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Liam Scott
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The Defense Department said it plans to overhaul Stars and Stripes, the storied military newspaper that has long enjoyed editorial independence, to rid it of “woke distractions” and refocus coverage on “warfighting.”

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www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Pentagon to overhaul independent military newspaper, calling it ‘woke’
Plans for more Defense Department control of Stars and Stripes surface after job seekers were asked about their commitment to President Donald Trump’s policies.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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People seeking jobs at military newspaper Stars and Stripes, which Congress guaranteed editorial independence, are being asked how they would advance administration priorities.

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Stars and Stripes job applicants are asked if they back Trump policies
People seeking jobs at Stars and Stripes, which Congress guaranteed editorial independence, are being asked how they would advance administration priorities.
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January 15, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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Good scoop by @liamjscott.bsky.social:

People seeking jobs at Stars and Stripes, which Congress guaranteed editorial independence, are being asked how they would advance administration priorities.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Stars and Stripes job applicants are asked if they back Trump policies
People seeking jobs at Stars and Stripes, which Congress guaranteed editorial independence, are being asked how they would advance administration priorities.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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People seeking jobs at military newspaper Stars and Stripes, which Congress guaranteed editorial independence, are being asked how they would advance administration priorities.
Reporting from @liamjscott.bsky.social
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Stars and Stripes job applicants are asked if they back Trump policies
People seeking jobs at Stars and Stripes, which Congress guaranteed editorial independence, are being asked how they would advance administration priorities.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:43 PM
liamjscott.bsky.social
2025 was marked by the enhanced use of lawfare to target reporters, attacks on public media, and the erosion of press freedom in places where it was once guaranteed, like the U.S.

Read the full @washingtonpost.com 2025 press freedom roundup here: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...
January 2, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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“She wanted changes, and I ultimately had to comply,” Tanya Simon, “60 Minutes” EP, told staff today.

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Tanya Simon, the E.P. of "60 Minutes" told the show's staff she stood by the shelved segment but could not allay the concerns of the network’s editor in chief, Bari Weiss.

"She wanted changes, and I ultimately had to comply."

Updated w/ @liamjscott.bsky.social:
‘I ultimately had to comply’: ‘60 Minutes’ EP faces fallout after Bari Weiss shelves story
CBS News postponed a “60 Minutes” segment about El Salvador’s CECOT prison one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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In 2025, press freedom came under direct attack. We must not respond to this existential crisis with silence and apathy. Read @aidaalami.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...
In 2025, press freedom came under direct attack.
We must not respond to this existential crisis with silence and apathy.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Via @liamjscott.bsky.social at the other site here’s the full email from 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. She’s putting her career on the line by fighting here. And she’s fighting for all of us.
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment.

“Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.”

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‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News pulled a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about a prison in El Salvador one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
wapo.st
December 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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December 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Former staffers say a new owner dealt the respected publication a death blow when service members and veterans needed it most. Read @liamjscott.bsky.social www.cjr.org/feature/mili...
The vanquishing of Military.com.
Former staffers say a new owner dealt the respected publication a death blow when service members and veterans needed it most.
www.cjr.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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This was supposed to be a season for celebration at the New Yorker.

Instead, some of the most famous writers in America are up in arms about parent company Condé Nast firing a fact-checker for “extreme misconduct."

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Famous writers at New Yorker are up in arms after fact-checker’s firing
The media company dismissed four employees, including a fact-checker at the 100-year-old magazine, for “extreme misconduct.” Many of its famous writers are outraged.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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“‘Things happen.’ Just two words. That’s all it took for Donald Trump to effectively dismiss what is probably the most infamous journalist killing of the last decade.” — CPJ’s CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social writes in an op-ed for @theguardian.com.

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November 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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"It is a chaotic and unstable and bad business, but if you have an owner who is really committed to the journalism and also really feels a personal need to keep the thing going, that changes the equation." @joshtpm.bsky.social to @liamjscott.bsky.social

www.cjr.org/the-intervie...
How Talking Points Memo lasted a quarter century.
Josh Marshall reflects on building “a tabloid for smart people” and how his politics blog survived in a “chaotic and unstable and bad business.”
www.cjr.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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A federal judge has ruled that LA County must face journalist Maya Lau’s lawsuit, which alleges that sheriff's deputies unlawfully investigated her in retaliation for her reporting about police misconduct.

@rcfp.org attorneys are co-representing Lau in the case.
LA County must face journalist's challenge to retaliatory investigation, court rules
Journalist Maya Lau, co-represented by RCFP attorneys, sued LA County for unlawfully investigating her in retaliation for her reporting about police misconduct.
www.rcfp.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Writing in @thenation.com December issue, @liamjscott.bsky.social writes about our work to #FreeJimmyLai.

A renowned publisher, pro-democracy advocate, a husband, a father, a grandfather. As he turns 78, the race is on to free him and save his life.

www.thenation.com/article/worl...
The Campaign to Free Jimmy Lai
How a globe-trotting attorney is trying to win the release of the famed Hong Kong publisher.
www.thenation.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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My latest
columjournreview.bsky.social Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · Nov 12
How Talking Points Memo lasted a quarter century: Josh Marshall reflects on building “a tabloid for smart people” and how his politics blog survived in a “chaotic and unstable and bad business.” Read @liamjscott.bsky.social.
www.cjr.org/the-intervie...
How Talking Points Memo lasted a quarter century.
Josh Marshall reflects on building “a tabloid for smart people” and how his politics blog survived in a “chaotic and unstable and bad business.”
www.cjr.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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KOTZ broadcasts to a region the size of Indiana that has 0.1% of its population. @liamjscott.bsky.social reported from Alaska on the connections KOTZ provides to those towns—and the threat posed by Congress’s recission of funding for public media: localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/1...
Keeping Voices from Vanishing
In the remote Arctic town of Kotzebue, Alaska, some residents still talk about the Dairy Queen that closed several years ago. They also talk about what’s at risk of closing next: the region’s lone rad...
localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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My latest
October 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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“Newspaper archives are at risk around the United States. Sometimes the threat is a natural disaster, as it was in Canadian, but archives are more commonly lost when newspapers shutter, move to smaller offices, or are purchased.” @liamjscott.bsky.social www.cjr.org/analysis/dig...
Who’s going to save local newspaper archives?
Archivists worry in particular about photographs that have never been digitized.
www.cjr.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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My latest
columjournreview.bsky.social Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · Oct 1
Elizabeth Wagmeister on the Diddy Trial, and Hard News on the Entertainment Beat: The CNN correspondent prepares for one final day covering the celebrity trial of the year. Read the interview with @liamjscott.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...
Elizabeth Wagmeister on the Diddy trial and hard news on the entertainment beat.
The CNN correspondent prepares for one final day covering the celebrity trial of the year.
www.cjr.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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@liamjscott.bsky.social reports on two @citybeatcincy.bsky.social reporters who covered an immigration detention protest being put on trial on criminal charges. www.cjr.org/news/madelin...
On trial for journalism in Kentucky.
Two months after their arrests while covering a protest, a pair of local reporters face criminal charges.
www.cjr.org
October 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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On Trial for Journalism in Kentucky: Two months after their arrests while covering a protest, a pair of local reporters face criminal charges. By @liamjscott.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/news/madelin...
On Trial for Journalism in Kentucky
Two months after their arrests while covering a protest, a pair of local reporters face criminal charges.
www.cjr.org
September 29, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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For Uyghurs living in exile, a taste of home serves up both joy and sorrow, writes @liamjscott.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social with recipes of popular dishes.
For the Uyghur Diaspora, the Taste of Home Brings Both Joy and Sorrow
Popular dishes savored by those in exile capture a lost time
newlinesmag.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM