I was off at the start of this week due to illness, so this is a shorter newsletter and you’ll see more stories from us next week.

Thinking about those in the Twin Cities and sending fortitude, and want to shout out coverage from Sahan Journal, Racket (which, in honor of the general strike in Minnesota, has lifted its paywall today), and Minnesota Women’s Press — some of the smaller Twin Cities newsrooms doing on-the-ground work to document how neighbors are helping each other and sharing information during this moment.

In this week’s issue: Resources for constitutional protections against immigration stops, Israel kills three more journalists in Gaza, behind NPR’s suit after public media funding rescinded, why a philanthropist is pulling back from journalism funding, another legal battle for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and a report on corporate media’s response to attacks on DEI.

—James Salanga

📕 Poynter spoke with legal experts to create another resource for journalists to understand their and their communities’ constitutional protections against immigration stops and detentions.

🎥 In the latest ceasefire violation, Israeli forces killed three Palestinian journalists — Abdul Raouf Shaat, Mohammed Salah Qashta, and Anas Ghoneim — and eight other Palestinians Palestinians on Wednesday. The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate condemned the “deliberate assassination.” (Meanwhile, the Times called the U.S.’s aspirations to build over devastation in Gaza a “glittering plan.”) 

📻 For Columbia Journalism Review, Lucy Schiller pulls back the curtain on the suit filed by NPR and three Colorado public media stations against the Trump administration, in which they alleged its stoppage of federal funding inhibited freedom of speech. 

❓ In a Q&A with Nieman Lab, longtime journalism funder Craig Newmark says he’s “pulling back on funding journalism,” saying news organizations should ask two questions: “Do the organizations have real plans to grow their audiences outside of their most faithful followers? Do they understand how to defend themselves and their work from bad actors?”

📰 The National Labor Relations Board filed charges against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Tuesday for failing to comply with an March 2025 injunction to restore a 2020 healthcare plan to its workers. The Post-Gazette is set to close May 3, and if found guilty of contempt would be subject to additional fines. 

⏪ A new report from Free Press maps out how corporation-owned newsrooms rolled back their diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in light of the second Trump administration’s attacks on DEI during 2025.

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This issue is by James Salanga. Thanks for reading. We’ll have more for you next week.

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