Is she the next Edward Snowden? We’ll talk about the arrest of Reality Leigh Winner on charges of leaking top-secret documents detailing a 2016 Russian cyberattack on election software.
Matthew Cole, Richard Esposito, Sam Biddle & Ryan Grim, The Intercept: “Top-secret NSA report details Russian hacking effort days before 2016 election”
The Intercept: “Statement on Justice Department allegations”
Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto & Laura Jarrett, CNN: “Contractor charged with leaking classified NSA info on Russian hacking”
Joe Uchill, The Hill: “WikiLeaks offers $10,000 to get Intercept reporter fired”
Steven Perlberg, Chris Geidner, Jason Leopold, BuzzFeed: “A federal government contractor has been charged with leaking to The Intercept”
David Smith & Jon Swaine, The Guardian: “Russian agents hacked US voting system manufacturer before US election – report”
Department of Justice: “Federal government contractor in Georgia charged with removing and mailing classified materials to a news outlet”
Pete Williams, Ken Dilanian & Tom Winter, NBC News: “Feds arrest NSA contractor in leak of top secret Russia document”
State of the Newspaper
Rustan Burton, Columbia Daily Tribune: “The state of the newspaper”
Joe Walljasper, Columbia Daily Tribune: “Thanks for joining me on a fun ride”
Hank J. Waters III, Columbia Daily Tribune: “Walljasper”
The Newsguild – CWA: “Workers at GateHouse Publications win stunning victory at shareholders meeting”
Cutting the Public Editor
Liz Spayd, New York Times: “The Public Editor signs off”
Matt Gertz, Media Matters for America: “Liz Spayd’s final NY Times column shows why she failed as public editor”
Indira A.R. Lakshmanan, Poynter: “New York Times editing cuts will mean doing more with less. Will credibility suffer?”
Ben Smith, BuzzFeed: “Why have a public editor when Twitter will do it for free?”
Covering another British attack
Katherine Skiba, Los Angeles Times: “Trump strikes a discordant tone in tweets about the London terrorist attacks”
Oliver Darcy, CNNMoney: “Breitbart infuriated by colleagues’ ‘appalling’ comments after London terror attack”
Charlies Riley, CNN: “Theresa May: Internet must be regulated to prevent terrorism”
Nina Mast, Media Matters for America: “Fox contributor and Fox guest float internment after London attack, network later apologizes”
Marina Fang, Huffington Post: “Fox News host disavows internment camps, after panelists suggest rounding up Muslims”
Greg Evans, Deadline: “’Fox & Friends Weekend’ clarifies: Internment camps are ‘reprehensible’”
Jill Disis & Jackie Wattles, CNN Money: “Trump appears to take his cues from Fox News in tweets on London attack”
Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times: “After London attack, Trump again the center of partisian media combat”
Dropping the pretense of objectivity
Becket Adams, Washington Examiner: “Media drops all pretense of objectivity to bemoan US withdrawal from Paris agreement”
Phil Hornshaw, The Wrap: “Weather Channel site goes apocalyptic after Trump Paris accord speech”
Nellie Andreeva, Deadline: “National Geographic & Weather Channel defiant with climate change website makeovers after Paris agreement pullout”
Caroline Framke, Vox: “The Weather Channel has a hot take on Trump pulling out of the Paris climate agreement”
Elle Hunt, Sam Levin & Tom McCarthy, The Guardian: “Paris climate agreement: World reacts as Trump pulls out of global accord – as it happened”
Tom Kludt, CNN Money: “Trump’s Paris decision puts climate change in rare media spotlight”
Calls for Bill Maher’s ouster
Maureen Ryan, Variety: “’Real Time’ doesn’t need to go, but Bill Maher should be fired”
Jill Reinstein, BuzzFeed: “Bill Maher used the the N-word on his show and now people are calling for him to be fired”
Dave Itzkoff, New York Times: “Bill Maher apologizes for use of racial slur on ‘Real Time’”
Laurel Wamsley, NPR: “Bill Maher apologizes after using n-word on his show”
Tavis Smiley, Time: “Bill Maher doesn’t know the hurt behind the racial slur he used. I do.”
Derek Hunter, The Daily Caller: “Bill Maher apologizes as liberal call for his firing grow”
Wesley Morris, New York Times: “What was Bill Maher’s big mistake?”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “Bill Maher discovers the wonder of apology”
Todd Van Luling, Huffington Post: “Senator Al Franken cancels Bill Maher appearance amid controversy”
T. Shawn Taylor, Chicago Defender: “The ‘N’ Word: When to be offended”
Kathy Griffin & Trump photo
Lauren Duca, Teen Vogue: “On Kathy Griffin, performative outrage and the relativity of shame”
Jonah Engel Bromwich, New York Times: “CNN fires Kathy Griffin from New Year’s Eve broadcast over Trump photo”
Sydney Smith & Rhonda Roland Shearer, iMediaEthics.org: “’A mistake’ to axe NYTimes public editor, former news ombuds director Dvorkin says”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “NYT standards chief on editorial streamlining: ‘I’m always worried’”
Kelly McBride, Poynter: “The New York Times killed the public editor job just when it’s needed most”