How do you cover the COVID-19 virus – and all of the other news of the day – without putting your staff at an additional risk? It’s a question newsroom managers are grappling with right now.
Sanjay Gupta, CNN: “Why CNN is calling the novel coronavirus outbreak a pandemic”
Dan Froomkin, Press Watchers: “Get political reporters off the coronavirus story because they don’t distinguish between right and wrong”
Andrew Beaujon, Washingtonian: “DC news outlets ask reporters who covered CPAC to self-quarantine due to coronavirus concerns”
Tim Peterson, Digiday: “Broadcasters turn to streaming services for added coronavirus coverage”
Anastasia Tsioulcas & Vanessa Romo, NPR: “The show will not go on: Austin cancels SXSW because of coronavirus”
Kevin Curtin, The Austin Chronicle: “SXSW cancellation not covered by insurance”
Tiffany Hsu & John Koblin, New York Times: “NBC plans for Tokyo Olympics as coronavirus worries advertisers”
Julia Alexander, The Verge: “YouTube is demonetizing videos about coronavirus, and creators are mad”
Frank Pallotta, CNN: “’No Time to Die’ was the first major film to delay its release due to coronavirus. It may not be the last”
Steve Dent, Engadget: “Apple is rejecting coronavirus apps to limit virus misinformation”
Rewatching ‘Contagion’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=4sYSyuuLk5g
Dahlia Schweitzer, Think: “How to stop coronavirus panic? Analyzing Hollywood outbreak narratives offer clues”
Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald: “’Contagion’ becomes a must-see”
Wesley Morris, New York Times: “For me, rewatching ‘Contagion’ was fun, until it wasn’t”
Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture: “The 58 best pandemic movies to binge in quarantine”
The primaries roll on
Rebecca Klar, The Hill: “Bloomberg News to return to ‘normal coverage of election’ after founder drops out”
Brian Stelter, CNN: “Bloomberg News staffers breathe a sigh of relief after Mike Bloomberg drops out”
Jon Allsop, Columbia Journalism Review: “Did the media fail Elizabeth Warren?”
Publisher drops Woody Allen
Carter Sherman, Vice: “Ronan Farrow just helped ‘Catch and Kill’ Woody Allen’s memoir”
Jennifer Schuessler & John Williams, New York Times: “’Imagine if this were your sister,’ Ronan Farrow tells Woody Allen’s publisher”
Sharareh Drury, The Hollywood Reporter: “Woody Allen memoir dropped by Hachette after staff walkout”
Martin Pengelly, The Guardian: “Hachette cancels plan to publish Woody Allen memoir”
Ryan Lattanzio, Indie Wire: “Stephen King left ‘very uneasy’ by Woody Allen’s memoir getting scrapped”
Gray Television bids for Tegna
Jill Goldsmith, Deadline.com: “Tegna stock soars 30% before open on report of $8.5B bid by Gray Television”
Stephanie Sengwe, The Streamable: “Report: Gray Television offers to acquire Tegna Inc. for $8.5 billion”
Al Tompkins, Poynter: “Apollo and Gray Television match offers to buy Tegna. What happens next?”
Jon Lafayette, Broadcasting & Cable: “Gray reportedly making $8.5B bid for Tegna”
Wayne Friedman, MediaPost: “TV station group Gray Television makes $8.5 billion bid for Tegna: report”
Cynthia Littleton, Variety: “Tegna TV station group draws multiple acquisition offers”
Help from the mayor
KOVR-TV: “Sacramento mayor reveals plan to keep Sacramento Bee from folding”
Led Zeppelin wins copyright appeal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXQUu5Dti4g
Ben Sisario, New York Times: “Led Zeppelin prevails in ‘Stairway to Heaven’ appeal”
Gene Maddaus, Variety: “Led Zeppelin scores big win in ‘Stairway to Heaven’ copyright case”
Richard Bienstock, Guitar World: “The battle is no more: Led Zeppelin finally win Stairway to Heaven copyright lawsuit”
