Julia Shapero, Axios: “Everything Elon Musk wants to change about Twitter”
Emma Roth & Russell Brandom, The Verge: “Twitter accepts buyout, giving Elon Musk total control of the company”
Greg Roumeliotis, Reuters: “Twitter set to accept Musk’s $43 billion offer”
Mathew Ingram, Columbia Journalism Review: “Elon Musk puts his money where his mouth is”
Kate Conger, New York Times: “Twitter employees search for answers as Musk takeover becomes reality”
Brooke Singman, Fox News Channel: “Trump will not return to Twitter even as Elon Musk purchases platform, will begin using his own TRUTH Social”
Twitter bans ads denying climate change
Sean Boyle & Casey Junod, Twitter: “Accelerating our climate commitments on Earth Day”
Associated Press: “Twitter bans ads that deny climate change”
Maya Yang, The Guardian: “Twitter uses Earth Day to announce ban on climate denialism ads”
Sarah Lord, CNET: “Twitter bans climate change denial ads”
Naomi Nix, Washington Post: “Twitter bans climate change propaganda ads as deniers target platforms”
All news is local
Richard J. Tofel, Second Rough Draft: “Time for local newspapers to go all-local?”
Celeste LeCompte, Nieman Lab: “Local news needs local conversation to survive”
A.G. Sulzberger, New York Times: “Dean Baquet to lead local investigative reporting fellowship”
LA County Sheriff backs off investigation
Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times: “Claim alleges Sheriff Villanueva directed cover-up of deputy kneeling on inmate”
Harriet Ryan & Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times: “Villanueva backs off investigation of Times reporter who revealed cover-up”
Katie Robertson, New York Times: “Los Angeles Sheriff, accused of cover-up, opens investigation into reporter”
Oliver Darcy, CNN: “Los Angeles sheriff appears to back down ater signaling he was investigating reporter”
Media Guild of the West: “California’s journalists stand with Alene Tchekmedyian”
CNN+ shuts down
Ariel Zilber, New York Post: “Inside the collapse of CNN+: ‘A uniquely sh-tty situation’”
John Koblin, Michael M. Grynbaum & Benjamin Mullin, New York Times: “Inside the implosion of CNN+”
Alex Sherman, CNBC: “What doomed CNN+? How rival strategies and executive intrigue fueled the streaming service’s rapid demise”
Sam Stein & Max Tani, POLITICO: “CNN+ to shut down weeks after its launch”
Sanjana Karanth, HuffPost: “CNN+ is shutting down just weeks after it launched”
Jeremy Barr & Paul Farhi, Washington Post: “CNN to shutter $100 million streaming service, CNN Plus, after a month”
Michael M. Grynbaum, John Koblin & Benjamin Mullin: “CNN+ streaming service will shut down weeks after its start”
Sara Fischer, Axios: “Inside the chaotic collapse of CNN+”
Joshua Benton, Nieman Lab: “CNN, plus or minus: The news network’s new streaming platform is dead, and that’s okay”
Brian Stelter, CNN: “Clashing strategies doomed CNN+ amid corporate merger”
Thomas Barrabi, New York Post: “Chris Wallace breaks silence on CNN+ collapse, unsure of what’s next”
Netflix subscribers drop
Kif Leswing, CNBC: “Netflix and Facebook have given up most of the last few years’ gains since tech’s November peak”
Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg, “Nexflix’s subscriber loss has destroyed employee morale”
Roy J. Harris Jr., Poynter: “Pulitzer preview: Jan. 6 reporting, IRS and Facebook
Alt-weekly changes hands over vaccine column fight
Leonard C. Goodman, Chicago Reader: “Vaxxing our kids” (Nov. 24, 2021)
Elahe Izadi & Kim Bellware, Washington Post: “Chicago Reader, storied alt-weekly, averts closure over vaccine column”
Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune: “Chicago Reader owner steps down amid employee protests, freeing alternative newspaper to go nonprofit”
David Roeder, Sun-Times Media Wire: “Chicago Reader co-owner steps down over vaccine column, agrees to nonprofit transfer”
Melody Mercado, Block Club Chicago: “Chicago Reader stalemate ends as co-owner Leonard Goodman steps down”
Kim Bellware & Elahe Izadi, Washington Post: “A fight over a vaccine column could kill one of the oldest alt-weeklies”
Time to change Pulitzer rules?
Sarah Scire, Nieman Journalism Institute: “Journalism groups: Make the Pulitzers open only to news orgs that are transparent about their diversity”