John McCormick, Wall Street Journal: “Biden calls for release of jailed journalist Evan Gershkovich, other detainees”
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Television Writers Strike
WGA: “WGA on strike”
Writers Guild of America West: “Writers Guild of America calls strike, effective Tuesday, May 2”
John Koblin & Brooks Barnes, New York Times: “Hollywood writers go on strike, halting production”
Jenna Moon, Semafor: “Hollywood writers’ strike explained in three charts”
Nadia Khomami, The Guardian: “Thousands of Hollywood film and TV writers begin strike”
Cynthia Littleton & Gene Maddaus, Variety: “WGA calls for strike to begin Tuesday, slams studios for creating ‘gig economy’ that aims to turn writing into ‘entirely freelance’ profession”
Gene Maddaus, Variety: “WGA spells out vast differences that led to strike”
Peter White, Deadline: “Late-night shows to shut down immediately after writers guild strike called”
Nick Bythrow, Screenrant: “Writers strike officially confirmed: What it means for upcoming movies and tv”
Twitter’s Micropayment Plan
Joshua Benton, Nieman Lab: “Micropayments. Elon Musk thinks he’s got a ‘major win-win’ for news publishers with… micropayments.”
Thomas Ricker, The Verge: “Twitter will let media publishers charge per article starting in May”
Staff, The Guardian: “Twitter to let publishers charge users per article read, says Elon Musk”
Ashley Capoot, CNBC: “Jack Dorsey criticizes Elon Musk’s leadership at Twitter: ‘It all went south’”
Brian Fung, CNN: “Jack Dorsey no longer thinks Elon Musk is the right person to run Twitter”
Irina Ivanova, CBS: “Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey slams Elon Musk’s management of the company”
Remembering Jerry Springer
Paul Farhi, Washington Post: “Jerry Springer, TV’s master of trash, and the world he left us”
Ramon Antonio Vargas and Martin Pengelly, The Guardian: “Jerry Springer, influential US talkshow host, dies at 79”
Dan Sewell, Associated Press: “Jerry Springer, host of raucous Chicago-based talk show, dies at 79”
Justin Kaufmann, Axios: “How Jerry Springer left a mark on Chicago”
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: “How Jerry Springer delighted, infuriated Chicago”
Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune: “Magers follows Marin out at WMAQ” (1997)
Remembering Mike Shannon
Rick Hummel, Derrick Goold & Dan Caesar, St. Louis Post Dispatch: “Cardinals legend Mike Shannon dies at 83”
Joey Schneider & Kevin S. Held, Fox2: “Mike Shannon, longtime Cardinals radio broadcaster, dies at 83”
Bob Cronin, St. Louis Public Radio: “Mike Shannon, hometown star athlete who became voice of the Cardinals, dies”