Top news of the week: 19.02.2023.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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
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.”