The Washington Post announced plans to offer buyouts to 240 staffers today, cuts that would amount to nearly 10% of total staff. Story from me and @ElaheIzadiwashingtonpost.com/style/med…
Brooklyn High School coach Tim McFarland and his players repeatedly used the word "Nazi" as a playcall in a game against Beachwood High School. Beachwood, a Cleveland suburb, is roughly 90% Jewish espn.com/espn/story/_/id/384…
The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons announced that he would step down from that role, after publicly honoring a Nazi veteran in Parliament. wapo.st/3ZMW5dD
"The days of us blowing off social media vitriol as trolls being trolls — those ended for us last year. We’re never going back to that space." From @angelanfupoynter.org/reporting-editin…
.@JenishaWatts is both a miracle of self invention and a miraculous writer. This, our October cover, took my breath away. It’s impeccably structured, paced, told. Don’t know whether I admire her or her craft more. They feel inseparable. theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
With this and the Texas Tribune cuts a big number of talented Latino journalists have lost their jobs. hire them! But also we are in a crisis…(mas/more)
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Texas Tribune laid off staff today, citing changes in the industry and an unsteady economy. Here's the note CEO Sonal Shah sent to the publication's employees this afternoon.
As a journalism professor, Meyer said, he had graduate students from Egypt who talked about how people would come into the newspaper office and seize everything so they couldn’t publish. “That’s basically what they’re trying to do here,” Meyer said. kansasreflector.com/2023/08/…
For @CJR, I spoke with @idegaulmyn about the French Catholic newspaper La Croix's recent efforts to grapple with its anti-Semitic past—joining a tradition of media historical excavations that has been especially active in the US in recent years:
cjr.org/the_media_today/la_c…
I actually read all 216 pages of Florida's new state social studies standards, and the enslaved-people-benefitting-from-slavery is not even the worst part. They basically created a K-12 course in Caucasian Race Theory
Here's the top 10 problems I found:
thegrio.com/2023/07/27/flori…
Sadly, many happiness studies are flawed. Partly to blame are older practices in psychology that allowed scientists to find results when in truth there were none wsj.com/articles/sadly-many-…
“ProPublica interviewed around a dozen former crew members of the Michaela Rose, some of whom spent years aboard the ship, and none said they were aware of the boat ever being chartered.”
propublica.org/article/harla…
75 years ago today, Hubert Humphrey demanded that the Democratic National Convention adopt a civil rights plank, which led to the Dixiecrat exodus to the GOP. @SamuelGFreedman tells the story of the Black publisher who tutored Humphrey about racism andscape.com/features/cecil-…