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- As the new executive producer of “60 Minutes,” Tanya Simon becomes the first woman EP in the show’s 57-year history. - Skydance’s $8 billion acquisition of Paramount gets approved. - The White House fires back at “South Park” after its premiere episode. Read these stories and…

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What should the media do when the sitting U.S. president accuses a former U.S. president of treason? Ignore it? Cover it? Put it into context, says senior media writer Tom Jones. “Actually, the question should be edited to: What should the media do when Trump accuses a former…

Dave Jorgenson, known as “The Washington Post TikTok Guy,” is leaving to launch his own venture based on his YouTube channel, Local News International. He told The New York Times’ Benjamin Mullin, “I am just not convinced that they [The Post] have the best road map right now.”…

Just days after The Wall Street Journal dropped an exclusive story linking President Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, the Journal has been banned from the press pool covering Trump’s upcoming trip to Scotland. It’s unclear how long the ban might last. poynter.org/commentary/202…

On July 17, the White House announced President Donald Trump has a chronic condition that can cause leg swelling. Doctors and experts say it is common in older patients and not typically life-threatening. Read the fact-check from PolitiFact: poynter.org/fact-checking/…

Google recently retired its ClaimReview program, which helped search engines recognize fact-checked content and direct users to that content in a useful way. It was a small, useful step toward improving overall information integrity on the internet. It’s the latest blow in an…

“You have to commit before you walk out the door that getting it right is more important than getting it first,” said The Villages Daily Sun executive editor Bonita Miyagi. “Don’t risk your credibility for the clicks.” Here’s how journalists can track death tolls in a disaster…

President Donald Trump, with the help of Congress, is making good on his threat to cut federal funding for NPR, PBS and other public broadcasting. The biggest impacts will be on smaller stations in rural areas who receive the vast majority of Corporation for Public Broadcasting…

For the first time in its 58-year history, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — the organization responsible for distributing federal dollars to NPR, PBS and other public broadcasters — will lose its funding. poynter.org/business-work/…

President Donald Trump’s response to scrutiny from his base and conservative media about the Jeffrey Epstein case files has been to tell his base to move on, but it’s only prompting more questions. Read this story and more in today’s Poynter Report, our Monday-Friday media…

The Senate will vote this week on President Donald Trump’s request to take back more than $1 billion in funding for public broadcasting, which includes PBS and NPR. The impacts would be felt nationwide, especially in rural communities. Here’s what the loss of funding would mean…

Good editors don’t inherently know everything they need to be good editors. We asked a team of editors about missteps they made early in their editor lives. Here’s what they said – and what they learned. poynter.org/reporting-edit…

The Jeffrey Epstein files continue to divide the far-right and MAGA community, but President Trump is trying to put an end to the controversy, urging support for Attorney General Pam Bondi on social media. poynter.org/commentary/202…

One year ago, there was an assassination attempt on then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump while he was speaking at an outdoor rally in Pennsylvania. While the details are sparse, and the shooter’s motivations remain unclear, the media continues to pursue the…

X CEO Linda Yaccarino is leaving the company after two years at the controversial social media platform. Some speculate that the move was influenced by controversial, antisemitic posts made by X’s AI chatbot Grok, but others report that her plans to leave were already in the…