The Greitens surprise
Missouri Governor Eric Greitens received a brief reprieve when the St. Louis Circuit Attorney dropped invasion of privacy charges against him while the jury was being selected. But the legislature's move toward impeachment and possible charges related to the Governor's alleged use of a charity mailing list for political fundraising still loom over him.
Robert Patrick, Erin Heffernan and Nassim Benchaabane, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Invasion of privacy charge against Greitens dropped; governor calls it ‘great victory’”
David A. Lieb and Jim Salter, AP: “Missouri lawmakers push Greitens probe after invastion of privacy charge dropped”
Editorial Board, Kansas City Star: “Why the dropped invasion of privacy charge is bad news for Gov. Eric Greitens”
Jack Suntrup and Kurt Erickson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Greitens may have used shell companies to hide donor identities, House committee says"
How ya gonna stop those White House leaks?
Katherine Faulters, ABC News: “Leaks plague White House despite crackdown.”
Jonathan Swan, Axios: “White House leaders leak about leaking”
Jacqueline Alemany, CBC News: “How the White House has been trying to stop its leaks”
Ryan Bort, Rolling Stone: “Trump Keeps Trying (and Failing) to Stop White House Leaks”
Julia Limitone, Fox Business: “Karl Rove names main source of White House leaks”
Print reporters rake in TV bucks
Steven Perlberg, Buzzfeed News: “It’s A Good Time To Be A Reporter Covering Trump If You Like Money And Going On TV.”
Don Aucoin, The Boston Globe: “Print reporters – and the stories they break – reach a broad audience on cable news”
TV’s fascination with Harry and Meghan
Kelly Faircloth, Jezebel: “Don’t Even Try to Escape the Media’s Royal Wedding Feeding Frenzy”
Caroline Davies, The Guardian: “Meghan Markle’s father ‘now wants to attend wedding’”
SCOTUS ruling a boon for sports media
Joshua Benton, Nieman Lab: “Congratulations, sports media: You just got a big business-model subsidy from the Supreme Court”
Michael McCann, Sports Illustrated: “How the Supreme Court’s Sports Betting Ruling Affects Leagues, Players and Fans”
Chris Smith, Forbes: “The 5 Biggest Winners (And One Loser) in the Supreme Court Sports Gambling Decision”
Matthew Hall and Joe Seiss, The Columbia Missourian: “Supreme Court breaks ground for Missouri to allow sports gambling”
The GDPR has publishers running scared
Tim Peterson, Digiday: “Publishers, ad tech firms scramble to comply with GDPR”
Lucia Moses, Digiday: “The extremist approach to GDPR: Some US publishers consider blocking European visitors”
NBC’s leadership problem
Margaret Sullivan, The Washington Post: “All the problems at NBC News aren’t just coincidence. They’re symptoms.”
Ken Meyer, Mediaite: “Ronan Farrow Inks Deal For New Book, Might Reveal Why NBC Didn’t Run His Weinstein Report”
Brian Steinberg, Variety: “MSNBC Should Take No Joy in Not Investigating Reid”
Timothy Cama, The Hill: “Hugh Hewitt scolded for Pruitt advocacy”
Tom Winter and Julia Ainsley, NBC News: “Feds monitored Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s phones”
