The Latest Archives: 2022

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Newsletter archives 2022

SEPTEMBER

• September 30, 2022: How close to a storm is too close for journalists?; Fox News ‘revenge porn’ case; Actor takes journalism quiz
• September 29, 2022: Reporters save people trapped by hurricane; Washington Post fight; Trump book
• September 28, 2022: TV journalists in the eye of the storm; NPR reshapes top ranks; Did Clintons fuel Fox?; Internship application tips
• September 23, 2022: Most toxic midterm narratives; Gingrich insults NBC News reporter; NPR’s new exec
• September 22, 2022: Interview scrapped over headscarf; Tapper’s move; Reporter surprised by on-air proposal
• September 21, 2022: Serial rises (again) amid pushback; Anchors suspended, fired; Mic layoffs
• September 20, 2022: Reliable Sources newsletter reboot; High demand for faith coverage; ‘Serial’ subject released; Using senses in reporting
• September 19, 2022: Jailhouse interview with suspect in reporter’s murder; L.A. Times tensions; Saving Sunday morning shows
• September 16, 2022: ‘I was not demoted’; America’s true crime obsession; Covering the Queen’s funeral
• September 15, 2022: CNN’s new ‘mass appeal’; Journalists do Democracy Day; Press beats politicians at spelling bee
• September 14, 2022: ‘Serial’ suspect may be freed; Women of Congress vs. Women of DC press corps; ‘Who is doing the silencing?’
• September 13, 2022: ‘We’d rather have raises’; WaPo reporter slams MSNBC reporter; The obit long game
• September 12, 2022: ‘Rush to judgment’; Stelter’s new gig; Daniel Pearl’s family rallies for student magazine
• September 9, 2022: Hunting a reporter’s killer; The Queen’s front pages; Covering hate, finding love
• September 8, 2022: Journalist’s murder caught on video; Covering the Queen’s death; Following climate refugees
• September 7, 2022: Police search for reporter’s murderer; Washington Post loses top exec; ‘My business is not rage’
• September 6, 2022: Politico’s ‘contrarian’ plan; Anchor’s on-air stroke; New environmental justice reporting grants
• September 2, 2022: Sudden CNN exit; AJC to end daily print?; Student journalists push back
• September 1, 2022: Washington Post productivity; Serena & sports journalism; Farewell, typos!

AUGUST

• August 31, 2022: Gannett layoffs total 400; Copyright bullies; ‘The night we lost Diana’
• August 30, 2022: Washington Post losing money; How Grist personalizes climate coverage; FOIAing the Monkees
• August 29, 2022: NYT vs. NAJA; ‘She Said’ publicity & the Weinstein trial; Life after Fox
• August 26, 2022: ‘Are we the problem?’; How stories die; This weekend in journalism history
• August 25, 2022: Ex-Fox News editor talks; Misinformation inoculation; Newspaper closed after LGBTQ issue
• August 24, 2022: GOP media restrictions; Climate coverage hate mail; A reporter’s penance
• August 23, 2022: New York Times performance reviews; Covering food insecurity; DNA on newspaper letter helps solve cold case
• August 22, 2022: Chasing the candidates; Midterms misinfo training; Sullivan & Stelter sign off
• August 19, 2022: Washington Post media reporter suspended; CNN warning, ‘This is a time of change’; Political journalists’ favorite airport restaurant
• August 18, 2022: CNN cancels ‘Reliable Sources,’ hints at what’s next; Sports reporter breaks ribs on ballpark slide; New program on women’s voices
• August 17, 2022: ‘Highly unusual’ press restrictions; Substack’s messy newsroom; Reading DC
• August 16, 2022: Wyoming journalists to follow tonight; Staying on the opioid beat; Reporting on your next apartment
• August 15, 2022: Gannett layoffs; Tonight’s MSNBC debut; Newspaper ad for ‘filthy cheater’
• August 11, 2022: ‘Maddening’ Mar-a-Lago coverage; Gannett’s new ads; E-mail, e-mail, email
• August 10, 2022: Washington Post uproar & exit; Biden on Austin Tice; The return of newspaper boxes
• August 9, 2022: ‘The biggest scoop’; #BringAustinHome; How Vogue got Serena
• August 8, 2022: Axios sold; Maddow on the $40M she turned away; ‘I’m supposed to be here’
• August 5, 2022: Reporter attacked; NPR’s abortion coverage; ABC’s mistake
• August 4, 2022: Gannett layoffs coming; Supreme Court premature obit; Digital civil war
• August 3, 2022: Congresswoman, comms director die in crash; Alex Jones’ emails; $50,000 podcast payments
• August 2, 2022: Today’s election coverage; CNN’s slump; ‘There’s a place in America’s heart for local news.’
• August 1, 2022: Covering Kamala; Newscast canceled due to ‘widespread’ COVID; Dress code for covering an execution

JULY

• July 29, 2022: ‘You can shoot the reporter’; Newsweek legal drama; Reporter barred from covering execution for short skirt
• July 28, 2022: Loathing the media; Why local news startups die; ‘The most important photography you’ll make’
• July 27, 2022: Vox layoffs; WSJ defends its reporting; Archie Bunker & Fox News
• July 26, 2022: Journalists rescued from flood; Washington Post out-of-office politics; Obits retracted
• July 25, 2022: New Yorker editor fired; AP photog attack confession; ‘We’re all going to be climate reporters’
• July 22, 2022: Jan. 6 hearings reviewed; Star journalist sued (again); Newspapers delay dementia
• July 21, 2022: Biden’s COVID; Cuomo’s return; What the New York Times got wrong; 3 ways leaders can listen better
• July 20, 2022: CNN’s new leadership; New Yorker journalist ‘goes nuclear’; New life for Black News Channel
• July 19, 2022: Plagiarism lawsuit; L.A. Times reporter vs. editor; ‘Very Online’
• July 18, 2022: Pulitzers revisit prize winners after Trump complaints; New all-time low confidence in news; Press Club announces scholarship winners
• July 15, 2022: Biden on journalists’ murders in Middle East; AP guidance on guns; ‘Go write’
• July 14, 2022: The ‘one-source story’ on abortion; Injured Fox News journalist; L.A. Times’ surprise weed testing; ‘She Said’ trailer
• July 13, 2022: Uvalde video leak – ‘We have to bear witness’; Reporter impersonates cop, again; Photographing DC lightning
• July 12, 2022: New Washington Post drama; Americans tune out news; Why journalists write books
• July 11, 2022: Op-ed backlash; Baltimore news war; The book on Harvey Weinstein

JUNE

• June 30, 2022: Washington Post’s new social media policy; Journalists ready to strike; Wanna buy a newspaper?
• June 29, 2022: Journalist killed; Newspapers closing, media layoffs; ‘Religion is always in the room’
• June 28, 2022: Capital Gazette, 4 years after shooting; ‘There are some secrets still out there’; Aubuchon honoree named
• June 27, 2022: Maddow’s MSNBC successor named; LAPD shoves, clubs journalists covering protests; Publisher gives away newspaper to fight in Ukraine
• June 24, 2022: Roe ruling prompts newsrooms to re-up social media rules; What journalists get wrong on abortion; When reporters become candidates
• June 23, 2022: ‘The differences seem to be growing’; Trump trailer drops; Reporter-turned-wrestler
• June 22, 2022: ‘Executed in cold blood’; The L.A. Times’ new ‘burner account’; What’s next for alt-weeklies
• June 21, 2022: Journalist’s Nobel Peace Prize sold; Colbert team’s Capitol arrest update; How to write alt-text
• June 17, 2022: Washington Post infighting; Conspiracy theory primer; ‘I feel proud, and I feel mad as hell’
• June 16, 2022: USA Today fabrication investigation; CNN boss & Biden; Hunting hate
• June 15, 2022: Suspect confesses to killing journalist; ‘Endangered’; Avoiding the news; IE memes
• June 14, 2022: What 12,000 U.S. journalists believe; ‘We have to be ready’; Bloomberg journalist released
• June 13, 2022: Fired Fox editor testifies; CNN reporter’s pleads; Growing up in the media; ‘Let’s start a Google doc’
• June 10, 2022: Fired Fox journalist testifies Monday; Washington Post fallout; ‘They keep threatening to arrest us’
• June 9, 2022: Washington Post fires critical reporter; ‘Everything gets sensationalized’; Garfield’s long goodbye
• June 8, 2022: Washington Post ‘clusterf–k’; NPR’s new anchor; Watergate & Jan. 6
• June 7, 2022: ‘Passionate plea’ at press briefing; Reporter impersonates cop; Swisher leaps from New York Times back to Vox
• June 6, 2022: Post reporter suspended after Twitter tension; Journalists in grieving communities; Media unions & abortion
• June 3, 2022: Deadliest month for women journalists; Watergate milestone; Covering the Spelling Bee
• June 2, 2022: CNN’s ‘overused’ breaking news banner; Biden’s media; ‘I’m doing it my way’
• June 1, 2022: Vandals target journalists; Journalist on jury duty; SCOTUS leak investigation leaks

MAY

• May 26, 2022: ‘We cannot sanitize these killings’; Gun pointed at news crew; The cost of journalism job searches
• May 25, 2022: Covering a mass shooting; ‘No one owes us their story’; Depp-Heard trial & ‘journalist’s privilege’
• May 24, 2022: ‘They were shooting directly at the journalists’; Tapper tests positive; My First FOIA tip sheet
• May 23, 2022: After seizing reporter’s phone, Air Force changes policy; Fact in a time of fiction; Post Pub returns
• May 20, 2022: Big CNN goodbye; Washingtonians to watch; New ‘flak jacket’; Inclusive newsrooms
• May 19, 2022: NPR’s new tip line; ‘In Pete we trust’; Is it too late for midterms misinfo?
• May 18, 2022: The most powerful people in media; CNN’s new plans; Letters to the editor
• May 17, 2022: Primary questions; Politico pay proposal; Journalism drama sneak peek
• May 16, 2022: Why NPR’s avoiding ‘manifesto’; Historic White House briefing; Falling for sources
• May 13, 2022: Police attack journalist’s mourners; NewsHour loss; Psaki’s goodbye; Columbia’s new j-school dean
• May 12, 2022: White House press secretary threats; Bullet may hold answers in journalist’s killing; Remembering USA Today editor
• May 11, 2022: Journalist killed, hundreds protest her death; Newsrooms & abortion views; Psaki by the numbers
• May 10, 2022: CNN’s creative access; Axios bars abortion protest; ‘Journalism is not a crime’
• May 9, 2022: Pulitzer firsts and posthumous honors; DC keeps leaking; Journalist arrested for vandalism
• May 6, 2022: Leading CNN from a distance; Those late night work emails; What mothers photographed
• May 5, 2022: Psaki’s successor makes history; 1 in 5 TV journalists attacked; Paper, Cut
• May 4, 2022: COVID count from nerd prom; Conflict photography in Ukraine; Wordle brings millions to New York Times
• May 3, 2022: Politico on ‘heightened alert’; Leaked documents, law & ethics; World Press Freedom Day highlights
• May 2, 2022: Tices meet with Biden; NBC News plagiarism; Working with ‘fixers’

APRIL

• April 29, 2022: Journalist killed; Star White House reporters debate; Can journalism bring about justice?
• April 28, 2022: Attacking journalists; ‘An audible gasp’; Gaslit or gaslighted?
• April 27, 2022: COVID fight over journalists’ gala; AP’s inclusive storytelling; Online writing tips
• April 26, 2022: Sheriff targets LA Times reporter; Pulitzer preview; What’s next for the NY Times
• April 25, 2022: Twitter’s new ‘wizard’; What doomed CNN+; WHCA dinner weekend guides
• April 22, 2022: Journalist files $19M claim; Murdoch succession battle; Should journalists hold scoops for their books?
• April 21, 2022: CNN+ shutdown fallout; ‘I’m waiting to be arrested’; How to show you’re a manager who ‘gets it’
• April 20, 2022: Reporter assaulted in front of police station; NYT’s historic leadership team; Bidens’ nerd prom
• April 19, 2022: Meet NYT’s next top editor, Joe Kahn; Covering athletes accused of crimes; The future of alt-weeklies
• April 18, 2022: CNN editor saves reporter’s life; Photographing hell; VP’s Wordle hacks
• April 14, 2022: RNC ditches debates; Twitter’s hostile takeover; ‘Charlie Rose is… back?’
• April 13, 2022: Washington Post pay & diversity numbers; Locating Austin Tice; Writing octaves
• April 12, 2022: CNN cuts coming; NPR milestones; Newspapers cut print days
• April 11, 2022: Gridiron COVID total rises; Fox viewers were paid to watch CNN – for research; From homeless to housing reporter

MARCH

• March 31, 2022: Who profits from White House photos? LAPD vs. journalists; Defining ‘key bump’
• March 30, 2022: CBS blowback; Are journalists ready for the midterms?; Planet Word
• March 29, 2022: CNN’s $100 million move; Lights, camera, crime; How photogs captured the Oscars Slap
• March 28, 2022: Helping Fox News; Top editor slams boss; Recording the police; NYT’s Oscar
• March 25, 2022: Post reporter’s lawsuit tossed; Nixon’s plot to kill a journalist; Capturing cherry blossoms; TSA on Insta
• March 24, 2022: Biden: ‘You’re playing a game with me’; Death reveals ‘thankless’ role of fixers; Peabody Awards honor digital storytelling
• March 23, 2022: Politico names new top editor; Journalist dies in Kyiv; ‘’This year has taken a bigger toll’
• March 22, 2022: BuzzFeed’s big cuts & exits; How injured Fox News reporter got out of Ukraine; What’s a semafor?
• March 21, 2022: AP team escapes; Virginia journalist killed; Most realistic political TV show
• March 18, 2022: ‘This is personal’; When should journalists intervene? Public records on deadline
• March 17, 2022: Is Russia targeting journalists? ‘Nutrition labels’ for TV news; PACER tips
• March 16, 2022: Cuomo demands $125M from CNN; Journalist now war refugee; Why your FOIA request was denied
• March 15, 2022: 2 more journalists killed in Ukraine; ‘Minute-to-minute triage’; 4 open records tips
• March 14, 2022: Fox reporter injured in Ukraine; ‘Nothing is safe here’; Politico v. Hawley
• March 11, 2022: Psaki briefs TikTok influencers on Ukraine; ‘I leave in despair’; NYT hidden videos
• March 10, 2022: Ex-LA Times reporter takes up arms; Missing Ukraine coverage; Post’s mandatory office return costs them a reporter
• March 9, 2022: White House press corps ‘revolt’; Zucker’s $10M CNN parachute; Ukraine images; ‘Headline stress disorder’
• March 8, 2022: ‘Am I dying?; NY Times pulls reporters from Russia; The power to inspire
• March 7, 2022: Journalist shot by Russian soldiers; Newsroom returns; Bullet point journalism
• March 4, 2022: ‘Uncharted territory’; Russia coverage just got riskier; Ex-journalists win $1 million on reality show
• March 3, 2022: Reporter shoved live on air; Ex-Fox producer charged for helping Russian oligarch; News viewership soars
• March 2, 2022: Journalist killed in Ukraine; ‘This was our mistake’; Managing a colleague who wanted your job
• March 1, 2022: From Ukraine to SOTU; Another NPR departure; Woodward out at Yale; Rethink ‘paying your dues’

FEBRUARY

• February 28, 2022: ‘Captain Intense’ is CNN’s next CEO; CBS Ukraine apology; Danny Fenster’s ’60 Minutes interview
• February 25, 2022: ‘I’m newsed-out’; ‘Total terror’ witnessing history; When Wordles collide
• February 24, 2022: TV’s window into war; The next Maddow; Miss Manners on newspaper subs
• February 23, 2022: Gridiron returns; Mom surprises reporter in the field; Binging ‘West Wing’
• February 22, 2022: Covering Ukraine in 6 languages; Journalist murder NFT; #NaturalHairOnAir
• February 18, 2022: NYT editor’s farewell interview?; ‘We are deeply and profoundly sorry’; Rams to pay photographer’s hospital bills
• February 17, 2022: Photographer injured during Super Bowl parade; Oprah’s journalism talks; ‘Girls on the Bus’ headed to HBO
• February 16, 2022: CNN fallout; What Palin jurors knew; Journalists’ favorite app may be leaking sources
• February 15, 2022: Black City. White Paper; AP adds 20 climate jobs; Nina Totenberg’s RBG book
• February 14, 2022: Judge tosses Sarah Palin lawsuit against New York Times; Nerd prom returns, with Trevor Noah
• February 11, 2022: Washington Post orders staff back to office; Photographer to shoot 56th Super Bowl; Wordle TV
• February 10, 2022: Washington Post adding 70 jobs; The book Trump fears most; Your Wordle streak is over
• February 9, 2022: Goodbye Entertainment Weekly; Reinventing CNN; Newsroom diversity changes & challenges
• February 8, 2022: ‘This is my fault,’ Ex-NYT editor testifies in Palin trial; Livetweeting the Olympics; Journalism scholarships
• February 7, 2022: CNN ‘grieving’; 5th journalist killed in Mexico this year; Olympics journalist quarantine; Super Bowl ads
• February 4, 2022: News Corp hacked; Epstein victims sue journalist; ‘Dear White Staffers’; Wordle alternatives
• February 3, 2022: CNN fallout; New York Times-Sarah Palin trial begins; Paywalls coming down; ‘Gaslit’
• February 2, 2022: CNN after Zucker, Cuomo’s ‘burning the place down’; New White House press seating chart; Advice for extroverted leaders
• February 1, 2022: Fox News’ streak; Newsrooms’ diversity progress; Why Wordle was a ‘good buy’ for NYT; The cost of empathy

JANUARY

• January 31, 2022: Maddow hiatus; Biden v. Doocy; ‘Annihilating journalism’; Those snowfall totals
• January 28, 2022: Protecting journalists from threats; Journalism bailout; 6 tips for new leaders
• January 27, 2022: ‘There is no truth’; Slain journalist’s father running for Congress; That ‘Jeopardy’ news alert
• January 26, 2022: CNN’s hiring spree; Reporters who now drive cabs; Owning your mistakes
• January 25, 2022: Biden’s ‘hot mic’; How to hold police accountable using public records; Mantra for aspiring leaders
• January 24, 2022: Sarah Palin vs. NYT; ‘Reporter voice’ is real; 5 ways leaders can become better listeners
• January 21, 2022: ‘She’s not clarifying anything!’; Journalism’s 15-year outlook; Recraft newsroom systems before a crisis
• January 20, 2022: Reporter hit by car during live shot; Costa to CBS; The one habit managers should stop
• January 19, 2022: Biden presser preview; Justices rebut NPR report; New $20 million newsroom
• January 18, 2022: ‘I never wanted to be the news’; Reporter’s rabbi held hostage; CNN mourns
• January 14, 2022: Journalism heroes; Bernstein’s advice to rookie reporters; Absurdle
• January 13, 2022: L.A. Times legacy; Do people leave bosses or companies?; The perfect pandemic game
• January 12, 2022: DC’s new ‘Grid’; NPR’s pay problems; ‘We fought the good fight’; 3 ways to beat imposter syndrome
• January 11, 2022: Neo-Nazi targeted journalists; Taking Axios seriously; ‘On the record by default’; How to know when it’s time to quit
• January 10, 2022: Politico’s new CEO; The Post’s culture wars; 6 ways to lead right from the start
• January 7, 2022: Journalist hiring spree; Bernstein’s new book; 3 tips for saying no
• January 6, 2022: ‘Trauma rushed in’; Empathy & exhaustion; Kristof vs. Oregon; Elmo’s feud
• January 5, 2022: ‘NPR was the pinnacle’; Baltimore’s new newsroom adds journalists; Covering Jan. 6 then and now
• January 4, 2022: The Smiths’ new media venture; NPR crisis; Journalist, senator snowbound on I-95; Holding people accountable for mistakes
• January 3, 2022: White House Correspondents emergency session; Big WaPo departure; Betty White correction; 5 tips for leading with empathy and accountability