 Kareem Abdul Jabbar |
"Roseanne,” according to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, may actually be the most anti-Donald Trump show on TV. Abdul-Jabbar expresses that opinion in an April 3 Hollywood Reporter column. Abdul-Jabbar, who has been a contributing editor at the Reporter since February, writes that “it’s easy to miss the show’s uncompromising criticism of Trump because the star, Roseanne Barr, just completed an intensive talk-show publicity tour during which she adamantly proclaimed her support for Trump and touted that her show would articulate the feelings and frustrations of Trump loyalists.” Nonetheless, he says the show makes it clear that the Conner family’s problem has been made worse by the Trump administration. Before signing up with the Hollywood Reporter, Abdul-Jabbar was a regular columnist at Time, and he has written for the Washington Post, the New York Times, Esquire and Huffington Post, in addition to the being the author of several books.
 Maribel Perez Wadsworth |
USA Today has named Maribel Perez Wadsworth as publisher. In addition to her new role, Wadsworth will continue to lead the paper’s consumer division, overseeing content strategy and operations, and serve as president of the USA Today Network. Wadsworth started her career at Gannett more than 20 years ago, when she worked as an agriculture beat reporter at the Rockford Register Star. She joined the corporate team in 2009, leading digital strategy for all of Gannett’s local newsrooms. In 2015, she became Gannett’s first chief strategy officer. Wadsworth joins Nicole Carroll, who was named USA Today’s editor-in-chief in February.
 Chuck Lewis |
Journalist and author Chuck Lewis has been awarded the 2018 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence. The award will be presented at a ceremony in Cambridge, Mass., on May 3. A former producer at ABC News as well as CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” Lewis founded the Center for Public Integrity in 1989, and its International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in 1997. In April 2016, ICIJ published the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Panama Papers,” about offshore tax havens. Lewis is also the founding executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop based at the American University School of Communication. Established in 2008, the I.F Stone Medal honors the life of investigative journalist I.F. Stone and is presented annually to a journalist whose work captures the spirit of journalistic independence, integrity and courage that characterized I.F. Stone’s Weekly, published from 1953 to 1971. The award is administered by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.
 Olivier Knox |
SiriusXM has named Olivier Knox as its chief Washington correspondent. Knox joins SiriusXM from Yahoo! News, where he was chief Washington correspondent, and he previously covered U.S. politics for 15 years at Agence France-Presse. In July, he will be appointed president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, for which he currently serves as vice president. For more than three years he also hosted a weekly political roundtable show, Yahoo! News on P.O.T.U.S. At Sirius, Knox will provide commentary for all of the radio company’s political channels. He will also host an upcoming weeknight show about the President that will include interviews with top politicians and world leaders, break down current events and answer listener questions.
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Barry Pollack, an attorney at Wall Street’s Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler, has registered Julian Assange as a client with the Justice Dept. “out of an abundance of caution.”
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The majority of news articles are read within the first three days of publication, according to a recent report.
The Los Angeles Times gives pink slips to 115 people or 20 percent of its newsroom staff... TIME is also laying off about 30 employees, which is approximately 15 percent of its editorial staff... The Baltimore Banner, which was launched by Stewart Bainum in 2022 after he failed to buy the Baltimore Sun, added 500 subscribers per day in the three days following Sinclair Broadcast Group's deal to purchase the Sun.
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