Wednesday, April 12, 2023 |
| “During a casual conversation in an informal setting, people would listen to us.” By Hanaa' Tameez. |
What We’re ReadingThe Present Age / Parker Molloy
As NPR exits, it becomes increasingly clear that Elon Musk doesn’t understand Twitter →“Musk seems to think that news organizations like NPR or the New York Times — which had its gold verification checkmark removed in early April after the newspaper informed its employees that it wasn’t planning to pay Musk’s $10,000 per month fee to keep its verification and would not be reimbursing employees who choose to pay for the lower-priced personal ‘verification’ — need Twitter. The truth is that Twitter needs organizations like NPR and the Times.”NPR / David Folkenflik
NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as “state-affiliated media” →“NPR will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds, becoming the first major news organization to go silent on the social media platform.”Digiday / Sara Guaglione
How newsletter publishers are expanding and diversifying beyond inbox-based revenue →“Newsletter publishers are increasingly offering advertisers an array of products that reach different audiences to draw in larger budgets in order to diversify and grow their businesses, said Dan Oshinsky, who helps publishers and brands with their email strategy through his consultancy Inbox Collective.”Nieman Reports / Kendra Pierre-Louis
Three years later, Covid-19 is still a health threat. Journalism needs to reflect that. →“As reporters, it’s our responsibility to accurately represent the needs of diverse perspectives and avoid an ableist bias that diminishes the real and lasting health concerns not only of those who are keenly at risk but those who are cautious about repeatedly catching a virus that scientists are still grappling to understand.”Digiday / Sara Guaglione
Publishers are creating task forces to oversee AI programs →“New teams are being formed within BuzzFeed, BridgeTower Media, Forbes, Ingenio and Trusted Media Brands, all dedicated to overseeing AI initiatives within different parts of their respective companies, ranging from editorial to tech.”NBC News / Jane C. Timm and Amanda Terkel
Fox News sanctioned for withholding evidence in Dominion defamation case →“The sanction gives Dominion a chance to conduct another deposition, at Fox’s expense.”The Washington Post / Azi Paybarah and Jayne Orenstein
Local journalists covering shootings share their pain on air →“The workplace attack in Louisville was the 16th mass killing in the United States in which four or more people were fatally shot in 2023, according to a database maintained by Northeastern University, the Associated Press and USA Today. As the number of people killed and injured by this type of violence increases, so do the number of people directly touched by it, including the local journalists who are called to work at those scenes.”The New York Times / Ben Mullin
Vox Media spins off NowThis, the viral politics video site →“The deal, just more than a year after Vox Media acquired NowThis, is backed by Accelerate Change, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing civic engagement among underrepresented groups.”Columbia Journalism Review / Feven Merid
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on launching Hammer and Hope, the magazine picking up from the 2020 protests →“The magazine, Taylor hopes, will not only share useful information but also ‘get people to think beyond the surface of things and grasp the root of what troubles our society.’”Substack / Noah Berlatsky
What’s it like to go (sort of) viral on Substack? →“The feeling of flying blind — of not really having any sense of why everyone is seeing my posts — is really different from my (often extremely unpleasant) experiences going viral on twitter.”Vanity Fair / Gabriel Sherman
Inside Rupert Murdoch’s Succession drama →“With the $1.6 billion Dominion lawsuit threatening to hobble Fox News, the ink on his divorce to Jerry Hall still wet, and his broken engagement to Ann Lesley Smith even fresher, it’s been a chaotic 12 months for the 92-year-old conservative media baron. As Fox and family insiders tell it, this could just be the beginning.”Slate / Luke Winkie
AI can have my old journalism job →“The cadaverous, mind-numbing SEO articles that ChatGPT aims to replace were historically assigned to the lowest and most exploitable rungs of a news organization’s faculty. These weren’t good jobs.”The Verge / Tom Warren
LinkedIn gets a free verified badge that lets you prove where you work →“Unlike Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, you won’t need to pay to get verifications that will show up on your LinkedIn profile. You can verify your workplace just by using a company-issued email address or through Microsoft Entra if your organization already uses Entra.”National Catholic Register
A Nicaraguan journalist was arrested for reporting on Holy Week celebrations in the country →“Ticay’s arrest took place in the context of the dictatorship’s decision to prohibit processions and religious activities on the streets. According to a recent report, more than 3,000 Holy Week processions were banned in 2023. After the journalist was taken into custody, various media outlets reported that he was transferred to the prison known as ‘El Chipote,’ where the dictatorship now holds several Catholics, including priests.”TechCrunch / Ivan Mehta
Elon Musk says Twitter will finally remove legacy checkmarks on 4/20 (because he can’t let go of that joke) →“Earlier today, Musk gave an interview to BBC over a Twitter Spaces session. When asked about how taking away verification marks would impact disinformation spread, Musk said ‘I think the media is a driver of misinformation much more than the media would like to admit that they are.’”Gizmodo / Mack DeGeurin
The news app Artifact has added “reputation scores” and Reddit-inspired upvotes →Artifact, the personalized news sharing app founded by Instagram’s co-founders, also added comments and discussion on articles.The New Yorker / Melissa del Bosque
The covert mission to solve a Mexican journalist’s murder →“The murders of [Miroslava Breach] and [Javier Valdez Cárdenas] and the exile of [Patricia Mayorga] had a chilling effect on colleagues left behind. Marcela Turati, one of the country’s most renowned investigative journalists and editors, told me that it felt as though journalism itself was dying in Mexico.”
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