Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star: “Jean Carnahan, first Missouri woman in U.S. Senate and former Missouri first lady, dies”
Jo Mannies, St. Louis Public Radio: “Jean Carnahan, Missouri’s first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate, dies at 90”
Megan Mueller, Fox2: “Former U.S. Senator Jean Carnahan dies at 90”
Livia Albeck-Ripka, New York Times: “Jean Carnahan, first woman to represent Missouri in U.S. Senate, dies at 90”
Ashley Byrd, MissouriNet: “Obituary: Former Missouri Senator, first lady, author and advocate Jean Carnahan”
History, Art & Archives, United States House of Representatives: “Carnahan, Jean”
Super Bowl Bound
Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star: “Why Travis Kelce’s message after Chiefs’ AFC title win is only part of KC’s story"
Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star: “’On to Vegas.’ Here is what Chiefs players posted on social media after beating Ravens”
Barry Svrluga, Washington Post: “All credit goes to the Ravens: They beat themselves”
Martin Rogers, Fox Sports: “A look back at the Chiefs-49ers Super Bowl matchup 4 years ago”
T-Swift to the Super Bowl
Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star: “Will Taylor Swift see Travis Kelce play in Super Bowl? Here’s how it would work”
Benjamin Hoffman, New York Times: “How often is Taylor Swift actually shown at N.F.L. games?”
Tom Jones & Rick Edmonds, Poynter: “Opinion | Get ready, America: Taylor Swift is going to the Super Bowl”
Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean: “Will Taylor Swift attend Super Bowl 58 to cheer on Kansas City Chiefs’ Travis Kelce?”
Rosa Sanchez, Bazaar: “The Kansas City Chiefs’ upcoming Super Bowl trip is full of Taylor Swift easter eggs”
Candace Buckner, Washington Post: “The Chiefs and Taylor Swift have taken over the NFL. Get used to it.”
Oliver Darcy & Andrew Kaczynski, CNN: “Right-wing media figures target Taylor Swift with absurd conspiracy theory ahead of the Super Bowl”
Jon Stewart’s return
John Koblin & Matt Stevens, New York Times: “Jon Stewart will return to host ‘The Daily Show’ on Monday"
Oliver Darcy, CNN: “Jon Stewart’s return to ‘The Daily Show’ could shake up 2024 politics”
Tom Jones, Poynter: “Opinion | Look who’s back: Jon Stewart returns to the ‘The Daily Show’”
Journalism on the brink
Cameron Joseph, Columbia Journalism Review: “The death of the Washington Bureau”
Max Tani, Semafor: “Inside the collapsing U.S. political-media-industrial-complex”
Oliver Darcy & Jon Passantino, CNN: “News industry off to brutal 2024 start as mass layoffs devastate publishers, raising questions about the future of journalism”
Jack Shafer, POLITICO: “The news business is really cratering”
Fighting burnout
Christina Couch, Neiman Lab: “Journalists are burned out. Some newsrooms are fighting back.”
Mike Janssen, Current: “We asked people why they left public media, and here’s what they told us” (December 2022)
Gershkovich’s detention extended
Ann M. Simmons, Wall Street Journal: “Russian court extends detention of WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich”
