Thursday, May 18, 2023 |
| “This is a way to modernize how we do what we do,” Lee said. “It’s more colloquial, it’s more plain-spoken.” By Hanaa' Tameez. |
What We’re ReadingInstitute for Nonprofit News
Sue Cross will step down as CEO of the Institute for Nonprofit News →“In June, the INN board of directors will launch a national executive search through Koya Partners.”Bloomberg / Patrick Oster
Sam Zell, the billionaire investor whose leveraged buyout of Tribune Co. drove the company into bankruptcy, dies at 81 →“As Tribune chief executive officer, he trimmed 4,200 workers to make the Chicago-based media company more profitable. He took the company private in 2007 and used a little-known strategy to limit its taxes. Even with that edge and selling the Cubs and Newsday to raise cash, Zell got caught in the Great Recession and had to file for bankruptcy protection in 2008 as his leveraged debt became unpayable. He lost more than $300 million.”Center for Cooperative Media / Anthony Advincula
New report documents the current state of New Jersey’s ethnic and community media →“The number of ethnic and community news outlets in New Jersey increased by 15% since 2019.”Engagement at LAist / Kristen Muller
Why public radio stations can’t keep treating digital members like radio listeners →“We actually think that there’s not a huge overlap between the people who get the newsletter and the people who are really regular listeners.”The New York Times / Jessica Grose
Cable news viewers aren’t as extreme as you might think →“We should resist tidy narratives about who is consuming what media and what they’re taking away from it, because we often don’t know.”The New York Times / Reggie Ugwu
On “The Blog Era,” resurrecting rap media history →“Look, when there is no proof of NahRight.com ever having existed, no page on Wikipedia, that is a scary thought. We think all of these places deserve monuments, so we wanted to make sure they were remembered in the right way.” Wall Street Journal / Jessica Toonkel and Sarah Krouse
ESPN plans to stream its flagship channel, eyeing cable TV’s demise →“ESPN is laying the groundwork to sell its channel directly to cable cord-cutters as a subscription-streaming service in coming years.”The Fix / Sofiia Padalko
How Gazeta Wyborcza uses AI in the newsroom →“The piece ran on Gazeta Wyborcza’s website with Breczko’s byline and without an explicit disclosure that it was generated by AI (Breczko says he tried to insert some hints, though they went largely unnoticed by readers)…Soon after the initial article ran, Breczko revealed and reflected on the experiment in the article titled
‘Are journalists still needed? My last article was written by ChatGPT.’“CNN / Oliver Darcy
Christiane Amanpour voices dissent over Trump town hall, says she had “very robust exchange” with CNN chief →“I would have dropped the mic at ‘nasty person,’ but then that’s me.”Columbia University
Columbia Journalism School to offer loan repayment assistance to recent grads working in nonprofit newsrooms →“Graduates working full-time in the public interest sector and who are within three years of their CJS graduation date are eligible to apply. Those qualified may receive up to $50,000 over five years of participation.”
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