Top news of the week: 12.06.2022.
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
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 ...
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 ...
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
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
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 ...
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.
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