From last night's Semafor media newsltter: Why the Washington Post passed on the Alito flag story three years ago
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Even in a pre-Dobbs world, it's hard to fathom editors passing on the Alitos story semafor.com/article/05/26/…

Good Charlotte Klein look at the scramble inside the networks to secure presidential and VP debates once the campaigns dismissed the the long-running debate commission

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Among staff at the New York Times, Charlotte Behrendt is little-known and widely feared.

“If you get called into a meeting and Charlotte is there, that’s generally not a good thing for you,” one former editor tells VF's Charlotte Klein. vntyfr.com/VLpRqw0

'Meet 'the Inspector General' of the New York Times Newsroom' Charlotte Klein vanityfair.com/news/story/new…

Revealing Charlotte Klein look into how the New York Times investigates itself.

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How NYT’s internal-investigations czar is described by newsroom employees:

“Police interrogator meets prosecutor”
“Management’s hammer”
“Bullying/threatening”
“Miss Chop-Their-Heads-Off”
“Humorless lawyer from a union-busting firm”

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Here's a look at Charlotte Behrendt, the 'inspector general' of the Times newsroom, who has conducted internal investigations inside the Gray Lady for more than 20 years

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CNN announces televised presidential debate between Biden and Trump on June 27 — notably, no audience

Gannett fires an editor for talking to Poynter’s Rick Edmonds:

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Update: The daily transcripts of the Trump trial that OCA posts are extremely limiting – unsearchable, unselectable text, images you must page through one-by-one, on a glitchy web portal. We cannot download them as PDFs & put them on the docket.

We’re disappointed.

“It was truly exciting seeing these students become professional journalists reporting on the biggest story right now, not only in the city, but in the nation.”

Columbia professor Juan Manuel Benítez to Charlotte Klein on Gaza protest coverage this week

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Caught up with the graduate students at Columbia Journalism School, who've gotten a crash course in breaking news, capturing the Hamilton Hall occupation and the NYPD’s crackdown, while surviving on pizza and operating on little sleep.
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Here's Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb's memo to faculty. 'We believe that journalists have a fundamental right to cover the news. Your efforts turned those sentiments into reality.'

“For a party that was impossible to get into, there’s a lot of fucking people here,” one journalist grumbled.

Charlotte Klein reporting from WHCD weekend is real public service-type stuff.

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considering I was at most (all) of these events, let me endorse this Charlotte Klein piece about WHCD weekend because it pretty much nails it.
& shout-out to Risa Heller: '...you should do a fashion report on what's gone wrong in our nation's capital.' yes.

Sweeping Charlotte Klein piece on White House Correspondents’ Dinner weekend — the parties, the protests, and the chatter about the looming presidential election

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My roving report from this weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner festivities, where glitzy parties and Gaza protests collided:

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News: Poppy Harlow is leaving CNN

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NY's top judges made the final decision to post Trump's trial transcripts publicly after a weekend call from Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, Law360 learned, after many weeks of internal debate, public calls from New York Daily News (4/9, 4/12, 4/21), private talks, letters & a motion to Justice Merchan.