun 6, 2022
RT @ChristopherJM: 🚨 I'm thrilled @BloomsburyBooks will publish THE WAR CAME TO US, my book about Ukraine's tumultuous recent history through peacetime, revolution & war, "drawing intimate portraits of people & events shaping the nation & forging a new Ukrainian identity." https://t.co/pcuGMH0IT6
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Bloomsbury bags journalist Miller on transformation of Ukraine

Bloomsbury bags journalist Miller on transformation of Ukraine

Bloomsbury Continuum has acquired The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine by writer and journalist Christopher Miller. 

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On Jun 12, 2022
RT @carolecadwalla: Verdict tomorrow. Win or lose, it's a dark day for press freedom in the UK. Singling out a journalist from their news organisation and putting them on trial is not what happens in healthy, functioning democracies. https://t.co/hesNgm81kz
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Test for press freedom as verdict due in Arron Banks libel case against Carole Cadwalladr

Test for press freedom as verdict due in Arron Banks libel case against Carole Cadwalladr

Judgment in the action against the Observer and Guardian’s Carole Cadwalladr will have huge implications for UK journalists