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Has Concepts of the News?

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Article in The New Republic by Alex Shephard, 1/30/26

Headline: “What Bari Weiss Doesn’t Get About CBS News”

Subhead: “Her plan to focus on ‘scoops of ideas’ will only make the news network’s offerings more like (pretty much) everything else in media.”

“At an all-staff meeting on Tuesday, CBS News’s editor in chief Bari Weiss—perhaps the record-holder for the fastest the word embattled has ever been appended in front of a new job title—laid out her vision for the network she had taken the reins of only a few weeks earlier. . .”

“With her new charges in attendance, Weiss finally revealed her vision board for the future of CBS News, and the watchword is ‘scoops.’. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://newrepublic.com/article/205904/bari-weiss-scoops-cbs-news

Was She Wrong on Epstein Suicide?

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Article in AlterNet by Carl Gibson, 1/29/26

Headline: “Epstein reporter reveals ‘one of the most suspicious aspects’ of his death”

“Before he died in prison, convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein was reportedly attacked in his cell, extorted by his cellmate and slipped a handwritten note into a book.

That’s according to Miami Herald investigative journalist Julie K. Brown, who initially broke the story that led to the first arrests of Epstein and his chief accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. In a Thursday post to her Substack entitled “Why I don’t believe Jeffrey Epstein Killed Himself (Part 2),” Brown delved into Bureau of Prisons records about an apparent suicide attempt that took place not long after he arrived at New York City’s Metropolitan Corrections Center in the summer of 2019. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.alternet.org/epstein-reporter-suspicious/

Journalists – Ferguson to Minneapolis

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Article in Poynter by Kristen Hare, 1/28/26

Headline:  “For journalists who covered Ferguson, the news from Minneapolis feels ‘uncomfortably familiar’ “

Sybhead:  “Journalists who covered Ferguson reflect on what they learned — and what feels different — as unrest unfolds again in Minnesota”

“In the summer of 2014, a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis. As journalists began getting arrested, Poynter sent me back to the city — where I’d spent five years reporting — to cover what was happening. . .”

“Still, while compiling a list of newsrooms in Minnesota to follow for nuanced, accountable, community-centered reporting, I’ve been thinking a lot about the journalists I met more than a decade ago in Ferguson. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.poynter.org/local-news/2026/from-ferguson-to-minneapolis-what-journalists-learned-covering-protests/

 

WaPo Twisting Slowly. . .

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Article in Status by Natalie Korach, 1/28/26

Headline: “The Post’s Audience of One”

Subhead:   “As Jeff Bezos continues to snub The Washington Post, the mood inside the newsroom has darkened—though staffers are pressing on with not only public, but behind-the-scenes appeals to the billionaire, Status has learned.”

“Over the past several days, as reports about The Washington Post’s looming layoffs have reverberated throughout the industry, staffers on the newspaper’s sports desk have quietly begun receiving phone calls from the section’s leadership. In the private conversations, according to people familiar with them, management has all but encouraged journalists to start looking for jobs elsewhere. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-staffers-cuts-jeff-bezos-campaign

Armed Forces Newspaper in Danger?

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Article in NPR On the Media by Staff, 1/28/26

Headline:  “Stars and Stripes in Peril”

Stars and Stripes, the venerated, independent award-winning newspaper that has served the armed services for roughly a century, may be getting an uninvited makeover, courtesy of Pete Hegseth’s Defense Department. In a statement posted on X earlier this month, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said that Stars and Stripes would no longer be carrying wire reports from the Associated Press, and that it would steer away from all that is woke or might sap morale. Parnell said the defense department would be bringing the newspaper “into the 21st century.”

Read the full article at:

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/452538775/on-the-media

Takeover of Local Newspapers?

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Lois Parshley, 1/26/26

Headline:  “Carpenter Media’s Ominous Takeover of Local News”

Subhead:  “In just a few years, a publisher based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has become the country’s fourth-largest newspaper operator. Some reporters wonder if it isn’t the cruelest.”

“. . .Carpenter Media Group, based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has grown into a media empire at a rapid clip. When the company bought the Homer News, in March of 2024, it operated just twenty-seven publications in a handful of states. Today, it runs more than two hundred and fifty outlets in the United States and Canada and is America’s fourth-largest newspaper company. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.cjr.org/feature/carpenter-media-ominous-takeover-local-news-tuscaloosa-alabama-homer-alaska-pleznac-charlie-kirk.php

Greenland Not Enough?

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Arti9cle in Raw Story by Matthew Chapman, 1/20/26

Headline: “Fox News host claims Trump can seize Bermuda too ‘if we need’ it”

“Fox News anchor Jesse Watters casually suggested on Tuesday night that not only could the United States annex Greenland at will, but they could also seize control of the island of Bermuda.

“Watters, a firebrand who has been accused of dropping casual racism and sexual harassment, laughed at the horror from European leaders at President Donald Trump’s escalating threats to seize control of Greenland from Denmark, a critical NATO ally of the United States. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.rawstory.com/jesse-watters-2674914697/

Hope For Local News?

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Article in The New York Times by Sarabeth Berman, 1/18/26

Headline:  “Local Newspapers Are Closing. Local News Is Surviving.”

“The consequences of the collapse of the local newspaper business have been severe. When communities lose their local news outlets, civic engagement drops, corruption rises, government waste increases and political polarization worsens. Communities no longer know themselves. No number of headlines about goings-on in Washington can change that. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/opinion/local-newspapers-closing.html

Community Radio Back in St. Louis

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Headline:  “Community Radio St. Louis Goes Live February 1”

Subhead:  “Over 60 former KDHX volunteers plus new broadcasters will revive local music and arts services online”

“At noon Central time on Sunday, February 1, 2026, eclectic music and perspectives will once again beam into St. Louis and around the world from a new all-volunteer internet station, Community Radio St. Louis (CRSTL). Commercial-free webcasting from CRSTL.FM will revive the strong grassroots voice supporting regional culture that was silenced last year by the radio frequency sale and demise of KDHX-FM. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.crstl.fm/

Reporting on Land-Grab?

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Article in AP by Emma Burrows, 1/15/26

Headline: “International media flock to Greenland as Trump turns the Arctic island into a geopolitical hot spot”

“For several weeks, international journalists and camera crews have been scurrying up to people in Greenland’s capital to ask them for their thoughts on the twists and turns of a political crisis that has turned the Arctic island into a geopolitical hot spot. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://apnews.com/article/greenland-united-states-journalists-international-media-56700602f0873102e94b3c5c43cc5a1a