The first cohort of our Editorial Integrity and Leadership Initiative with Corporation for Public Broadcasting comes to a close today. We’ll miss these public media leaders! 🎙️❤️📡

Tapper: If Trump wins and you keep the majority, will you bring the national abortion ban up for a vote?

Johnson: I don't even know what you're talking about

Tapper: The Life at Conception Act bans abortion nationwide, you are a cosponsor of that

A legend in Florida politics is gone.

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The bonus is in addition to his $699,000, and combined with other benefits brings his total compensation to about $1.1M — near the top in the state univ. system despite New College being the smallest Fla. public university. heraldtribune.com/story/news/edu… via Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Fact-check journalists and free press advocates are right to oppose this onerous proposal. Poynter @IFCN The International Fact-Checking Network’s statement on proposed legislation before the Georgian parliament poynter.org/ifcn/2024/ifcn…

Why does this not still exist?

This is insane.

Via the Reliable Sources newsletter: This is the stop-in-your-tracks front page of Friday's Wall Street Journal, marking the one-year anniversary of Evan Gershkovich's detention (cnn.it/3TBLHme)

I wrote about a pink slime news site that stole our AI ethics guide article four hours after it came out. They re-wrote it with AI.

JUST IN: Officials stopped cars from crossing the Francis Scott Key Bridge just moments before the cargo ship collided, saving lots of lives.

According to Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, the ship issued a “mayday” call before colliding.

The workers on the bridge jumped into action and…

I was one of the first reporters at the scene of the Surfside condo collapse in 2021. Events like these scar the landscape and leave lasting trauma in surrounding communities. Please be kind to each other and take care of yourselves. This will take time to process.

Poynter has just issued a 'starter kit' for newsrooms to create ethics policies about working with generative AI -- to use the tools responsibly without stifling innovation. The policy was written by Kelly McBride, Alex Mahadevan and Tony Elkins. poynter.org/ethics-trust/2…

Florida picks Moms for Liberty members for group to advise librarians on book removals heraldtribune.com/story/news/pol… via Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Gobsmacked that the Oscars is ending around 10:30 EVEN AFTER starting an hour earlier than usual. Has this ever happened? What will I do with the next two hours?

One of the fake local news sites created by Russia is supposedly based in Miami. Of course. Forever Florida.

.Jim Rosica is probably still waiting for your story but this is awesome.

Soak up the reporting wisdom and expertise of Fernanda Camarena Kathleen McGrory Jennifer Orsi Vicky Ho Rosanna Xia Ren LaForme at Poynter's Reporter's Toolkit virtual seminar. Apply at bit.ly/reporterstoolk…

If Biden called Jill Biden “Janice” we’d see 50 articles and sixteen NYT op-eds about his age.

Donald Trump calls wife Melania ‘Mercedes’ during live CPAC speech aol.com/donald-trump-c…

FL surgeon gen says unvaccinated kids can continue to go to school.

This is *unprecedented* Unvaccinated kids need to stay home for 21 days during an outbreak. Why? A very real chance of infection, hospitalization, death or serious damage to the immune system.

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