Brian Ross has long been regarded as one of the best investigative reporters in the business, but Friday’s fact error regarding Michael Flynn’s guilty plea created big problems for ABC. The network has suspended him for four weeks. But, to what end?
ABC News: “ABC News statement on Michael Flynn report”
Oliver Darcy, CNN Money: “ABC News suspends Brian Ross for 4 weeks over erroneous Flynn story”
Oliver Darcy & Brian Stelter, CNN Money: “ABC News president excoriates staff over Brian Ross’ Michael Flynn error”
Amy B. Wang, Washington Post: “ABC News apologizes for ‘serious error’ in Trump report, suspends Brian Ross for four weeks”
Vivian Wang, New York Times: “ABC suspends reporter Brian Ross over erroneous report about Trump”
Bonnie Kristan, The Week: “Trump celebrates suspension of ABC reporter Brian Ross, proposes lawsuits against ABC”
Andrew Seaman, CodeWords: “The three missteps of ABC News”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “ABC News upgrades cowardly ‘clarification’ to ‘correction’ over bogus Flynn-Trump story”
Chuck Ross, The Daily Caller: “ABC’s Flynn-Trump report caused panic in the stock market – then they corrected the story”
Jake Novak, CNBC: “ABC News blunder helps Trump score a point in his war on ‘fake news’”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “Why suspend ABC News’s Brian Ross over Michael Flynn mistake?”
Paul Farhi, Washington Post: “Brian Ross is an investigative reporting star. But he’s made some staggering blunders.”
White House media Christmas party
Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times: “Trump throws a holiday party for the press. Awk-ward.”
Jason Schwartz, POLITICO: “NBC to attend White House party, despite Trump’s tweets”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “White House extends some special holiday-party welcome to behind-the-scenes CNN staffers”
Paul Farhi, Washington Post: “CNN disinvites itself from annual White House holiday party for the press”
Jason Schwartz, POLITICO: “Minutes after slamming ‘fake news,’ Trump welcomes ‘my friends in the media’ for Christmas party”
Walmart pulls t-shirt
Bill Chappell, NPR: “Walmart pulls t-shirts that hint at lynching journalists”
RTDNA: “Walmart pulls threatening shirt at RTDNA’s urging”
Kristen Hare, Poynter: “Last year, in response to the ‘Tree. Rope. Journalist’ t-shirts, this editor made staff some tees of their own”
Brandy Zadrozny, The Daily Beast: “The man behind ‘Journalist, Rope, Tree’”
NBC after Lauer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=54&v=kiG8tVQRx5A
Jennifer Kline, AOL.com: “NBC News reportedly erasing all traces of Matt Lauer: ‘It is almost like they want to pretend he never existed’”
Brian Steinberg, Variety: “NBC News will not pay settlement to Matt Lauer”
Stephanie Gosk, Corky Siemaszko & Hannay Rappleye, NBC News: “Matt Lauer denied sex misconduct to NBC officials before scandal broke”
Brian Stelter, CNN: “NBC News source says Matt Lauer will not receive a payout”
Paul Farhi, Washington Post: “NBC: Lauer said he was ‘racking his brain’ but came up blank when asked about harassment”
TMZ: “Lauer’s secret door lock isNBD”
Jason Schwartz & Michael Calderone, POLITICO: “NBC’s shifting statements on Lauer draw scrutiny”
Alanna Vagianos, Huffington Post: “That one time Meredith Vieria found a ‘huge bag of sex toys’ in Matt Lauer’s office”
Rebecca Shapiro, Huffington Post: “Seth Myers have a scathing message for Matt Lauer”
Sexual harassment in newsrooms
Alexandria Neason, Columbia Journalism Review: “What we found when we asked newsrooms about sexual harassment”
Police accessing cell phone data
Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post: “If cops can get phone data without a warrant, it could be a nightmare for journalists – and sources”
Adam Liptak, New York Times: “How a Radio Shack robbery could spur a new era in digital piracy”
What’s next for net neutrality?
Jeff Kao, Hackernoon: “More than a million pro-repeal net neutrality comments were likely faked”
Tim Wu, New York Times: “Tim Wu: Why the courts will have to save net neutrality”
Ryan Nakashima & Michael Liedtke, Associated Press: “FCC chairman sets out to scrap open internet access rules”
Al Tompkins, Poynter: “What journalists need to know about the new net neutrality battle”
Steve Lohr, New York Times: “Net neutrality repeal: What could happen and how could it affect you”
‘Let’s Talk About the Tribune’
Chris Westmoreland, Columbia Daily Tribune: “Editor’s Corner: “Let’s talk about the Tribune”
