--- title: "President of The Economist named CEO of The Baltimore Banner" description: "Dallas Morning News union claims a “culture of fear” following a staffer's departure, Parler to relaunch ahead of 2024 election " date: "2023-12-21" authors: - name: "cstaubin" url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/newsletter/the-briefing/president-of-the-economist-named-ceo-of-the-baltimore-banner/" --- # President of The Economist named CEO of The Baltimore Banner [![](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/prc-logo.png){.aligncenter width=322}](https://www.pewresearch.org/prc-logo/) --- December 21, 2023 # The Briefing **☀️ Happy Thursday!** *The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. [**Sign up here!**](https://www.pewresearch.org/sign-up-for-the-briefing/)* *The Briefing will be on hiatus until Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. * 🥳☃️❄️*Happy New Year! *❄️☃️🥳 **In today*’*s email:** - **Top story:** President of The Economist named CEO of The Baltimore Banner - **In other news: **Dallas Morning News union criticizes “culture of fear” following a colleague’s sudden departure - **Looking ahead:** Parler to relaunch ahead of the 2024 election - **Chart of the week:** Many nonprofit outlets that cover U.S. statehouses were launched in the last five years 🔥 **Top story** Bob Cohn, president of The Economist magazine, has been [named CEO of The Baltimore Banner](https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2023/12/19/baltimore-banner-local-news-bob-cohn/), a nonprofit digital news outlet that launched last year. According to Stewart Bainum Jr., the former hotel and health care executive who launched the Banner, Cohn will be charged with creating a sustainable business model for the outlet, which now has about 75 journalists in its newsroom and plans to expand. Nonprofit digital news outlets [appear to be on the rise](https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/05/there-are-more-nonprofit-digital-newsrooms-but-the-pace-of-growth-has-slowed/) nationally. This was evident in our [2022 analysis of statehouse reporters in the United States](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/04/29/nonprofit-news-outlets-are-playing-a-growing-role-in-statehouse-coverage/), which found that the number of nonprofit news reporters who cover state capitols has nearly quadrupled since 2014. These reporters now make up 20% of the nation’s total statehouse press corps, up from 6% eight years before. 📌 **In other news** - Journalists at **The Dallas Morning News** [allege a “culture of fear”](https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2023/12/20/dallas-morning-news-miles-moffeit-john-creuzot/) in the months following a reporter’s sudden departure from the outlet - **Internal messages** show [TikTok uses different moderation standards](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/19/tiktok-users-including-russell-brand-given-special-status-messages-show) for “top creators,” including figures like Russell Brand - **Egyptian press syndicate **comes “back to life” to [defend journalists’ rights](https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/12/17/egypts-press-syndicate-returns-back-to) - How **incarcerated journalists and editors** are [using podcasts to report on prisons](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/17/incarcerated-journalists-san-quentin-podcasts) - **Polish government** dismisses [management of public news agencies](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/polish-public-media-chiefs-dismissed-news-channel-stops-broadcasting-2023-12-20/), takes 24-hour news channel off air - **Mother Jones** plans to merge with the [Center for Investigative Reporting](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/14/business/media/mother-jones-merger.html) 📅 **Looking ahead** **Parler**, which was [removed from Apple’s and Google’s app stores](https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/9/22221730/apple-removes-suspends-bans-parler-app-store) after being used to help organize the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sold again and is [planning to relaunch](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/parler-app-relaunch-2024-new-ownership-download-trump-rcna130287) ahead of the 2024 election. At the time of a [2022 Pew Research Center survey](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/10/20/fast-facts-about-parler-as-kanye-west-reportedly-plans-acquisition-of-site/), 38% of U.S. adults had heard of Parler, but only 1% of Americans reported regularly getting news from the platform. Among regular news consumers on Parler, 66% said news on Parler **helped them better understand current events**, and 69% said they **expected the news there to be mostly accurate**. 📊 **Chart of the week** Today's chart comes from a [2022 analysis of statehouse reporters at nonprofit news outlets](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/04/29/nonprofit-news-outlets-are-playing-a-growing-role-in-statehouse-coverage/). This analysis identified 80 nonprofit news outlets that covered U.S. statehouses in 2022. Of these, **nearly half (39) were founded within the last five years**. About a quarter (21) were founded between 2011 and 2016; 15 were founded between 2005 and 2010; and five were founded prior to 2005. [![](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023/12/nonprofit_statehouse.webp?w=260){.aligncenter width=271}](https://www.pewresearch.org/newsletter/the-briefing/the-briefing-2023-12-21/nonprofit_statehouse-webp/) --- *👋 That's all for this week. * The Briefing is compiled by Pew Research Center staff, including Naomi Forman-Katz, Jacob Liedke, Sarah Naseer, Christopher St. Aubin, Luxuan Wang and Emily Tomasik. It is edited by Katerina Eva Matsa, Michael Lipka and Mark Jurkowitz, and copy edited by Anna Jackson. *Do you like this newsletter? 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