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Top news of the week: 19.02.2023.

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@froomkin shared
On Feb 16, 2023
The governor’s efforts to prop up supplicant sources of news—while trying to destabilize and delegitimize independent ones—make for a dangerous combination, @mbar62 tells @Jason_Garcia. That's the journalistic dichotomy: "supplicant" vs. "independent". https://t.co/sbIpm323N8
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Ron DeSantis is weaponizing partisan media — and weakening independent sources of news

Ron DeSantis is weaponizing partisan media — and weakening independent sources of news

"Part of what makes DeSantis different is how he has paired his efforts to elevate partisan media with public policies meant to destabilize independent media."

@srubenfeld shared
On Feb 15, 2023
RT @tommy_robb: The reporter she most fears: “There used to be this reporter who worked at the Daily News. He now works for The City. Greg Smith is his name. He would call me every Friday at 3 p.m. about something, and I’d be like, Oh, fuck. This ain’t going to be good." https://t.co/2rxJreGUqb
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Get Me Risa Heller!

Get Me Risa Heller!

If you’re Jeff Zucker or Mario Batali or Jared Kushner and you’re trying to survive a bout of very bad press, she’s the one you call.

@NiemanLab shared
On Feb 16, 2023
RT @SarahScire: “A few months ago, I told a higher-up at The New York Times—we’re talking very high altitude—that I’d been struggling with long COVID. His reply: ‘Is that the excuse everyone at The Atlantic uses when they’re unproductive?’” https://t.co/e7rgrepONp
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@Anthony shared
On Feb 16, 2023
YouTube's longtime CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down https://t.co/Rr2i7mIOEZ
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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

One of the most prominent women in tech — and one of Google’s earliest employees — is leaving the company.

@srubenfeld shared
On Feb 15, 2023
RT @HellGateNY: Today, almost 200 NYT contributors published an open letter condemning the paper's coverage of transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people. Read our Q&A with one of the organizers, the critic Jo Livingstone, to learn more. https://t.co/7xXOgedB1A
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New York Times Writers Call Out the Paper’s Anti-Trans Onslaught

New York Times Writers Call Out the Paper’s Anti-Trans Onslaught

“This is not quite business as usual anymore,” one of the organizers of an open letter to the NYT told Hell Gate.

@NiemanLab shared
On Feb 17, 2023
"It was not my choice to be a war reporter ... I never had this dream, as many of my colleagues had, to report from a conflict zone." https://t.co/Yrc9X8XHYu
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Our podcast: one year after Putin's invasion, how is Ukrainian journalism faring?

Our podcast: one year after Putin's invasion, how is Ukrainian journalism faring?

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 15 journalists were killed in Ukraine in 2022, and the situation for news media remains incredibly challenging to say the …

@mathewi shared
On Feb 15, 2023
RT @manisha_bot: NEW: Meet ‘Team Jorge’, a hacking and disinformation unit who claim to have covertly meddled in over 30 elections around the world. My first investigation with the Guardian team. https://t.co/4lXuVZaQ7V
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Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections

Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections

Unit led by Tal Hanan that boasts vast army of bots exposed by undercover reporters and leaked emails

@mediagazer shared
On Feb 14, 2023
The Dallas Morning News plans to reassign the five staff at Al Día on March 1, leaving its Spanish-language outlet to publish just translations and wire stories (@hanaatameez / Nieman Lab) https://t.co/JXV5qGW8Wi https://t.co/HdedQVdNuQ
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The Dallas Morning News guts its Spanish-language newspaper, Al Día, after 19 years

The Dallas Morning News guts its Spanish-language newspaper, Al Día, after 19 years

"It's like [management] is cutting up a car and using the pieces for parts.”