Covering up?
Big media story of the day comes from The New York Times’ Jane Bradley: “A British Reporter Had a Big #MeToo Scoop. Her Editor Killed It.”
Financial Times investigative reporter Madison Marriage recently had a major scoop. According to Marriage’s sources, a prominent left-wing columnist — Nick Cohen, who had resigned from Guardian News and Media — had for years made unwanted sexual advances and groped female journalists. But, Bradley reports, the Financial Times’ editor, Roula Khalaf, killed the story.
Bradley wrote, “It was not spiked because of reporting problems. Two women were willing to speak openly, and Ms. Marriage had supporting documentation on others. Rather, Ms. Khalaf said that Mr. Cohen did not have a big enough business profile to make him an ‘F.T. story,’ colleagues said. Mr. Cohen’s departure and the death of Ms. Marriage’s article offer a window into the British news media’s complicated relationship with the #MeToo movement. Leading American newsrooms — Fox News, CNN, NBC, The New York Times and others — have confronted misconduct allegations. British journalism has seen no such reckoning.”
Then came the crux of the story with this passage from Bradley: “The British news media is smaller and cozier than its American counterpart, with journalists often coming from the same elite schools. Stringent libel laws present another hurdle. And in a traditional newsroom culture of drinking and gender imbalances, many stories of misconduct go untold, or face a fight.”
Is that what happened here? Check out more of Bradley’s story.
Speaking of The New York Times …
The Times is rolling out a couple of new things.
First, a customizable, time-specific newsletter to help readers prepare for the weather during summer travels, or to keep track of dangerous weather in their area, or where loved ones are. “Your Places: Extreme Weather,” according to the Times, allows subscribers to “add and edit up to four locations across the contiguous United States. When forecasters see a risk of tornadoes, hail, high winds or excessive rain for any of the places you care about in the next three days, you'll receive a morning email to help you plan ahead and to prepare for extreme weather. By pulling public data from the National Weather Service, The Times’s weather team will categorize the severity risk by yellow, orange and red signifiers, with red as the most severe.”
So, to be clear: You won’t get the newsletter daily; you’ll only get it when one of the areas you select could see bad weather in the next three days.
So that’s one thing.
The other is New York Times Games announced that those who subscribe to games or the all-access subscription will now have access to the previous two weeks of Spelling Bee puzzles. Here’s more information from the Times.
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