December 5, 2018

The Weekly Standard faces an uncertain future

This story, plus Thomson Reuters to cut 3,200 jobs, NPR’s CEO is stepping down, and more, all in today’s media headlines.

Top Stories

Dec 5, 2018

Fate of The Weekly Standard is uncertain, editor tells staff

Oliver Darcy / CNN

Dec 4, 2018

Thomson Reuters to cut 3,200 jobs by 2020, offer fewer products

Adam Manzor, Edward Dufner / Bloomberg

Dec 4, 2018

NPR Chief Jarl Mohn to step down in June [Subscription Required]

Benjamin Mullin / The Wall Street Journal

Press & Government

Dec 4, 2018

Top senators briefed by CIA blame Saudi prince for Khashoggi death

Patricia Zengerle / Reuters

Dec 4, 2018

View: The Guardian offered a bombshell story about Paul Manafort. It still hasn’t detonated.

Paul Farhi / The Washington Post

Television News

Dec 4, 2018

View: It’s almost impossible to be a mom in television news

Julianna Goldman / The Atlantic

Media Ethics

Dec 4, 2018

Threat to journalists at highest level in 10 years, report says

Jim Waterson / The Guardian

Dec 4, 2018

Les Moonves obstructed investigation into misconduct claims, report says

Edmund Lee, Rachel Abrams / The New York Times

Media Business

Dec 4, 2018

Former ‘Guardian’ editor on Snowden, WikiLeaks and remaking journalism

Dave Davies / NPR

Online Media

Dec 4, 2018

View: “Everyone’s for sale”: A generation of digital-media darlings prepares for a frigid winter

Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair

Dec 4, 2018

View: Journalists are rightly suspicious of ad tech. They also depend on it.

Elizabeth Anne Watkins / Columbia Journalism Review

International

Dec 4, 2018

French opposition parties are taking Macron’s anti-misinformation law to court

Alexander Damiano Ricci / Poynter