Wednesday, March 29, 2023 |
| “Local public radio has a staffing problem. Stations have considerable potential but aren’t yet in a position to make it happen.” By Thomas E. Patterson. |
What We’re ReadingVanity Fair / Charlotte Klein
Grid promised a different kind of news. The Messenger has even loftier ambitions. Will their media marriage work? →“It is not enough to come in and spend the day on Slack, and on Twitter, and sort of thinking, maybe reading,” Grid executive editor Laura McGann said, according to a recorded staff meeting. “Your job is not to be on the internet every day. Your job is to contribute to Grid and do the work. Was your day fundamentally about building Grid’s business?”New York Times / Kevin Draper
The way you watch sports on TV is changing. Here’s why. →On cord-cutting, the slow collapse of regional sports networks, and more. The Verge / Elizabeth Lopatto
How much money do we think Substack lost last year? →“They’re now hitting up retail investors for millions of dollars after they failed to raise last year … Friends, I do not like it, not least because the VCs last year got a pitch with Substack’s annual revenue, and I do not see that shit line-itemed anywhere on the Wefunder page.”TechCrunch / Aisha Malik
Google Search is adding new “Perspectives” and “About this author” features →“The new [“Perspectives”] feature is a carousel that will appear below Top Stories and showcase insights from a range of journalists, experts and other relevant voices on the topic you’re searching for. The idea behind the feature is to give users a variety of noteworthy voices on a news topic to broaden their understanding of the subject matter.”Bloomberg / Jeff Stone
North Korean hackers are posing as New York Times and Voice of America journalists to gather intelligence →The group known as APT43 is targeting subject-matter experts working for government organizations, universities, and think tanks in order to learn about U.S. nuclear security policy and weapons proliferation, said researchers from Mandiant, a threat intelligence unit of Google Cloud.Washington Post / Omari Daniels and Dan Morse
The murder conviction of “Serial” podcast subject Adnan Syed has been reinstated →“The ruling is the latest blow for Syed in a case that has wound a circuitous path through the criminal justice system.”Twitter / NYTimesGuild
The New York Times Guild is questioning raises for the paper’s top executives as members fight for $65,000 salary floor →“The @nytimes recently disclosed the latest compensation packages for our top executives. Among the highlights: Our C.E.O., @meredith_levien, was paid $7.6 million in 2022, up from $4.4 million in 2020. That’s a 73% increase.”The Guardian / Katharine Viner
The Guardian faces its founders’ links to slavery →“The evidence was inescapable: there was no doubt that the Guardian was founded with money partly derived from slavery, and the links were extensive.”The Texas Tribune / Sewell Chan
Texas Observer editors launch a crowdfunding campaign to save the 68-year-old magazine →“Journalists at the progressive publication expect to be laid off this week. Relations between the board and senior staff have severely eroded.”Axios / Sara Fischer
Gannett CEO says expect the chain to sell off more of its newspapers →“While it’s unclear how many more daily papers the company will shed,
[CEO Mike] Reed suggested that the company would ultimately land somewhere between the 217 daily newspaper markets it’s in today and its top 100 performing markets.”Los Angeles Times / James Rainey
The California newspaper that has no reporters left →“Owned by the largest newspaper publisher in the nation, Gannett, the venerable Californian now carries stories from the chain’s USA Today flagship and its other California papers. The only original content from Salinas comes in the form of paid obituaries, making death virtually the only sign of life at an institution once considered a must-read by many Salinans.”The Dirtyverse / Terry Nguyen
The “crispy” internet talk shows replacing late-night television →“The anti-talk show format has grown tremendously popular over the past decade … It’s concurrent with the rise of—and demand for—soft, non-critical press: the Vogue makeup tutorials, the GQ ‘What’s in my bag’ videos, the NPR Tiny Desk Concerts.”Nieman Foundation
Iranian journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi win Harvard’s Lyons Award →“Hamedi and Mohammadi were among the first journalists to cover Amini’s death after she was detained by Iran’s morality police. Hamedi and Mohammedi’s reporting and photos led to their arrest. Six months later, they remain in jail because of their journalism.” Winners of the annual Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism are chosen by fellows at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism.
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