Scott Nover
@scottnover.bsky.social
Media reporter at The Washington Post. GW adjunct professor of journalism. Send tips securely on Signal: scottnover.99
The @apnews.com returned to court this morning, asking a three-judge panel to overturn a White House ban that AP says violates their First Amendment rights.
"The First Amendment does not stop at the Oval Office door," AP's lawyer argued. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
"The First Amendment does not stop at the Oval Office door," AP's lawyer argued. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
In Gulf of America case, AP renews legal fight to end White House ban
The Associated Press, which sued the government after being barred from covering White House events, presented its case to a circuit court panel.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The @apnews.com returned to court this morning, asking a three-judge panel to overturn a White House ban that AP says violates their First Amendment rights.
"The First Amendment does not stop at the Oval Office door," AP's lawyer argued. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
"The First Amendment does not stop at the Oval Office door," AP's lawyer argued. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
News: Politico is ending its print newspaper at the end of the year.
"It no longer makes sense to continue publishing in print when the overwhelming majority of our audience consumes us electronically," a company spokesperson told
@washingtonpost.com.
"It no longer makes sense to continue publishing in print when the overwhelming majority of our audience consumes us electronically," a company spokesperson told
@washingtonpost.com.
November 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
News: Politico is ending its print newspaper at the end of the year.
"It no longer makes sense to continue publishing in print when the overwhelming majority of our audience consumes us electronically," a company spokesperson told
@washingtonpost.com.
"It no longer makes sense to continue publishing in print when the overwhelming majority of our audience consumes us electronically," a company spokesperson told
@washingtonpost.com.
“Nearly 200 countries reached a weak agreement Saturday at the United Nations climate talks in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest… President Donald Trump, who is withdrawing the United States from the Paris agreement, refused to send negotiators to the event.“
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U.N. climate talks fizzle out 10 years after Paris accord
Nearly 200 countries at the U.N. climate summit reached a deal that didn’t include a road map to curtail the use of fossil fuels, the main drivers of climate change.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
“Nearly 200 countries reached a weak agreement Saturday at the United Nations climate talks in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest… President Donald Trump, who is withdrawing the United States from the Paris agreement, refused to send negotiators to the event.“
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“A line, long smudged, has been crossed,” staff writer Tad Friend wrote on an all-staff email chain. “Union busting sucks,” wrote author Susan Orlean.
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Famous writers at New Yorker are up in arms after fact-checker’s firing
The media company dismissed four employees, including a fact-checker at the 100-year-old magazine, for “extreme misconduct.” Many of its famous writers are outraged.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“A line, long smudged, has been crossed,” staff writer Tad Friend wrote on an all-staff email chain. “Union busting sucks,” wrote author Susan Orlean.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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“It’s frankly embarrassing that executives would make baseless claims about a fact-checker.”
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Famous writers at New Yorker are up in arms after fact-checker’s firing
The media company dismissed four employees, including a fact-checker at the 100-year-old magazine, for “extreme misconduct.” Many of its famous writers are outraged.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“It’s frankly embarrassing that executives would make baseless claims about a fact-checker.”
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www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
This was supposed to be a season for celebration at the New Yorker.
Instead, some of the most famous writers in America are up in arms about parent company Condé Nast firing a fact-checker for “extreme misconduct."
w/ @laurawags.bsky.social and @liamjscott.bsky.social
Instead, some of the most famous writers in America are up in arms about parent company Condé Nast firing a fact-checker for “extreme misconduct."
w/ @laurawags.bsky.social and @liamjscott.bsky.social
Famous writers at New Yorker are up in arms after fact-checker’s firing
The media company dismissed four employees, including a fact-checker at the 100-year-old magazine, for “extreme misconduct.” Many of its famous writers are outraged.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This was supposed to be a season for celebration at the New Yorker.
Instead, some of the most famous writers in America are up in arms about parent company Condé Nast firing a fact-checker for “extreme misconduct."
w/ @laurawags.bsky.social and @liamjscott.bsky.social
Instead, some of the most famous writers in America are up in arms about parent company Condé Nast firing a fact-checker for “extreme misconduct."
w/ @laurawags.bsky.social and @liamjscott.bsky.social
Remarkable story from @taracopp.bsky.social:
"U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols"
"U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols"
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Remarkable story from @taracopp.bsky.social:
"U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols"
"U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols"
At the White House today, the Press Secretary defended President Trump's comments calling a female Bloomberg reporter "Piggy."
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White House defends Trump calling female reporter ‘Piggy’
The president has escalated his attacks on the press amid political blowback for his handling of files related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
At the White House today, the Press Secretary defended President Trump's comments calling a female Bloomberg reporter "Piggy."
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Inbox: Fox News named Bill Melugin as a congressional correspondent.
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Inbox: Fox News named Bill Melugin as a congressional correspondent.
One America News says it will air an interview between Pentagon correspondent Alexandra Ingersoll and Secretary Pete Hegseth. OAN was the only outlet that regularly covered the Pentagon in person that signed the recent press access policy.
November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
One America News says it will air an interview between Pentagon correspondent Alexandra Ingersoll and Secretary Pete Hegseth. OAN was the only outlet that regularly covered the Pentagon in person that signed the recent press access policy.
> New: NPR and CPB, two public media giants, settle their legal feud.
NPR and CPB settle, reinstating $36 million in satellite funding
NPR had sued the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to cut off its funding.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
> New: NPR and CPB, two public media giants, settle their legal feud.
Reposted by Scott Nover
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
"I almost never talk about my children when I'm on assignment, because I don't want to be sidelined and don't want [anyone to think] 'Oh, she can't do it anymore because she's a mother.'" @lynseyaddario.bsky.social
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Lynsey Addario in ‘Love+War’: A War Photographer’s Life on the Front Lines and at Home - Nieman Reports
A new documentary captures Lynsey Addario’s work as a photojournalist balancing conflict reporting and motherhood.
niemanreports.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
"I almost never talk about my children when I'm on assignment, because I don't want to be sidelined and don't want [anyone to think] 'Oh, she can't do it anymore because she's a mother.'" @lynseyaddario.bsky.social
niemanreports.org/lynsey-addar...
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"It is a chaotic and unstable and bad business, but if you have an owner who is really committed to the journalism and also really feels a personal need to keep the thing going, that changes the equation." @joshtpm.bsky.social to @liamjscott.bsky.social
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How Talking Points Memo lasted a quarter century.
Josh Marshall reflects on building “a tabloid for smart people” and how his politics blog survived in a “chaotic and unstable and bad business.”
www.cjr.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 AM
"It is a chaotic and unstable and bad business, but if you have an owner who is really committed to the journalism and also really feels a personal need to keep the thing going, that changes the equation." @joshtpm.bsky.social to @liamjscott.bsky.social
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ICYMI:
"Don’t call it MSNBC. MS NOW takes on Trump’s Washington."
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"Don’t call it MSNBC. MS NOW takes on Trump’s Washington."
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Don’t call it MSNBC. MS NOW takes on Trump’s Washington.
Going it alone without NBC’s name or deep bench of reporters, the rebranded cable news network MS Now wants you to know nothing has changed — except for a few things.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
ICYMI:
"Don’t call it MSNBC. MS NOW takes on Trump’s Washington."
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
"Don’t call it MSNBC. MS NOW takes on Trump’s Washington."
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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NBC owner Comcast began spinning off its cable news networks MSNBC and CNBC, plus other brands, into a new company called Versant.
While CNBC is keeping its name, MSNBC is assuming a fresh moniker: MS Now.
While CNBC is keeping its name, MSNBC is assuming a fresh moniker: MS Now.
Don’t call it MSNBC. MS Now takes on Trump’s Washington.
Going it alone without NBC’s name or deep bench of reporters, the rebranded cable news network MS Now wants you to know nothing has changed — except for a few things.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
NBC owner Comcast began spinning off its cable news networks MSNBC and CNBC, plus other brands, into a new company called Versant.
While CNBC is keeping its name, MSNBC is assuming a fresh moniker: MS Now.
While CNBC is keeping its name, MSNBC is assuming a fresh moniker: MS Now.
“Nobody’s calling our shots except good news judgment about what the public needs to know” — @carolleonnig.bsky.social about @ms.now
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Don’t call it MSNBC. MS NOW takes on Trump’s Washington.
Going it alone without NBC’s name or deep bench of reporters, the rebranded cable news network MS Now wants you to know nothing has changed — except for a few things.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
“Nobody’s calling our shots except good news judgment about what the public needs to know” — @carolleonnig.bsky.social about @ms.now
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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MSNBC is now MS NOW.
Going it alone without NBC’s name or bench of reporting talent, the rebranded cable news network is staffing up. MS Now wants you to know that nothing has changed — except for a few things.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Going it alone without NBC’s name or bench of reporting talent, the rebranded cable news network is staffing up. MS Now wants you to know that nothing has changed — except for a few things.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Don’t call it MSNBC. MS Now takes on Trump’s Washington.
Going it alone without NBC’s name or deep bench of reporters, the rebranded cable news network MS Now wants you to know nothing has changed — except for a few things.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
MSNBC is now MS NOW.
Going it alone without NBC’s name or bench of reporting talent, the rebranded cable news network is staffing up. MS Now wants you to know that nothing has changed — except for a few things.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Going it alone without NBC’s name or bench of reporting talent, the rebranded cable news network is staffing up. MS Now wants you to know that nothing has changed — except for a few things.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
They bought cheap health insurance promoted by the Trump administration. Then they needed surgery.
The cheap health insurance promoted by Trump officials has this catch
As millions brace for higher insurance prices, plans touted by the Trump administration are attracting attention. They are cheaper, but coverage is often skimpy.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
They bought cheap health insurance promoted by the Trump administration. Then they needed surgery.
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“To replace NBC News’s roster of reporters and hosts, MS Now is building a newsroom of its own. The network says it is the rare process of bulking up in a news ecosystem battered by persistent layoffs and shrinking resources.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Don’t call it MSNBC. MS Now takes on Trump’s Washington.
Going it alone without NBC’s name or deep bench of reporters, the rebranded cable news network MS Now wants you to know nothing has changed — except for a few things.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“To replace NBC News’s roster of reporters and hosts, MS Now is building a newsroom of its own. The network says it is the rare process of bulking up in a news ecosystem battered by persistent layoffs and shrinking resources.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
MSNBC is now MS NOW.
Going it alone without NBC’s name or bench of reporting talent, the rebranded cable news network is staffing up. MS Now wants you to know that nothing has changed — except for a few things.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Going it alone without NBC’s name or bench of reporting talent, the rebranded cable news network is staffing up. MS Now wants you to know that nothing has changed — except for a few things.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Don’t call it MSNBC. MS Now takes on Trump’s Washington.
Going it alone without NBC’s name or deep bench of reporters, the rebranded cable news network MS Now wants you to know nothing has changed — except for a few things.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
MSNBC is now MS NOW.
Going it alone without NBC’s name or bench of reporting talent, the rebranded cable news network is staffing up. MS Now wants you to know that nothing has changed — except for a few things.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Going it alone without NBC’s name or bench of reporting talent, the rebranded cable news network is staffing up. MS Now wants you to know that nothing has changed — except for a few things.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
NEW >>
The BBC says it formally apologized to President Donald Trump over a documentary episode after he threatened to sue over it. However, the broadcaster rejected his claims that it was defamatory. Legal experts say it’d be a tough task to win too.
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The BBC says it formally apologized to President Donald Trump over a documentary episode after he threatened to sue over it. However, the broadcaster rejected his claims that it was defamatory. Legal experts say it’d be a tough task to win too.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
BBC apologizes to Trump for 2024 documentary but rejects defamation claim
British broadcaster responds to $1 billion lawsuit threat from president’s lawyer over the editing of footage from Trump’s speech before the attack on the Capitol.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
NEW >>
The BBC says it formally apologized to President Donald Trump over a documentary episode after he threatened to sue over it. However, the broadcaster rejected his claims that it was defamatory. Legal experts say it’d be a tough task to win too.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
The BBC says it formally apologized to President Donald Trump over a documentary episode after he threatened to sue over it. However, the broadcaster rejected his claims that it was defamatory. Legal experts say it’d be a tough task to win too.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Reposted by Scott Nover
Brendan Carr should ditch speech-chilling policy, former FCC chairs say
Read more in this @washingtonpost.com story by @scottnover.bsky.social:
Read more in this @washingtonpost.com story by @scottnover.bsky.social:
Brendan Carr should ditch speech-chilling policy, former FCC chairs say
A bipartisan group of predecessors says the agency’s current chairman is improperly wielding a little-used policy against broadcasters critical of President Donald Trump.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Brendan Carr should ditch speech-chilling policy, former FCC chairs say
Read more in this @washingtonpost.com story by @scottnover.bsky.social:
Read more in this @washingtonpost.com story by @scottnover.bsky.social:
NEW >>
A group of bipartisan former FCC commissioners and chairs are calling on @BrendanCarrFCC to repeal the agency’s “news distortion” policy which, they say, he's using to chill free speech. My latest for @washingtonpost:
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A group of bipartisan former FCC commissioners and chairs are calling on @BrendanCarrFCC to repeal the agency’s “news distortion” policy which, they say, he's using to chill free speech. My latest for @washingtonpost:
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Brendan Carr should ditch speech-chilling policy, former FCC chairs say
A bipartisan group of predecessors says the agency’s current chairman is improperly wielding a little-used policy against broadcasters critical of President Donald Trump.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
NEW >>
A group of bipartisan former FCC commissioners and chairs are calling on @BrendanCarrFCC to repeal the agency’s “news distortion” policy which, they say, he's using to chill free speech. My latest for @washingtonpost:
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
A group of bipartisan former FCC commissioners and chairs are calling on @BrendanCarrFCC to repeal the agency’s “news distortion” policy which, they say, he's using to chill free speech. My latest for @washingtonpost:
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
NEW >>
A bipartisan group of former FCC commissioners and chairs are calling on Chairman Brendan Carr to drop the agency’s “news distortion” policy they say chills free speech. My latest for @washingtonpost.com:
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
A bipartisan group of former FCC commissioners and chairs are calling on Chairman Brendan Carr to drop the agency’s “news distortion” policy they say chills free speech. My latest for @washingtonpost.com:
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Brendan Carr should ditch speech-chilling policy, former FCC chairs say
A bipartisan group of predecessors says the agency’s current chairman is improperly wielding a little-used policy against broadcasters critical of President Donald Trump.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
NEW >>
A bipartisan group of former FCC commissioners and chairs are calling on Chairman Brendan Carr to drop the agency’s “news distortion” policy they say chills free speech. My latest for @washingtonpost.com:
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
A bipartisan group of former FCC commissioners and chairs are calling on Chairman Brendan Carr to drop the agency’s “news distortion” policy they say chills free speech. My latest for @washingtonpost.com:
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...