Thursday, March 23, 2023 |
| “In interviews for this story, the harshest position against Fox News among journalism deans seemed to be a sort of double-secret probation.” By Mark Jacob. |
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| The first book was a risky pick: Poetry. By Hanaa' Tameez. |
The FTC proposes a formal “click to cancel” provision for subscriptions What We’re ReadingWashington Post / Nathan Grayson
How Twitch lost its way →“When was the last time you saw Twitch introduce something that revolutionized the live content community, the creator ecosystem or the content economy?”Semafor / Max Tani
Startup The Messenger is raiding the New York Post →“Publisher Jimmy Finkelstein has poached several current and former well-known staffers away from the New York Post to join the Messenger.” (Our story from yesterday about The Messenger
here.)AJC / Michael E. Kanell
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution names its first Black editor-in-chief →“Leroy Chapman, 52, a managing editor, has been with the AJC since 2011. He shepherded coverage of a number of high-profile stories, including efforts to undermine Georgia’s 2020 election results and the court cases of teachers and administrators charged in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal.”Vanity Fair / Natalie Jarvey
The real people who inspired HBO hit “Succession” →“Before Logan Roy, there was Rupert Murdoch. Without Vice, there would be no Vaulter.”New York Times / Katie Robertson
Fox argues top executives weren’t involved in voter fraud broadcasts →“Fox lawyers had submitted a letter to the judge on Monday asking that Mr. Murdoch and some other executives not be compelled to testify, saying that it would amount to ‘hardships’ on the witnesses and that their testimony would ‘add nothing other than media interest.'”Editor & Publisher / Gretchen A. Peck
Some publishers find tech sector help can be too restrictive →The Provincetown Independent’s application to the American Journalism Project and Google News Initiative’s Local News Incubator was denied ‘because we did not agree to drop Constant Contact and adopt MailChimp before applying, and we did not agree to use Google’s news platform for our website going forward.'”Bloomberg / Thomas Buckley and Lucas Shaw
Apple to spend $1 billion a year on movies released in theaters →Apple will use theaters to market its streaming service.Campaign Journalism Conference 2024
Ready for 2024? Apply for the Campaign Journalism Conference by March 28. →University of Chicago Institute of Politics (IOP) and our own Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard are sponsoring. Travel stipends will be provided for some attendees from local news organizations. New York Times / Wilson Andrews and Lisa Waananen Jones
The New York Times is ending its Covid data-gathering operation →The Times spent more than three years reporting on the number of Covid-19 cases and deaths in every county in the United States every day. The Hollywood Reporter / Alex Weprin
For news startup Semafor, events are “live journalism” that are “co-equal” with written and video journalism →“Events accounted for 30 percent of Semafor’s revenue in 2022, and that is expected to increase this year.”Boston Globe / Brian McGrory
Gannett’s CEO is getting rich by gutting a newspaper near you →“More debt? Mike [Reed] is your guy. Distant, unresponsive ownership? Where’s Mike? Fewer journalists? Nobody’s better at sending them to the unemployment line than Mike.”
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