Wednesday, July 19, 2023 |
| A study found many Google News Initiative projects in Middle East and Africa struggle to become more than makeshift versions of the original idea. By Sarah Scire. |
Please enjoy this video of news outlets as glass jars rolling down the stairs What We’re ReadingMissouri Independent / Derek Kravitz
How journalists investigated the St. Louis region’s 75-year history with nuclear waste →“Many of the documents have either been newly-declassified or never before reviewed.”City Bureau / Darryl Holliday
City Bureau founder Darryl Holliday to step down →“City Bureau began in 2015 as a team of volunteers, and we dubbed ourselves ‘a civic journalism lab.’ We were not a safe bet; we were an ongoing experiment, ‘a kind of j-school of the streets,’ according to our local alt weekly, the Chicago Reader.”Columbia Journalism Review / Zainab Sultan
A new documentary tells the story of India’s news crisis →“My ambition was to focus on just how lonely it’s becoming for idealists to continue in their professions. This film is about adult loneliness.”the Guardian
Belarus has arrested a prominent journalist amid a wider crackdown on opposition figures →Journalists and activists in Belarus have faced large-scale repression since the August 2020 vote that handed a sixth term to president Alexander Lukashenko.the Guardian / Martin Brunt
Why are we so addicted to the dark side of humanity? →“A YouGov poll last year concluded that half of Americans enjoy true-crime content, and one in three consume it at least once a week.”WAN-IFRA / Brian Veseling
With 700,000 paying subscribers, digital becomes more profitable than print for Argentina’s Clarín →Clarín was founded 80 years ago but “the truth is that in the last eight years, our business was reinvented,” says COO Emilio Basavilbaso.Hell Gate NYC
The worker-owned Hell Gate on one year of publishing in New York City →“We look back at a Year in Blogs.”The New York Times Company
New York Times Opinion has a TikTok account now →Opinion joins
The New York Times’ main account,
NYT Cooking,
Wirecutter,
The Athletic, and
the “Hard Fork” podcast on the platform.
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