Journalists spent more than a year reporting on Monday’s historic eclipse. It only took three minutes for that event to become a footnote in history. Was the coverage worth it? Who watched it and how will it be remembered?
Sara Shahriari, KBIA: “Intersection – Exploring the ‘most watched celestial event’ with astrophysist Angela Speck”
Peter Baugh, Columbia Missourian: “ECLIPSE: Crowds gather, clouds scatter for moment of totality in mid-Missouri”
Jalyn Henderson, KOMU-TV: “Eclipse viewers say the trip to Columbia was well worth it”
Gainluca Mezzofiore, Mashable: “Americans choose eclipse and chill over Netflix”
Ed Mazza, HuffPost: “Watch Fox News’ Shepard Smith completely lose his mind over the eclipse”
Kristen Hare, Poynter: Live from a fainting goat farm, a cruise ship, an airplane: How networks are covering the eclipse”
Is Trump losing Fox News Channel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74wEmkt8XIQ
Carla Herreria, Huffington Post: “Fox News hosts split over Donald Trump’s wild New York press conference”
Maggie Haberman, New York Times: “James Murdoch, rebuking Trump, pledges $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League”
New York Times: “Text of James Murdoch’s email condemning Trump’s response to Charlottesville”
Emily Steel, New York Times: “For Murdoch empire, perhaps a decisive point in relationship to Trump”
Dylan Byers, CNN: “21stCentury Fox’s James Murdoch slams Trump: ‘There are no good Nazis’”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “Hey, James Murdoch: You have no standing to denounce Trump’s Charlottesville reaction”
Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times: “A Fox News host attacks Trump, and some viewers bristle”
Hosting hate online
Ken Schwencke, ProPublica: “Spurned by major companies, The Daily Stormer returns to the web with help from a startup”
Tom Krazit, GeekWire: “Seattle’s BitMitigate now protecting pro-Nazi site The Daily Stormer from web attacks”
Jeremy Malcolm, Cindy Cohn & Danny O’Brien, Electronic Frontier Foundation: “Fighting neo-Nazis and the future of free expression”
Elizabeth Flock, PBS Newshour: “Spotifyhas removed white power music from its platform. But it’s still available on dozens of other sites”
Lance Ulanoff, Mashable: “We’re at a crossroads for free speech online, and it could change the internet as we know it”
Steven Musil, CNET: “Tor Project ‘disgusted’ by Daily Stormer, defends software ethos”
John Herrman, New York Times: “How hate groups forced online platforms to reveal their true nature”
Documenting Hate with AI
Simon Rogers, Google News Lab: “A new machine learning app for reporting on hate in America”
Taylor Hatmaker, TechCrunch: “Google and ProPublica team up to build a national hate crime database”
Timothy Seppala, Engadget: “Google uses machine learning to help journalists track hate”
Pitch Interactive, ProPublica: “Documenting Hate News Index”
Rachel Glickhouse, ProPublica: “Track news stories about hate with the Documenting Hate News Index”
Bannon out, back at Breitbart
Maggie Haberman, Michael D. Shear & Glenn Thrush, New York Times: “Stephen Bannon out at the White House after turbulent run”
Joel B. Pollack, Breitbart: “With Steve Bannon gone, Donald Trump risks becoming Arnold Schwarzenegger 2.0”
Breitbart News: “’Populist hero’ Stephen K. Bannon returns home toBreitbart”
Sabrina Siddiqui, The Guardian: “Bannondeparts – but ‘Trump whisperer’ could have more influence from the outside”
Joshua Green, Justin Sink & Margart Talev, Bloomberg: “Bannonsays he’s ‘going to war for Trump’ after White House exit”
Jonathan Swan & Mike Allen, Axios: “Bannonplots Fox competitor, global expansion”
Jeremy Diamond, Kaitlan Collins & Elizabeth Landers, CNN: “Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon fired”
Ashley Parker, Phillip Rucker, Robert Costa & Damian Paletta: “Trump gets rid of Stephen Bannon, a top proponent of his nationalist agenda”
Bill Scher, POLITICO: “Why Bannon lost and the globalists won”
Mehdi Hasan, The Intercept: “Steve Bannon is gone, but his bigotry stays in the White House”
Hyatt, The Atlantic move ahead with campaign
The Atlantic: “Speaking of Hope”
Ilyse Liffreing, Digiday: “Hyatt deliberated scrapping its new branded-content work after Charlottesville riots”
Katie Richards, AdWeek: “Hyatt celebrates understanding 50 years after it opened its door to civil rights leaders”
Adriane Pasquarelli, AdAge: “Amid racial tension, Hyatt pushes understanding in new spot”
Obi-Wan Kenobi’s big break?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ4yd2W50No
Frank Pallotta, CNN: “Obi-Wan Kenobi film may be coming to the ‘Star Wars’ galaxy”
Andrew Liptak & Bryan Bishop, The Verge: “What would an Obi-Wan Kenobi film mean for the future of the Star Wars franchise?”
Blair Marnell, Nerdist: “What can we expect from the Obi-Wan Kenobi standalone film?”
Anthony Breznican, Entertainment Weekly, “Obi-Wan Kenobi movie in the works as a Star Wars spinoff”
