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** A look at the breaking news coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth II
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Queen Elizabeth II in 2015. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

The queen is dead

Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, died Thursday after 70 years on the throne. She was 96.

News of her death captivated the world, particularly in her homeland. As The Washington Post’s Adrian Higgins wrote ([link removed]) , “In her reign, which began in February 1952 after the death of her father, King George VI, Elizabeth served as a constant and reassuring figure in Britain and on the world stage as she helped lead her country through a period of profound shifts in geopolitical power and national identity.”

The world was seemingly put on notice early Thursday when word broke that her family was rushing to be by her side as Buckingham Palace put out a rare statement saying doctors were “concerned” about the queen’s health.

At 6:30 p.m. local time (1:30 p.m. Eastern time), the announcement was made: Queen Elizabeth II was dead. Here is the announcement of her death ([link removed]) on BBC World News.

All three major American networks — ABC, CBS and NBC — broke into regularly-scheduled programming to announce the news. Many Fox affiliates picked up the live coverage from Fox News. Here’s what it lookedlike on CBS News. ([link removed]) And NBC News ([link removed]) . And ABC News ([link removed]) .

All three networks had extensive packages ready to go, telling the story of how she became the queen, her wedding, the birth of her children (and grandchildren and great-grandchildren), the death of Princess Diana, the death of her husband and so much more from the highlights, the lowlights, the triumphs and the controversies over her 70 years as queen. Here ([link removed]) , for example, was ABC’s story.

Given the queen’s age and how new outlets work, these stories certainly put together well before Thursday. But that didn’t make them any less impactful. They were well done, well detailed and all-encompassing. It also should be noted that the networks stayed on the air well after making the announcement. CBS News had coverage for about an hour after the news broke, while ABC News and NBC News continued on long after that. NBC went commercial free for two hours, Main network anchors Norah O’Donnell (CBS) and Lester Holt (NBC) led their networks’ coverage of this historic day.

CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams summed it up perfectly ([link removed]) : “It's impossible to overstate the extent to which this is the end of an era. She was a tiny woman in physical stature. But she was a giant, a towering figure in this country.”

Keir Simmons, NBC News senior international correspondent, said, “The queen has been so much more than just a monarch. She has been for so many people always there, a rock of stability, and for so many this will feel like the end of a chapter of history, maybe the end of a book of history.”

American newspapers such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and USA Today had blaring headlines on their websites — the kind of headlines reserved only for the biggest news stories. CNN used its “Breaking News” banner — something it has done much less of since Chris Licht took over as the network’s boss.

Speaking of CNN, these are the moments — breaking news — when the network shines. Led by Christiane Amanpour from Buckingham Palace and Anderson Cooper in New York, CNN’s coverage included smart analysis of the Queen’s life and impact, how the people of the U.K. felt about her and what lies ahead with Prince Charles now becoming King Charles III. The network brought in more than a dozen royal observers, as well as its own correspondents, to capture the magnitude of the moment.

Meanwhile, the U.K. has a new prime minister, and CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan set the scene during the CBS News special report on the ramifications of Queen Elizabeth II’s death at this point in history: “And now the king will be potentially someone to turn to for counsel but nothing like what Queen Elizabeth had with 70 years on the throne. If you think about the 70 years, that is really the shaping of the world order that we know right now and she witnessed it. So, that counsel won’t be there for Prime Minister Truss in that same way. That soft power perhaps not as much of a tool potentially for her at a time she needs it. Take a look at what is happening in the United Kingdom right now. It is really on the verge of a major economic crisis with a recession forecast, inflation at a 40-year high, worst inflation in Europe, an identity crisis underway. … She was the queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Meanwhile, there is still a nasty divorce with
Europe going on, in particular around this issue of Northern Ireland. There’s an independence movement in Scotland. So exactly what the kingdom will look like, the shape it will take may be changing for the new monarch as he steps into that role.”

Here is some of the notable coverage of Thursday’s news about the Queen:
* Superb visuals in The Washington Post, from May: “Queen Elizabeth II: A visual timeline of her 70 years on the throne.” ([link removed])
* The New York Times with “Queen Elizabeth II: A Life in Photos.” ([link removed])
* The Daily Beast’s royal correspondent Tom Sykes and senior writer Tim Teeman with “Queen Elizabeth’s Death Heralds End of a Remarkable, History-Making Reign.” ([link removed])
* The Washington Post’s George F. Will with “Elizabeth II’s death underscores continuity in an era of disjunctions.” ([link removed])
* The Atlantic’s Helen Lewis with “The Britain That The Queen Leaves Behind.” ([link removed])
* The New Yorker’s Rebecca Mead with “The Reign of Queen Elizabeth II Has Ended.” ([link removed])
* For The New York Times, Sarah Lyall with “An Inscrutable Monarch, Endlessly Scrutinized Onstage and Onscreen.” ([link removed])
* CNN with “The life of Queen Elizabeth II.” ([link removed])
* The Associated Press’ Sylvia Hui with “10 things to know about Queen Elizabeth II’s life.” ([link removed])
* For Politico, Otto English (the pen name used by writer and playwright Andrew Scott) with “The Short, Unhappy Life of Elizabeth Windsor.” ([link removed])
* Also from Politico: “Queen Elizabeth Meets the Presidents.” ([link removed])
* The Washington Post’s William Booth and Gillian Brockell with “The day Elizabeth became queen in a treehouse in Kenya.” ([link removed])
* And, the other news of course is that Prince Charles is becoming King Charles III. Here’s The New York Times’ Mark Landler with “Charles Ascends to a Role He Has Prepared for All His Life.” ([link removed])
* USA Today’s Maria Puente with “From funeral plans to processions, what happens now that Queen Elizabeth II has died?” ([link removed])
* Axios’ Sara Fischer rounds up ([link removed]) the British press reaction.


** Viral video of the day
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This video ([link removed]) from CNN of someone who was “not the biggest fan” of the Queen and the monarchy went viral on Thursday. An honest person-on-the-street reaction that made for compelling TV.

And one more interesting reaction, this from Rolling Stone frontman Mick Jagger, who tweeted ([link removed]) , “For my whole life Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II has always been there. In my childhood I can recall watching her wedding highlights on TV. I remember her as a beautiful young lady, to the much beloved grandmother of the nation. My deepest sympathies are with the Royal family.”


** Death of a media icon
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CNN anchor Bernard Shaw poses in his office at CNN's Washington bureau upon his retirement in 2001. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

A media legend has died. Bernard Shaw, CNN’s first chief anchor when the network launched in 1980, died from complications of pneumonia, according to his family. He was 82.

Shaw retired in 2001, but his impact is still remembered. He was a mainstay on the air during the first Gulf War when he was live from Baghdad in 1991. Shaw reported the initial bombing by hunkering under desks and in bomb shelters. That work, with correspondents Peter Arnett and John Holliman, was instrumental in CNN making a name for itself in the news industry.

In a statement, CNN CEO and chairman Chris Licht called Shaw a “beloved anchor and colleague,” and called his work from Baghdad “iconic.” Licht added, “Even after he left CNN, Bernie remained a close member of our CNN family providing our viewers with context about historic events as recently as last year. The condolences of all of us at CNN go out to his wife Linda and his children.”

Many journalists paid tribute to Shaw on Twitter.

CNN’s John King tweeted ([link removed]) , “We have lost a CNN original. A trailblazer and legend, a man of profound talent and endless grace. Soft spoken yet booming voice. A role model and example and mentor to so so many. #RIP Bernard Shaw.”

CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez tweeted ([link removed]) , “Bernard Shaw, an all-time legend and CNN’s first chief anchor when the network launched in 1980 has died at 82. The example he set blazed a trail for so many. May he Rest In Peace.”

CNN’s Abby D. Phillip tweeted ([link removed]) that Shaw was a “trailblazer and a true CNN original.”

Before joining CNN, Shaw worked at CBS and ABC. Besides his work as an anchor and in the Gulf War, Shaw also moderated a presidential debate in 1988 and covered protests in China’s Tiananmen Square in 1989.

The Associated Press’ David Bauder noted ([link removed]) that Shaw, upon his retirement in 2001 at the age of 61, told NPR that despite everything he did in journalism, because of all of the things he missed with his family while working, “I don’t think it was worth it.”


** Another passing
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Another journalist known for reporting from Baghdad also has died. Anne Garrels, an international correspondent for NPR, died earlier this week from, according to her husband, lung cancer. She was 71.

The New York Times’ Katharine Q. Seelye wrote ([link removed]) , “Ms. Garrels started her journalism career in television at ABC News. But it was at NPR, where she worked for more than two decades, that she made her name covering strife and bloodshed across the globe. She became known for conveying how momentous events, like wars, affected the people who lived through them. Her backdrops included the Soviet Union, Tiananmen Square, Bosnia, Chechnya, the Middle East, Iraq and Afghanistan.”

Seelye added, “Her elegant personal style and intellectual air masked a zeal for taking risks. She covered both Chechen wars despite a Russian ban on outside journalists. After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, she traveled to Afghanistan to report from the front lines of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance. During that trip, when journalists in a convoy were ambushed and killed, Ms. Garrels decided that she would be safer traveling alone‌ and embarked by herself on a two-day bus ride to Kabul.‌ Along the way, she collected the stories of the people around her for reports on the war’s human toll, writing dispatches by candlelight and sending them by satellite phone.”

Check out the obit written by Seelye for more about Garrels’ fascinating career.


** Conservatives block advance of journalism bill
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For this item, I turn it over to Poynter media business analyst Rick Edmonds.

The long-gestating attempt to give news organizations greater power to negotiate with Google and Facebook to be paid for content hit another snag Thursday.

The occasion was a Senate Judiciary Committee “markup” of the Journalism Competition and Protection Act that would have given local news organizations an antitrust exemption to bargain with the platform companies. Supporters had hoped the upshot would be to move the bill on to the full Senate for approval.

That’s not what happened.

After Republicans offered a series of criticisms and amendments, one aimed at blocking censorship of content passed.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), the principal sponsor of the JCPA, said that change would fatally weaken the measure. She said rather than go forward she would roll further consideration over to a future meeting of the committee.

“The agreement we had has been blown up,” Klobuchar said with evident bitterness.


** More details
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As I wrote about in Thursday’s newsletter ([link removed]) , a public official has been arrested following the stabbing death of Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German. The journalist had written about and was continuing to investigate Clark County public administrator Rob Telles.

Now more details are emerging. KTNV in Nevada has a timeline of German’s murder ([link removed]) , including this: “The encounter between German and a suspect since identified as Telles was captured on video, investigators revealed in a statement of probable cause for Telles' arrest.”

The New York Times’ Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Mike Baker wrote ([link removed]) , “The authorities have not recovered a murder weapon but said they had found a hat and shoes that matched those of a person seen in surveillance footage at the crime scene. Both had been cut in an apparent attempt to destroy evidence, the authorities said, and the shoes had blood on them.”

According to the Review-Journal ([link removed]) , German spent months working on a story surrounding Telles’ oversight of the office. The paper wrote, “German also had recently filed public records requests for emails and text messages between Telles and three other county officials: Assistant Public Administrator Rita Reid, estate coordinator Roberta Lee-Kennett and consultant Michael Murphy. Lee-Kennett was identified in previous stories as a subordinate staffer allegedly involved in an ‘inappropriate relationship’ with Telles.”

The Review-Journal story went on to say, “German’s death came months after he reported that current and former employees alleged that Telles fueled a hostile work environment and carried on a relationship that impaired the office’s ability to deal with the public. The complaints led to co-workers secretly videotaping the two in the back seat of Lee-Kennett’s car in a parking garage. The story also included claims of bullying and favoritism by Telles.”


** Notable journalism pieces to catch up on over the weekend …
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* No matter how many times you hear about it, or how much you think you know, the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, remains one of the most disturbing moments in our country’s history. The latest episode of PBS’s “Frontline” — “Lies, Politics and Democracy” ([link removed]) — is an absolutely chilling reminder of how close our democracy came to toppling. It’s a must-watch account of what happened before, during and after the dark day.
* In a joint investigation from The Associated Press and “Frontline,” Michelle R. Smith with “Michael Flynn: From government insider to holy warrior.” ([link removed])
* The Atlantic’s Frank Foer spends time in Ukraine with journalist Sergii Leshchenko in his latest cover story: “The Man Who Chased History.” ([link removed]) Foer writes, “I wanted to see the war through his eyes to understand how the country had survived the Russian onslaught — and whether the war had changed the trajectory of Ukraine’s still nascent democracy.”
* The Los Angeles Times’ Paige St. John (with photography from Brian Van Der Brug) with “The reality of legal weed in California: Huge illegal grows, violence, worker exploitation and deaths.” ([link removed]) (It’s part of a Los Angeles Times series, which you can see here ([link removed]) .)
* Vanity Fair’s Charlotte Klein with “Las Vegas Review-Journal is mourning the death of their reporter — and investigating his killing.” ([link removed])
* Also in Vanity Fair, Allison Schaller with “‘Constantly in motion’: Photographer Lynsey Addario reflects on two decades of covering wars and global crises.” ([link removed]) (The piece also included Addario’s photos.)
* The Washington Post’s Travis M. Andrews with “Streaming TV is having an existential crisis, and viewers can tell.” ([link removed])
* On the latest “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend” ([link removed]) podcast, O’Brien talks with legendary sitcom director James Burrows.

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