✍️✍️ Jobs Update ✍️✍️ — September 12
Thoughts on the Queen plus new jobs at AFP, Apple, BBC, CBS, El País, ESPN, Euractiv, Guardian, ITV , Nat Geo, NewsNation, NHL, Reuters, Scripps, SELF, The New Yorker, WBAL, WIRED and hundreds more
Happy Monday folks! I’m back in London town from my travels in Colombia. It was a fabulous three weeks in a truly beautiful country that’s been through so much and so recently. During my stay, I really sensed that those I spoke with are more than ready to write the next chapter for their nation that’s based deeply on its roots.
The big news since we last spoke is of course the passing of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday, aged 96. What to write is tricky for me. I’m fascinated at many elements of what the Queen stood for and represented over her 70-year reign — namely the inner workings of the Royal Family, their finances and how millions around the world viewed her.
That said, I’m wholly against the principal idea of a monarchy, which is where deciding what to write was extremely difficult.
While very, very different, the past few days reminded me of how I felt when Kobe Bryant died. When I first heard that he’d died in a helicopter crash along with his daughter and seven others on board, it felt as though a family member had left me. I followed Kobe for most of his career and drew upon his inspirational Mamba Mentality to motivate myself day-to-day.
As was higlighted within minutes of his passing, Bryant was far from perfect, defined by his 2003 rape case. It took me a couple of days to understand the range of emotions and reactions that Bryant’s passing evoked, and I recognized the difficulty, but possibility, to hold competing ideas at the same time — the complexity of a human’s life as part of their overall legacy.
The lesson both deaths have taught me is that there’s a period of time some folks need to mourn the death of anyone they found close to them, and also a safe place to critically look at someone’s life holistically. When and where that time and place is, is subjective — I’m still figuring out when and where mine are — but I do think we should be able to do both simultaneously, and it is absolutely possible to do so. As Jemele Hill put it…
Okay, with all that said, let’s take a quick look at how various newsrooms prepared and covered the historic news behind the scenes.
The BBC wrote a piece on how some of the largest newsrooms around the world, including in many Commonwealth countries, covered the news on their front pages. The Guardian delved inside the BBC and ITV’s rigid preparation and balancing act between wall-to-wall coverage and receiving another barrage of complaints like it did with its reporting of Prince Phillip’s death last year. And as ever, Poynter had a great inside look at how U.S. outlets broke regular programming, as well as some of the most important pieces from the States.
That’s all from me today. I’d love to know what the Queen meant to you, for better or worse and am only on the other side of an email.
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