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“ProPublica will pay the salary, plus a benefits allowance, for reporters at seven partner news organizations who will each spend one year tackling an investigative project in their states. Reporters will collaborate with a ProPublica senior editor, and they can receive assistance with data analysis, research, design, audience development and engagement. Applications for these new slots are due Sept. 27. “
“I don’t think other news sources or a lot of people are aware that young people don’t really use email addresses.”
“Condé Nast’s New Yorker magazine will hire its subcontracted fact-checkers and editors as direct employees, a change that comes amid ongoing contract negotiations with the magazine’s newly unionized staff.”
“Looking ahead, Blinder wants E&P to continue being the go-to resource for publishers when it comes to implementing successful sales and business strategies, and he plans to expand the E&P brand onto other platforms such as podcasting and voice, while delving into deeper issues regarding news publishing including freedom of the press and the power of local journalism.”
” If Stephens can abuse his position by searching out and threatening anyone who makes a joke about him online, and then devote an entire column to the nonsense personal vendetta that ensues, then I have to ask…how embarrassing is too embarrassing for Times editorial page editor James Bennet and his team?”
“If a journalist is only building relationships with powerful people, how will that change the type of information they gather? How are you building relationships with baristas at the local coffee shop? The cashier at the grocery store? People who you encounter on the street?”
“We want there to be no question of our independence or even the potential appearance of a conflict of interest. Over the last several years [the New York Times] has significantly expanded its reporting on climate change and its impact, as well as broader investigative and explanatory coverage of energy and environmental policy.”
“Consumers trust what we say. So if we were asking them to choose the planet, we could not continue to send out our own magazine wrapped in plastic. We had to find an alternative.”
“The Times continued to be the leading filer among media organizations over the first year and a half of the Trump administration. The Times has now filed 27 FOIA lawsuits in the Trump years.”
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