Fox News announced it is retracting its story on Seth Rich. The DNC staffer was murdered in Washington D.C. last summer. The cable network has been reporting for more than a week that his slaying came 12 days after contacting Wikileaks. Now, it says that reporting doesn’t stand up to its editorial standards. What changed?
Fox News: “Statement on coverage of Seth Rich murder investigation”
Oliver Darcy, CNN Money: “Fox News staffers ‘disgusted’ at network’s promotion of Seth Rich conspiracy theory”
Megan Garber, The Atlantic: “It’s too late for Fox to retract its Seth Rich story”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIpd-3YtHX4
Benjamin Mullin, Poynter: “Fox News retracts bogus Seth Rich story”
Daniel Victor, New York Times: “Fox News retracts Seth Rich story that stirred controversy”
Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post: “The Seth Rich lie, and how the corrosion of reality should worry every American”
Oliver Darcy, CNN Money: “Seth Rich’s brother pleads with Hannity to stop spreading conspiracy theory”
Roger Ailes (19XX-2017)
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5439444205001
Gabriel Sherman, New York Magazine: “Roger and me”
Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post: “Roger Ailes’s lasting legacy for women workers is one he would have hated”
Bret Stephens, New York Times: “The man who wrecked conservatism”
Jonah Goldberg, National Review: “Roger Ailes, one of a kind”
Jeff Greenfield, POLITICO: “The secret of Roger Ailes’ billion-dollar bubble”
Jon Klein, Washington Post: “The dark source of Roger Ailes’s power”
Don Kaplan, New York Daily News: “Roger Ailes was innocent – in his own mind”
Jessica Toonkel & Daniel Wiessner, Reuters: “Fate of Ailes harassment lawsuits unclear after his death”
Paul Farhi, Washington Post: “Many publicly mourned Roger Ailes, but the silence was deafening, too”
Trump’s overseas visit
Callum Borchers, Washington Post: “The media is taking a beating on Trump’s foreign trip”
Isabel Kershner, New York Times: “Preparations for Trump’s visit expose political rifts in Israel”
Haroon Moghul, Haaretz: “While Trump ingratiates himself with Saudi extremists, U.S. Muslims are abandoned”
Quintan Wiktorowicz, Washington Post: “Why Trump’s speech on terrorism was such a missed opportunity”
Raheem Kassam, Breitbart: “Kassam: From Cairo to Riyadh, Trump urged action on terror where Obama offered Islamic apologism”
Uri Friedman & Emma Green, The Atlantic: “Trump’s speech on Islam, annotated”
Hadas Gold & Annie Karni, Politico: “Tillersonholds a press conference without U.S. media”
Jackie Wattles, CNN Money: “Tillersonholds briefing in Saudi Arabia without US press”
CNN’s candid Cooper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUCoKexWTR8
Kristine Phillips, Washington Post: “Anderson Cooper apologizes for conjuring image of Trump defecating on his desk”
Salvador Hernandez, BuzzFeed: “Anderson Cooper just told a contributor he’d defend Trump even if he took ‘a dump on his desk’”
What’s next for Julian Assange?
Steven Erlanger & Christina Anderson, New York Times “Julian Assange rape inquiry is dropped but his legal problems remain daunting”
Esther Addley & Alan Travis, The Guardian: “Swedish prosecutors drop Julian Assange rape investigation”
BBC: “Julian Assange: “Sweden drops rape investigation”
Colin Dwyer, NPR: “Sweden drops rape investigation of Julian Assange – but he’s not in the clear”
Sky News: “Julian Assange: Rape investigation against Wikileaks founder dropped”
Jeremy Hodges & Niclas Rolander, Bloomberg Technology: “Wikileaks’Assange remains in embassy after rape case dropped”
Matthew Weaver, The Guardian: “Can Julian Assange now walk free? What happens next – Q & A”
Facebook’s internal rulebooks
Nick Hopkins, The Guardian: “Revealed: Facebook’s internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence”
Nick Hopkins, The Guardian: “Facebook moderators: a quick guide to their job and its challenges”
Nick Hopkins & Julia Carrie Wong, The Guardian: “Has Facebook become a forum for misogyny and racism?
Johana Bhuiyan, Recode: “Here are some pretty awful things you can (and cannot) say on Facebook”
Jon Fingas, Engadget: “Leak reveals Facebook’s rules for controversial content”
David Z. Morris, Fortune: “Facebook’s content screening guidelines leaked”
Alex Hazlett, Mashable: “Facebook mined its way through social and now is trying to pick its way through”
Monika Bickert, The Guardian: “At Facebook we get things wrong – but we taek our safety role seriously”
Getting the kids on board
Ricardo Bilton, Nieman Journalism Lab: “The New York Times continues to experiment with the Sunday paper, this time with a special kids’ section”
Change.org: “Make the New York Times for Kids a permanent Sunday section”
Ricardo Bilton, Nieman Journalism Lab: “NPR’s first kid-focused podcast is taking some narrative lessons from its adult counterparts”
Ricardo Bilton, Nieman Journalism Lab: “Crinkling News wants to teach media literacy to young readers”
Ginnie Graham, Tulsa World: “Elementary school isn’t too young to learn about journalism”
Alternative advertising strategies
Meg James & Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times: “How the big TV networks are adapting to ad-skipping viewers”
Damian Garde, STAT: “How a drug ad made its way into ‘General Hospital’”
Sapna Maheshwari, New York Times: “Networks offer taste of TV’s ad future. Marketers are hungry for more.”
Journalists’ brain function tested
Lindsay Dodgson, Business Insider: “Journalists drink too much, are bad at managing emotions and operate at a lower level than average, according to new study”
Tara Swart: “Study into the mental resilience of journalists”
