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Social media can support or undermine democracy â it comes down to how it’s designedPlatform design is a silent pilot steering human behavior. By Lisa Schirch. |
“Litigation and licensing deals may buy time for a few organizations, but they are not scalable or sustainable strategies. Whatâs urgently needed is a fundamental rethinking of how journalism is valued, accessed and supported.”
London Centric / Jim Waterson“Britain’s most trusted man” on how journalism has become “a swamp of muck and crap” →(The man is Martin Lewis, who runs the site Money Saving Expert.)
Politico / Michael SchafferAn elderly lawmaker’s staff keeps walking back things she tells reporters. Should they keep quoting her? →“For people interested in how Washington works, itâs an increasingly common issue in our era of gerontocracy: Just how are you supposed to interact with an elected official who might not be all there?”
Semafor / Max TaniThe New York Times pushed ahead to avoid being scooped on Mamdani Columbia story →“Two people familiar with the reporting process told Semafor that the paper was aware that other journalists were working on the admissions story, including [Christopher] Rufo, a conservative best known for his crusade against critical race theory.” (More on the Mamdani Columbia story here and here.)
Reuters / Foo Yun CheeGoogle’s AI Overviews hit by EU antitrust complaint from independent publishers →The publishers also said “an interim measure was necessary to prevent serious irreparable harm to competition and to ensure access to news.”
• • •“Iâve never seen so much disarray in a strategic capacity in terms of where weâre all pointing the boat. No one is in alignment.” →—a top magazine editor on the "post-Google era" (New York Magazine / Charlotte Klein)• • •Semafor / Marta Biino and Max TaniFortune and Axios warm to AI →“[Fortune] is bringing back former editor Nick Lichtenberg to ‘test ways to use AI to deliver breaking news faster’ with a new section called Fortune Intelligence â essentially, stories co-written with chatbots.”
The Financial Times / Henry ManceThe BBC dropped “Gaza: Doctors Under Attack,” but it’s now available on Channel 4 →“Ben de Pear, the filmâs executive producer, wrote before broadcast: ‘Why should there only be a handful of U.K. documentaries about Gaza? Why wonât U.S. media commission anything? Why can we watch on our phones the death of tens of thousands, but not on our TVs?'”
Semafor / Ben SmithPunchbowl News expands to video →It will launch “a weekly YouTube show called Fly Out Day â a test of whether the shift toward video that is underway across other forms of media will work in the text-heavy and information-hungry Washington market.”
The Washington Post / Yvonne CondesOnce it was mostly a taco website. Now it’s covering L.A. ICE raids. →A year ago, L.A. Taco “faced the possibility of shutting down.” Now it’s become “an impactful and (for now) financially viable L.A. newsroom, going deep in the trenches as more than 1,600 people were arrested or detained by ICE in Southern California in June.”
The Information / Sylvia Varnham O'Regan and Juro OsawaTikTok building new version of app ahead of expected U.S. sale →“The company has developed a plan to launch the new TikTok app, known internally as ‘M2,’ to U.S. app stores on September 5…Under the plan, TikTok users will eventually have to download the new app to be able to continue using the service, although the existing app will work until March of next year.”
Reuters / Reuters StaffReuters X account restored in India after suspension over legal demand →“The main Reuters account, which has more than 25 million followers globally, had been blocked in India since Saturday night. A notice told X users that ‘@Reuters has been withheld in IN (India) in response to a legal demand.'”
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