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Selasa, 28 Juli 2020
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Jumat, 24 Juli 2020
“The idea is to have more Serials”: The New York Times acquires Serial Productions and partners with This American Life
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Thursday, July 23, 2020
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“The idea is to have more Serials”: The New York Times acquires Serial Productions and partners with This American Life“Our goal is not to change Serial's DNA at all…For the people who love Serial — and there are millions of them — the idea here is to have more Serials." By Nicholas Quah. |
What We’re Reading
Google / Ludovic Blecher
Google has handed out $39.5 million in coronavirus relief to 5,600 publishers across 115 countries →
The Lawton Constitution, in Oklahoma, put their funds toward subsidizing subscriptions and building reader relationships for the future. In South Korea, Jeonnam Ilbo launched a series dedicated to small- and medium-sized local businesses. Narcity Media, a Toronto-based publication for millennials, will use the money to hire at least one new reporter.
The Engaged Journalism Lab / Anita Varma
Beyond the statement: How journalism funders can act in solidarity with marginalized communities →
“Far from trumpeting neutrality or objectivity, journalists who cover marginalized communities tend to describe their work in terms of a moral obligation that compels them to focus on enduring social issues. Industry leaders, on the other hand, display greater hesitation when faced with the prospect of acknowledging journalism's longstanding role of solidarity. Ironically, unlike corporations that may do little to nothing aligned with solidarity and yet are quick to capitalize on the opportunity to issue a statement du jour, some prefer to position journalism's role as reporting on acts of solidarity rather than admitting to enacting it as well.”
BuzzFeed News / Ryan Mac and Craig Silverman
“Hurting people at scale”: Mark Zuckerberg’s employees reckon with the social network they’ve built →
“All of these steps are leading up to a situation where, come November, a portion of Facebook users will not trust the outcome of the election because they have been bombarded with messages on Facebook preparing them to not trust it.”
The Wall Street Journal / Sahil Patel
Tom Brady, Michael Strahan, and Gotham Chopra’s sports media venture raises $10 million →
“The funding comes at a time when athletes are getting more involved in content businesses and using a range of platforms to speak directly with fans. Religion of Sports executives said they are expanding their network of athletes and filmmakers to work with on projects, some of which the company will finance by itself.”
CNN / Brian Fung
Twitter confirms it’s considering subscription options as ad revenue drops sharply →
“We want to make sure any new line of revenue is complementary to our advertising business,” CEO Jack Dorsey said. “We do think there is a world where subscription is complementary, where commerce is complementary, where helping people manage paywalls … we think is complementary.”
ProPublica / Stephen Engelberg
ProPublica’s editor on their most ambitious data project yet →
“The tools of data journalism have allowed investigative reporting to move from anecdotes and scattered numbers to a level of authority that was unimaginable when I started in journalism. We no longer have to litter our stories with the phrase ‘experts say.’ Now, we can say: ‘data shows.'”
Poynter / Michael Bugeja
Should journalism be added to general education requirements? →
“Journalism education has focused for decades on graduates securing media jobs. As those decrease, along with enrollments, the future of the discipline might depend more on general education. But the case here is about democracy, accountability, transparency and empowerment.”
The Markup / Leon Yin and Aaron Sankin
Google’s ad buying portal equated “Black girls” with adult content →
“Google's Keyword Planner is an important part of the company's online advertising ecosystem. Online marketers regularly use the tool to help decide what keywords to buy ads near in Google search results, as well as other Google online properties.”
Study Hall / Jessica Wakeman
How Choire Sicha is steering the Times’ Style section in a crisis →
“As the editor of Style at this moment in history, Sicha said he is cognizant ‘that every one of us has some varying level of crisis in their life, whether it’s new or old or newly terrible.’ That largely means avoiding pieces that could be regarded as tone deaf or full-on hate-reads. (Under earlier iterations of Style, the infamous April article about honeymooners trapped in the Maldives might have leaned even more into hate-read territory.) ‘We’re being a little bit more respectful than we normally would be because we know that people who are reading the New York Times have families who are sick, or are doing childcare while working, or are dealing with Zoom funerals — which is a terrible, terrible phrase,’ Sicha said. ‘So, I do like pissing people off and we’ve definitely done a little bit in the last couple of months. But it’s just a time to be a little more empathetic to people.'”
Substack/Branded / Nandini Jammi and Claire Atkin
Breitbart is still collecting your ad dollars →
Through “dark pooling” of ad IDs, Breitbart can keep making money even if advertisers have stopped buying its inventory.
The Wall Street Journal / Brent Kendall and Patience Haggin
The Justice Department won’t challenge the merger of Outbrain and Taboola →
“The department concluded that the merger wasn't likely to suppress competition, in part because it found that other companies were getting into the sponsored-content game.”
Vice / Bettina Makalintal
Publications grapple with SEO, authenticity, and whitewashing when naming recipes →
“The appeasement of translation can seem like a self-fulfilling prophecy: If people aren’t given the word ‘bibimbap,’ if it’s called a ‘Korean rice bowl’ instead, will the original term ever enter ‘mainstream’ parlance? Food publications have the power to steer the conversation for readers and home cooks; suggesting that a dish’s traditional name is too complicated or unfamiliar to include is a cop-out for platforms that dictate these trends.”
Kamis, 23 Juli 2020
Here’s how CUNY’s new Black Media Initiative aims to elevate and serve Black publications
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Wednesday, July 22, 2020
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Here’s how CUNY’s new Black Media Initiative aims to elevate and serve Black publications“Black press has always been hyperlocal. But for whatever reason, the Black press has never gotten some of those [buzzword] labels…That plays into how the perception of these places within the larger sphere.” By Hanaa' Tameez. |
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Apply now for the Nieman Foundation’s new visiting fellowships on racial justice and public health in the U.S.These fellowships are open to a broad range of people. If you’re wondering if you should apply, you should. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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Race and the newsroom: What seven research studies sayDiffering notions of objectivity in Black and mainstream white newspapers, how white reporters see their ethical obligations in covering race, the ways that reporters’ race affects their coverage of political candidates, and more. By Clark Merrefield. |
What We’re Reading
Columbia Journalism Review / Lauren Harris
More than 100 news outlets have decreased print production since the beginning of the pandemic →
“Tow found that more than a hundred outlets scaled down their print production since the beginning of the pandemic. Many of these publications announced a suspension of print publishing — noting temporary economic constraints or logistical limitations. Others altered their print run from daily to weekly, or consolidated sections in the print edition. Some outlets announced their intention to stop print production entirely.”
Al Jazeera / Asad Hashim
Prominent Pakistani journalist free after day-long disappearance →
“A prominent Pakistani journalist known for his criticism of the country’s powerful military is safe with his family 12 hours after he disappeared on Tuesday.”
Dunya News
Pakistan’s Supreme Court hints at banning YouTube →
“During the hearing, Justice Qazi Amin remarked ‘we are not against freedom of expression and masses have right to discuss our performance and decisions as we take salaries from public money but constitution also provides us right of personal life but users of social media and YouTube are targeting our families,’ he said. ‘Masses are being provoked against country's army, government and judiciary.'”
The Washington Post / Paul Farhi
NPR may be “public” radio, but it’s feeling the economic pain of the pandemic. More trouble lies ahead. →
“For decades, the P in NPR stood for ‘public,’ as in publicly supported, noncommercial radio and digital news. Yet with its growing dependence on corporate advertising, NPR has found itself on equally troubled footing as its for-profit competitors, all of them reliant on the same pool of advertising dollars that have dried up during the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, ratings have taken a hit, with stay-at-home orders keeping many devoted listeners out of their cars, and thus away from their radios, raising concerns about the effect on public donations to hundreds of member stations.”
The Verge / Casey Newton
Why no one knows which stories are the most popular on Facebook →
“Ultimately, in exasperating Facebook into sharing more data, [Kevin] Roose has done us all a service.”
CNN / Donie O'Sullivan and Marshall Cohen
Facebook begins labeling, but not fact-checking, posts from Trump and Biden →
“After President Donald Trump posted an unfounded claim to Facebook on Tuesday that mail-in voting could lead to a ‘corrupt election,’ the social network slapped a label on it. But the label did not attempt to fact-check the post as true or false. Instead, it directed users to a government website to learn more about how to vote.”
InsideHook / Eli London
The 80 best single-operator newsletters on the internet →
“In recent years, a third cohort of email sender has cropped up: the individually authored, mass-distributed email. Or, as we're calling it for our purposes here, the single-operator newsletter. These are entrepreneurial folks going at it alone, independent of media organizations.”
The New York Times / Katie Robertson and Ben Smith
Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire employees say Hearst boss Troy Young created a toxic culture →
“One incident involving Mr. Young came during a visit to the Cosmopolitan office when he was the digital head, according to two people who were present. Mr. Young picked up one of the sex toys that had been sent to the magazine and asked if he could keep it, the people said. Referring to the openings of two toys, he said he would ‘definitely need the bigger one,’ the people said. Mr. Young also emailed pornography to a high-level Hearst editor.”
National Geographic / David Beard
Photo of Covid-19 victim in Indonesia sparks fascination — and denial →
“The image, taken for Nat Geo as part of a National Geographic Society grant, struck a chord in the nation of 270 million people. Indonesia had been slow to fight the global pandemic, with President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo touting an unproven herbal remedy in March. Some of the reactions to Irwandi's image, which humanized the suffering from the virus, have been hostile.”
Vanity Fair / Tom Kludt
Reporters inside the NBA’s Covid-free bubble are hoping it doesn’t burst →
“If a reporter in the bubble has a confirmed case, it's straight back into quarantine, jeopardizing a costly and perhaps once-in-a-lifetime assignment. It also carries the risk of unraveling the entire event.”
Medium / Solutions Journalism
Write about how your community is rebuilding and reviving just as well as you cover breakdowns, problems, and collapse →
“Your audiences' informational needs don't stop at identifying problems … The people who are experiencing a problem already know what's wrong. They want to know what can be done about it. That doesn't mean journalists will or should decide what solutions should be. We can ask 'Who's doing it better,' and report on models our communities should consider as they work to move forward.”
New York Times / Edmund Lee
The New York Times Co. names Meredith Kopit Levien as chief executive →
Levien, 49, said she would continue to expand the company's strategy of subscription-first journalism. “The market for additional subscribers was vast — potentially as many as 100 million people, she said. ‘The Times has a big opportunity to go after it.'”
Rabu, 22 Juli 2020
The New York Times’ special section on disability is available in Braille and audio and has its own style guide
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Tuesday, July 21, 2020
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The New York Times’ special section on disability is available in Braille and audio and has its own style guide“We are really trying to make strides as an organization toward accessibility but it was clear that if ever there were a reason to make a concerted effort to push the operation forward, it would be for this package.” By Sarah Scire. |
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With masks and sanitized mics, podcast pros tiptoe back into in-person interviewsPlus: “The H&M of audio drama,” Apple News Today, and Gimlet’s accessibility lawsuit. By Caroline Crampton. |
What We’re Reading
Notes from Poland / Barbara Erling
As Polish public radio becomes politicized, presenters are creating independent crowdfunded alternatives →
“Globally, the success of such initiatives as De Correspondent in the Netherlands, Krautreporter in Germany, and El Español in Spain, who redefined their business models in 2013, has demonstrated the potential of crowdfunding. However, Czykier argues that this is not a stable source of income. Of course, a launch of a project might be financed by a crowdfunding campaign, but in the long term, to maintain the financial stability, the business model needs to be changed. ‘It's hard to convince a new audience to support an already existing project,’ he says.
Axios / Sara Fischer
Hate speech has soared online since George Floyd’s death →
“States with heavy protests experienced the highest levels of hate speech online. Minnesota, Washington D.C., Delaware, New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, and Virginia saw the highest spikes, per DoubleVerify. Each state has experienced at least a 2.2 times increase in its own average rate for hate speech online.
The Wall Street Journal / Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg
WSJ journalists ask publisher for clearer distinction between news and opinion content →
“The letter, signed by more than 280 reporters, editors and other employees says, ‘Opinion's lack of fact-checking and transparency, and its apparent disregard for evidence, undermine our readers' trust and our ability to gain credibility with sources.'”
Axios / Sara Fischer
Drudge vs. the algorithms →
“The influence of Drudge on the media publishing industry cannot be overstated, despite the fact that it has changed in recent years. To this day, many mainstream publishers still personally pitch Drudge with articles and headlines each day, hoping that he will feature them prominently on his homepage.”
Columbia Journalism Review / E. Tammy Kim
A look at the new “transnationally Asian” online media →
“New Naratif, New Bloom, and Lausan focus on Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, respectively, but in ways that avoid the biases of foreign correspondents and policy wonks or the narrow concerns of in-country English-language newspapers. Their orientation is not so much postcolonial as anti-nationalist and internationalist, meaning that they're keener to explore what's shared between working people in say, Taipei and Los Angeles, or Bangkok and Davao City, than to ask whether Canada or Vietnam has the more capable government — a temptation of traditional journalism.”
Al Jazeera / Asad Hashim
Prominent Pakistani journalist Matiullah Jan “goes missing” in Islamabad →
“I assure you that, while I do not have all of the details, this much is clear that [Matiullah Jan] was kidnapped,” said [Pakistani Information Minister Shibli Faraz]. “We will try our best that today we find out where he is and what steps be taken to recover him. It is obvious that this is the duty of the government, and the government will fulfill its duties.”
TechCrunch / Manish Singh
Pakistan issues “final warning” to TikTok and blocks Bigo app over “immoral, obscene, and vulgar content” →
“Some activists have decried Pakistan's warning to TikTok and blocking of Bigo Live, calling the move nation's attempt to ‘test the ground to what extent they can go in censoring.’ Pakistan also placed a temporarily ban on popular mobile game PUBG earlier this week over concerns that youth in the nation were "wasting their time" on the "addictive" app.”
Stat / Usha Lee McFarling
Dermatology faces a reckoning: Lack of darker skin in textbooks and journals harms care for patients of color →
“An analysis of textbooks by Jules Lipoff, an assistant professor of clinical dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania, showed the percentage of images of dark skin ranged from 4% to 18%. ‘We are not teaching (and possibly not learning) skin of color,’ Lester wrote in a separate analysis she conducted. Many worry the field's shift toward using artificial intelligence to aid diagnosis of disease will further deepen the divide, because the machine learning algorithms are trained with datasets consisting primarily of fair-skinned images.”
TechCrunch / Sarah Perez
Spotify launches video podcasts worldwide, starting with select creators →
“The video podcasts are supported on both the desktop and mobile app — and video will serve as an additional component, not a replacement for the audio. That means you'll still be able to stream the audio or download the podcast for offline listening, if need be.”
Nieman Storyboard / Audra Jenkins
Fashion reporting as cultural criticism →
“I didn't have an aha moment as much as it was a slow awakening to the ways in which politics permeated our lives much the same way that fashion does. The two are intertwined. I saw that in powerful ways when Hillary Clinton was first lady. One time when she testified on Capitol Hill, she was wearing a coat with a curious design on the back. TV commentators kept referring to the pattern as a ‘dragon.’ I called her spokesperson, who sent me a close-up image of the back of her coat. The pattern was abstract. People saw what they wanted to see. The coat pattern was like a Rorschach test.”
The Fence / Clyde Bruckman
David Gallipoli-Jones, the New York Times correspondent for The New York Times, is the busiest man in journalism →
“Some days I'm writing about editorial policy, sometimes it's hanging a journalist's dirty laundry out to dry – some days it's just because a columnist has written something incredibly stupid and everyone needs to know that. So in that sense it's a pretty varied beat.”
L.A. Times Guild
The Latino staffers at the L.A. Times have formed a Latino Caucus →
The new Latino Caucus sent a letter to Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong and editors Norman Pearlstine, Kimi Yoshino, and Scott Kraft with 14 demands, which includes correcting pay disparities, hiring more Latino staffers on specific desks, and “[providing] L.A. Times en Español the resources it needs to succeed as a key L.A. Times brand representing Southern California's vast Spanish-speaking market.”
TechCrunch / Ingrid Lunden
Ebay sells its Classifieds business to Schibsted’s Adevinta in $9.2 billion deal →
“With the acquisition of eBay Classifieds Group, Adevinta becomes the largest online classifieds company globally.”
The Washington Post / Allyson Chiu
Tucker Carlson claimed The New York Times planned to expose his address. Then his fans doxed the reporter. →
“Instead of addressing the [sexual misconduct] lawsuit or the recent resignation of his chief writer, who was linked to anonymous blog posts containing racist, homophobic and misogynistic language, Carlson used the final minutes of his first broadcast back from a ‘long-planned’ vacation to take aim at the Times. The newspaper, Carlson alleged, has been ‘working on a story about where my family and I live’ in an effort to intimidate him.” A Times spokesperson said: “While we do not confirm what may or may not publish in future editions, the Times has not and does not plan to expose any residence of Tucker Carlson's, which Carlson was aware of before tonight's broadcast.”
Law and Crime / Colin Kalmbacher
Lawsuit accuses ex-Fox News co-anchor Ed Henry of “violent” rape, alleges Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Howard Kurtz harassed guest →
“Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the 39-page complaint contains a trigger warning at the top (in red type, nonetheless) and documents a sweeping set of allegations against several of the conservative-leaning network's top talent and against the network itself.”
New York Times / Adriana Balsamo
How The New York Times Book Review, with limited access to physical books, is adjusting →
"In the first week that we left the office, 167 packages of books arrived on the desk that no one was there to open or look at," said Pamela Paul, the editor of the Book Review. "There's a constant worry, 'Are things falling through the cracks in a way they wouldn't if we had physical record of them?'”
chicagotribune.com / Steve Johnson
Report for America is a finalist in the MacArthur Foundation competition to give away $100 million →
“RFA would deploy 1,800 new reporters to U.S. communities that have been hit hard by the decline of the American newspaper industry, a situation it calls ‘a crisis for democracy.'”
Selasa, 21 Juli 2020
Covid-19 has ravaged American newsrooms. Here’s why that matters.
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Monday, July 20, 2020
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Covid-19 has ravaged American newsrooms. Here's why that matters.The irony is that while battering journalism, the pandemic has also underlined the need for reliable local news. By Damian Radcliffe. |
What We’re Reading
AP / John Daniszewski
AP style will continue to lowercase “white” in racial, ethnic, and cultural senses →
Last month, the Associated Press announced it would capitalize Black and Indigenous in similar circumstances. “We agree that white people's skin color plays into systemic inequalities and injustices, and we want our journalism to robustly explore those problems. But capitalizing the term white, as is done by white supremacists, risks subtly conveying legitimacy to such beliefs.”
Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.
2020 is looking like the worst year for newsroom layoffs — ever →
Through June, newsroom cuts are at their highest point since Challenger, Gray & Christmas — a global outplacement and coaching firm — began tracking them in 2003.
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
What John Lewis can teach the press →
“Lewis's life was a lesson in moral clarity. If his death teaches members of the press anything, it should be that such clarity does not demand a subjective free-for-all, but rather the understanding that democratic rights — the right of free association; the right to protest without being beaten by the police; the right to vote — are fundamental, and that fighting for them is not playing politics, but what is right.”
Dallas News Guild
The Dallas Morning News and Al Día Dallas are unionizing →
“We understand that our industry is in turmoil. This tumult has resulted in no-raise promotions, increased work without increased income, staffing cut to the bone and, most recently, an across-the-board reduction in pay. The current situation is untenable. By uniting, the employees of The Dallas Morning News seek to work with management to build a more stable and secure environment so that local journalism can thrive.”
The New Yorker / David Remnick
The New Yorker’s next issue will pull reporting, essays, and fiction on dissent from its archive →
“Dissent is an essential component of the American story and the American future,” wrote David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, in a note in the July 27 issue.
Associated Press / Michael Balsamo
A longtime criminal justice reporter on covering executions during a pandemic →
“I glanced over at his spiritual adviser — a Zen Buddhist priest who had sued the Bureau of Prisons to try to stop the execution because of fears over the coronavirus. He was wearing a mask under a face shield and appeared to be praying. I wondered if he was afraid he'd get the virus. I wondered if I would get the virus.”
Washington Post / Ben Strauss and Kim Bellware
For women in sports media, the allegations of sexual and verbal harassment at Washington’s NFL team come as no surprise →
“Jane McManus, a longtime writer at ESPN who now runs Marist College's Center for Sports Communication, said she often pulled young female reporters aside when she was covering the NFL and warned them about certain agents and team employees who could be dangerous. A team source, she said, once called to tell her he was wearing nothing but a bathrobe.”
The Oregonian/OregonLive / Eder Campuzano
National media, particularly right-wing outlets, are painting Portland as a “city under siege.” Local media tells a different story. →
“A Fox News headline blares ‘Portland protesters flood police precinct, chant about burning it down.’ The New York Post reported Saturday that Portland ‘descended into violence.’ … The images that populate national media feeds, however, come almost exclusively from a tiny point of the city: a 12-block area surrounding the Justice Center and federal courthouse. And they occur exclusively during late-night hours in which only a couple hundred or fewer protesters and scores of police officers are out in the city’s coronavirus-hollowed downtown. Those events are hardly representative of daily life.”
The Verge / Adi Robertson
Google will demonetize pages that spread coronavirus conspiracies →
“It's unclear how much content currently violates Google's new rules and whether specific sites would be demonetized under them. For instance, The Epoch Times — a newspaper that has widely spread COVID-19 conspiracies — currently hosts Google ads.”
Popular / Judd Legum
Fact-check of climate misinformation quietly removed from Facebook →
One of Facebook’s fact-checking partners determined The Daily Wire piece was “partly false” so its distribution was reduced and users who attempted to post the article were warned they were about to share false information. But then, without explanation, the fact-check was removed. What happened?
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