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Jeffrey LordCNN cuts ties with conservative commentator and Donald Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord. Lord, who served as an associate political director in the Reagan Administration, was let go for using the words “Sieg Heil” in a tweet to Media Matters president Angelo Carusone. The riposte was in response to a tweet to Lord from Carusone complaining about the misspelling of Carusone's name in an earlier post. Lord is the third commentator to recently leave CNN. Kayleigh MeEnamy left the cable network last week to the Republican National Committee, and in June Reza Azlan was let go for referring to the President as a “piece of shit.”
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Ana SwansonThe New York Times snagged Ana Swanson from the Washington Post, where she covers trade, the Federal Reserve and the economy. Swanson, who has spent eight years in China, was editor-in-chief of China Economic Review magazine from 2011 to 2013. She has written for Foreign Policy, Forbes, CNN and The Atlantic; is a regular contributor to American Public Media’s “Marketplace," and is founding VP of the International China Journalists Association (ICJA). Swanson's first day at the Times will be Sept. 11.
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The National Press Club Journalism Institute and the Media Law Resource Center created a way for journalists to report and monitor roadblocks facing them in covering federal, state and local governments. The Institute has an online form that can be filled out any time a public official is muzzled, government data is denied or other types of information that belong to the public are kept from the public. The Institute intends to share the tracking data with other organizations, including the partners on its newly launched Press Freedom Tracker as well as Investigative Reporters and Editors, a nonprofit organization that focuses on the quality of investigative reporting. For those who are worried about leaving a digital fingerprint, reports can be mailed to Press Freedom Fellow, National Press Club Journalism Institute, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20045.
CBS News Radio will go off the air on May 22, part of the axe-swinging managerial plan put into play by CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss... The Economist, which was first published in 1843, is changing hands. Canadian billionaire Stephen Smith has agreed to acquire a 26.9 percent stake in the publication from Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, her family and family foundation... Nexstar Media Group says it has closed its acquisition of TEGNA, the broadcast, digital media and marketing services company that was formed in 2015, when the Gannett Company split into two publicly traded companies.
USA TODAY brings on Jamie Stockwell as VP of news, effective March 30. Stockwell was most recently deputy managing editor of news for the Washington Post... YouTube expands its likeness detection capabilities to a pilot group of government officials, journalists and political candidates... The AP Fund for Journalism adds 50 news organizations to its local news program, bringing the total number of participating newsrooms to 100. 
Versant Media Group, the NBCUniversal cable TV spin-off, today reported its first financial results as 2025 revenues dipped 5.3 percent to $6.7B and standalone EBITDA dropped 9.1 percent to $2.2B.
Trump Media & Technology Group is discussing a spin-off of the Truth Social platform following the expected closing of its $6B merger deal with TAE Technologies... Condé Nast sells off Them, the digital LGBTQ-focused platform it launched in 2017, to Equalpride, publisher of Out, The Advocate, Out Traveler, Health PLUS Wellness and Pride.com... CBS News has parted ways with longevity influencer Peter Attia, one of the 19 contributors that editor-in-chief Bari Weiss brought on as part of her plan to present a wider variety of voices on the platform. 
Symbolic.ai forms a partnership with News Corp to begin using the company’s AI-native publisher platform in the newsrooms of News Corp publications to augment research, writing and publishing... Mediaite launches a newsletter that promises to give readers a summary of—media newsletters... The Fund for American Studies launches the Journalism Excellence Fellowship, a program that will provide promising young journalists the opportunity to work alongside top writers, reporters, and media professionals.
