Thursday, November 18, 2021 |
| “If no one on the politics team feels equipped to write about abortion bans or their analysis is really surface level, it’s not good for the news organization, and it’s not good for readers or democracy, either.” By Meg Heckman. |
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| “If I was queen for a day, what I would honestly do is fire every journalism professor and hire adjuncts working in the field. That’s, like, my dream.” By Hanaa' Tameez. |
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| By talking to journalists in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana, our project pushed back against the tendency to ignore the middle of the nation and its important journalism. By William Thomas Mari. |
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| Highly impulsive people who lean conservative are more likely to share false news stories. They have a desire to create chaos and won’t be deterred by fact-checkers. By Asher Lawson and Hemant Kakkar. |
The Washington Post’s executive editor Sally Buzbee doesn’t want to “give up on any reader” What We’re ReadingVPM.org / Danny Nokes
When Alden Global Capital tried to kill a beloved alt weekly, local public media stepped in →Virginia Public Media announced that it has acquired Style Weekly, known as Richmond’s alternative for news, arts, culture, and opinion. The sale will allow Style Weekly to resume publishing arts and culture feature stories online immediately. (VPM says it’ll take some time to evaluate the future of the print publication.)Washington Post / Paul Farhi
Once a sleepy corner of journalism, obituaries have found new life in the Internet era →The New York Times has stockpiled 1,850 pre-written obits. The Washington Post has about 900 on hand. Media Nation / Dan Kennedy
The Cambridge Chronicle lives. But the city still needs a lot more coverage. →A followup to our piece about Nieman Lab’s own backyard — Cambridge, MA —
losing its last full-time local newspaper reporter. “Saltzman’s successor, Will Dowd, introduced himself this week. But Benton’s larger point still holds. Cambridge, a well-educated, affluent city of about 118,000, is covered by just one full-time paid journalist.”POLITICO / Josh Gerstein
A Russian entrepreneur has dropped a four-year legal battle against BuzzFeed over the Steele dossier →“BuzzFeed put the document online in unedited form in January 2017, citing the interest in informing the public of the dossier’s role in Congressional and FBI investigations. The posting prompted a lawsuit from Russian Aleksej Gubarev, who contended that he was libeled by the dossier’s claims about his involvement in the hacking of Democratic Party officials in 2016.” (BuzzFeed later redacted Gubarev’s name from the version of the dossier posted.)Reuters / Paresh Dave
Google has signed a 5-year deal to pay for news from Agence France-Presse →The partnership is one of the biggest licensing deals struck by a tech giant since a new French law giving media companies like AFP more leverage. Google declined to disclose financial terms.Twitter / Kyle Clark
Local news anchor: “We should admit we hold Rep. Lauren Boebert to a different standard than every other elected official in Colorado” →“This is about us, as journalists, recognizing that we’ll hold a politician accountable if they say something vile once. But we won’t do it if they do it every day.”Slate / Lili Loofbourow
Actually, Trump disappearing from the news has been terrible for democracy →“After years of constant emergencies, it’s a relief. But it’s also breeding something weirder.”The Markup / Corin Faife
Facebook insists that mainstream news sites perform the best on its platform. Is that true? →“We found that outlets like The Daily Wire, BuzzFeed’s viral content arm, Fox News, and Yahoo News jumped in the popularity rankings when we used the impressions metric. Most striking, The Western Journal—which, similarly to The Daily Wire, does little original reporting and instead repackages stories to fit with right-wing narratives—improved its ranking by almost 200 places.”Adweek / Mark Stenberg
“100 is the minimum”: Axios Local announces 11 more cities →“The new locations and cities will be live by the third quarter of next year. New locations include San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, Raleigh, Miami, Phoenix, Houston, Richmond, Detroit, Baltimore and Salt Lake City.”Vanity Fair / Joe Pompeo
The unexpected ouster of the Daily Mail’s editor shakes up British media →“‘Everybody’s very surprised. No one saw it coming.’ That apparently includes [Geordie] Greig himself. Sources said he didn’t know he was being shown the door until ‘very recently’ … just over 24 hours before a press release was distributed early Wednesday evening.”Gawker / Tarpley Hitt
There’s turmoil — and major turnover — at Jezebel →“Since [deputy editorial director Lea] Goldman joined the company, nine of the website’s employees have quit — about 75 percent of its editorial staff.”Talking Biz News / Chris Roush
The Wall Street Journal (and the rest of Dow Jones & Co.) delays their return to work until March 2022 →The offices have reopened, however, for voluntary use.
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