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Did you feel that earthquake?
I felt it here in Cambridge, MA. Sorry but it’s all I’ll be able to talk about for the rest of the day: “Did you feel the earthquake?” If you’d rather think about something else for some reason, maybe try this story from Sarah Scire about the Guardian’s effort to guide people through their uneasy relationship with their phones. “You don’t want to gaslight readers by omission, by not having spaces where you can acknowledge the effect that the news cycle is having on us psychologically and instead just pretending like everything’s great,” Max Benwell, editor and deputy head of audience at Guardian U.S., told Sarah. Anyway, did you feel that earthquake? And are you going to the eclipse? (We will have eclipse coverage, by the way. Stay tuned.)
— Laura Hazard Owen
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A newsletter about our uneasy relationship to phones becomes The Guardian’s fastest-growing email ever“Reclaim Your Brain” acknowledges “the effect that the news cycle is having on us psychologically.” By Sarah Scire. |
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A new kind of activist journalism: Hunterbrook investigates corporations (and hopes to make bank trading off its reporting)“We know this may not be seen as traditional journalism, which is generally known for being dispassionate, reliant on inside sources, and indifferent to profitability.” By Joshua Benton. |
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The Listening Post Collective offers a free road map (and microgrants) for meeting community information needs“I think sometimes we get stuck in an echo chamber of being around each other a little too much. And I think that can hinder some of this work.” By Sophie Culpepper. |
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Yo! How a content-free social network briefly fascinated the world (and the news media)Ten years ago today, a new app arrived to strip the “media” out of social media, reducing messaging to two little letters. It burned bright, but not for long. By Joshua Benton. |
