Vivian Salama & William Mauldin, Wall Street Journal: “U.S. deems WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich ‘wrongly detained’ by Russia”
Reuters: “State Department: Russia violating international law by denying WSJ reporter consular access”
Joel Simon, Columbia Journalism Review: “Free Evan, prosecute the hostage takers”
Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times: “’Chilling effect’: Arrest of journalist makes covering Russia even tougher”
Tennessee Expulsions
Tim Craig & Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Washington Post: “Nashville council votes to reinstate Black Tennessee lawmaker”
Jon Allsop, Columbia Journalism Review: “On the Tennessee expulsions, and a week of local stories that went national”
Ben Blanchet, HuffPost: “MSNBC legal analyst on Tennessee House expelling Dems: It’s American apartheid’”
Ben Blanchet, HuffPost: “Tennessee Republican abruptly leaves interview as CNN grills him on explusions”
Fox Dominion trial looms
Max Tani, Semafor: “Barry Diller says Fox News ‘should lose’ Dominion lawsuit”
Oliver Darcy, Marshall Cohen & Liam Reilly, CNN: “Fox asks judge to bar references to January 6 attack at Dominion trial”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “Opinion: Fox News’s ‘cherry-picking’ argument is rotten”
Reuters, “Fox News settles with Venezuelan businessman in election defamation lawsuit”
Maureen Farrell, New York Times: “Fox News settles defamation case with Venezuelan businessman”
ProPublica’s exclusive on Thomas
Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott & Alex Mierjeski, ProPublica: “Clarence Thomas and the billionaire”
Oliver Darcy, CNN: “How a trio of ProPublica reporters landed an explosive story on Justice Clarence Thomas”
Tom Jones, Poynter: “Opinion: The Wall Street Journal’s editorial blasts ProPublica over its Clarence Thomas investigation”
Dahlia Lithwick & Mark Joseph Stern, Slate: “Clarence Thomas broke the law and it isn’t even close”
Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine: “Clarence Thomas and the ethical disaster of the Supreme Court”
Twitter labels for NPR, BBC
Paul Farhi, Washington Post: “Amid backlash, Twitter changes NPR’s account to ‘government funded media’”
Diego Mendoza, Semafor: “NPR slams Twitter over ‘state-affiliated media’ label”
Nadeem Badshah, The Guardian: “Musk admits BBC ‘among least biased’ in row over twitter ‘government-funded media’ tag”
Sophie Tanno, CNN: “Twitter brands BBC a ‘government funded media’ organization”
Jody Serrano, Gizmodo: “Elon Musk is using Wikipedia to determine which media outlets are ‘government funded”
Influencer Access
Sophia Cai, Axios: “Biden’s digital strategy: an army of influencers”
Kevin Hurler, Gizmodo: “Biden wants to create a press briefing room for influencers”
David Propper, New York Post: “Biden turning to social media influencers to help connect with young voters: report”
Zachary Leeman, Mediaite: “Brian Kilmeade admits Biden’s TikTok influencer plan is ‘great’ Trump-like strategy but proves he’s ‘ambivalent’ about security threat”
