YULI AKHMADA

Sabtu, 18 Juli 2020

Republicans and Democrats read a lot of the same news. What they do with it is a different question.

Friday, July 17, 2020

Republicans and Democrats read a lot of the same news. What they do with it is a different question.

Plus what happens when climate facts get treated as climate opinions. By Laura Hazard Owen.

How collaborations can help climate change reporting move beyond the both-sides era

What We’re Reading

Medium / Don Day

BoiseDev has 800 paying members and a “time wall” rather than a paywall →

The business-focused outlet in Idaho releases a selection of stories to subscribers first. “This gives a tangible benefit to members without locking everyone else out. It also eliminates that anticipointment factor. The stories are invisible to non-members until they are released.”

The New York Times

How to report on internet culture and the teens who rule it →

“I consider it part of my job to very clearly and explicitly explain the ramifications that coverage in The Times will have. I have had conversations about this with parents, for instance, about what would likely happen when a story went up. I talk to kids about this a lot when I'm discussing how we will refer to them and why. I would never write about someone without communicating what an article about them means.”

Digiday / Lucinda Southern

Inside The New York Times’ first-party data play →

“Our first hurdle was proving we could invite readers to share information that would be useful to our advertisers, showing in a transparent way how we would use that data. In the first proof-of-concept, many more readers than anticipated were willing to share information as a truth-set for how we use these audience models.”

HuffPost / Asha Shajahan

It’s time to assign misinformation a diagnostic code →

“A diagnostic code for misinformation related to COVID-19 would give patients dedicated appointments to address their questions, allot reimbursement to providers for time spent dispelling that misinformation, and encourage training to better guide patients about the virus.”

American Press Institute / Susan Benkelman

Local newsrooms should talk about how to cover politicians who promote conspiracy theories like QAnon →

“A breaking news situation is not the moment to debate whether and how to identify someone as a conspiracy theorist and the precise language to use in describing them. Doing it on deadline can result in a small number of people making decisions too quickly, and getting it wrong.”

The Guardian / Thomas Meaney

Bild, Merkel, and the culture wars: The inside story of Germany’s biggest tabloid →

“As editor, Reichelt sees himself less as a news impresario than as an emotional entrepreneur. ‘Journalism is basically about emotions, as all of the other news outlets in this country seem to have forgotten,’ he told me.”

Substack/On Posting / Luke Winkie

The bad posts are coming from inside the house →

“It all feels bad right now. Rude tweets will not take us to the promised land, but for a moment, they allow us to reconstitute a few stray threads of agency in a decaying industry.”

AP News / David Bauder

USA Today says the anti-Fauci column it solicited and published was misleading and did not meet fact-checking standards →

“It wasn't clear how Navarro's column escaped such scrutiny before being published … USA Today said it had sought Navarro's opinion to accompany an editorial that the newspaper ran calling Fauci ‘a national treasure.'”

Nieman Reports / Brent Renaud

Learning from Little Rock: A look at Black Lives Matter protests and the role of local news →

“Holt says the image of his battered face in an ad maybe ‘would give [residents] an incentive to appreciate more what we do. And maybe that would generate some extra subscriptions or re-subscriptions.'”

Talking Biz News / Chris Roush

Bloomberg EIC: “We are publishing too many enterprise stories that are either mediocre or too long, or both.” →

Editor in chief John Micklethwait sent a blunt memo to Bloomberg’s editorial staff. “The key person to think about is the reader. They are busy people — who normally read only one screen or a story and SELDOM read more than two screens. (A screen typically is around 300 words, though a lot depends on the illustrations.)”

Jumat, 17 Juli 2020

A new study of five countries finds that newsroom leadership is very, very white

Thursday, July 16, 2020

A new study of five countries finds that newsroom leadership is very, very white

In Germany and the U.K., not a single publication studied had a top editor of color. By Hanaa' Tameez.

These McClatchy financials are a window into how much damage Covid-19 has done to the newspaper business

When McClatchy declared bankruptcy in February, its debts were crushing, but its operating numbers weren’t so bad. But the coronavirus ripped away more than a quarter of its revenue in just a few weeks. By Joshua Benton.

What We’re Reading

Variety / Todd Spangler

Vox Media lays off 6 percent of staff across its brands after sharp revenue drop-off due to the coronavirus pandemic →

“The Vox Media Union, which is affiliated with the Writers Guild of America East, said in a statement that its reps met with company execs over the last three days and proposed ‘multiple solutions that we believed would make it possible to avert layoffs altogether. Management refused to implement almost all of them.’ The union claimed that it was able to ‘push management and ensure that the company will lay off fewer people than originally planned.'”

The Objective / Janelle Salanga

Filipino Americans are watching the Philippines. Why isn’t American media? →

“Filipino media in the United States, like the Manila Mail and Pinoy Magazine, have covered both the implications of the new law and how Filipino Americans are responding. Mainstream American media may not be watching closely because what's happening abroad feels distant, but in neglecting to cover the suppression of free press and speech in the Philippines as it relates to Filipino Americans, the U.S. media perpetuates the idea of the Philippines as a ‘third world’ country that is separate from — instead of inextricably linked to — the United States.”

Simon Owens's Tech and Media Newsletter / Simon Owens

Can publishers stop their journalists from launching Substack newsletters? →

“With the rise of social media, it became increasingly difficult for publishers to insist that their reporters couldn't maintain an online presence. By 2012 or so, they were grudgingly acknowledging that an employee with a large social media following could actually aid in driving traffic to a media outlet's content. That's not to say they ever grew completely comfortable with this dynamic. Most rolled out vague social media policies that are still regularly used to fire journalists til this day.”

Fast Company / Mark Sullivan

TikTok has a misinformation problem and is turning to its popular creators for help →

“The campaign, called ‘Be Informed,’ features a number of TikTok's most popular video makers, who address topics such as how to scrutinize the credibility of the sources of TikTok videos and how to distinguish fact from opinion.”

NPR / Kelly McBride

NPR’s Morning Edition shouldn’t have let AG Barr to make false statements in a segment on mail-in voting without adding context and fact-checking →

“I agree with the audience members who have cried foul at how this was presented,” NPR public editor Kelly McBride wrote. “While some would argue that when a powerful government offers an outrageous point, listeners should get to hear it, this interview made it too easy for those listeners to come away with an incomplete understanding, or even believing that Barr’s widely debunked statement is a credible concern.”

Epicurious / Tara O'Brady

The color of my skin is sometimes confused with the scope of my talent →

“If BIPOC food writers decide to share our heritage in our work, the outcome is typically molded by external assumptions. We are seldom the gatekeepers, the creative directors, the publishers with the power to assign, shape, and promote the piece. By these others, our food is systematically relegated to a mercurial trend. Or else, our personal narratives are required to justify the food's value.”

Sahan Journal / Ibrahim Hirsi

The cost of practicing journalism for an Ethiopian reporter? A jail cell, a caravan across the Sahara, a raft on the Mediterranean — and exile in Minnesota →

“Since its inception, ZeHabesha has also taken on powerful politicians and government agencies in Ethiopia, exposing corruption, shady business dealings and abuse of power.[Henok A. Degfu’s] latest target, Ethiopian Airlines, recently filed a defamation lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Minnesota against him and ZeHabesha over a series of interviews the outlet broadcast on its YouTube channel…Three years later, he started a new life in Minnesota, home to an estimated 30,000 Ethiopian immigrants and refugees, to pursue what his native country wouldn't allow him to do: journalism.”

Twitter

While Twitter temporarily blocked verified accounts from tweeting on Wednesday, the “Temporary AP Stylebook” filled the grammar gap →

“If you're editing a story that's too long you're allowed to just stop.”

Digiday / Kayleigh Barber

The Atlantic wants a million people to “attend” its annual festival →

The Atlantic Festival typically attracts 2,000 to 3,000 paying in-person attendees. This year, the festival will be free to attract a larger crowd through the help of nine advertisers. (Last year's event, by comparison, had 16 total sponsors.)

Quartz / Katherine Bell

EIC of Quartz: It’s time for business journalism to break with its conservative past →

“If we want a better, more inclusive economy, we need a new, more demanding form of business and economic journalism, one that questions the assumptions our organizations, industries, and economies are built on; investigates not only how the systems that govern them are working now, but how they might be improved; and prepares readers to take action to improve them. In other words, we need business journalism to be more progressive.”

New York Times / Editorial Board

The New York Times editorial board says new NYPD rules punish journalists and threaten press freedom →

“The department's proposed regulations would add new reasons to revoke reporters' credentials that allow them past police lines . . . The timing of the changes, in the works for years, sends a message that police officials are trying to hinder an important check on their conduct.”

NPR / Kelly McBride

NPR let the U.S. attorney general lie on the air →

“An estimated 1.4 million people listening to Morning Edition on Friday, June 26, heard U.S. Attorney General Barr falsely declare that mail-in ballots will jeopardize the security of the upcoming presidential election.”

The Atlantic / Margaret Sullivan

The Constitution doesn’t work without local news →

“I'd be going door to door, or meeting with people at a diner or a fair, for example, and in the most isolated areas, a lot of people had no idea that their own congressman had been indicted.”

NPR / David Folkenflik

Disappearing commutes have tanked NPR’s radio ratings →

“The network’s shows lost roughly a quarter of their audience between the second quarter of 2019 and the same months in 2020. People who listened to NPR shows on the radio at home before the pandemic by and large still do. But many of those who listened on their commute have not rejoined from home.”

Kamis, 16 Juli 2020

Want to read a local newspaper on a Monday morning in Wyoming? The last one still printing is about to stop

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Want to read a local newspaper on a Monday morning in Wyoming? The last one still printing is about to stop

Wyoming has six “daily” newspapers, but now none of them will actually print a paper seven days a week. It could be the first time a U.S. state will publish no newspapers on Monday mornings…ever. By Joshua Benton.

Biased algorithms on platforms like YouTube hurt people looking for information on health

A user with greater health literacy is more likely to discover usable medical advice from a reputed health care provider, such as the Mayo Clinic. By Anjana Susarla.

Amid a pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests, Facebook users are giving fewer clicks to “soft news”

What We’re Reading

The Guardian / Jim Waterson

The Guardian plans to cut 180 jobs, including 70 from editorial →

The pandemic had created an "unsustainable financial outlook for the Guardian,” the newspaper’s editor-in-chief and chief executive wrote in a joint statement to the staff. They “remain committed to keeping the Guardian free-to-read and not following the paywall model adopted by many rivals.”

New York Times / Michael M. Grynbaum

The New York Times will move part of its Hong Kong office to Seoul →

A sweeping national security law passed by China has unsettled news organizations. “This is not a retreat,” reporter Alexandra Stevenson tweeted.

CNN / Kerry Flynn

Apple enters the crowded market of daily news podcasts with Apple News Today →

“Apple is also creating audio versions of print stories that will be available in Apple News+, the company’s subscription service that provides users with access to top magazines and newspapers.”

The Hollywood Reporter / Eriq Gardner

MSNBC’s Joy Reid faces a revived libel claim over a tweet and photo caption →

“The opinion is a huge setback to media organizations, which filed an amicus brief at the Second Circuit with fear that a conclusion like the one reached today would lead to frivolous libel suits.”

Digiday / Steven Perlberg

Slack is fueling media’s bottom-up revolution →

“In the coronavirus work-from-home era, Slack has taken on even greater importance as a mechanism for internal change. It is the new water cooler — one of substance to figure out stories in addition to inane banter about the latest Twitter outrage — and media workers are dumping it on their bosses' heads. “

Substack

Substack launches a legal support program for its writers →

“For this first iteration of the program, applications are open to US-based writers who have enabled paid subscriptions and publish work that may attract unreasonable legal pressure, such as abuses of copyright laws, assaults on first amendment rights, and spurious defamation claims. Upon acceptance to the program, writers can use a separate form to request help for specific cases. Substack will make the ultimate choice on who is accepted into the program and which cases to support. Once a case has been taken on by the program's lawyers, Substack, at our discretion, will cover fees up to $1 million (in exceptional cases, we may cover even more).”

Nieman Reports / Ricki Morell

Reporting and resilience: How journalists are managing their mental health →

“There is an amorphous endlessness to this. And the fact that what is coming is as scary or scarier than what has already happened, that really makes people anxious.”

BBC News / Amol Rajan

Facing financial pressure from Covid-19, BBC News will cut 520 jobs →

That includes 450 job cuts announced in January, but put on hold as BBC News raced to cover the pandemic. “The corporation’s head of news, Fran Unsworth, said the BBC would concentrate on fewer stories, with journalists pooled in centralised teams, rather than working for specific programmes.”

Vanity Fair / Radhika Jones

“We are not bound to continue the cultural hierarchies we inherit” →

Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Radhika Jones writes that in her two-and-a-half-year tenure, Vanity Fair has featured 10 Black cover subjects. “We know that Vanity Fair's evolution has resonated, because in the past two and a half years our audience on every platform has grown, including those of you who subscribe.”

CNBC / Alex Sherman

After missing revenue targets by 40%, Vox Media announces layoffs →

Vox furloughed about 100 employees in April, primarily from parts of Vox hit especially hard by the pandemic like SBNation, Curbed, and the company’s events group. Many of the furloughed workers who haven't already taken buyouts are expected to be among the jobs cut.

New York Times / Sheryl Gay Stolberg

A Trump administration order to take control of coronavirus data away from the CDC raises questions about transparency and public access →

“Dr. Janis Orlowski, the chief health care officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges, said the administration had pledged in ‘a verbal discussion’ to make the data public — or at least give hospitals access to it.”

Local Media Association

A new Google-backed Center for Journalism Funding will help 15 publishers fundraise and work with philanthropies →

“Applications for a funding lab will open in early August. Fifteen publishers will be selected to participate in a six-month program. The cohort will include a diverse mix of newspapers, broadcasters and digital news sites.” The lab, which will be managed by a director at Local Media Association, hopes to drive $2.25 million in funding for journalism projects and publish an extensive industry playbook on funding journalism through philanthropy.

The Washington Post / Paul Farhi

“A lot of uncertainty”: Staffers at McClatchy newspapers mull bankruptcy sale to tabloid-owning hedge fund →

“We don't know what they're up to, and that's an ominous feeling.”

The New York Times

Margaret Sullivan recalls her years as public editor of The New York Times →

“I tried to keep in mind that the people I was really working for were the readers of The Times, so that it wasn't about making people within the institution happy.”

HuffPost / Taryn Finley

How two pandemics made way for a reckoning in Black media →

“Even as they amplify Black voices, Black-operated publications have also come under fire for replicating the same anti-Black and sexist workplace structures that exist at mainstream, white-run publications.”

The Guardian / Anushka Asthana

The Guardian’s Julia Carrie Wong on Facebook, white nationalists, and becoming the target of a hate campaign →

“In November, Julia Carrie Wong reported on the continued presence of white nationalist organizations on Facebook — and a weeks-long campaign of racist and sexist harassment followed. She discusses the impact it had on her and why she believes Facebook has played a role in creating the conditions that enable that kind of harassment to happen.”

Rabu, 15 Juli 2020

What makes people avoid the news? Trust, age, political leanings — but also whether their country’s press is free

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

What makes people avoid the news? Trust, age, political leanings — but also whether their country’s press is free

“Many people's news habits quite sensibly depend on the news available to them, and in some cases they may have good reason to view such sources as deficient or untrustworthy.” By Joshua Benton.

“Take after take just gets nuked”: Podcaster parents, working from home while caring for kids, are burning out

Plus: A look at how the pandemic has affected podcast advertising in the U.S., and SiriusXM’s acquisition of Stitcher is official. By Nicholas Quah and Caroline Crampton.

A debate over 5G shows how misinformation has made its way to the highest levels of government

“It is not common for a parliamentary inquiry to have to rebut the dodgy scientific claims it receives in the form of public submissions.” By Michael Jensen.

What We’re Reading

Journalist's Resource / Denise-Marie Ordway

Embedding Trump’s tweets into news stories could boost his voter support →

“…for both Republicans and Democrats, the way Trump's tweets were presented — whether embedded into a story, quoted directly in plain text or paraphrased — influenced their opinions of the quality of the news coverage.” When a tweet is embedded, Republicans feel more positive emotions toward Trump, while Democrats consider the article less credible.

Vice / Laura Wagner

Bari Weiss is leaving The New York Times →

“My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views…My work and my character are openly demeaned on company-wide Slack channels where masthead editors regularly weigh in.”

The Information / Jessica Toonkel

Jonah Peretti: In the future, Facebook, Google, et al. will cover the cost of doing journalism →

“I think that the future for free news will be five or six platforms that all have scale. That will cover the cost of journalism…If everyone is chipping in, no one has to bear the full cost of the journalism and it can be done in a way that is sustainable. The revenue we are seeing from the platforms has gone from not material to pretty significant.”

The New York Times / Edgar Sandoval

I went home to Texas to cover the virus. Then more than a dozen people in my family got it. →

“After having reported on the virus during its calamitous sweep through New York City, I knew that the warm, close-knit family culture I had grown up with in the Valley would make social distancing a challenge — and as I called ahead to prepare for my return home, I quickly learned that my worst fears were coming true.”

Government Technology / Lucas Ropek

How disinformation campaigns targeted governments amid national protests →

“An organized disinformation campaign encouraged thousands to believe that there had been a blackout in Washington, D.C., perhaps encouraging more criminal activity and looting; local Facebook groups throughout the country saw unsubstantiated rumors that Antifa activists were being bussed into their communities, inspiring fear; networks of right-wing groups were found to be operating left-wing accounts in an apparent bid to encourage violence and mayhem.”

Zora / Nafari Vanaski

I’m a black reporter who left journalism. Here’s why. →

“Then I saw my column after he ‘edited’ it. It's hard to put into words what it was like seeing at least a couple of weeks worth of research, interview time, and writing reduced to 16 inches of open-ended toothless musing about police discretion…any attempt to point out flaws in a racist system, especially by a Black reporter, is usually met with some sort of lecture, often from a White editor, about how important it is for news writers to remain neutral.”

Popula / Diana Moskovitz

Revisiting Edna Buchanan, “America’s greatest police reporter,” post-George Floyd →

Her book The Corpse Had a Familiar Face is profoundly “police positive…littered with calls for tougher justice, using victims as props to demand harsher sentences…Maybe I could write all this off as a book that just didn't age well, if it weren't for what Buchanan and her body of work have represented, and for decades, set the template for — the epitome of what a crime reporter in America is expected to be.”

International Federation of Journalists

A court in Northern Ireland has ruled in favor of journalists being able to protect their sources →

In 2018, two journalists had their homes raided and were questioned for 14 hours about a police report leaked to them. The court: “We see no overriding requirement in the public interest which could have justified an interference with the protection of journalistic sources in this case.”

Report for America

Applications for local newsrooms looking to host a Report for America journalist are open →

Specifically, “hosting more than 300 emerging journalists in their newsrooms for up to three years, beginning next June.” Deadline September 30.

The Washington Post

The Washington Post’s Zeus will power adtech for broadcaster Graham Media Group →

(I suspect Katherine Graham would have approved of this deal.)

Nieman Reports / Deborah Douglas

Meet the new Black press →

“Outlets that advocate for and culturally represent Black people but are not necessarily Black-owned, are largely digital, nimble, and take an expansive view of who and what constitutes journalism…’News and reporting about Black communities, which is what mainstream news offers, is a lower bar than news and reporting for Black communities.'”