MEDIA

NPR -  Nearly 500 journalists are on strike at the Guardian and its sister paper, the Sunday-only Observer, to protest the planned sale of the Observer to a small digital startup. "We believe it's a total betrayal of the Guardian's values and promises that it's made," says Carole Cadwalladr, an investigative reporter and feature writer for the Observer. "The sale of the Observer to a loss-making startup is potentially the death of this historic brand."

The strike, which starts Wednesday, is expected to last for two days this week and restart for a couple more days next week. Cadwalldr says the strike is intended to convince the Observer's owner to slow down a process that the paper's union says is sprinting to a preordained conclusion. She says colleagues believe other suitors could emerge if further review shows the Guardian should divest itself of the Sunday paper. 

National Memo -  The Washington Post devoted seven stories to the Biden pardon yesterday. Jeff Tiedrich, in his Substack-which-you-must-immediately-subscribe-to, pointed out that every story on the opening page of the New York Times website yesterday was about Biden’s pardon of his son, all six of them.