The Daily Digest: March 11, 2025
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| “The rhetoric and actions that Trump and his allies take at a national level are being mimicked across the country at a much smaller level. Whether they’re Trump supporters or not, they’re taking cues from the President of the United States.” By Sarah Scire. |
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| According to a USAID factsheet now taken offline, the agency funded training and support for 6,200 journalists and assisted 707 outlets. By Gretel Kahn, Marina Adami and Eduardo Suárez. |
A public media collaboration on statehouse reporting moves forward in North Carolina What we’re reading
The Verge / Nilay PatelDow Jones CEO Almar Latour on AI, press freedom, and the future of news →“Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau said in a press conference — I’m paraphrasing here — ‘I don’t often quote The Wall Street Journal, but they said that this trade war is the stupidest trade war in history.’ Something along those lines. We don’t hold back. Our opinion pages don’t hold back, and their assessment is based on well-established principles of free markets and free people. The independence to make that judgment is core to who we are.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Sacha BiazzoTrump’s tariffs are causing chaos for newspapers →“Canada has long been a major supplier of American newsprint—it now provides an estimated 80 percent of the paper used by US newspapers. A tariff would add a significant burden to publishers already struggling with high costs of production and thin margins, and analysts say the mere looming threat of one has complicated life for printers … ‘Almost anything that is done here is going to be increasing prices for newsprint.'”
Columbia Journalism Review / Jack HerreraThe Houston Landing has lost a major funder →“In January 2022, Arnold Ventures committed $4 million in initial funding, to be paid out over three years. From the beginning, the organization referred to the money as seed funding, a catalyst to get the Landing off the ground … In December 2024, as the first three years wrapped up, leaders at the Landing believed they had secured $850,000 in additional funding from Arnold Ventures. But no contract was ever finalized and, when the Landing came asking about the money in December, Arnold Ventures announced it would not provide any more funding.”
The Verge / Emma RothBluesky gets three-minute videos and a filter to help with DM spam →“Bluesky is adding support for longer, three-minute videos – a notable improvement from the previous one-minute limit. The update is rolling out in Bluesky version 1.99, which also includes a new DM filter that allows you to you approve or reject messages from people you might not know.”
The Guardian / Mark SweneyThe Mirror, Express and Star owner says its print titles will be loss-making from 2031 →“The boss of the publisher of the Mirror, Express, and Star newspapers has said that its print titles will become loss-making in six to eight years, but that its burgeoning digital strategy will save them from closure.”
NPR / Bobby AllynMedia Matters sues Elon Musk’s X over “libel tourism” legal assault →“The group on Monday sued Musk’s social media platform X for breach of contract over Musk bringing suits against the nonprofit in Texas, Ireland and Singapore in a legal maneuver Media Matters calls ‘a vendetta-driven campaign of libel tourism.’ Lawyers for the advocacy group are challenging Musk on technical grounds, arguing that since X’s terms of service at the time of the suits required the complaints to be filed in San Francisco, the actions violate Musk’s own policies.”
Semafor / Max TaniPatrick Witty hired as White House photographer →“The White House has hired Patrick Witty, an accomplished Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who left his role at National Geographic in 2017 after allegations of misconduct. Witty … abruptly left National Geographic after it launched an investigation into him over allegations of misconduct, including making inappropriate advances towards female coworkers.”
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