Poynter Report special edition: weekend recommendations

Good Friday morning. Today, an abbreviated version of The Poynter Report with recommendations for stories to check out over the weekend. See you again on Monday.

• Disturbing piece from The Marshall Project’s Beth Schwartzapfel, NBC News’ Erin Einhorn and ProPublica’s Annie Waldman: “‘No Light. No Nothing.’ Inside Louisiana’s Harshest Juvenile Lockup.”
• The New York Times’ Valerie Hopkins with “After a Week of Siege, Bloodied Mariupol Plans Mass Graves.”
• For The New York Times, Matthew Goldstein, Kenneth P. Vogel, Jesse Drucker, Maureen Farrell and Mike McIntire with “How Western Firms Quietly Enabled Russian Oligarchs.”
• The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson with “Russia’s Economic Blackout Will Change The World.”
• Also in The Atlantic, Kaitlyn Tiffany with “The Myth of the ‘First TikTok War.’”
• The Washington Post’s Sudarsan Raghavan with “Music as resistance: Kyiv’s orchestra plays on.”
• For Politico, Hank Stephenson with “The Arizona Republican Caught in a Vise by Trump’s Big Lie.”
• The Washington Post’s Keith L. Alexander, Steven Rich and Hannah Thacker with “The hidden billion-dollar cost of repeated police misconduct.”
• The headline alone blows you away — and then there’s the story. The Fresno Bee’s Brianna Calix with “Fresno lost $400,000 to a phishing scam out of Africa in 2020 and never told the public.”
• Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent with “A Fox News reporter’s schooling of Sean Hannity veers into dark territory.”
• Vice’s Tim Marchman with “​​New Emails Show Chris Cuomo Working as Part of Brother’s PR Machine, in Detail.”
• Wired’s Lauren Smiley with “‘I’m the Operator’: The Aftermath of a Self-Driving Tragedy.”
• The New York Times’ Jeré Longman with “On a Dirt Court, a Ravaged School Planted the Seeds of a Championship.”
• For The Los Angeles Times, Lila Seidman (with photos from Gary Coronado): “Four days, 170 miles in bone-dry Death Valley: Could you survive this walk? He did.”
• I linked to this earlier this week, but I highly recommend it if you missed it: Washington Post sports columnist Sally Jenkins with “The Olympics got in bed with autocrats like Putin. There will be consequences.” And Jenkins talked about the column on this episode of “The Tony Kornheiser Show” podcast.
• On her latest “Sway” podcast for The New York Times, Kara Swisher talks with Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technology in “Are We Ready for Putin’s Cyber War? I Asked One of Biden’s Top Cybersecurity Officials.”
• Andscape’s Justin Tinsley with “A hustler’s prayer: Biggie Smalls’ final 24 hours encapsulated the man he wanted to become.”
• For The Athletic, Steve Buckley with “From small-town Nebraska to Harvard captain to Tom Brady’s housemate: The life and death of Chris Eitzmann.”

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