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Steve Reiss

@StephenReiss

Executive Editor for Culture and Enterprise @Andscape. Alum of @CrainsChicago, @washingtonpost and @MiamiHerald. Fan of Oban, Patsy Cline and @joffreyballet

Joined June 2009
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@willsommer10 Oct 2023
The Washington Post announced plans to offer buyouts to 240 staffers today, cuts that would amount to nearly 10% of total staff. Story from me and @ElaheIzadi washingtonpost.com/style/med…
Washington Post will offer buyouts to cut staff by 240

Washington Post will offer buyouts to cut staff by 240

The staff reductions come as Washington Post leaders determined that recent revenue projections were overly optimistic.

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Brooklyn High School coach Tim McFarland and his players repeatedly used the word "Nazi" as a playcall in a game against Beachwood High School. Beachwood, a Cleveland suburb, is roughly 90% Jewish espn.com/espn/story/_/id/384…
Ohio HS coach resigns after team's 'Nazi' playcall

Ohio HS coach resigns after team's 'Nazi' playcall

Brooklyn High School coach Tim McFarland resigned Monday after his players repeatedly used the word "Nazi" as a playcall in a game against Beachwood High School.

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The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons announced that he would step down from that role, after publicly honoring a Nazi veteran in Parliament. wapo.st/3ZMW5dD
Canada’s House speaker resigns after honoring Nazi veteran in Parliament

Canada’s House speaker resigns after honoring Nazi veteran in Parliament

Anthony Rota, speaker of the House of Commons since 2019, lauded 98-year-old former Waffen-SS member Yaroslav Hunka during the visit last week of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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"The days of us blowing off social media vitriol as trolls being trolls — those ended for us last year. We’re never going back to that space." From @angelanfu poynter.org/reporting-editin…
A reporter made sure a retired police chief’s death didn’t go uncovered. Then social media attacked...

A reporter made sure a retired police chief’s death didn’t go uncovered. Then social media attacked...

The Las Vegas Review-Journal is facing a harassment campaign stoked by Elon Musk, one year after a reporter was killed for his coverage.

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.⁦@JenishaWatts⁩ is both a miracle of self invention and a miraculous writer. This, our October cover, took my breath away. It’s impeccably structured, paced, told. Don’t know whether I admire her or her craft more. They feel inseparable. theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
Jenisha From Kentucky

Jenisha From Kentucky

I came to New York sure of one thing—that no one could ever know my past.

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A crackdown on ‘woke’ coverage is tearing Atlanta magazine apart washingtonpost.com/media/202…
A crackdown on ‘woke’ coverage is tearing Atlanta magazine apart

A crackdown on ‘woke’ coverage is tearing Atlanta magazine apart

Half the staff of Atlanta magazine has quit after the publisher challenged their effort to present a modern picture of life in a diverse, LGBTQ-friendly town.

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Lulu NYT
@LuluGNavarro25 Aug 2023
With this and the Texas Tribune cuts a big number of talented Latino journalists have lost their jobs. hire them! But also we are in a crisis…(mas/more)
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A Message from Futuro Media
Futuro Media is profoundly saddened to announce that we have taken action to scale down our organization. After months of economic uncertainty that have affected the podcast and news industries, as well as funding for public media, we have made the decision to head into 2024 as a smaller team. Today, we grieve as we say goodbye to several talented and amazing colleagues. This difficult decision will allow us to keep operating and producing the high-standard journalism we have proudly worked on for more than a decade, including our flagship Peabody Award-winning show Latino USA –the longest-running Latino news radio show and podcast in the country – our Pulitzer award-winning podcast division Futuro Studios, our IRE award-winning stories from Futuro Investigates, and our talk and web properties. We know this is a deep loss. However, our excellence in journalism, podcast and documentary production continues. We thank our many supporters and listeners and remain committed, more than eve

ALT Futuro Media is profoundly saddened to announce that we have taken action to scale down our organization. After months of economic uncertainty that have affected the podcast and news industries, as well as funding for public media, we have made the decision to head into 2024 as a smaller team. Today, we grieve as we say goodbye to several talented and amazing colleagues. This difficult decision will allow us to keep operating and producing the high-standard journalism we have proudly worked on for more than a decade, including our flagship Peabody Award-winning show Latino USA –the longest-running Latino news radio show and podcast in the country – our Pulitzer award-winning podcast division Futuro Studios, our IRE award-winning stories from Futuro Investigates, and our talk and web properties. We know this is a deep loss. However, our excellence in journalism, podcast and documentary production continues. We thank our many supporters and listeners and remain committed, more than eve

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Max Tani@maxwelltani23 Aug 2023
Texas Tribune laid off staff today, citing changes in the industry and an unsteady economy. Here's the note CEO Sonal Shah sent to the publication's employees this afternoon.
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As a journalism professor, Meyer said, he had graduate students from Egypt who talked about how people would come into the newspaper office and seize everything so they couldn’t publish. “That’s basically what they’re trying to do here,” Meyer said. kansasreflector.com/2023/08/…
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She paid a fortune for her town’s paper. Years of turmoil followed. washingtonpost.com/media/202…
She paid a fortune for her town’s paper. Years of turmoil followed.

She paid a fortune for her town’s paper. Years of turmoil followed.

Wendy McCaw, the owner of the Santa Barbara News-Press, ceased its publication in July after years of controversy.

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Jon Allsop@Jon_Allsop1 Aug 2023
For @CJR, I spoke with @idegaulmyn about the French Catholic newspaper La Croix's recent efforts to grapple with its anti-Semitic past—joining a tradition of media historical excavations that has been especially active in the US in recent years: cjr.org/the_media_today/la_c…

A Catholic newspaper confronts its anti-Semitic history

In 1998, La Croix, a Catholic daily in France, ran a front-page picture of Emile Zola, the celebrated French novelist. The splash marked the hundredth anniversary of “J’Accuse…!,” an open letter that...

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I actually read all 216 pages of Florida's new state social studies standards, and the enslaved-people-benefitting-from-slavery is not even the worst part. They basically created a K-12 course in Caucasian Race Theory Here's the top 10 problems I found: thegrio.com/2023/07/27/flori…
Florida's Black history standards are even worse than reported

Florida's Black history standards are even worse than reported

OPINION: While critics have singled out the part of Florida’s Black History standards referencing the “benefits of slavery," theGrio found numerous examples of Caucasian Race Theory embedded throug...

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A small news site won a Pulitzer for its Brett Favre scoop. Now it’s unionizing. washingtonpost.com/media/202…

A small news site won a Pulitzer for its Brett Favre scoop. Now it’s unionizing.

Mississippi Today won a Pulitzer for its reporting on a state welfare-funds scandal involving star quarterback Brett Favre. Now its reporters are unionizing.

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Benefited from slavery? Critics say some of the state’s examples were never even slaves. tampabay.com/news/education/…
Benefited from slavery? Critics say some of the state’s examples were never even slaves.

Benefited from slavery? Critics say some of the state’s examples were never even slaves.

The battle over Florida’s new African American history standards grows more heated.

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Texas A&M University president resigns after Black journalist’s hiring at campus unravels apnews.com/article/texas-am-…
Texas A&M University president resigns after Black journalist’s hiring at campus unravels

Texas A&M University president resigns after Black journalist’s hiring at campus unravels

The president of Texas A&M University has resigned after a Black journalist’s celebrated hiring at one of the nation’s largest campuses unraveled over criticism of her diversity and inclusion work.

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Sadly, many happiness studies are flawed. Partly to blame are older practices in psychology that allowed scientists to find results when in truth there were none wsj.com/articles/sadly-many-…
Sadly, Many Happiness Studies Are Flawed

Sadly, Many Happiness Studies Are Flawed

New research concludes that older practices in psychology allowed scientists to find results when in truth there were none.

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Usher has been living rent-free in the minds of insecure men for decades. Keke Palmer's boyfriend is just the latest example, writes @DavidDTSS for @andscape andscape.com/features/the-in…
The insecure man's guide to hating Usher - Andscape

The insecure man's guide to hating Usher - Andscape

It seems like every show at Usher’s Las Vegas residency has created a new viral moment: from 21 Savage singing with him to his smooth skating fall to his serenading of Saweetie. And of course, when...

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“ProPublica interviewed around a dozen former crew members of the Michaela Rose, some of whom spent years aboard the ship, and none said they were aware of the boat ever being chartered.” propublica.org/article/harla…
How Harlan Crow Slashed his Tax Bill by Taking Clarence Thomas on Superyacht Cruises

How Harlan Crow Slashed his Tax Bill by Taking Clarence Thomas on Superyacht Cruises

In lavishing gifts on the Supreme Court justice, the billionaire GOP donor may have violated tax laws, according to tax experts.

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75 years ago today, Hubert Humphrey demanded that the Democratic National Convention adopt a civil rights plank, which led to the Dixiecrat exodus to the GOP. @SamuelGFreedman tells the story of the Black publisher who tutored Humphrey about racism andscape.com/features/cecil-…
The little-known publisher who tutored Hubert Humphrey about racism - Andscape

The little-known publisher who tutored Hubert Humphrey about racism - Andscape

Seventy-five years ago, on the afternoon of July 14, 1948, Cecil Newman was listening to a radio broadcast of the Democratic National Convention from Philadelphia as he finished up the weekly edition...

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Three Pulitzer-winning cartoonists let go in one day washingtonpost.com/comics/20…
Three Pulitzer-winning cartoonists let go in one shocking day

Three Pulitzer-winning cartoonists let go in one shocking day

McClatchy, citing ‘continuing evolution’ for the firings, says its newspapers will no longer publish daily opinion cartoons.

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