How MSNBC’s Leftward Tilt Delivers Ratings, And Complications; The Collapse Of The News Industry Is Taking Its Soul Down With It; The Smartest People In The Room Are All Listening To The Same Podcast; Why Writing By Hand Beats Typing For Thinking And Learning; Columbia’s Student Journalists Produced New York Magazine’s Cover Story. Here’s How They Did It; What’s On TV? For Many Americans, It’s Now YouTube
University of Florida Comes Down Hard On Protesters: ‘Not A Day Care’; NPR Chief Defends Coverage, Accuses Critics of ‘Bad Faith Distortion’ of Her Views; The Last Stock Photographers Await Their Fate Under Generative AI; From a Tiny Island in Maine, He Serves Up Fresh Media Gossip
NPR Suspends Editor Who Claimed Left-Wing Bias at Outlet Had ‘Lost America’s Trust’; Dana White, Donald Trump and the Rise of Cage-Match Politics; Google Blocking Links to California News Outlets From Search Results; Hot Market for Pencils Help Kids Turn Lead Into Gold; There Are Plenty of Power Publicists. But Only One Works for Taylor Swift.; Shake Shack Shades Rival Chick-fil-A With Sunday-Only Free Chicken Sandwich Offer
LA Times Edits Column and Apologizes After Drawing the Ire of LSU Coach Kim Mulkey; Free Speech Is Alive and Well at Vanderbilt University;
one way to stay young forever: type in lowercase; Authoritarians Threaten Journalists Around the Globe;
Gmail Debuted 20 Years Ago. It Wasn’t an April Fool’s Joke.
Royal Photo Scandal: Another Doctored Image Emerges as Kate Middleton Controversy Deepens; ESPN Boss Jimmy Pitaro’s Chaotic Race to Remake the Sports Giant; Apple Is Poised to Go All In on AI, Including a Partnership With Google; Why Some 20-Somethings Are Saying No to TikTok; Inside the Music Industry’s High-Stakes AI Experiments
Shoppers Call Out Kellogg CEO’s ‘Cereal for Dinner’ Pitch for Struggling Families; How the News Media Keeps Losing the Future; Sports Anchors Went All In on Outrage. Then There’s Scott Van Pelt.; Google’s Apology for Its Gemini Image Debacle Reveals a Much Deeper Culture Problem for the Company; American Sign Language Reveals Wordplay Beyond Sound
George Soros Is Set to Become the Largest Shareholder of Audacy; Why AI Might Be Rejecting Your Resume; How to Become a Super Communicator; The Boss’s New Secret Weapon: Pumping Perfume Into the Office; How Leaders Miscommunicate When Tensions Are High.
Is American Journalism Headed Toward an ‘Extinction-Level Event’?; Inside The New York Times Big Bet on Games; NPR Founding Mother Linda Wertheimer Is Retiring. Read Her Bittersweet Goodbye Note.; Why You Keep Getting Useless Alerts on Your Phone.
Netflix Buys Rights to WWE Raw, Other Shows in Live Streaming Push; The Sports Illustrated Cover, a Faded Canvas That Once Defined Sports; The Harvard of the Unwoke; Facebook Made a Major Change After Years of PR Disasters, and News Sites Are Paying the Price; How Group Chats Rule the World
This week we are pausing The Flack in honor of our dear friend and colleague Mike Casey.
