Top news of the week: 18.05.2021.
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"A reporter writing a story about Donald Trump’s White House would often be running it up a chain of five white men."
The Missing Generation of Women at the Washington Post. https://t.co/zNqoU3FDP9
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‘These Blazing Stars … Just Disappeared’: The Missing Generation of Women at the Washington Post
The Post made history this week by appointing its first female executive editor. But why did the newspaper have to look outside its own ranks for a woman to lead the newroom?
RT @lenfestinst: 1) It takes us all to build equitable models of local journalism, and today we’re excited to announce new programs and initiatives to support the news organizations and individuals in Philadelphia who advance this work https://t.co/CDluNGVSKO
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How The Lenfest Institute will support Philadelphia’s news and information ecosystem in 2021 and beyond
The Lenfest Institute is supporting Philadelphia news entrepreneurs, media career development, community newsgathering, and more.
The full exchange I had with Keller, which he published in full in the NYT, is here. It contains my fundamental criticisms of the corporate media -- particularly its closeness to the US security state -- and how The Intercept would be different. Anyway....
https://t.co/9livLRkHDs
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RT @opennews: ICYMI: the OpenNews team got some new job titles:
* @erika_owens and @sisiwei will now be Co-Executive Directors of OpenNews
* @ryanpitts will be our Director of Network Development
Details: https://t.co/rHKZ4bvuzX
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Announcing our Co-Executive Directors and Director of Network Development
At OpenNews, we’ve always been a values-driven team that dreams big. That’s why we’re so excited to announce two big changes to OpenNews today.