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Wednesday, June 17, 2020
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What’s The difference between calling your news site Oaklandside or The Oaklandside? ListeningAnd a willingness to change. “One participant told us this name suggests that ‘We're on your side. We're with you…It says that this is Oakland's side of the story.'” By Joshua Benton. |
What We’re Reading
Storybench / Mihir Patil
How The New York Times visualized connections between white extremist attacks →
“If you don't walk readers through the dots, the dots will lose their meaning. By doing a scrolling graphic, we're able to isolate specific attacks and discuss the timeline of each one while highlighting the area they were located.”
Emperifollá / Frances Solá-Santiago
This is what Latinx media could actually look like →
“Latinx media has largely stayed the same for decades – both in the US and in Latin America – often promoting a monolithic perspective of what Latinidad means. The models and celebrities covered are mostly white, while inclusion and diversity are paraded as a trendy term that promotes a ‘we are all a human race’ kind of approach instead of deconstructing the colorist and racist narratives that permeate our communities.”
WBUR / Callum Borchers
WBUR lays off 29 staffers and will stop producing the nationally syndicated sports program “Only A Game” →
The announced cuts — which represent more than 10 percent of the staff — come less than a week after the station reached its first, tentative collective bargaining agreement with a union that includes reporters and producers. WBUR, whose broadcast license is owned by Boston University, is one of the largest stations in public radio.
Press Gazette / William Turvill
“Just stop it — it's unbecoming of the organizations you work for!” →
Former Dow Jones and Telegraph exec Will Lewis is not a fan of reporters having opinions on Twitter. “Journalistic standards are inevitably slipping. And we're beginning to see the blurring of facts and comments in a way that I think is extremely worrying and extremely challenging…We have to get people to tighten up.”
The Drum / John McCarthy and Sam Bradley
Lean, zine-printing machines: How magazines are pressing on through lockdown →
“The thousands of copies [normally sold at newsstands] left in limbo when lockdowns began have not gone to waste, either. The title donated them to nurses at NHS hospitals as a goodwill gesture.”
WAN-IFRA / Brian Veseling
FT editor Roula Khalaf on managing a remote newsroom →
“I think as a leader what you also have to do is communicate more. You have to be more transparent with the staff about what is going on. So I have found myself writing more to the staff than I might have otherwise or that they are used to from the editor.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Hamilton Nolan
Jeff Bezos could fix pay inequality at The Washington Post. (He won’t.) →
The Washington Post Guild found that “in 2019 (six years into Bezos' ownership of the paper), women in the newsroom were paid less than men; employees of color were paid less than white men, ‘even when controlling for age and job description’; and men earned a higher portion of merit raises than women ‘despite accounting for a smaller proportion of the newsroom.'”
The News & Observer / Steve Wiseman
The editor and publisher of Roxboro Courier-Times, in North Carolina, is the fourth to resign over a racist cartoon →
Previously, the syndicated cartoon led to three resignations at The Missourian.
Press Gazette / Freddy Mayhew
National newspapers in the U.K. added 6.6 million daily digital readers in Q1 2020 →
“The Sun was the most read UK newspaper brand in the first quarter of this year according to industry data, but The Guardian was the fastest growing national press brand.”
Washington Post / Elahe Izadi and Paul Farhi
“The most toxic relationship in American media right now may be between Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalists and its publisher” →
“Reporters say stories have disappeared from the Post-Gazette's website, and it's unclear who is writing the paper's skimpy, unbylined articles about the protests.”
Philadelphia Inquirer / Justine McDaniel and Julie Shaw
Philadelphia Magazine editor will step down after newsroom discussions on race →
“Tom McGrath will step down at the end of the summer, telling his staff the publication needs to evolve and the company should hire a replacement who isn't ‘a middle-aged white guy.'”
The Verge / Adi Robertson
Google Ads bans Zero Hedge and warns The Federalist over racist comments on its articles →
An early NBC story cited a Zero Hedge article calling Black Lives Matter "practically a revolutionary operative of the CIA via [George] Soros” and a Federalist story blaming violence and looting at protests on "left-wing anarchists and antifa groups” but Google said the demonetization actions were taking place because of comments on the sites, not the articles themselves.