The Star Tribune is offering high school grads across Minnesota free one-year digital subscriptions

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Thursday, June 8, 2023 [The Star Tribune is offering high school grads across Minnesota free one-year digital subscriptions]( The Tribune set 200 graduating seniors as an “original modest benchmark” for sign-ups and has already surpassed 250. By Sophie Culpepper. [After exposure by a nonprofit news outlet, New York is rescinding its policy banning most journalism by prisoners]( What We’re Reading The New York Times / Douglas Martin [Pat Robertson, who brought Christian conservatives clout, dies at 93 →]( “His broadcasts would be seen in 200 countries and heard in 70 languages, collecting hundreds of millions of dollars in donations and redefining Christian broadcasting by serving up religion as news and entertainment.” Fortune / Jane Thier [Every major U.S. news organization is now officially helmed by a woman →]( Nieman Lab’s Joshua Benton [notes]( that “this math requires counting both the top editorial and business-side slots as the news org’s ‘leader.'” Most of the organizations mentioned have either a male CEO/female editor, or vice versa. NPR / Debbie Elliott [Wade Goodwyn, longtime NPR correspondent, dies at age 63 →]( “For generations of public radio listeners, including me, he was one of NPR’s iconic voices. Aside from that instantly recognizable voice, Wade was a uniquely gifted storyteller and a brilliant reporter,” said NPR CEO John Lansing. The Information / Sahil Patel [BuzzFeed considers sale of Complex Networks →]( “A sale of Complex — best known for making popular video series such as ‘Hot Ones’ and ‘Sneaker Shopping’ — would be a remarkable about-face for BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti. For years, he championed consolidation within digital media as a path forward for firms seeking to grow revenue and better compete with tech platforms.” The Wall Street Journal / Alexandra Bruell [After years of negotiations, Google News Showcase will launch in the U.S. this summer →]( “Showcase will feature more than 150 U.S. news publications, including local outlets such as the Duluth News Tribune in Minnesota and Orlando Weekly in Florida, as well as larger new outlets such as the Associated Press, Bloomberg, Reuters and The Wall Street Journal. Google didn’t say how much money U.S. publishers were being paid as part of the partnership.” Columbia Journalism Review / Mathew Ingram [Meta ramps up its threats to block the news →]( “News consumers in Canada and California can take some comfort in the knowledge that every time Google or Facebook has blocked access to the news on their platform, they have eventually reinstated it—although in some cases it has taken a long time for that to happen.” The Guardian / Jane Martinson [How the Barclay empire lost its grip on the Daily Telegraph →]( “How brothers who pursued the Telegraph for years ended up with Lloyds’ Bank of Scotland seizing control and appointing a receiver is a story not just of age and family fallout, but the death of a way of doing business. They built a multibillion-pound business empire, still valued at £6bn in the last issue of the Sunday Times Rich List, from scratch by borrowing huge amounts of money in the loadsofmoney years that preceded the 2008 financial crisis.” Rest of World / Russell Brandom [What languages dominate the internet? →]( According to this data, “English, German, and Japanese command a much larger portion of the internet than they do among native speakers. By contrast, many non-European languages hardly exist on the internet at all.” (Note that this data set only includes scans of publicly available websites, which may, for instance, undercount the Chinese internet — Rest of World states that “the data should be read as a broad survey of websites, not a precise measurement.”) Axios / Sara Fischer and Mike Allen [Fox News says Tucker Carlson breached his contract →]( “A breach of contract claim sets Fox News up to explore potential legal action against Carlson, a move that would intensify the already thorny public battle between the two parties.” Vanity Fair / Charlotte Klein [Why The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Politico didn’t publish a seemingly bombshell report about UFOs →]( “Even as extraterrestrial life has moved to the fore of mainstream news media in recent years, the lack of first-hand accounts or available physical documentation to support such claims of such mysterious aerial phenomena has been a barrier to entry for many journalists and mainstream outlets.” Semafor / Jenna Moon, Max Tani, and Ben Smith [What the crisis at CNN means →]( “A bank of simultaneous cable feeds used to mean you were in some plugged-in news hub like the White House lower press office. Now it usually means you’re at a gym.” Puck / Dylan Byers [Licht’s out →]( “After a year of leadership missteps, programming misfires, a disastrous Trump town hall and the near-total decimation of staff morale in the wake of a chilling all-access Atlantic story, Licht will be vacating the C.E.O. position.” [Nieman Lab]( / [Fuego]( [Twitter]( / [Facebook]( [View email in browser]( [Unsubscribe]( You are receiving this daily newsletter because you signed up for for it at www.niemanlab.org. Nieman Journalism Lab Harvard University 1 Francis Ave.Cambridge, MA 02138 [Add us to your address book](