Capital Gazette: "We Are The Newsroom"

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🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Part 4: In our final episode, the Capital Gazette is swept up in the troubles of the newspaper industry. Its corporate owners are making painful cuts, and a hedge fund with an ominous reputation seeks control. Staff members, who survived the 2018 shooting and kept the Capital going, wonder if the paper can last.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers and this is Embedded from NPR.
0:04.2	If you haven't heard the first three episodes of our Capitol Gazette series, you might want
0:09.2	to go back.
0:10.4	The series goes in order.
0:12.4	Okay, so we're going to start this episode in 2020, our old friend.
0:18.4	It's about six months into the pandemic.
0:21.2	The Capitol Gazette staff, of course, is working remotely.
0:23.8	All right, welcome everybody.
0:26.0	I have a little problem with my camera, so...
0:28.8	The boss, Rick Hutzl, starts the weekly meeting.
0:32.1	So, as long as we don't start the video, we'll start the camera.
0:34.7	Don't know why.
0:35.7	All right, we all know what I look like anyway.
0:37.8	Rick told everybody they had to come to this meeting, which meant he was about to say something
0:42.5	big.
0:43.5	So, the reason I made this mandatory is that I had one o'clock, I believe the note, has
0:48.7	come out.
0:49.7	That the company has decided to close a lot of its remote locations and Apple is on that
0:55.2	list.
0:58.4	That does not mean that they are closing the paper.
1:00.4	Let's be clear.
1:01.4	So what this means is that we will close the newsroom at some date in the near future,
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