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- Jennifer Jacobs—one of the two Bloomberg reporters who bylined the embargo-breaking Gershkovich piece—has been fired, according to a source familiar with the situation.
- Bloomberg reported the news of Evan Gershkovich’s release before anyone else—because they broke an embargo every other outlet had agreed to:
- Scoop: The New York Times is conducting a leak investigation—a rare move for the paper—following The Intercept's report on a yet-to-air episode of The Daily addressing claims of sexual violence committed by Hamas on Oct 7.
- The Washington Post laid off most of their PR team as part of today’s cuts. Comms chief Kathy Baird said in an email to her team that the Post will “stop the dedicated practice of publicity for our journalism across broadcast and traditional media outlets"
- "We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. I can’t sugarcoat it anymore,” WaPo CEO and publisher Will Lewis told staff Monday, amid a major leadership shakeup at the paper:
- I wrote about online harassment of female journalists, and how news organizations are grappling with the increasingly vicious situation. Thanks to everyone who spoke to me for this piece @lilsarg @wagatwe @stevenjay
- NewsGuild president Susan DeCarava sent a letter to NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger today accusing Times management of targeting journalists “for their national origin, ethnicity and race” in the leak investigation
- New: Trump campaign denies press credentials for several journalists
- “In what I am sorry to say is an ironic development, Dr. Fauci has just told us he tested positive for COVID this morning,” NYT Washington bureau chief Elisabeth Bumiller emailed staff this morning. Fauci had an on-the-record lunch with the Washington bureau yesterday.
- News: The Washington Post was on track to lose at least as much money as it lost last year—$77 million—even before 250,000 digital readers unsubscribed.
- New: back in March aboard his campaign plane, Trump got so irritated with @VaughnHillyard's questions about the Manhattan DA's case that he grabbed the NBC reporter's phones and chucked them aside
