The Washington Post still mostly white men

… To further advance our commitment to these fundamental values and ensure transparency, we are releasing our first public demographics report and will continue to do so on an annual basis. The data in this report is current as of June 30, 2020. Future publication of this report will occur annually.

This report provides both snapshots and trended data views of the gender and racial composition of our workforce over a five-year period. In addition to organization-wide data, breakouts for News & Editorial and Business are included.

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Hatred of Tom Brady all the way from the grave

Printed obituaries are the best, especially since they’re mostly written by the family and in some case even by the deceased themselves.

They’re one of the last opportunities to tell the world what’s on their minds.

This gem is from the Buffalo News:

Here’s the story behind the obit.

Latest case of the Streisand effect*

File this under, You can’t make this sh.. up:

nola.com

The suit alleges that The Times-Picayune in April 2018 published a story that falsely stated Scurlock had been arrested in California a year earlier. The story, by reporter Kevin Litten, stated that Scurlock that day had pleaded no contest to a charge of “lewd and dissolute conduct” – a charge that was based on an Uber driver’s complaint that Scurlock had masturbated in the backseat of her car.

The lawsuit does not discuss or dispute the specifics of that incident, instead focusing on the newspaper’s use of the word “arrest” and asserting that he was never arrested. The allegation that he was arrested “is injurious to Scurlock’s personal and professional reputation,” the suit says.

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• Streisand effect: The Streisand effect is a social phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of further publicizing that information

NYT’s ‘1619’ heading to the big screen

Oprah Winfrey and Nikole Hannah-Jones

The New York Times’ landmark 1619 Project magazine issue, which examined the impact of slavery on American history, is headed to the big and small screen.

The Hollywood reporter

It’s an incredible project that deserves wider exposure. If you haven’t read it, check it out here.

Blast from the past: The Newsroom

The Newsroom

Back in the day, 1984 to be exact, there was this from Springboard Software. This is how it was described:

Designed for journalists, The Newsroom was an early piece of WISIWYG desktop publishing software with the flexibility to create stylish, sophisticated layouts

Internet archive

The first true desktop publishing program created for the Apple II series. It used a graphic interface, controlled by a joystick, and allowed creation of newsletters that could even be shared via modem with other computers.

Almost a decade later real newsrooms, in order to save money, would make the transition away from mainframe computers to desktop publishing systems.

An emulator is at the Internet Archive link above, I haven’t been able to get past the first page! Maybe because I don’t have a joystick!

In the mid-80s I worked briefly for the Akron News-Reporter, at that time a family-owned Newspaper, and used an Apple IIe to type in and “typeset” my stories. Of course, we also played a game or two on it. Oregon Trail was really a fun break.