Good morning. The media world continues to be shaken by the information that two journalists for Spectrum Information 13 in Orlando had been amongst 5 folks shot on Wednesday. One among them, 24-year-old Dylan Lyons, died. A 9-year-old woman and one other girl additionally had been killed within the shootings. So we begin immediately with a hyperlink to a column about Lyons and native information reporting from a particular visitor to Poynter.

• Former CNN media reporter Brian Stelter reached out to Poynter to supply his ideas following the horrific information that three folks had been killed, together with a journalist for Spectrum Information 13 in Orlando, and two others had been injured in a number of however associated shootings on Wednesday. Stelter’s insightful and considerate column: “Among journalists, shock at Dylan Lyons’ murder is coupled with a strong sense of ‘what if?’” Stelter reviewed a few of Lyons’ current work and wrote, “Glamorous, it was not. However a terrific instance of civic journalism, it was. Lyons exemplified how native TV information is a glue that binds residents and communities. I’ve seen it firsthand, as my spouse works for Spectrum’s cable information channel in New York Metropolis. Spectrum’s newsrooms are the epitome of precise native media — filled with tenacious, inventive journalists who inform the tales the remainder of us have to know. Anybody who is aware of native TV is aware of that it’s a grind, sure, and the gripes about being underpaid and under-appreciated are actual. However there’s one thing else too: a satisfaction that comes from outworking all people else. A pleasure that comes from working the road and touchdown the interview and turning the tape. Scrolling again by way of Lyons’ tweets, I can see his exuberance. His love of the job.”
• Additionally, try this report from Spectrum Information 13: “Remembering Spectrum News 13 reporter Dylan Lyons.”
• Jesse Walden, the Spectrum Information 13 photojournalist who was shot and hospitalized, talks about his colleague and his ideas on what occurred in this video report.

Gannett reviews a revenue

For this merchandise, I flip it over to my Poynter colleague, Angela Fu.

Gannett, the biggest newspaper chain within the nation, announced Thursday that it had made a revenue over the last quarter of 2022 after enterprise cost-cutting measures.

Within the quarter ending on Dec. 31, Gannett generated a web earnings of $32.8 million after 4 straight quarters of losses. Throughout the identical interval in 2021, Gannett posted a lack of $22.4 million. Firm executives on an earnings name attributed this quarter’s outcomes to rising digital-only subscriptions and “strong” cuts that lowered headcount and non-payroll bills.

“2022 was a yr of unanticipated volleys of volatility and naturally, excessive inflation,” CEO Mike Reed mentioned through the name. “Regardless of these challenges, we made nice strides with the enterprise. We centered on what we might management — offering distinctive and related content material to our readers; serving to native companies discover, convert and hold clients; in addition to taking the mandatory actions to considerably decrease our price construction.”

Gannett executed several rounds of layoffs in 2022 and early 2023, leading to greater than 600 lower jobs. The corporate additionally furloughed most of its journalists over the vacations, suspended contributions to worker 401(ok)s and paused hiring.

Whole income for the fourth quarter was $730.7 million, down 11.6% in comparison with the identical interval in 2021. Nonetheless, digital-only paid subscriptions had been up 24.2% at 2.03 million. Gannett repaid $47.3 million of debt final quarter and ended the yr with $1.27 billion in excellent debt stemming from its 2019 merger with GateHouse. To assist repay that debt, Gannett bought $67.9 million in actual property and different belongings final yr. This yr, Gannett estimates it would promote one other $65 to $75 million in actual property and different belongings.

Reed mentioned the corporate is getting into 2023 with “numerous optimism.” Inflation appears to have peaked, he mentioned, and newsprint and distribution prices have largely stabilized. In response to a shareholder query a couple of doable recession, Reed mentioned the corporate had not seen something within the first quarter to point the nation was shifting in that route.

Gannett’s inventory closed at $3.19 a share Thursday, up from $2.58 the day earlier than.

Extra media information and must-read hyperlinks

• Right now is the primary anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Listed below are a few must-read tales: from The Washington Put up, Chico Harlan, Isabelle Khurshudyan, Whitney Shefte and Whitney Leaming with “Separated by war, a Ukrainian family balances safety, duty and love.” Additionally, The Guardian’s Shaun Walker, Isobel Koshiw, Pjotr Sauer, Morten Risberg, Liz Cookman and Luke Harding with “Mariupol. The ruin of a city.”
• And another from the struggle. Esquire’s Matt Gallagher with “The Secret Weapons of Ukraine.”
• The New York Occasions’ Luke Broadwater and Jonathan Swan weigh in on Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy giving tapes of the Jan. 6 riot to Tucker Carlson in “In Sharing Video With Fox Host, McCarthy Hits Rewind on Jan. 6.” Broadwater and Swan wrote, “Some Republicans, too, mentioned Mr. McCarthy was taking a political danger along with his resolution. Ought to Mr. Carlson use the video — by way of selective enhancing — to additional false narratives, it might supercharge the urge for food within the right-wing base for the continued re-litigation of Jan. 6. That might pressure the problem onto the agenda of extra Home Republicans, a transfer that’s more likely to flip off swing voters.”
• Talking of Fox Information, Washington Post media reporters Paul Farhi, Jeremy Barr and Sarah Ellison look into the latest on Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox. The opening paragraph: “The disclosure of emails and texts by which Fox Information executives and personalities disparaged the identical election conspiracies being floated on their exhibits has enormously elevated the probabilities {that a} defamation case in opposition to the community will succeed, authorized specialists say.” The messages seem to recommend that some Fox Information executives and on-air personalities knew Donald Trump’s claims of a fraudulent election weren’t true, however the community continued to have on Trump advisors who peddled such false claims. The Put up wrote, “If that’s the case, the messages might quantity to a strong physique of proof in opposition to Fox, in response to First Modification specialists, as a result of they meet a essential and difficult-to-meet commonplace in such instances.” Try the story for feedback from those that specialise in media regulation, together with one who mentioned, “I believe that Dominion each will and may prevail.”
• And talking of Trump, The Washington Put up’s Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey, Hannah Knowles, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Patrick Marley and Ashley Parker with “Trump’s grip on the Republican base is slipping — even among his fans.”
• From ProPublica (and co-published with USA Right now Community-Wisconsin and El Faro) it’s Melissa Sanchez and Maryam Jameel with “Death on a Dairy Farm: What Really Happened to 8-Year-Old Jefferson Rodríguez.”
• Because of the parents at Muck Rack for linking to this wild story in regards to the rock band fashionable within the Nineties known as Stay. They’d hit songs equivalent to “Lightning Crashes” and “I Alone.” Rolling Stone’s Andy Greene writes, “How an Alleged Con Man Tore Apart One of the Nineties’ Biggest Bands.”
• Politico’s Matt Dixon with “DeSantis wants to roll back press freedoms — with an eye toward overturning Supreme Court ruling.”
• Sophia Lada, a contract journalist who graduated from Michigan State College in 2022, wrote this piece for The New York Occasions: “‘I’m a Journalist and a Spartan’: How a Graduate Covered the Michigan State Shooting.”
• Tonight shall be Yamiche Alcindor’s final time internet hosting PBS’s “Washington Week.” She introduced earlier this month that she needs to focus full time on her job at NBC Information as a Washington correspondent, and end her upcoming memoir. “Washington Week” airs at 8 p.m. Jap on most PBS stations.
• Try Rupert Murdoch’s new $30-million house overlooking Central Park in New York Metropolis. The Wall Street Journal’s Katherine Clarke has the details.
• Large transaction within the media world. Stephanie McCrummen is leaving The Washington Put up to affix The Atlantic. McCrummen has been with the Put up since 2004 and, in 2018, was a number one member of the crew that gained a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for work uncovering sexual misconduct allegations in opposition to Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. In a word to workers, Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg wrote, “Stephanie is one in every of America’s most esteemed reporters; her tales are gorgeously written, memorable, and sophisticated in all of the ways in which Atlantic tales needs to be.”
• I can’t say that I completely agree with this record, however that’s type of the purpose of lists, proper? Everybody has an opinion. However I have to say the reasons for the place each film is ranked are fascinating and a complete lot of enjoyable. It’s Uproxx’s Steven Hyden with “The Films Of Steven Spielberg, Ranked.”

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