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The California electric-vehicle maker may need a cash infusion by year end.
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You might have heard: Trump held off-the-record meetings with network executives in November, as well as an on-the-record meeting with the NYT
But did you know: Trump met with ‘regional press affiliates’ in an off-the-record dinner on Monday night (WRTV-TV)
President Trump met with “regional press affiliates,” including reporters from E.W. Scripps Company, in a private off-the-record dinner on Monday night. “The meeting is comparable to the off-the-record lunch Trump will host Tuesday with major network anchors ahead of his first address to Congress,” Scripps TV station WRTV reports. Tuesday’s meeting is a “continuation of a White House custom,” WRTV explains, as presidents have traditionally met with news anchors prior to their first State of the Union.
+ A Wall Street Journal / NBC News survey found that just over half say they believe media organizations are being “too critical” of Trump’s administration (Wall Street Journal), a finding that Mathew Ingram argues could suggest that coverage of Trump’s administration could be backfiring as the administration attacks news organizations (Fortune); George W. Bush tells Matt Lauer, “I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy. That we need the media to hold people like me to account … It’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere” (Politico)
+ Jill Geisler’s tips for news managers on covering Trump: Know the right style of leadership to use for the situation, clearly define your managers’ roles and responsibilities, and expect your habits to be adopted by those you manage (CJR)
+ Noted: After breaking the Panama Papers in 2016, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is going independent and breaking off from the Center for Public Integrity “in a move intended to give [the] team more room for financial growth” (Poynter); The Institute for Nonprofit News is launching the INN Emerging Leaders Council, “a new program to support leadership and skills development for future leaders of nonprofit news organizations” (INN); After receiving a grant from the Knight Foundation to expand its training and mentorship programs, Local Independent Online News Publishers names Matt DeRienzo as its first full-time executive director (LION Publishers); Axios will launch a fifth vertical with an emphasis on energy (Digiday); Mozilla acquires Pocket, its first acquisition as it tries to “gain a foothold on mobile devices” (The Verge)
Ideas for moving ‘beyond the article’ (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism)
In a new report for the Reuters Institute, Kevin Anderson examines how news organizations are moving “beyond the article” and adopting new story forms and methods of distribution. Some of the key findings from the report: All of the cases Anderson studied involved using distributed methods to spread stories via social media or messaging apps; targeted engagement is just as important as chasing scale; and having limited resources does not have to be a hindrance to innovating new story forms.
+ Earlier: Our report on the best ways to build sustainable distributed content and platform strategies and how to break away from articles and invent new story forms
Norway’s Amedia developed a common log-in system to use across its titles that encourages subscribers to build habits (Journalism.co.uk)
Amedia, Norway’s largest media company, has developed a common log-in system to use across its 62 titles — and that system is encouraging subscribers build digital habits. The system is part of a three-step plan for Amedia: The first stage is converting print subscribers to digital subscribers, the second stage is encouraging non-subscribers to register for a log-in, and the third stage is moving registered users up the value chain (getting non-registered users to sign in and getting logged-in users to become subscribers). “We had a subscription economy that was nose diving fast at about 10 to 15 percent, so the plan was to get these customers to build digital habits, hoping that this strategy would lead to growth and new audiences,” says Amedia’s executive vice president for digital Pal Nedregotten. “The online log-in system was designed to give paying subscribers a reason to still be a subscriber, and create digital habits to help them find value in an online edition.”
Twitter may have committed itself to a ‘live’ strategy last year, but it’s still offering essentially the same product it was when it launched in 2006 (Stratechery)
A year ago, Twitter said in a letter to its shareholders that it was committing itself to a “live” strategy, trying to make itself a place where people would talk about events as they were happening in real-time. But thinking about that statement in the context of Sunday night’s Oscars mistake “highlights what I and so many others mean when we bemoan Twitter’s product stagnation, and how said stagnation so severely limited the company’s long-term prospects — and, on the flipside, how to think about innovation and the disruption of what came before,” Ben Thompson writes. What makes Twitter good for live events is seeing something happening, and then the immediate reaction — which is currently lost once the event is over. Thompson imagines “a Twitter app that, instead of a generic Moment that is little more than Twitter’s version of a thousand re-blogs, let you replay your Twitter stream from any particular moment in time.”
‘Getting to the root of the “fake news” problem means fixing what’s broken about journalism itself’ (Nieman Lab)
The spread of misinformation online is a multi-faceted problem with many different sources, and that means that there’s no one solution to the “fake news” problem, Shan Wang writes. Summarizing the ideas to come out of this weekend’s MisinfoCon at Harvard University, Wang writes that the weekend was focused on fixing the things that are broken about journalism now. Some ideas to come out of the conference: Readers may be inclined to believe false stories because of a lack of legitimate news sources in their geographic area, a tool could be built to help advertisers block fake news sites better, and an “empathy accelerator” could help newsrooms facilitate conversations with groups who may not have interacted before. You can see all the presentations from the conference here.
Copy editors and grammar pros are finding Internet stardom (CJR)
Copy editors are the new Internet stars, “a refreshing renaissance for a profession that is generally underappreciated and rarely noticed,” Thomas Vinciguerra writes. Editors such as the Baltimore Sun’s John E. McIntyre and The New Yorker’s Mary Norris have turned columns and blogs about grammar into a substantial online following. “I’ve had the good luck to be noticed. I would think that the popularity of the videos shows there is a great interest in copy editors,” says Norris.
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It will only have one drivetrain in the US: a turbo 1.5-liter engine connected to a CVT and AWD.
Continue reading Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross will be crossing over to the US sometime in the fall
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Permalink | Email this | CommentsFormer Calcasieu Parish School Board member Charles “Chuck” Hansen, 54, of Sulphur pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of indecent exposure at a trial readiness hearing in San Diego.
According to Gerry Braun, chief of staff with the San Diego Office of City Attorney, Hansen was “sentenced to three years of probation, 20 days of public work service and mandatory sex offender classes.”
Braun said criminal protective orders were issued for three years for both victims.
Hansen will have to register as a sex offender for life.
The hearing was rescheduled twice from its original Jan. 12 hearing date. Hansen had pleaded not guilty during an arraignment in October of last year.
For the initial complainant, a 17-year-old female, Hansen faced one count each of annoying or molesting a person believed to be under the age of 17, willfully, lewdly, unlawfully exposing his person and the private parts thereof; and lewd, dissolute conduct in a public place or a place exposed to public view. Hansen faced one count of willfully, unlawfully exposing his person and one count of lewd dissolute conduct with regard to the second complainant.
Hansen was arrested on Sept. 30 after the San Diego Police Department received a call from the 17-year-old victim, claiming a man in a car had stopped her as she walked down a sidewalk. When she approached his vehicle, the victim said Hansen was masturbating. She was able to provide officers with a description of Hansen and his vehicle. The SDPD stopped Hansen several blocks away from the scene of the incident and arrested him.
Late last year, Hansen has resigned his seat with the school board, on which he served for nearly three years. Prior to that, Hansen was alternately a school principal, coach, teacher, and special education teacher at schools in Iowa, DeQuincy and Sulphur.
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Takata admitted it intentionally hid the fact that its airbag inflators could explode.
Continue reading Takata pleads guilty to fraud in faulty airbag cover-up
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Permalink | Email this | CommentsIt’s called Fa La Ma.
Shelbi Strickland coined the name. Erika Piancastelli has little idea of its meaning.
“But I just went with it,” the All-American McNeese State catcher said Monday afternoon.
Following another frustrating offensive evening against Tulsa last Friday — a 5-2 loss where the Cowgirls were no-hit through 4.1 innings — the duo devised a theory and a plan was devised to exorcise the demons that were overtaking the team, one littered with offensive talent but short on luck.
Every hard-hit ball found a glove, they said. Each quality at-bat ended in futility.
“(We) just thought, clearly, it’s not us,” Piancastelli said, “so it has to be the bats.”
The team arrived to Ruston for the Louisiana Tech Classic early Sunday morning. One by one, Piancastelli and Strickland took, touched and danced around each bat in this ritualistic attempt to right wrongs.
Whatever these drastic measures summoned worked. The Cowgirls scored 19 runs on 25 hits in a doubleheader sweep of Northern Iowa and Louisiana Tech. Piancastelli hit two of the team’s five home runs.
“This is the first I hear of it,” first-year McNeese coach James Landreneau said of his players’ actions, which they say are now mandatory before each game. “For as tough as things were, they went in there with great effort and great intensity. We had really quality at-bats early in the game laying off of tough pitches and that’s been our focus the last couple weeks but we didn’t always have the results for it.”
“It was refreshing just to see us play to our potential.”
Landreneau shifted his lineup slightly, moving Hailey Drew into the leadoff spot, dropping Piancastelli to second and Morgan Catron — the team’s leading hitter at a .365 clip — to third.
Tori Yanitor, tied with Catron for the team lead with four home runs, hit clean up.
“It felt nice to actually, finally see a result from all of our hard work,” said Drew, who had a home run, three hits and four RBI in the doubleheader. “We’ve been hitting balls hard at people and not getting the result we want. But I feel like now it’s finding holes, we’re finding ways to win and it’s nice to get that result.”
The Fa La Ma’s next test is formidable, a Fat Tuesday matinee against a South Alabama pitching staff that has not permitted a run in its last 28 innings of work.
The Jaguars, who beat McNeese 1-0 in eight innings on Feb. 18 in Mobile, employ two pitchers with ERAs below 0.60.
Devin Brown, who threw eight shutout innings against the Cowgirls earlier this season, has 77 strikeouts in 50.2 innings. Teams hit .112 against the right-hander who mixes a good rise ball with a screwball to keep hitters guessing.
“Reality is, in our last 16 innings against her, we scored two runs,” Landreneau said, referencing the Cowgirls’ 2-1 victory last season. “For facing that type of pitcher, I thought we matched up. We got deep in some counts (on Feb. 18), worked some counts full, had some hard-hit balls that resulted in outs. She’s just a really, really good challenge for us.”
Whether it’s Brown or Destin Vicknair, she of a 0.59 ERA in 30.2 innings of work, the Jaguars’ staff will contend with a Cowgirls lineup that is, at long last, brimming with confidence and displaying what made it so ballyhooed in the preseason.
WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the Justice Department will try to adopt "responsible policies" for enforcement of federal anti-marijuana laws and he believes violence surrounds sales of the drug in the U.S.
In a meeting with reporters Monday, Sessions said the department was reviewing an Obama administration Justice Department memo that gave states flexibility in passing marijuana laws.
Sessions says he's heard from experts that there's more violence around marijuana than "one would think." He says he doesn't think America will be a better place with "more people smoking pot."
The comments were in keeping with remarks last week from White House spokesman Sean Spicer, who said the Justice Department would step up enforcement of federal law against recreational marijuana.
LOS ANGELES -- A look at how the Academy Awards' winners envelopes are handled before being opened live onstage:
— The consulting firm PwC, formerly Price Waterhouse Coopers, tabulates the winners based on ballots cast by the academy's 6,687 voting members. Unlike the nominations, which rely on a branch-specific, preferential-voting system, winners are chosen by popular vote.
— Two accountants are tasked with bringing the final results, inside sealed envelopes, to the Oscars ceremony. They are the people carrying briefcases on the red carpet, flanked by police protection. Each briefcase contains an identical set of envelopes for the show's 24 categories. The accountants also memorize the winners.
— The two accountants are ostensibly the only people who know the winners before they are announced live on TV.
— During the telecast, the two briefcase-toting accountants are stationed in the Dolby Theatre wings, one stage left and one stage right.
— Most presenters enter stage right. They come backstage a few minutes ahead of time, and the accountant hands them their category's envelope just before they walk onstage. The category is indicated both on the envelope and on the card with the winner's name. The sealed envelope with the winner's name inside is opened live onstage.
— The unused duplicate envelopes are discarded, though there is no formal process for how that happens, such as a dedicated shredder or wastebasket.
— On Sunday, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway entered stage right, where PwC representative Brian Cullinan handed them the errant envelope.
— The previous award, best actress, was presented by Leonardo DiCaprio, who entered stage left. PwC representative Martha Ruiz handed him the envelope for the correct category.
— A duplicate, unopened envelope for best actress remained stage right, and apparently ended up in the hands of Beatty and Dunaway.
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AP Entertainment Writer Lynn Elber contributed to this report.
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump says the Academy Awards ceremony "focused so hard on politics that they didn't get the act together at the end."
He said it was "sad" that the awards ceremony botched the crowning of "Moonlight" as the Oscar-winning best picture after initially giving the top prize to "La La Land." Trump made the comments in an interview with Breitbart News, noting that for the Oscars "to end that way was sad."
The president was attending a Governors' Ball at the White House during most of Sunday's awards ceremony. The annual Oscars ceremony had a political edge, with many winners, presenters and host Jimmy Kimmel taking digs at Trump.
Trump said the Oscars ceremony "didn't feel like a very glamorous evening," adding: "there was something very special missing."
PHOENIX -- The speaker of the Arizona House says he won't hear a bill that makes participating in or helping organize a protest that turns into a riot an offense that could lead to criminal racketeering charges.
The measure passed last week by the Senate drew nationwide attention because it added rioting to the organized crime statutes and says an overt act isn't needed to prove conspiracy to riot.
That attention led Speaker J.D. Mesnard to decide Monday to kill it for the session.
Mesnard told The Associated Press that people all across the country now believe that the Arizona Legislature is trying to enact a law suppressing their First Amendment right to assemble. Whether the bill does that or now, Mesnard said it is time to end the discussion.