Friday, April 21, 2023 |
| “We can’t keep losing money.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re ReadingWall Street Journal / Alexandra Bruell and Jessica Toonkel
BuzzFeed News is shutting down, and Vice World News could be next →“ice Media, which has been looking to sell itself for several months, is discussing shutting down Vice World News if a sale doesn’t materialize in coming weeks, according to people familiar with the situation.”Boston Business Journal / Don Seiffert
WBUR’s decision to quit Twitter spurred donations, says CEO →“Margaret Low, who leads WBUR, one of Boston’s two public radio stations, told the Boston Business Journal in an interview Friday that the nonprofit organization has ‘received more than 100 gifts and a lot of notes of support’ in the past nine days since the decision was announced.”FiveThirtyEight / Kaleigh Rogers
The Fox News defamation trial hurt trust among some users →“Over the past few months, polling has shown a majority of Americans think Fox was in the wrong — though, perhaps unsurprisingly, Republicans are less convinced.”CNN / Brian Fung
Meta phased out Covid-19 content labels after finding they did little to combat misinformation, Oversight Board says →“Study results provided to the Meta Oversight Board, a quasi-judicial body, showed that the company’s labels appeared to have ‘no detectable effect on users’ likelihood to read, create or re-share’ claims that had previously been rated as false by third-party fact-checkers or that discouraged the use of vaccines, the report said.”Reuters / Reuters
Twitter drops “government-funded media” tag on NPR and other media accounts, including those in China →” Twitter dropped the ‘Government-funded’ and ‘China state-affiliated’ labels, which implies government involvement in editorial content, from the accounts of various global media organizations, their profiles showed on Friday.”Press Gazette / Charlotte Tobitt
Why business journalists love Linkedin and Linkedin loves them back →“There are now 213 million subscriptions to newsletters on Linkedin, up four times from January 2022 to 2023. Linkedin said 53 million individuals subscribe to a newsletter on the platform, up three times in the same time period.”Washington Post / Ty Burr
As Netflix ends DVD rentals, too many movies risk being forgotten →“The vast majority of films and series are not and have never been available at the touch of a remote and a $2.99 streaming rental.”The New York Times / Katie Robertson
Lachlan Murdoch drops libel suit against Australian news site →“His lawyer said the website, Crikey, intended to exploit the outcome of the Fox-Dominion defamation case in the U.S.”NPR / Dara Kerr
Twitter once muzzled Russian and Chinese state propaganda. That’s reportedly over now →“The previous guardrails on government accounts in Russia, China and Iran have now been removed, according to two former Twitter employees who spoke to NPR on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.”New York Times / Callie Holtermann
NPR’s first Gen Z host went from being an intern to landing her own show in less than a year. Then she got laid off. →Emma Choi, 23, has already experienced the kind of peaks and valleys of a life in media that once unfolded over decades but have become increasingly common for many young people. “I feel like I’ve aged a lot,” she said. Slate Magazine / Hillary Frey
BuzzFeed News is dead. Don’t get the wrong idea about who is to blame. →“There is a reason why the New York Times is thriving, and places like HuffPost, Slate, and New York Magazine are still around. We’re legacy; we have homepages and loyal audiences. And while, yes, we always want to grow, we have fans who have grown up with us and rely on us, or love us, or enjoy us—and are willing to pay to support our work. Loyalty like that was built through homepages and curation, not distribution on Facebook or Twitter, even though we all counted those drive-by clicks as something real once upon a time.”
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