For the Record

"Tomorrow, Perhaps, The New York Times":

The Thursday indictment of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on 17 charges under the Espionage Act was widely condemned by press freedom advocates, including 1970 International Reporting winner Seymour Hersh and Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. "Press freedom in the United States and around the world is imperiled by this prosecution," said Simon.

"Future Plans":

Esquire Editor-in-Chief Jay Fielden announced his departure from the magazine Thursday after a three-year tenure. "I have felt the lure of new possibilities," he said in a statement. According to The New York Times, the departure "is part of a reshuffling under Troy Young," who became president of Hearst Magazines last July.

"Another Milestone":

According to data submitted to the Alliance for Audited Media, The Boston Globe has become the first local newspaper to have more digital subscribers than print. Director of Consumer Revenue Tom Brown confirmed that the number of online subscribers now stands at 112,700, while weekday print subscribers fell from 108,719 to 98,978, an 11% decline year-over-year. Joshua Benton of NiemanLab cautioned, "Many of those digital subscribers are still paying less than full fare and will need to be convinced to renew."

Post-Mayoral:

Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will join The Atlantic as a contributing editor and ABC News as an on-air contributor, the two organizations announced Tuesday. Emanuel, who served as White House chief of staff from 2009 and 2010, has contributed 12 articles to the former since October 2018.

"Alarming Disregard":

The San Francisco Police Department announced that it is continuing its investigation of San Francisco freelance journalist Bryan Carmody, who may have been an "active participant in the commission of [...] criminal acts beyond his role with the news media." According to Police Chief Bill Scott, "Mr. Carmody was and continues to be viewed by investigators as a possible co-conspirator in this theft rather than a passive recipient of the stolen document." 

"Resolution":

Out Editor in Chief Phillip Picardi has threatened to resign from the magazine due to a "long-simmering struggle" over the magazine's compensation of dozens of freelance writers. According to The Daily Beast, "the magazine’s June/July edition — which coincides with WorldPride in New York City and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots — appeared in jeopardy of not getting printed because of funding concerns." Picardi, a protégé of Anna Wintour who previously edited Teen Vogue, joined the publication late last year.

Widening Losses:

Despite a 60 percent year-to-year increase in digital subscriptions, McClatchy has reported a $42 million loss in the first quarter of 2019. According to The Sacramento Bee, "advertising revenue came in at $85 million — a 15 percent decline from a year earlier." "Our focus on paid digital subscriber growth is a key performance measure in our continuing digital transformation and a contributor to improving our audience revenue trend this quarter," CEO Craig Forman said during a conference call.

"Chilling":

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Samuel Feng will hear two motions in the case of freelance journalist Bryan Carmody Tuesday. The first, from Carmody's legal team, asks the court to return Carmody's seized property and reverse the search warrants used in the case. A second motion, jointly filed by he First Amendment Coalition, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, requests the release of the applications used to obtain the warrants. Under California's media shield law, any employed journalist "shall not be adjudged in contempt by a [...] body having the power to issue subpoenas, for refusing to disclose the source of any information procured while so connected or employed for publication in a newspaper, magazine or other periodical publication, or for refusing to disclose any unpublished information obtained or prepared in [...] processing of information for communication to the public."

"An Important Indicator":

Pope Francis paid tribute to journalists killed while doing their jobs at a meeting of the Italian Foreign Press Association Saturday. "I listened in pain to the statistics about your colleagues killed while carrying out their work with courage and dedication in so many countries to report on what is happening in wars and other dramatic situations in which so many of our brothers and sisters in the world live," he said.