There’s now a way for journalists to verify their Bluesky accounts through their employers (while still keeping control of them)

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

There’s now a way for journalists to verify their Bluesky accounts through their employers (while still keeping control of them) It may be too late for @edwardrmurrow.cbsnews.com, @huntersthompson.rollingstone.com, or @mikewallace.60minutes.com, but today’s reporters have another way to prove who they are on the rapidly growing social network. By Joshua Benton.

Tuning out TV news might be behind the decline in media trust. (No, really!) But: “Does falling trust cause people to change their media use, or do changing media habits cause lower trust?” By Sarah Scire.

What We’re ReadingAxios / Sara FischerAmazon is eyeing news publisher partnerships for the next generation of its Alexa voice assistant →“The company plans to debut a new, smarter version of Alexa, using generative AI to power customized responses to real-time user queries about the news … Publishers will be compensated for their content via a licensing agreement, and answers to users’ news queries will be attributed to Amazon’s publishing partners.”The Verge / Alex HeathMeta says it’s mistakenly removing too much content across its apps →“We know that when enforcing our policies, our error rates are still too high, which gets in the way of the free expression that we set out to enable,” Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, told reporters on Monday. “Too often, harmless content gets taken down, or restricted, and too many people get penalized unfairly.”The Atlantic / Noah HawleyJournalism’s “what if” problem →“Speculation is not the function of journalism. It is what an anxious brain does, worrying about all the ways things could go wrong, sending the worrier into a panicked and angry state.”Pennsylvania Capital-Star / Ian KarbalThe strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is now the longest in the nation. And it’s not over. →“The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalists walked off the job in an unfair labor practice strike in October 2022. It’s now the longest ongoing strike in the country, according to the International Communications Workers of America … An administrative law judge has ruled that the Post-Gazette failed to bargain in good faith, and the National Labor Relations Board took the rare step of issuing an injunction request to resume bargaining that could effectively end the strike. The Post-Gazette’s owners have appealed that move.”Variety / Brian SteinbergSean Hannity to host monthly longform interview program on Fox Nation →“The longtime Fox News opinion host will debut a new monthly longform interview program on Fox Nation, the subscription-backed streaming outlet that is a sibling to the Fox Corp.-owned cable-news network. In ‘Sean,’ Hannity will lead in-depth sit-down interviews with a variety of guests spanning the world of sports, entertainment, and politics, according to a statement from Fox News.”The Verge / Nilay PatelHere we go: The Verge now has a subscription →“The Verge’s homepage has always been the most popular single page at all of Vox Media, and now the average time spent on our homepage is more than six minutes. Half a million people read The Verge at least once a week — and those people read an average of 14 stories a month. 55,000 of you have come to the site every single day this year. A lot of you really like The Verge, and we’re eternally grateful for that — we intend to keep making this thing together for a long, long time.”Columbia Journalism Review / Lauren WatsonSanctions were meant to stop Russian propaganda. They’re hurting vital journalism too. →“Google’s algorithm penalizes mirrored sites, and so stories by independent Russian outlets that use them to sidestep censorship appear low in search results. That is especially relevant because 85 percent of mobile devices in Russia are based on Google’s Android platform. It’s hard to estimate the scale of the loss. But Lev Gershenzon, the former head of the Russian search engine Yandex News, estimated the Ukrainian outlets that were similarly affected lost about 70 percent of their audience and 80 percent of their advertising revenue.”The Guardian / Zoe WilliamsEx-Newsnight editor Esme Wren on scoops, the queen and Brexit →“The media and political landscape has changed. Politicians don’t really do long broadcast interviews any more. ‘Everything’s five minutes,’ Wren says. ‘Everything’s a clip. Everything’s tailored to different audiences. There’s no focal point of accountability.'”The London Economic / Jack PeatEuropean Federation of Journalists will stop posting content on X when Trump takes office →“The EFJ is the largest organisation of journalists in Europe, representing over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries has announced that it will stop posting content on X.”Fox News / Kendall TietzForbes editorial staffers walk off the job the same day as release of the company’s “30 Under 30” list →“The union issued a warning to management, scheduling its walkout on the same day as the release of Forbes’ well-known ’30 Under 30′ list, which includes 20 lists of 30 influential people under 30 years old who are recognized for their achievements in various industries. Members of the union, who are fighting for fair wages and reductions in force and severance protections said that management has been stalling at the bargaining table for nearly three years.”AP NewsStephen King’s three Maine radio stations will go silent for good on New Year’s Eve →“King kept the stations afloat for decades, and he said he and his wife, Tabitha, are proud to have kept them going for so long. ‘While radio across the country has been overtaken by giant corporate broadcasting groups, I’ve loved being a local, independent owner all these years,’ King said.”

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