Most Jackson, Miss. residents have access to fresh water again, but what led to the city’s water crisis, and how can journalists hold civic leaders to account?
Richard Prince, Journal-isms: “Jackson water crisis seen as racial – but how?”
Evlondo Cooper, Rob Savillo & Jack Winstanley, Media Matters for America: “The Jackson water crisis is an environmental justice story. National TV news missed an opportunity to cover it that way.”
Anthony Warren, WLBT-TV: “National media’s narrative on the Jackson water crisis breaks along ideological lines”
Ja’han Jones, MSNBC: “Jackson’s water crisis stems from years of racist exploitation”
Staff, Media Matters for America: “Tucker Carlson suggests Mississippi water crisis was intentionally caused by the mayor of Jackson as part of a plot to radicalize the city”
Biden’s democracy speech
Jon Allsop, Columbia Journalism Review: “The pathetic semantic squabble in coverage of Biden’s democracy speech”
Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Michael D. Shear, New York Times: “Biden warns that American values are under assault by Trump-led extremism”
Kevin Liptak, Phil Mattingly & Kaitlan Collins, CNN: “Biden warns Trump and his closest followers are trying to undermine American democracy in combative speech”
Zeke Miller & Josh Boak, Associated Press: “Biden sounds newly strong alarm: Trumpism menaces democracy”
Paul Farhi, Washington Post: “As Biden warned about democracy’s collapse, TV networks aired reruns”
Harwood out at CNN
Ramon Antonio Vargas, The Guardian: “Correspondent abruptly leaves CNN after calling Trump a ‘demagogue’”
Ben Blanchett, HuffPost: “CNN correspondent uses last day at network to send a message on Trump”
Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter: “CNN parts ways with White House Correspondent John Harwood”
Ted Johnson, Deadline: “White House Correspondent John Harwood says he’s leaving CNN”
Jeremy Barr, Washington Post: “’Is there a purge?’: John Harwood’s CNN exit viewed as strategy shift”
Peter Kafka, Vox: “Why billionaire John Malone’s shadow looms over CNN”
Twitter’s Edit button
Twitter: “This is a test of Twitter’s new Edit Tweet feature. This is only a test”
Tom Jones, Poynter: “Opinion: Twitter edits its edit button policy. Finally.”
Clare Duffy, CNN: “Twitter is finally testing an edit button”
Kate Conger, New York Times: “Farewell, typos! Twitter unveils and edit button.”
Finally beating the bots?
Adam B. Vary & Jennifer Maas, Variety: “Amazon’s delay for ‘The Rings of Power’ reviews on Prime Video part of new initiative to filter out trolls”
Emma Roth, The Verge: “Amazon’s putting a three-day pause on reviews for The Rings of Power”
Alex Hern, The Guardian: “Amazon delays The Rings of Power ratings to combat fake reviews”
Justin Carter, Gizmodo: “Amazon suspends Lord of the Rings reviews as it become Prime’s biggest premiere”
James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter: “Is The Rings of Power getting review bombed? Amazon suspends ratings”
Las Vegas reporter found dead
David Wilson, Las Vegas Review-Journal: “Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German killed outside home”
David Ferrera, Las Vegas Review-Journal: “’He just would not give up’: Colleagues, lawyers remember late journalist”
Eduardo Medina, New York Times: “Las Vegas reporter found fatally stabbed outside his home, police say”
Edward Helmore, The Guardian: “Investigative reporter Jeff German stabbed to death in Las Vegas”
So long, Serena
Erin Whiteside, Nieman Lab: “How Serena Williams forced sports journalists to cover tennis as more than a game”