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- The most powerful women in media include Greta van Susteren, says Forbes.
The Forbes annual World’s Most 100 Powerful Women list includes Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Angela Merkel and, yes, Greta van Susteren of Fox News Channel. Other folks from media include Condé Nast artistic director Anna Wintour, Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, FOX TV CEO Dana Walden, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Chairman Bonnie Hammer and The Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner. And this tidbit: a mere 9 percent of Silicon Valley’s executive officers are females. (Forbes)
- Jason’s Rezaian’s first day in court
The seemingly rigged legal proceeding against Washington Post Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian on “espionage” charges Tuesday was barred to his mother Mary and wife Yeganeh. (CNN) | Iranian-American author-journalist Hooman Majd told me this morning a guilty verdict will likely lead to Rezaian’s freedom. “I still think they’ll probably find him guilty of something — so that they won’t be admitting they made a mistake — but they’ll find a way, either through suspended sentence or time served, to release him.”
- FIFA and the press: rocky relations
The indictments of nine officials of soccer’s ruling body come a few weeks after a BBC crew was forced out of Qatar while reporting on migrant workers being exploited to build stadiums for the 2022 World Cup. BBC Middle East Correspondent Mark Lobel sees it all as part of a media crackdown involving some of the same issues at the heart of Wednesday’s indictments. (The Guardian)
- Charter-Time Warner Cable deal: Does mediocre meet mediocre?
So the dust is clearing from word of the $55 billion deal, but the question arises as to the actual impact if you’re a cable subscriber. You may just have to hope that neither Charter Communications nor Time Warner Cable is your provider. (Bloomberg News)
- Fidel, beware, Cuban-American newspaper designers envision a capitalist future
Could warmer relations with Cuba perhaps mean free, unfettered papers trying to make a buck? Three designers left their imaginations run wild and imagined what the capitalist future could literally look like. (Wall Street Journal) | Now let’s imagine BuzzFeed, Vox and Gawker bureaus on the island.
- Is mocking ISIS playing with fire?
National Cartoonists Society met over the weekend in Washington for its annual meeting, which included a session on the Charlie Hebdo shooting and the role of satire. Now comes word that a group of cartoonists in Iran who ran a contest to satirize the Holocaust are going after the Islamic State. “One image depicts the wild beard of the Islamic State’s shadowy leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as a nest of sharp, blood-stained knives.” (Washington Post)
- Opposition research, not just candidates, now bypassing traditional media.
Opposition researchers are following political candidates onto Medium. The research chief for the Democratic National Campaign Committee went after Republican Gov. Scott Walker in a Wednesday post titled “Something’s Rotten in Madison” on the platform. (Medium) | “It’s a first for us,” a DNC spokesman told The New York Times. (The New York Times)
- Vox Media-Re/code deal: Can rival tech publications find harmony?
Vox Media’s purchase of Re/code, the baby of former Wall Street Journal journalists Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, brings two heavy-duty tech publications (Re/code, The Verge) under the same corporate roof. (TechCrunch) | Can they make it work? Re/code doesn’t expect much overlap with its new partner. (Re/code)
- Front page of the day, curated by Kristen Hare
The San Antonio Express-News shows the deadly flooding in Texas. (Courtesy the Newseum)
- Job moves, edited by Benjamin Mullin
Will Mendelson will be an associate editor at Time Out Chicago. Previously, he was style and entertainment editor at amNewYork. (@williemendelson) | Eric Newton is now innovation chief at the Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. Previously, he was senior adviser to the president at The Knight Foundation. (USA Today) | Kate Nocera has joined public relations firm SKDKnickerbocker. She was a congressional reporter at BuzzFeed. (Politico) | Meredith Haggerty is now reports editor at Racked. Previously, she hosted “TLDR.” (Poynter) | Job of the day: Bloomberg is looking for news editors. Get your résumés in! (Mediagazer) | Send Ben your job moves: bmullin@poynter.org.
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