The FDA has approved the Pfizer vaccine use for people over the age of 16, without the emergency use authorization. How will this affect the vaccine rates among the vaccine hesitant, and how might it affect vaccine requirements in the public and private sectors? And, why are some outlets pushing alternative treatments not approved for human use at all?
Matthew Sanders, KMIZ: “Missouri attorney general sues Columbia Public Schools over mask mandate”
Ben Guarino, Laurie McGinley & Tyler Pager, Washington Post: “Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine gets full FDA approval, potentially persuading the hesitant to get a shot”
Al Tompkins, Poynter: “What is the difference between emergency approval and full FDA approval of vaccines?”
Oliver Darcy, CNN: “Anti-mask New York Post requires all of its employees to wear masks in latest sign of Murdoch media hypocrisy”
Stephanie Southey, KOMU-TV: "Despite FDA warning, Lake Ozark mayor wants ivermectin for friend with COVID-19"
Oliver Darcy, CNN: “Right-wing media pushed deworming drug to treat COVID-19 that the FDA says is unsafe for humans’”
Developments in Afghanistan
Michael M. Grynbaum, Tiffany Hsu & Katie Robertson, New York Times: “How news organizations got Afghan colleagues out of Kabul”
Matt Murray & Karen Pensiero, Wall Street Journal: “Our Afghan colleagues”
Katherine Huggins, Mediaite: “Fox News, CNN, other news outlets have collectively evacuated hundreds of Afghan journalists and staff”
Michael Savage, The Guardian: “Afghan journalists win right to come to Britain after media appeal”
Elahe Izadi & Sarah Ellison, Washington Post: “A free press was trying to take root in Afghanistan. Now journalists are bracing for Taliban rule.”
Oliver Darcy, CNN: “The media spotlight in Afghanistan is about to dim as journalists evacuate”
Paul Farhi, Washington Post: “Journalists face danger in Kabul streets and a new question: How to cover Afghanistan now?”
Dave Davies, NPR: “Journalist says Americans are ‘all complicit’ in the situation in Afghanistan”
Conflicts over conflicts of interest
Tim Schwab, Columbia Journalism Review: “The conflict over conflicts of interest”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “Opinion: NYT sports reporter suspended over conflict of interest with Michael Phelps”
Craig Silverman & Ryan Mac, BuzzFeed News: “Facebook helped fund David Brooks’s second job. Nobody told the readers of the New York Times.”
Expanding the Kansas City Star
Mike Fannin, Kansas City Star: “A reimagined Kansas City Star: More pages, more journalists and more ways to read”
Covering the Elledge Trial
Mark Slavit, KRCG-TV: “Prosecutors want former KRCG reporter to testify in Joseph Elledge murder trial”
Sam Olsen, KOMU-TV: “Former local reporter subpoenaed by prosecuting attorney in Elledge case”
Gladys Bautista, KRCG-TV: “Husband of missing Columbia woman speaks on her disappearance” (October 15, 2019)
Who will host Jeopardy now?
Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post: “How journalism saved ‘Jeopardy!’ from an unworthy host after an utter failing of corporate vetting”
Cynthia Littleton, Variety: “Mike Richards out as ‘Jeopardy!’ host amid cascade of scandals”
Brian Stelter, CNN: “Mike Richards has stepped down as the host of ‘Jeopardy!’”
Caitlin O’Kane, CBS News: “Mike Richards steps down as ‘Jeopardy!’ host after inappropriate comments surface”
Michael M. Grynbaum, Nicole Sperling & Julia Jacobs: “Abrupt exit of new ‘Jeopardy!’ host, Mike Richards, rattles a TV institution”
Brian Stelter, CNN: “Now who will be the new ‘Jeopardy!’ host?”