HILLARY CLINTON HAS APPEARED before as a guest at Tina Brown’s Women in the World Summit, but this year she will be attending as a moderator. Clinton will lead an April 13 panel with four journalists on the rise of authoritarian regimes and the surge in extreme nationalism.

— “Hillary in the chair felt like a great way to tap into the global knowledge and experience of the most qualified person in the world to moderate a panel of top-class journalists on the subject,” Brown told Morning Media. “Last year David Remnick moderated the journalism panel on fake news — who better than Hillary to moderate this year’s journalism panel on the rise of strongmen regimes?”

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— Meanwhile, former President Barack Obama is in advanced talks with Netflix for a series of shows, though according to the New York Times, they are not intended as a platform “to directly respond to President Trump or conservative critics.”

— “In one possible show idea,” the Times reports, “Obama could moderate conversations on topics that dominated his presidency — health care, voting rights, immigration, foreign policy, climate change — and that have continued to divide a polarized American electorate during President Trump’s time in office.”

Good morning and welcome to Morning Media. I’m heading to Austin for SXSW, so send along tips on panels and parties to [email protected] or @mlcalderone. Thanks to Cristiano Lima (@viaCristiano) for handling yesterday’s newsletter. Daniel Lippman (@dlippman) contributed to the newsletter. Archives. Subscribe.

TODAY IN AUSTIN: Ryan Holiday talks about "Conspiracy," his new book on Gawker's demise (although without Peter Thiel, who backed out of the event); Dan Rather is among the panelists talking about trust in the media and other institutions; and a panel on Facebook and the news will include Brian Stelter, Sara Fischer, Alex Hardiman and Steve Rosenbaum. Also, CNN’s Jake Tapper will sit down with Bernie Sanders.

STORMY DANIELS ON ‘60 MINUTES’: Stormy Daniels was interviewed by Anderson Cooper for an upcoming "60 Minutes" segment, however the air date has not yet been determined. Daniels' attorney Michael Avenatti, tweeted a picture of himself, his client and Cooper on Thursday.

TRUMP BRIEFLY VISITS BRIEFING ROOM: The president made a rare appearance in the White House briefing room to tell reporters that South Korea would have a major announcement Thursday night on North Korea. They certainly did, with South Korea’s national security adviser later saying that Trump agreed to meet directly with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

— Initially, Trump said the briefing-room comments were off the record, but then told reporters they could use the information off camera, according to CNN’s Jeremy Diamond. Reporters were very surprised by the appearance. "First time that I can remember that he's so much as popped his head into the briefing room while media's in here,” noted NBC’s Hallie Jackson.

— So could Trump’s briefing room visit, which may be his first as president, be a harbinger of things to come? The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman tweeted afterward that “Trump reaching out more directly to reporters — a la popping into briefing room, working phones — is likely in the post-Hicks era.”

SOUND BITE

"[Thursday night's] North Korea announcement is the quintessential Trump WH news event. It’s definitely news! It’s surprising! It could be a big deal! But who knows if it means anything at all? Remains a challenge to figure out how best to cover." [Chris Hayes]

NYT CORRECTING THE RECORD: journalist Ida B. Wells, author Charlotte Brontë, photographer Diane Arbus, and poet Sylvia Plath are just a few of the deserving women whom the New York Times ignored when it came time to write their obituaries. In an inspired news project, “Overlooked,” the paper is revisiting the lives of those left off the page. Amisha Padnani, the digital editor on the obituaries desk, and gender editor Jessica Bennett write that “the vast majority [of obituaries] chronicled the lives of men, mostly white ones." The Times will publish a special print section in Sunday’s paper.

— Padnani recalled that the project began with her noting when prominent women of the past didn’t have obituaries. “After that, anytime I came across an interesting person who died years ago, I searched our archives for an obit,” she wrote. “Those who didn’t get one were, not surprisingly, largely women and people of color. I started talking about my research with colleagues, friends and relatives, all of whom began sending me more names.”

— Even women who made the cut over the years were often covered in a way that shortchanged their accomplishments. Bennett noted on Twitter that artist Frida Kahlo was referred to in her 1954 obituary as the “wife of Diego Rivera” before being identified as a painter herself. Some slights were more recent. Former public editor Margaret Sullivan took the Times to task in 2013 after Yvonne Brill’s obituary mentioned her “mean beef stroganoff” before her pioneering work as a rocket scientist.

— The Times also released a new ad on International Women’s Day — “The Truth Has a Voice” — that highlights coverage of women’s rights around the world.

KUSHNER CONSIDERED NYO SALE TO PROGRESSIVES: Before heading to the White House, Jared Kushner had engaged in talks to sell the New York Observer to Univision chairman Haim Saban and Media Matters founder David Brock, both of whom were major supporters of Hillary Clinton, BuzzFeed’s Charlie Warzel reports. Then-Observer editor in chief Ken Kurson recalled one meeting he had with Brock at the Greenwich Hotel.

— “I kept looking up to see if there was a black condor circling overhead but in person this legendary Democratic assassin is perfectly friendly and reasonable,” Kurson said. “I was hoping a deal would happen because for me personally, once Jared went to Washington, the fun of editing the Observer was diminished.”

WHY PARKLAND STUDENTS’ MESSAGE BROKE THROUGH: “Columbine” author Dave Cullen writes in Vanity Fair: “In retrospect it’s so clear that Barack Obama and his Congress were doomed after Newtown, because they appointed themselves to lead the gun fight. Politicians are no longer our leaders. We still require them to pass the bills, but we look for others to believe in. These days, we are all so starved for truth—a hunger that, in some ways, explains the rise of Donald Trump—that we naturally gravitate to those who audaciously call bullshit on all the lies.”

— “The Parkland kids were hunted, ran for their lives, again, and then called B.S., literally, on the big deadly lie that we can’t allow hunting and still protect our kids,” he continues. “These kids are so media savvy, but their playbook is so simple. Tell the truth, the whole truth — not some sanitized, poll-tested talking points to sound reassuring but avoid the hard realities and adroitly answer a completely different question than was asked.”

— Snapchat’s Peter Hamby highlighted this passage on Twitter, adding that teens and millennials “look at our political system and see something *completely* different than the people who practice and and cover politics.”

THE POT BEAT: Blockchain journalism startup Civil plans to launch a new site, Cannabis Wire, that’s dedicated to coverage of the multi-billion-dollar legal cannabis industry. Nushin Rashidian, a research lead at the Tow Center, and Alyson Martin, an adjunct professor at Columbia Journalism School, will head up the site. This is one of 10 to 15 sites Civil will launch this spring, along with Tom Scocca’s forthcoming Hmm Daily, which I wrote on last week.

JUDGE SAYS TRUMP SHOULD TRY MUTING: A federal judge suggested that the president mute Twitter users rather than block them, a recommendation that comes amid a First Amendment lawsuit. Trump is known to block journalists, though the Toronto Star’s Daniel Dale once told me that the president trying to stop him from reading tweets was “more silly and revealing than it is an actual impediment."

WATCH: MSNBC’s “This Happened: Sex, Lies & the Candidate,” airs tonight at 10 p.m. The documentary examines the 1984 Gary Hart scandal, which is seen as a tipping point in how the press covers the private lives of politicians. Yahoo’s Matt Bai wrote a great book on the subject a few years back.

CONGRATS to POLITICO’s Adam Behsudi, Lorraine Woellert and M. Scott Mahaskey on winning awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Full list of winners here.

REVOLVING DOOR

Ed O’Keefe, who has spent the last 13 years at the Washington Post, is joining CBS News as a political correspondent. He had already been a contributor to the network.

Veronica Bautista, most recently a producer in New York for CNN’s “New Day,” has moved to Washington to work as Brianna Keilar's producer.

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EXTRAS

— Fox News settled a gender discrimination suit brought by reporter Diana Falzone, CNN's Oliver Darcy reports.

— NBC’s Claire Atkinson digs into the challenges new ESPN chief Jimmy Pitaro faces in launching online-only subscription service ESPN+.

— Tronc is doing a digital reorganization of newspapers, Poynter’s Kristen Hare and Rick Edmonds report.

— Mother Jones’s Dave Gilson raises questions about the NRA’s membership claims given its magazine circulation.

— When I recently asked on Twitter about expanding the range of political views on the Times opinion page, one suggestion was Alex Pareene. It would be interesting!

KICKER

“What Facebook allows me to do is express myself with commentary that I couldn’t do at the network. Facebook allows me to be myself. I answer to no one but myself.” — Dan Rather, at 86, to the Columbia Journalism Review.