This week, no main story since I’m in Minneapolis for AAJA! I’d love to say hi if you’re around — just respond to this email to try and coordinate.

An abbreviated version of our media links is on our Instagram each week, focusing on what a handful of those stories say about how power and identity impact journalism. (Previous week’s here.)

—James Salanga

📉 Alejandra Caraballo analyzed more than 3,000 articles from the New York Times to track how the paper’s coverage sentiment towards trans identity has shifted from mostly supportive (2018) to mostly skeptical (2025). Read her analysis and methodology here.

🔬 Current management told Scientific American staff were told the magazine had been sold to LabX Media Group, and layoffs would be incoming. The newsroom recently unionized, and the Writers Guild of America East called this “blatant union-busting.”

🌉 Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics. Columbia Journalism Review published a profile of Coyote, the Bay Area alt-weekly that launched last year to prioritize reporting with an explicit point of view (and have fun!).

🌍 In 2025, the Trump administration dismantled climate.gov. Climate.us is looking to bridge the gap. It launched this week as a nonprofit climate information site, and more than 80 scientists have volunteered to serve as expert reviewers on actionable information and public data sources. “This new … website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase.”

🤖 “To enhance richness of visual responses,” Getty Images has signed a display agreement with OpenAI. This will affect major newsrooms that rely on Getty for visuals, further muddying the waters about where genAI bots are pulling information and gives a veneer of credibility to genAI images.

📺 FOLLOW-UP: A day after Scott Pelley’s firing, ratings for CBS Mornings tanked according to Status.

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

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