The panel reviews the week in media. On this week’s edition of Beat the Press, Emily Rooney was joined by Dan Kennedy of Northeastern University, Callie Crossley of WGBH News, former NECN anchor Mike Nikitas and former CNN White House Correspondent Dan Lothian.

Dan Kennedy has a rant for Philip Anschutz, who shut down the Weekly Standard; Dan Lothian gives a thumbs down to the growing number of countries who have jailed journalists; Callie Crossley has a rave for the Washington Post for an innovation in fact-checking; Mike Nikitas gives a thumbs up to the U.S. Senate's condemnation of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi; Emily Rooney has a rant for the management of the Boston Globe, who's proposing a draconian reduction in benefits and protections for members of the paper's union.