You’ll want to take a look at this NPR “Fresh Air” episode, which options host Terry Gross speaking with New Yorker editor David Remnick and the legendary former government editor of The Washington Put up, Marty Baron. The principle matter of dialogue: the media and Donald Trump.
Baron provided a dire warning of what the second Trump administration might appear to be for the media. He mentioned he expects the administration “to go after the press in each conceivable method … (utilizing) each device within the toolbox — and there are a number of instruments.”
Baron added, “I feel (Trump’s) salivating for the chance to prosecute and imprison journalists for leaks of nationwide safety info — or what they might name nationwide safety info. I might anticipate that he would deny funding to public radio … and TV. And that he’ll search to train management over the Voice of America and its mum or dad firm, the U.S. Company for World Media, as he did in his earlier administration, attempting to show it right into a propaganda outlet.”
Remnick mentioned Trump’s anger “has by no means been so intense because it’s been in opposition to the press.”
Remnick talked concerning the parallels between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying, “The Putin regime exhibits us when there isn’t a reality, every little thing is feasible. Mendacity has come from White Homes for many years and many years. However Donald Trump has modified the sport.”
Your entire dialog is vital and fascinating and I urge you to provide it a hear.
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Guardian Media Group has confirmed that it’s promoting The Observer to Tortoise Media. The sale value has not been specified, however Tortoise executives have mentioned they plan to speculate 20 to 25 million kilos in reviving the title.
The Observer is 200+ years outdated and claims to be the world’s oldest newspaper. With a largely separate information workers, it features as The Guardian’s Sunday version. The digital-only (and audio) Tortoise is simply 5 years outdated, rising, however step by step, from its standing begin. On the floor, this seems to be like a minnow swallowing a whale.
Nonetheless, Tortoise was based by James Harding, a former editor of the Instances of London and former director of stories on the BBC. Different high executives are from different main British titles. Tortoise has successful information merchandise and a persuasive marketing strategy combining the day by day Sensemaker publication, common podcasts and stay occasions. That offers Harding and his group entry to capital for a major spherical of additional progress.
The Observer, then again, has the distressed funds typical of legacy newspapers and has been shrinking its workers and scope for years. So it is smart for the a lot stronger Guardian and its proprietor, the nonprofit Scott Belief, to be rid of the publication and its losses.
This week, the Press Gazette, Britain’s news-about-news publication, reported that the union representing each Guardian and Observer staff has called a 48-hour strike for early in December to protest the sale. Tortoise countered in a press release, “everybody can see that it (The Observer) is headed down a path to irrelevance” and at risk of closing.
In 2021, I interviewed Katie Vanneck-Smith, the then-Tortoise publisher who later moved on to guide Hearst UK, and was impressed each by the idea and the sleek execution of the Sensemaker publication. With the slogan “Decelerate — sensible up,” Tortoise doesn’t purpose at breaking information however relatively brief, clever explainers. Not like The Guardian, it doesn’t have a U.S.-based workers, however among the commentaries are on U.S. politics.
Sensemaker is free, however the enterprise mannequin consists of an upsell to memberships, whose takers have entry to occasions and different premiums. I requested Vanneck-Smith whether or not Axios and its newsletters have been a mannequin for what she and Harding have been doing. Somewhat, she mentioned, joking about Axios’s “one massive factor” catchphrase and trademarked slogan, “sensible brevity.” Clearly the Tortoise crew thinks they’re concise in a much less uneven method — and smarter, too.
I’m a bit stunned to see the report that ESPN plans to close down its day by day debate present “Across the Horn” subsequent summer season. The present has been on since 2002 and appears to have an honest following.
I’ve had a love-hate relationship with the present going again to its early days. At first, I loved the brand new model of sports activities debate — having (normally) 4 sportswriters from varied spots across the nation focus on the sports activities matters of the day. The wrinkle was the moderator would then award factors for good arguments, and every day there can be a winner. Now, there was no rhyme or purpose for the scores, however that didn’t matter. It was one thing somewhat completely different. Plus, I used to be a fan of the present’s authentic moderator, Max Kellerman.
In 2004, Tony Reali took over as host and the present turned extra common. However, sooner or later, I felt it slipped off the rails and devolved right into a present with a bunch of yelling, meanish-wisecracks and much too lots of the panelists spouting off a bunch of statistics and numbers as in the event that they have been studying a math guide.
However then, absolutely over the previous dozen or so years, Reali actually discovered his footing as host and the present turned watchable once more. And whereas they’d fewer and fewer sportswriters and increasingly ESPN staffers, the present discovered some pleasure once more, and had substantive discussions about sports activities. It additionally might deal with severe and delicate points with intelligence and a correct demeanor.
The present featured longtime “Across the Horn” veterans but additionally turned the right platform for ESPN to focus on rising journalists from numerous backgrounds. It additionally was a pleasant lead-in to the gold commonplace of debate exhibits, “Pardon the Interruption.” That present, which airs at 5:30 p.m. Japanese, nonetheless stars Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon and stays sturdy after greater than 3,000 episodes going again to 2001.
Erik Rydholm, the creator and government producer of “Pardon the Interruption,” has been answerable for “Across the Horn” since 2004. There are studies that Rydholm might have one other present within the works for ESPN to contemplate. But The Athletic’s Alex Andrejev and Andrew Marchand wrote, “It’s unclear what will probably be subsequent for Reali, 46. When it comes to the present’s slot, the community and Rydholm’s group are exploring different exhibits however don’t have an actual plan but, a supply briefed on the matter confirmed.”
Awful Announcing’s Drew Lerner wrote, “The subsequent a number of months will probably be bittersweet for followers of the present. Nonetheless, with Rydholm apparently on the helm for ATH‘s alternative, there must be confidence in no matter present replaces it.”
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