Trans journalists have a new in-person professional development conference to look forward to next March — and it’s all-expenses paid. The Trans Journalists Association announced their first Trans Journalists Summit in Chicago today! Cost is one of the most prohibitive barriers to attending conferences like this, so it’s nice to see TJA foot the bill for those who are accepted to attend. This also marks the first in-person professional development for trans journalists, akin to other affinity orgs.

Also, ProPublica workers reached a resolution to three-year contract fight, which we covered during their one-day strike: They have a deal!

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ICYMI: Our most recent story is about how HBCU journalism professors are adapting to an era of journalism and equal rights policies under attack. Read it here.

📅 The Trans Journalists Association just announced the first Trans Journalists Summit, a professional development and training conference happening March 24-27, 2027, in Chicago. Applications for the all-expenses paid conference open this summer and are open to anyone who qualifies as a TJA member.

🤖 The rise of AI-generated content channels have created new challenges for policymakers and political figures, as reported for Semafor by Max Tani. YouTube as a company has been working to eliminate “inauthentic content,” some of which specializes in spreading misinformation that preys on political fears. Tani points out, “Of course opponents of Newsom and Democrats can already turn to a conservative media complex that’s been churning out bespoke, human-made content like this for years.”

✍ “Nearly every time a mainstream news outlet mentions the word “prison,” it’s in the context of someone being convicted of a crime, not the people and conditions they have to live in afterward. That didn’t feel responsible to me.” Victoria Valenzuela wrote about her personal experience with prison coverage, and teaching fellows how to cover the prison system and those within it for Poynter.

🤐 Gourmet Magazine is changing its name, presumably after Condé Nast let the trademark lapse, which was then picked up by the independent, worker-run newsmagazine. The Objective covered Gourmet and the rise of a new food media ecosystem a few months ago.

🗳 FOLLOW-UP: Supporters wrote in to the FCC’s open comment session for its challenge to local ABC licenses. The FCC’s website recorded more than 145,000 comments. This happens within the context of CBS and CBS News’ “editor-in-chief” Bari Weiss making public moves to endear the network to FCC chair Brendan Carr.

🤝 FOLLOW-UP: After three years, ProPublica’s union finally has a deal. We’ve covered how the union has been fighting for greater wage parity across regions, guardrails around generative AI usage, a general minimum wage raise, substantial reforms to disciplinary processes, and more.

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

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