• VICE: Angry over critical coverage, tech figures discuss hitting back against journalists, on Twitter and invite-only Clubhouse, leading to harassment of NYT's Lorenz

• Samer Kalaf / The Daily Beast: Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy promises to “be better” after seven Black staffers examined his earlier racist language in a podcast   —  ‘EXTREMELY REAL’

• Ginia Bellafante / New York Times: WNYC staff express sense of betrayal in letter to board, having said before that they wanted an EIC who was a POC, knew the city, and had experience in radio

• Erin B. Logan / @erinblogan: LA Times' Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong responds to a letter from the LAT union's Black caucus, promising to hire more Black journalists, ensure equitable pay, more   —  On June 23, The L.A. Times Guild lead by Black members sent Times' owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong an open letter demanding the paper address its racism and commit to do better. This is his first public response. https://twitter.com/...

• New York Times: Eight Black publishing professionals discuss how publishing has and hasn't changed in recent decades, how race has affected their careers, and more

• Elisa Shearer / Pew Research Center: Among US adults, 46% say local news outlets are a major COVID-19 news source; 65% say there is plenty of news about how the outbreak is affecting their area

• 25 minutes ago Soledad O'Brien / New York Times: Buoyed by the public awakening over BLM, journalists of color are sidestepping the management to collectively inaugurate their own #MeToo-like movement

• Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: In memo, Boston Globe EIC outlines steps to address race in the newsroom and in coverage, including an audit of past work and a right to be forgotten initiative

• Judd Legum / Popular Information: Facebook says it now finds that there is an undisclosed financial relationship between The Daily Wire and Mad World News and will temporarily demote the latter

• Rachel Premack / Business Insider: Current and former Condé Nast employees describe a “racist” vetting process in its video production arm that ranks scalable content based on historical data

• Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab: The Trans Journalists Association launched Tuesday to offer professional support to trans journalists and to provide guidance to newsrooms on trans coverage

• Tom Dotan / The Information: Reuters has told employees that it is planning on putting many of its articles behind a subscription paywall   —  Reuters is planning on putting many of its articles behind …

• 25 minutes ago Soledad O'Brien / New York Times: Buoyed by the public awakening over BLM, journalists of color are sidestepping the management to collectively inaugurate their own #MeToo-like movement

• 8 hours ago New York Times: Eight Black publishing professionals discuss how publishing has and hasn't changed in recent decades, how race has affected their careers, and more

• 17 hours ago Elisa Shearer / Pew Research Center: Among US adults, 46% say local news outlets are a major COVID-19 news source; 65% say there is plenty of news about how the outbreak is affecting their area

• 25 hours ago Rachel Premack / Business Insider: Current and former Condé Nast employees describe a “racist” vetting process in its video production arm that ranks scalable content based on historical data

• 33 hours ago Samer Kalaf / The Daily Beast: Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy promises to “be better” after seven Black staffers examined his earlier racist language in a podcast   —  ‘EXTREMELY REAL’

• 36 hours ago Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: In memo, Boston Globe EIC outlines steps to address race in the newsroom and in coverage, including an audit of past work and a right to be forgotten initiative

• 37 hours ago Laura Hughes / Financial Times: Boris Johnson is planning to replace afternoon Lobby press briefings in the UK with a daily televised press conference, akin to the American format, in October

• 39 hours ago Ginia Bellafante / New York Times: WNYC staff express sense of betrayal in letter to board, having said before that they wanted an EIC who was a POC, knew the city, and had experience in radio

• 42 hours ago Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab: The Trans Journalists Association launched Tuesday to offer professional support to trans journalists and to provide guidance to newsrooms on trans coverage

• 44 hours ago Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab: Profile of The Juggernaut, an ad-free, subscription-based publication focused on stories about the South Asian diaspora in America

• 2 days ago Erin B. Logan / @erinblogan: LA Times' Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong responds to a letter from the LAT union's Black caucus, promising to hire more Black journalists, ensure equitable pay, more   —  On June 23, The L.A. Times Guild lead by Black members sent Times' owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong an open letter demanding the paper address its racism and commit to do better. This is his first public response. https://twitter.com/...

• 2 days ago Jeremy Gordon / Columbia Journalism Review: A requiem for The Outline, which had a broad editorial vision with creative freedom for staff, and which closed in April after less than four years of existence

• 2 days ago VICE: Angry over critical coverage, tech figures discuss hitting back against journalists, on Twitter and invite-only Clubhouse, leading to harassment of NYT's Lorenz

• 2 days ago Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Caffeine, which aims to compete with Twitch but focuses on content like rap battles, has raised $113M, led by Fox Corp, Cox Enterprises, and Sanabil Investments

• 2 days ago Kerry Flynn / CNN: Refinery29 President Amy Emmerich steps down; the site's union called for her resignation in June, and Vice was probing claims of toxic behavior at Refinery29

• 2 days ago Tom Dotan / The Information: Reuters has told employees that it is planning on putting many of its articles behind a subscription paywall   —  Reuters is planning on putting many of its articles behind …

• 2 days ago Hilary Lewis / Hollywood Reporter: Walmart will convert 160 parking lots into drive-in movie theaters with film programming by Tribeca Enterprises from August to October

• 2 days ago Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette: The New Statesman says it is dropping all network advertising from its site and announces it has passed 30,000 paid subscriptions for the first time in 40 years