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Wednesday, July 1, 2020
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Tribune can buy more time by selling more control to Alden Global CapitalThe vulture fund may be just fine with waiting a bit longer to make its next move to consolidate the local newspaper industry. Meanwhile, newsrooms wait. By Joshua Benton. |
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A year and a half in, The Juggernaut challenges mainstream media’s coverage of South Asians“The fastest growing demographic in America right now is Asian Americans and, more specifically, South Asian Americans. But when you look at the media coverage that we have, it’s disproportionately low.” By Hanaa' Tameez. |
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The Wall Street Journal aims for a younger audience with Noted, an Instagram-heavy news and culture magazineWhat Noted is not is a separate, cheaper Wall Street Journal gateway product (we remember you, NYT Now). By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
ProPublica and the Anchorage Daily News / Adriana Gallardo and Michelle Theriault Boots
The Anchorage Museum turned the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica “Unheard” project into an outdoor exhibit →
“The portraits will be displayed as large vinyl posters on the museum's outdoor facade, where passersby can see them, even in the middle of a pandemic when the museum has reopened but with limited capacity inside. Occupying 27 9-foot panels along the museum's wall, the photography installation also includes recorded audio from many of the people featured, literally making their voices heard. It will remain on view through mid-September.”
Quartz / Kira Bindrim
Quartz’s new homepage is an ode to newsletters →
‘When we survey readers, you tell us you are inundated with information, short on time, low on trust, and eager to understand what's important without feeling like you've got homework, managing editor Kira Bindrim said. “You worry that your news consumption must be either disappointingly shallow (Twitter) or dauntingly deep (stacks of unread magazines). Our homepage aims for a sweet spot, making you a little smarter about a lot of things while opening plenty of doors to learn more.”
First Draft / Tommy Shane
How our psychology make us more vulnerable to misinformation →
A new series by First Draft explores why we’re susceptible to misinformation, the psychology behind correcting it, and how to prevent misinformation: “Though psychological concepts originate in academia, many have found their way into everyday language. Cognitive dissonance, first described in 1957, is one; confirmation bias is another. And this is part of the problem. Just as we have armchair epidemiologists, we can easily become armchair cognitive scientists, and mischaracterization of these concepts can create new forms of misinformation.”
Adweek / Adweek Staff
Here are all the major brands that have stopped advertising with Facebook so far →
At least 45 brands are boycotting Facebook over its policies on removing hurtful posts and misinformation.
Simon Owens's Tech and Media Newsletter / Simon Owens
How The Daily Show reinvented itself for the social media age →
“The Daily Show's digital team doesn't work separately from its TV staff; rather, they're tightly integrated. A joke that does well on social media sometimes gets adapted into a Trevor Noah segment later that night. The digital staff also built joke websites that Noah plugged during the show. After the Ted Cruz presidential campaign uploaded hours of campaign footage to YouTube, Noah encouraged his viewers to go online and remix the footage into funny videos. He later featured the best videos during the TV airing. “
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
There is too much news →
“The basic rhythms of the news cycle don't help us. Each day's news must fill the same amount of column space, the same number of cable-news hours, the same length of radio news bulletin. Usually, the most important of that news is hyped in all-caps headlines, blaring chyrons, and ‘BREAKING NEWS’ jingles—this exerts a flattening effect, making it harder, over a long period of time, to distinguish actual news from attention hustling.”
Digiday / Steven Perlberg
How Substack has spawned a new class of newsletter entrepreneurs →
“As the media ecosystem contracts amid coronavirus, Substack has been thrust into an uncomfortable role — that of a savior. And as more writers go solo, the question has emerged as to whether Substack can become the kind of monetization system that never materialized during the last major internet writer-driven movement, the halcyon days of the early blogging era of the 2000s.”
Digiday / Tim Peterson
“Being Black, you have to work twice as hard”: Inside Bleacher Report’s staff revolt that toppled a CEO →
“There's a lack of diversity at the top, and they are the ones profiting the most directly off of Black culture.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Jacob Silverman
Spies, lies, and stonewalling: What it’s like to report on Facebook →
“To the extent that salient, substantive answers are given to reporters during these conversations, it's often done in a way that minimizes the reporter's ability to actually transmit that information to their readers.”
CNN / Hadas Gold and Steven Jiang
China hits back at U.S. with new media restrictions as tensions rise →
“The Associated Press, United Press International, CBS News and NPR News must submit relevant paperwork to the Chinese government within seven days, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said Wednesday at a regular press briefing.”
Nieman Reports / Selymar Colón
Reimagining Latinx representation in American journalism →
“When it comes to Spanish-language media, we need to create more bilingual newsrooms and stories, because the younger generations are proud to be Latinx in English, Spanish, or Spanglish. According to the Pew Research Center in 2016, 83% of Latinxs said they consumed some of their news in English and 54% in both languages. We owe it to them to continue helping them navigate the country and to hold the powerful accountable on the issues that matter in the language that they prefer.”
Politico / Daniel Lippman and Tina Nguyen
The wife of the publisher of The Hill played undisclosed role for Melania Trump →
“Gross' unpaid arrangement was not disclosed in the several dozen articles The Hill published about the first lady while Gross was advising her from August 2017 to February 2018, nor were more than a select few Hill employees informed that their boss' wife was an East Wing adviser.”