The Mississippi River Basin Ag and Water Desk promises a fresh approach to covering agriculture, water and climate issues across more than 20 states. We’ll talk about what makes this innovative partnership unique, and how it will serve local communities.
Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk
Missouri School of Journalism: “$1.4 million grant to Missouri School of Journalism helps create network of journalists focused on Mississippi River basin”
Gracie Smith, Columbia Missourian: “$1.4 million grant goes toward news coverage of the Mississippi River basin”
Roger McKinney, Columbia Daily Tribune: “New MU School of Journalism initiative focuses on Mississippi River coverage”
The New Space Race
Jon Allsop, Columbia Journalism Review: “Richard Branson, the press, and the space in between”
Christian Davenport, Washington Post: “Richard Branson and his Virgin Galactic crew are safely back from space, ushering in a new era”
Sara Fischer, Miriam Kramer & Neal Rothschild, Axios: “Billionaire battle draws big attention to space coverage”
Peter Aitken, Fox Business: “Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson reaches space in test flight, part of furious space tourism race”
Denise Chow, NBC: “Billionaires, livestreams and Stephen Colbert: Welcome to a new era of space flight”
AFP, The Australian: “Party time: Champagne and celebrities mark Branson’s space flight”
Christian Davenport, Washington Post: “Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos will fly to space at their own risk. Does that make it right for everyone?”
Ella McCarthy, Columbia Missourian: “Wally Funk learned to fly at Stephens College and now heads to space with Bezos”
The end of the noncompete?
Al Tompkins, Poynter: “The FTC may abolish noncompete clauses for journalists and everyone else”
The White House: “Executive order on competition in the American economy”
Denitsa Tsekova, Yahoo! News: “Biden’s latest executive order empowers workers in 3 key ways”
Run-up to the Olympics
Gerry Smith, Bloomberg: “Comcast bets on its secret weapon in the streaming wars: The Olympics”
Nicholas Rice, People: “Kevin Hart and Snoop Dogg to team up for Tokyo Olympics highlights series on Peacock”
Oliver Darcy, CNN: “Olympics 2021: NBC faces ‘hell of a challenge’ producing Tokyo Games after spectators are barred from competitions”
Nick Hide & Mark Serrels, CNET: “Tokyo Olympics: Start date, full schedule, COVID-19 protocol, how to watch”
Streaming vs. Theatrical release
Brandon Katz, Observer: “Every movie theater vs. streaming release is riddled with pros and cons”
Jeremy Fuster, The Wrap: “’Black Widow’ earns $80 million domestic box office opening with $60 million from Global Disney+ sales”
Brooks Barnes, New York Times: “A big opening for ‘Black Widow’ gives a taste of how theaters and streaming can coexist”
Scott Mendelson, Forbes: “’Black Widow’ proves theaters and streamers can coexist”
Can you spell Zaila?
Kylie Mar, Yahoo! Entertainment: “Zaila Avant-garde becomes first African American to win Scripps Spelling Bee”
Lisa Desjardins, PBS NewsHour: “National Spelling Bee winner Zaila Avant-garde also holds 3 Guinness World Records”
Maria Cramer & Alexandra E. Petri, New York Times: “Behind Zaila Avant-garde’s win, a history of struggle for Black spellers”
Sarah Jones-Smith, The Undefeated: “Zaila Avant-garde won the national spelling bee, but this wasn’t her first real victory”
