Journalists across the country are calling for safer work conditions after a car struck a West Virginia television reporter during a live report.
Rob Owen, Trib Live: “Reporter Tori Yorgey talks live shot fame after being hit by car, joining WTAE”
Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post: “A TV reporter was hit by a car while on the air in severe weather, highlighting risks of do-it-all journalism”
Amanda Holpuch, New York Times: “Reporter is hit by car on air, striking nerve with TV journalists”
Barbara Allen, Poynter: “A journalist hit by a car during a live shot remained stoic; meanwhile, journalism Twitter anguished”
Tom Butts, TV Tech: “SAG-AFTRA: TV journalist’s close call with car shows job becoming ‘increasingly perilous’”
Anonymous TV Journalists: “Part 1”
KFRU's David Lile to retire
Megan Mueller, Columbia Missourian: “KFRU’s David Lile announces retirement after 33 years”
David Webber, Columbia Missourian: “David Lile’s retirement is a loss for Columbia”
Tawnie Wilson, Columbia Missourian: KFRU’s David Lile: “The man behind the voice” (2019)
NPR-Supreme Court story
Tom Jones, Poytner: “What’s the deal with this NPR-Supreme Court story?”
Nina Totenberg, NPR: “Gorsuch didn’t mask despite Sotomayor’s COVID worries, leading her to telework”
Aaron Blake, Washington Post: “The Supreme Court’s thoroughly weird handling of the Sotomayor-Gorsuch story”
Kelly McBride, NPR: “NPR reporting on Supreme Court mask controversy merits clarification”
Palin v. NYT
Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times: “Sarah Palin v. New York Times spotlights push to loosen libel law”
Oliver Darcy, CNN: “Why the Sarah Palin v. New York Times trial will be an ‘excruciating’ experience for the paper”
Tom Jones, Poynter: “Sarah Palin v. The New York Times could be a groundbreaking journalism case”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “Opinion: Sarah Palin v. NYT: Exploring the line between bad journalism and libelous journalism”
David Folkenflik, NPR: “Sarah Palin’s defamation suit against ‘The New York Times’ gets its day in court”
Olympic play-by-play
Olafimihan Oshin, The Hill: “ESPN announces it won’t went reporters to Beijing Olympics due to COVID-19”
Christine Brennan, USA Today: “NBC won’t send sports announcing teams to 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing due to COVID-19”
Paul Farhi, Washington Post: “’China will be China’: Why journalists are taking burner phones to the Beijing Olympics”
Best. Football. Weekend. Ever?
FiveThirtyEight: “Nothing will top the NFL’s greatest playoff weekend ever”
Adam Kilgore, Washington Post: “The NFL’s best weekend ever shows us why we can’t look away”
Greg Bishop, Sports Illustrated: “Thirteen seconds: Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs have just enough time to win instant classic”
Adam Teicher & Alaina Getzenberg, ESPN: “Twenty-five points in 2 minutes? Inside the Kansas City Chiefs’ thrilling victory over the Buffalo Bills”
Robert Deitsch, The Athletic: “Producing the wild Bills-Chiefs finish, a goodbye to John Madden, Sean Payton’s future: NFL playoff media thoughts”
Andrew Bucholtz, Awful Announcing: “Paramount+ returned repeated errors for many of those trying to stream Bills-Chiefs”