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3 weeks ago | 
poynter.org | Tom Jones |Rick Edmonds
Here we are again, with the clock ticking down on TikTok. Saturday is the deadline for the social media company to either be sold by its Chinese owner, ByteDance, or face a ban in the U.S. — something that fewer and fewer people, including President Donald Trump, seem to want. The U.S. government fears the Chinese government could force ByteDance to hand over data that would compromise U.S. users. TikTok has said it has not shared U.S. data with the Chinese government and would never do so.
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3 weeks ago | 
poynter.org | Rick Edmonds |Tom Jones
To open up today’s Poynter Report, I turn it over to Rick Edmonds, Poynter’s media business analyst. Here’s Rick’s report on the Center for Public Integrity. The Center for Public Integrity, one of the earliest nonprofits built to tackle big investigative projects, is shutting down. The grim details of trouble with finances and management over the last two years were detailed in an article Tuesday by Sewell Chan, executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review.
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3 weeks ago | 
poynter.org | Angela Fu |Rick Edmonds |Tom Jones
The battle between the Trump administration and the press continued this week, including Thursday’s court hearing involving The Associated Press and the White House over press access. So let’s start today’s newsletter there. My colleague, Angela Fu, reports on Thursday’s news. Associated Press journalists told a federal judge Thursday that the White House’s ban on the outlet has hampered its coverage and led to a chilling effect among other outlets, the AP and CNN reported.
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1 month ago | 
poynter.org | Tom Jones |Rick Edmonds |Alex Mahadevan
Good morning. Today’s Poynter Report is not totally Donald Trump-free, but we will not be leading the newsletter with the president, as we have for much of the past two months since his return to the White House. We lead today, unfortunately, with some more grim media news. But it’s important media news. So for this lead item, I turn it over to someone who can best explain what’s going on — Rick Edmonds, Poynter’s media business analyst.
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1 month ago | 
editorandpublisher.com | Tom Jones |Rick Edmonds |Alex Mahadevan
Posted Thursday, March 20, 2025 9:36 am The financially troubled Chicago Sun-Times announced Tuesday that it is shedding 23 newsroom employees through buyouts, more than 20% of staff.
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1 month ago | 
poynter.org | Rick Edmonds |Angela Fu |Tom Jones |Ren LaForme
Just two days after owner Jeff Bezos declared that Washington Post editorials would henceforth focus on “personal liberties and free markets,” the new way of doing things faced a tough stress test. It was an inauspicious debut. The Oval Office blowup that ended with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy being shown the White House door was the sort of big and totally unexpected news that demanded comment.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
poynter.org | Rick Edmonds
Sarah Leach, the Gannett community group editor fired last May for talking with me about an internal company issue, has taken the route of many other editors who lost their jobs at legacy newspaper organizations. In mid-December, with the backing of local sponsors, she launched her own site, the Ottawa News Network. Ottawa is Leach’s home county, with a population of 300,000. It includes Holland, Michigan, population: 35,000.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
editorandpublisher.com | Rick Edmonds
Posted Friday, January 10, 2025 8:37 am Sarah Leach, the Gannett community group editor fired last May for talking with me about an internal company issue, has taken the route of many other editors who lost their jobs at legacy newspaper organizations. In mid-December, with the backing of local sponsors, she launched her own site, the Ottawa News Network. Ottawa is Leach’s home county, with a population of 300,000. It includes Holland, Michigan, population: 35,000. She covered a county...
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
poynter.org | Rick Edmonds
You would expect that in the feverish year now closing, politics would draw digital readers like no other topic. And you would be right. But audiences also spent a lot of time on engaging narratives, often about murders and violence, but not always. That’s the pattern in the 10th edition of Chartbeat’s annual “most engaging stories” list — as measured in story-by-story minutes each is read on its 60,000 publisher client sites. Five of the top 10 stories were about the presidential race.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
poynter.org | Rick Edmonds
This has been a tough fall for super-rich newspaper owners. Both Jeff Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, and Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who owns the Los Angeles Times, pulled presidential endorsements pre-publication. Denials notwithstanding, it sure looked as if they were protecting the primary businesses that made them billionaires from the wrath of Donald Trump. Fierce internal criticism and resignations followed. Each was back in the news on Wednesday.
