Tuesday, May 30, 2023 |
| “We plan to do more than simply expect that readers will find the story and find us. We plan to take the story to them.” By Charles Ornstein, ProPublica. |
What We’re ReadingThe Verge / Jay Peters
The New York Times’ push into games meant a major change for its crosswords app →“On Tuesday, people who subscribe to the NYT’s Games or All-Access subscriptions will start to get an extra perk: the NYT is rolling out access to the previous two weeks of Spelling Bee puzzles so that subscribers have an archive to chip away at.”Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
Circles within circles in the coverage of the debt ceiling →“It might feel as if 2025 is a long way off, but it will quickly come around — and, if we can collectively find the time to obsess over an election that is almost as far away, we have the bandwidth to talk, too, about the prospect of yet another circular policy psychodrama, and how it might be averted before the cliff’s edge. We don’t have to be cynics.”Esquire / Ben Mack
Breaking news at the end of the earth →Meet the one-person team behind Antarctica’s longest-running newspaper, the Antarctic Sun.The Wall Street Journal / Keith Zhai
China and India are kicking out nearly all of each other’s journalists as the rivalry between the two countries escalates →“The reciprocal moves are likely to add to acrimony between the two neighbors, whose relationship has deteriorated since a deadly brawl on the contested Sino-Indian border in June 2020. Since then, a once-warming relationship between the two members of the so-called Brics grouping of emerging powers has grown testy, spilling over into a wide-ranging bilateral dispute.”A Media Operator / Jacob Cohen Donnelly
Vice failed because of Vice, not private equity →“The team was more worried about all the accolades that come with a massive, top-line valuation versus building a highly sustainable media company. And its decision making was immensely flawed.”Financial Times / Roula Khalaf
The Financial Times’ editor explains how the paper is thinking about AI →“We won’t publish photorealistic images generated by AI but we will explore the use of AI-augmented visuals (infographics, diagrams, photos) and when we do we will make that clear to the reader. This will not affect artists’ illustrations for the FT.” Columbia Journalism Review / Danny Funt
“The last good website” →“Decisions at Defector are made by committee, and every co-owner is expected to sit on one.”The Guardian / Jesse Armstrong
Jesse Armstrong on the roots of Succession →“The Sun doesn’t run the U.K., nor does Fox entirely set the media agenda in the U.S., but it was hard not to feel, at the time the show was coming together, the particular impact of one man, of one family, on the lives of so many.”Observer / Rachyl Jones
American Journalism Project CEO talks fundraising for local news →“I think we are going to see that nonprofit news is a much larger portion of the original reporting happening in the country. Already in some of the places we support, the largest news organizations in those markets are nonprofits.”New York Times / Jane Bradley
A Financial Times reporter had a big #MeToo scoop. Her editor killed it. →“‘I assume it’s stuff I was doing when I was drunk,’ said [Nick Cohen], a recovering alcoholic.”
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