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.

When The New York Times Lost Its Way; Harvard Faculty Appeal to the University’s Board to Address Growing Number of Crises; Top 25 Podcasts in 2023; Striking Findings From 2023; A Look Back at the top Business Stories of 2023

“We Sometimes Have to Hear Speech We Hate,” Legal Experts Weigh in on the Campus Crisis; Publisher of Sports Illustrated Ousts CEO Ross Levinsohn; Reading Print Magazines is an Elite Pursuit; Zara Pulls Campaign That Critics Said Resembled Gaza Destruction; Elon Musk Is Going Down a Conspiratorial Rabbit Hole and Taking X With Him;

Your Local Newspaper Might Not Have a Single Reporter; Are Christmas Cards a Dying Art?; You’ve Received an Interview Request From a Reporter. Should You Accept or Decline? ; Succeeding at the “Social” Part of ESG; Audio Books Just Got Cheaper — If You Know Where to Look.