Journalism

Network news competitors will have to follow CNN’s rules if they want to simulcast the June 27 showdown between Biden and Trump.

Jerry Brewer: As societal grievance divides sports fans, will media members meet this moment or get trampled by it?

Years before becoming The Post’s publisher, Will Lewis assigned an article based on stolen phone records, a former reporter said.

Adam Ganucheau: Slow-moving lawsuits intended to drain newsrooms of their limited financial resources and editorial bandwidth. Threats of jail time for journalists who expose political corruption and refuse to give up their sources and turn over their notes. Judges with close ties to the politicians who have attacked reporters and their coverage. If you think these things sound outlandish in America, take a close look at what’s happening in Mississippi.

The Hollywood Reporter implemented layoffs on Thursday, affecting a small number of editorial staffers, including longtime TV editor Lesley Goldberg, who has been with the outlet since 2003.

Tom Jones: Lauren Windsor calls herself a journalist. But she didn’t act like one when she deceived Alito to get him to talk. Pictured: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. and his wife Martha-Ann Alito in February 2018. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)

An indictment of The Wall Street Journal reporter has been finalized and his case was filed to the Sverdlovsky Regional Court in the city about 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) east of Moscow, according to Russia’s Prosecutor General’s office. There was no word on when the trial would begin. Pictured: Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom in Moscow in April. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) announced Thursday he is launching a probe into a news-rating system that seeks to guard against misinformation by scoring news and information sites based on their reliability, trustworthiness and financial conflict of interest.

Anderson Cooper’s long-time executive producer is now in charge of the weeknight lineup from 7 p.m. to midnight ET.

Jeff Jarvis: Supporting news should mean not supporting the hedge funds that are killing newspapers and news. Newspaper lobbyists look out only for themselves.

Artifact, the news app startup from Instagram’s cofounders, was purchased by Yahoo earlier this year. The web giant then used some of Artifact’s AI smarts to supercharge its own mobile news app.

Funding for Colorado newsrooms isn’t secure, burnout and shortages are affecting staff, and keeping up with journalistic best practices while maintaining quality is a struggle. That’s the assessment from a report called “State of News: Colorado” by the Colorado News Collaborative, better known as COLab, with contributions from the Colorado Press Association and Colorado Media Project, which underwrites this newsletter.

The campaign on the Canadian channel features an AI-assisted avatar of the Weather Network’s content creator and presenter, Rachel Schoutsen.

Margaret Sullivan: The paper’s reinvention, with the appointment of Will Lewis as publisher, is a mess – but there’s still time to turn things around.

The New York Times Guild is urging management to reconsider cutting nine of the 16 positions from its art-production department, expressing concerns over what the union says amounts to an AI-based replacement, according to an internal memo. Last month, the Times announced the 56% reduction in the newspaper’s art department as it ramps up use of the AI-based platform Claro. A spokesman for the Times said the affected employees are being offered a buyout, and have nothing to do with the use of Claro.