The Ragtag Film Society severed ties with The Crossing on Friday over a message delivered in a sermon that was hurtful to many in mid-Missouri’s transgender community. Also, the author of last year’s anonymous Trump “resistance” op-ed in the New York Times is back with a new book, the growing number of local news deserts, here and abroad, and family-friendly workplace policies that address every phase of life. From the Missouri School of Journalism professors Amy Simons, Earnest Perry and Ryan Thomas: Views of the News.
Church sermon’s impact on T/F
Claire Bradshaw, KOMU-TV: “LGBTQ community fights back against Columbia church’s sermon”
Mikayla Easley, Columbia Missourian: “Ragtag cuts dies with Crossing”
Lucas Geisler, KMIZ: “Ragtag Film Society cuts ties with Columbia church after controversial sermon”
Emily Wolf, KOMU-TV: “True/False, Ragtag dissolve relationship with The Crossing”
Emily Wolf, Cory Johnson & Alexis Godsey, KOMU-TV: “Update: MU says theatre department wrong in cutting ties with True/False”
Lucas Geisler, KMIZ-TV: “MU: Theater department ‘was in error’ when it pulled plug on True/False”
C.W. Dawson, Columbia Missourian: “C.W. Dawson: Another Christian perspective on the sermon about gender”
Keith Simon, Columbia Missourian: “Guest Commentary: The Crossing’s pastor explains his sermon on gender”
Racist Slur on School’s search page
Emily Roiger, Columbia Missourian: “Racist slur turns up on Gentry Middle School search page”
Zach Boetto, KMIZ: “CPS: Racist image was edit of website screen grab”
Kyreon Lee, KRCG: “Race Matters, Friends responds to racial duplicate of Columbia middle school homepage”
Astros executive rant targets female reporters
Stephanie Apstein, Sports Illustrated: “Astros staffer’s outburst at female reporters illustrates MLB’s forgive-and-forget attitude toward domestic violence”
SI Staff, Sports Illustrated: “Sports Illustrated issues statement after Astros question SI’s reporting”\
David Folkenflik, NPR: “Astros executive’s rant at reporters draws firestorm on eve of series”
Ben Strauss & Des Bieler, Washington Post: “In wake of Sports Illustrated story, Astros and MLB go into damage control mode”
Adam J. Morris, Lonestar Baseball: “Houston Astros clubhouse episode motivated by anger at reporter, per report”
Anonymous author of ‘resistance’ op-ed to pen book
Philip Rucker, Washington Post: "Anonymous author of Trump 'resistance' op-ed to publish tell-all book"
Anonymous, New York Times: "I am part of the resistance inside the Trump adminstration"
Giving Credit Where Credit’s Due
Lorenzo Francheschi-Bicchieral & Jason Koebler, Vice: “At the Times, a hesitance to hyperlink”
Phil Corbet, via DocumentCloud: “New York Times linking memo”
Shan Wang, Nieman Lab: “Why don’t the New York Times (and other news organiztions” link out ot sources more often?” (2015)
Local News Deserts… Not Just an American problem
Charlotte Tobin, Press-Gazette: “Three Welsh weeklies shut six months after promise of £1.5 million investment”
Tim Adams, The Guardian: “Final editions: Why no local news is bad news”
Family-friendly work policies
Laura Hazard Owen, Nieman Lab: “The Washington Post now offers 20 weeks of paid parental leave; here’s what other U.S. news orgs provide”
PA Media, The Guardian: “Channel 4 launches menopause policy for employees”
Face the music (licencing)
Matthew Ball: “Hollywood’s video game blind spot”
Matt Ombler, Games Industry: “How does the games industry solve its problem with music licensing?”
