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“The network’s shows lost roughly a quarter of their audience between the second quarter of 2019 and the same months in 2020. People who listened to NPR shows on the radio at home before the pandemic by and large still do. But many of those who listened on their commute have not rejoined from home.”

“I’d be going door to door, or meeting with people at a diner or a fair, for example, and in the most isolated areas, a lot of people had no idea that their own congressman had been indicted.”

“An estimated 1.4 million people listening to Morning Edition on Friday, June 26, heard U.S. Attorney General Barr falsely declare that mail-in ballots will jeopardize the security of the upcoming presidential election.”

“The department’s proposed regulations would add new reasons to revoke reporters’ credentials that allow them past police lines . . . The timing of the changes, in the works for years, sends a message that police officials are trying to hinder an important check on their conduct.”

“If we want a better, more inclusive economy, we need a new, more demanding form of business and economic journalism, one that questions the assumptions our organizations, industries, and economies are built on; investigates not only how the systems that govern them are working now, but how they might be improved; and prepares readers to take action to improve them. In other words, we need business journalism to be more progressive.”

The Atlantic Festival typically attracts 2,000 to 3,000 paying in-person attendees. This year, the festival will be free to attract a larger crowd through the help of nine advertisers. (Last year’s event, by comparison, had 16 total sponsors.)

“If you’re editing a story that’s too long you’re allowed to just stop.”

“Since its inception, ZeHabesha has also taken on powerful politicians and government agencies in Ethiopia, exposing corruption, shady business dealings and abuse of power.[Henok A. Degfu’s] latest target, Ethiopian Airlines, recently filed a defamation lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Minnesota against him and ZeHabesha over a series of interviews the outlet broadcast on its YouTube channel…Three years later, he started a new life in Minnesota, home to an estimated 30,000 Ethiopian immigrants and refugees, to pursue what his native country wouldn’t allow him to do: journalism.” —HT

“If BIPOC food writers decide to share our heritage in our work, the outcome is typically molded by external assumptions. We are seldom the gatekeepers, the creative directors, the publishers with the power to assign, shape, and promote the piece. By these others, our food is systematically relegated to a mercurial trend. Or else, our personal narratives are required to justify the food’s value.”

“I agree with the audience members who have cried foul at how this was presented,” NPR public editor Kelly McBride wrote. “While some would argue that when a powerful government offers an outrageous point, listeners should get to hear it, this interview made it too easy for those listeners to come away with an incomplete understanding, or even believing that Barr’s widely debunked statement is a credible concern.”

“The campaign, called ‘Be Informed,’ features a number of TikTok’s most popular video makers, who address topics such as how to scrutinize the credibility of the sources of TikTok videos and how to distinguish fact from opinion.”

“Filipino media in the United States, like the Manila Mail and Pinoy Magazine, have covered both the implications of the new law and how Filipino Americans are responding. Mainstream American media may not be watching closely because what’s happening abroad feels distant, but in neglecting to cover the suppression of free press and speech in the Philippines as it relates to Filipino Americans, the U.S. media perpetuates the idea of the Philippines as a ‘third world’ country that is separate from — instead of inextricably linked to — the United States.”

“The Vox Media Union, which is affiliated with the Writers Guild of America East, said in a statement that its reps met with company execs over the last three days and proposed ‘multiple solutions that we believed would make it possible to avert layoffs altogether. Management refused to implement almost all of them.’ The union claimed that it was able to ‘push management and ensure that the company will lay off fewer people than originally planned.'”

Editor in chief John Micklethwait sent a blunt memo to Bloomberg’s editorial staff. “The key person to think about is the reader. They are busy people — who normally read only one screen or a story and SELDOM read more than two screens. (A screen typically is around 300 words, though a lot depends on the illustrations.)”