Friday, April 30, 2021 |
| Editors at The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post (and one opinionated Substacker) discussed the rapid growth of opinion in online journalism. By Sarah Scire. |
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| Here are a few things to know before you apply. (Then, apply!) By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re ReadingNieman Reports / MATTIA FERRARESI
What newsrooms can learn about trust from coverage of the AstraZeneca vaccine →“The pandemic was an exercise in humility. It forced reporters and editors to face a plethora of unknowns and to refrain from giving credit to unsubstantiated claims or poorly vetted sources. But in time, as the media grew more confident in covering the crisis, the risk of complacency also grew, and the bond of trust painstakingly built with readers has again been put to the test.”ThePrint / Tenzin Zompa
Aerial shots, Modi’s failure, makeshift crematoriums: How global media has covered India’s Covid-19 crisis →“Aerial shots of cremation sites — showing pyres that are burning or the scorch marks they leave behind — have been used as the lowest common denominator, as headlines seek to draw attention to the mounting fatalities.”Columbia Journalism Review / Michael Schudson and Jueni Duyen Tran
Beyond the L-word: Lessons from four years of covering Trump’s, uh, “defiance of fact” →“The media reporting that Trump spread ‘baseless insinuations,’ ‘inaccurate claims,’ or ‘falsehoods’ felt deeply dissatisfying. The word that signals both untruthfulness and reproof of it is “lie”—and many people yearned to see it in headline type on the front page.”Pew Research Center
News coverage of Biden’s first 100 days has been more policy-focused than for Trump’s early days →“About two-thirds of news coverage dealt with Biden’s policy agenda … That framing is dramatically different from the coverage of the first few months of the Trump administration four years earlier. Then, 74% of all stories were oriented around his character and leadership, compared with only about one-quarter (26%) framed around his ideology and policy agenda.”Scrawler / Ryan Lawler
On Facebook’s “support of independent voices” →“You’ve seen businesses rise and fall on broken promises. You’ve lived through all of this. You’re tired of it. And after all that, you think Facebook will be the best platform to partner with?”Press Gazette / William Turvill
A robot called Sophi helped The Globe and Mail reach 170,000 digital subs →The Sophi AI helps create a dynamic paywall by “deciding — based on article content and reader information – whether articles should be free to access or put behind the paywall.”The New York Times / Ruth Franklin
What we lose when only men write about men →“There has been no investigation as yet into the allegations against Mr. Bailey. But if they prove to be true, they give readers reason to doubt Mr. Bailey’s ability to objectively evaluate materials relating to the women in Mr. Roth’s life. As
critics pointed out even before the allegations surfaced, the biography’s accounts of some of Mr. Roth’s relationships contain biases and sexist characterizations that appear to parrot Mr. Roth’s opinions, including an uncomplimentary description of one woman’s genitalia. (Nearly five years ago, Mr. Bailey wrote a review of my own biography of Shirley Jackson that was perceived by many,
including myself, as sexist.)”Digiday / Sara Guaglione
The Wall Street Journal makes a subscriber push with a paywall-less “open house” day and lots of ad dollars →“Called ‘Trust Your Decisions,’ the campaign launched this week and focuses on the role the WSJ plays in readers’ decision-making processes in business, finance and in their personal lives.” (The publication’s previous campaign was “Read Yourself Better,” launched in November 2019 to tackle the issue of widespread misinformation.)
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