CNN recounts how four reporters staked out special counsel Robert Mueller’s office every day for 18 months.

“Our mornings followed a pretty standard routine: one of us would arrive around 6:50 a.m., set up our camera by the garage, and look for Mueller and his team to arrive… The unofficial FBI uniform of a bright white dress shirt — Mueller does not like his team wearing shirts with patterns — helped to spot people.”

“President Trump has spent the last two years denouncing the ‘fake news’ media, and yet some of the key moments in Robert Mueller’s report were uncovered or bolstered through journalists’ investigative scrutiny,” the New York Times reports.

“The report reveals a lot we didn’t know about how the president and his aides responded to overtures from Russia and how they attempted to thwart investigations. But many of the bombshells in the document were first reported by the press.”

For the first time since creating the index in 2002, Reporters Without Borders ranked the United States alongside countries whose treatment of journalists is considered “problematic,” the Washington Post reports.

James Hohmann: “Communications professionals are taught from an early age to ‘take out the trash’ — the lingo for releasing bad news when no one is paying attention — on Friday afternoons because everyone is checking out for the weekend. But this afternoon seems particularly ripe for a news dump on topics that have nothing to do with the Russia investigation.”

“As the Notre Dame Cathedral went up in flames on Monday, YouTube flagged livestreams of the incident as fake news and then started showing people articles about the 9/11 attacks,” BuzzFeed News reports.

“The feature is part of a larger rollout of tools and disclaimers to prevent users from consuming misinformation on the platform.”

American Media is actively seeking to sell off the National Enquirer, the Washington Post reports.

“The decision to sell came after the hedge fund manager whose firm controls American Media became ‘disgusted’ with the Enquirer’s reporting tactics.”

President Trump said he will skip this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and hold a rally instead, The Hill reports.

Said Trump: “The dinner is boring and so negative that we’re going to hold a very positive rally.”

A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds Americans “hold negative views of social-media giants like Facebook and Twitter, with sizable majorities saying these sites do more to divide the country than unite it, and spread falsehoods rather than news.”

“A group of Republicans in the Georgia state assembly unveiled a bill earlier this week that could open the door to imposing regulations on members of the free press that include fining reporters who refuse to turn over recordings to subjects of interviews,” CNN reports.

“The bill, sponsored by Georgia state GOP Rep. Andrew Welch and other Republican lawmakers, looks to establish a ‘Journalism Ethics Board’ that could create ‘canons of ethics’ and new regulations for journalists in the state… The bill states journalists and news organizations ‘may be investigated and sanctioned for violating such canons of ethics’ by the board, should it become law.”