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Katie Thornton takes the Best Single Article award. Congrats to her and editor Christian Hoard. “There is still trust and an interest in sharing stories with the media.”

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Seek not so much to be understood as to understand. - Clare Malone of New Yorker quoting Pope Francis #MirrorAwards

“I fear that we’ve dropped the ball” in broadcast of covering the nuance, politics, social issues behind sports…. “That’s a tremendous loss. … People want the issues behind sports examined.” - Bob Costas #MirrorAwards

Watching those Cannes videos of Yaccarino I kept thinking, “How does she do it? How much longer can she?” X CEO Linda Yaccarino resigns axios.com/2025/07/09/x-c…

The loss of local news relates to so many other problems plaguing the US: Polarization, radicalization, loneliness, lack of trust in everyone and everything.   So this new data is vital 🧵

According to a new report detailing "severe shortages" in local news, the number of journalists working in the US has dropped by more than 75% since the start of the century — from 40 journalists for every 100,000 residents to just 8.2 journalists now. muckrack.com/research/local…

And local news — when well done — is perceived as much more of the community it’s in, and more apolitical.

Hmmm.

Shades of AJC?

Succession lives! Inside the Deal Ending the Murdoch Succession Fight nytimes.com/2025/09/08/bus… via The New York Times

At #ONA25 in NOLA. First up: S. Mitra Kalita, Raju Narisetti (and two I don’t know) on panel on audience acquisition. Raju calls Mitra the “Epicenter” (a company name of hers) of buying a house in Queens (where we live walking distance from each other.

Line aroooooound the block at #awnewyork25 (Advertising Week). Guess I won’t make the 10:10am panel.

Vizio is now a Walmart private label. Their devices (including TVs) are now available only through Walmart (wh bought them early last year). Here at #AWNewYork25 (Advertising Week) they’re highlighting themselves as an ad platform that reaches “79 million people”.

Big news for the tennis world.

A mystery trader made $400,000 betting on Maduro’s downfall wsj.com/world/americas…