Tuesday, October 29, 2024 |
| “[Families] know it’s way quicker to get a story out through me than through Univision and Telemundo.” By Hanaa' Tameez. |
What We’re ReadingThe Boston Globe / Aidan Ryan
“I don’t like sort of getting locked into a tunnel”: How Gen Z voters are following the election →“Virtually none said they read a print newspaper; instead, they cited the influencers, infographics, and memes that cloud their TikTok, Instagram, and other feeds, sources they acknowledged were often biased but also the norm in a world where anyone can post online. In a year when the presidential election is expected to be won on a razor-thin margin, the 41 million eligible Gen Z voters — which studies suggest are more politically active than previous generations at the same age — could make a major difference.”Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism / Eduardo Suárez
Moving the needle: How The New York Times aims to guide readers through America’s most uncertain election →“If a candidate is outperforming the needle’s expectations in a certain county, for example, that might mean that they’re going to outperform them in similar counties. So the model is processing all these insights in real time and that’s why the needle moves one way or the other.”Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
Why did a Canadian paper name the Washington Post’s anonymous sources? →“Others, however, saw things differently—arguing that the issue was one not of professional pride, but of exposing hypocrisy on the part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government when it comes to the dissemination of sensitive information.”Rest of World / Daniela Dib
Mexican TikTokers have code words to report on narco-violence without getting banned →“Creators have identified other euphemisms that fly under the platform’s moderation radar: levantón (getting picked up) instead of secuestro (kidnapping), civiles armados (armed civilians) instead of narcos (drug dealers or drug kingpins), and bom bom instead of grenades and shootouts.”Flux / Matthew Sheffield
CNN’s Ryan Girdusky fiasco is part of a much bigger problem in mainstream media →“We do not need to directly hear from the bad-faith actors who promote these deceptive and hateful ideologies. The solution is not to ignore far-right ideas but to let professional reporters cover these viewpoints in context rather than giving bigoted commentators a direct audience.”Substack / Matt Pearce
200,000 canceled subscriptions later, Jeff Bezos proves the point →“The reality is that accountability journalism is in a dependency stage now, and as far as donations go, speaking as a journalist, my bias is that it’s generally better to be beholden to subscribers than to the out-of-touch whims of billionaires or philanthrophic foundations. At least you know you’re reaching some people.”The Daily Beast / Josh Fiallo
USA Today and Gannett-owned local newspapers will not make presidential endorsements →“Lark-Marie Antón, a USA Today spokesperson, explained the decision to not endorse in an email: ‘Why are we doing this? Because we believe America’s future is decided locally—one race at a time. And with more than 200 publications across the nation, our public service is to provide readers with the facts that matter and the trusted information they need to make informed decisions.’”Semafor / Ben Smith and Maxwell Tani
The Washington Post sold Democracy. Now it needs a new line of business. →“Bezos and his publisher Will Lewis have signaled in a thousand ways that they have little interest in continuing to sell confrontation with Donald Trump. They would like to be running a different kind of publication, something a bit more like Emma Tucker’s Wall Street Journal — combative and courageous, without any partisan alignment or an institutional view of Trump as a special threat to democracy or a free press.”The New York Times / Marie Solis
Feminist media would have had a field day with this election →“In the not-so-distant past, a candidate’s reluctance to talk about her gender might not have mattered to the often sardonic outlets affectionately known as ‘lady blogs.’ If that cohort were around today, the feminist implications of Ms. Harris’s candidacy probably would have been debated in essays and comments at more than a dozen outlets, regardless of campaign messaging.”Bloomberg.com / Parmy Olson
Elon Musk and friends are smothering the internet’s truth seekers →“A raft of lawsuits and congressional investigations against several groups studying disinformation in the US, coming largely from Republican lawmakers and tech billionaire Elon Musk, have had a chilling effect on the broader effort to tackle viral falsehoods. These research groups study how lies spread online and alert the public when they find coordinated campaigns to mislead people. They analyze networks of accounts, map viral posts and document who creates and shares misleading content.”Digiday / Sam Bradley
As The Players’ Tribune marks first decade, publisher Minute Media plots out its future →“With an editorial model reliant on access to star power, reader traffic estimates shared by Comscore indicate that The Players’ Tribune has seen large swings in its audience over the years. In 2021, during the Super Bowl month of January, Comscore estimated the title drew 629,000 unique visitors, versus 122,000 this year.”The Wrap / Josh Dickey
“These draconian measures are demoralizing”: The Baltimore Sun axes its entire features department →“The guild said it is ‘devastated’ for the city’s chefs, artists, musicians and business owners “who are no longer considered worthy of coverage by their hometown newspaper – and for readers, who will lose information they can use to decide how to spend their money and time.””
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