Category: Journalism

  • How the Media Industry Keeps Losing the Future – The New York Times

    How the Media Industry Keeps Losing the Future – The New York Times

    How the Media Industry Keeps Losing the Future Roger Fidler tried his best, but the excellent business of journalism is gone for good. Can the idea of “news” survive in a digital world? Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/technology/news-media-industry-dying.html All that has come to pass, more or less. Everyone is online all the time, and just about everyone seems…

  • 5 local news experts on the best and worst of 2023 – Poynter

    5 local news experts on the best and worst of 2023 – Poynter

    5 local news experts on the best and worst of 2023 – Poynter Among the best: Press Forward and the local news crisis goes mainstream. And the worst: layoffs and attacks on press freedom at the local level. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2023/5-local-news-experts-on-the-best-and-worst-of-2023/ The layoffs and cutbacks. The pandemic was brutal, but job cuts eased up a…

  • Silicon Valley Ditches News, Shaking an Unstable Industry – The New York Times

    Silicon Valley Ditches News, Shaking an Unstable Industry – The New York Times

    Silicon Valley Ditches News, Shaking an Unstable Industry News organizations are scrambling to adjust to the latest rift in the long-fractious relationship between publishers and tech platforms. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/technology/news-social-media-traffic.html Even in the long-fractious relationship between publishers and tech platforms, the latest rift stands out — and the consequences for the news industry are stark.

  • Why journalists should finally leave Twitter – Poynter

    Why journalists should finally leave Twitter – Poynter

    Why journalists should finally leave Twitter – Poynter Blue checkers lose their coveted checks Saturday. As a newsroom lawyer, I hope journalists use it as an opportunity to leave the platform for good. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2023/journalists-lose-blue-checkmarks-twitter/ As a newsroom lawyer, I hope journalists resist the urge to pay for a blue check and leave the…

  • A photographer visited more than 100 newspapers in rural Kansas – Poynter

    A photographer visited more than 100 newspapers in rural Kansas – Poynter

    A photographer visited more than 100 newspapers in rural Kansas – Poynter Jeremiah Ariaz was looking for signs of democracy. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2023/jeremiah-ariaz-photographer-newspapers-kansas/ Leading up to the 2020 presidential election, photographer Jeremiah Ariaz wanted to make images that showed what democracy looked like in rural America. So he traveled across the country, from swing state…

  • Journalists report working hundreds of hours of unpaid overtime at Gannett papers – Poynter

    Journalists report working hundreds of hours of unpaid overtime at Gannett papers – Poynter

    Journalists report working hundreds of hours of unpaid overtime at Gannett papers – Poynter The NewsGuild is investigating the issue and asking all Gannett employees to fill out a survey reporting unpaid work via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2021/journalists-report-working-hundreds-of-hours-of-unpaid-overtime-at-gannett-papers/ In the tweet that started the debate, Arizona Republic consumer protection reporter Rebekah Sanders wrote that she had worked…

  • The COVID Reporters Are Not Okay. Extremely Not Okay. – Study Hall

    The COVID Reporters Are Not Okay. Extremely Not Okay. – Study Hall

    The COVID Reporters Are Not Okay. Extremely Not Okay. When I told my editors at The Daily Beast that I needed to quit my job as the newsroom’s lead COVID reporter, I couldn’t even say the word “quit.”Even now, weeks later, it feels like a Link: https://studyhall.xyz/the-reporters-are-not-okay-extremely-not-okay/ An underprepared industry is losing a generation of…

  • Unraveling the Protest Paradigm – Columbia Journalism Review

    Unraveling the Protest Paradigm In 2018, Sacramento police shot and killed Stephon Clark, a twenty-two-year-old father of two, in his grandmother’s backyard. Early coverage favored a police statement that claimed Clark “turned and advanced toward the officers,” who “believed the susp via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/criticism/protest-journalism-black-lives-matter-floyd.php Unraveling the protest paradigm requires radically repairing journalism’s foundations—work…

  • 11 Journalists on Covering the Capitol Siege: ‘This Could Get Ugly’ – The New York Times

    11 Journalists on Covering the Capitol Siege: ‘This Could Get Ugly’ – The New York Times

    11 Journalists on Covering the Capitol Siege: ‘This Could Get Ugly’ Reporters who planned to watch a political ceremony were caught in a wave of turmoil. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/business/media/journalists-capitol-mob.html The journalists ended up chronicling a siege that underscored the fragility of American democracy. Many did their jobs a few feet from drawn weapons. Others faced the…

  • The Groundbreaking Honesty of Joe Sacco’s Comics Journalism | The Nation

    The Groundbreaking Honesty of Joe Sacco’s Comics Journalism | The Nation

    The Groundbreaking Honesty of Joe Sacco’s Comics Journalism His decades-long project of reportage in graphic form works like oral history—bearing witness to the historical traumas of his subjects. via The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/joe-sacco-paying-land-review/ That honesty is a crucial part of Sacco’s decades-long project. Whether covering the lives of Palestinians in the occupied territories, Bosniaks and Serbs…

  • Is Substack the Media Future We Want? | The New Yorker

    Is Substack the Media Future We Want? | The New Yorker

    Is Substack the Media Future We Want? The newsletter service is a software company that, by mimicking some of the functions of newsrooms, has made itself difficult to categorize. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/is-substack-the-media-future-we-want The subscription-based news industry, the founders speculated, could someday “be much larger than the newspaper business ever was, much like the…

  • Out of Nowhere – Columbia Journalism Review

    Out of Nowhere What’s lost and won as newsrooms close their offices for good via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/out-of-nowhere.php Bowie, of the Baltimore Sun, began adjusting to working from home. It was feasible only because of the strong relationships she’d developed with editors over three decades in the newsroom. “You can sort of read them…

  • It’s time to hold editors accountable for harassed news workers – Poynter

    It’s time to hold editors accountable for harassed news workers – Poynter

    It’s time to hold editors accountable for harassed news workers – Poynter If you are an editor, publisher or general manager, what, if anything, do you do when employees, especially women, are harassed online? via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2020/its-time-to-hold-editors-accountable-for-harassed-news-workers/ Jessie Opoien, opinion editor for The (Madison, Wisconsin) Capital Times, broke journalism convention by sharing the offensive message.…

  • As election looms, a network of mysterious ‘pink slime’ local news outlets nearly triples in size – Columbia Journalism Review

    As election looms, a network of mysterious ‘pink slime’ local news outlets nearly triples in size The run-up to the 2020 November elections in the US has produced new networks of shadowy, politically backed “local news websites” designed to promote partisan talking points and collect user data. In December 2019, the Tow Center for Digital…

  • How Can the Press Best Serve a Democratic Society? | The New Yorker

    How Can the Press Best Serve a Democratic Society? | The New Yorker

    How Can the Press Best Serve a Democratic Society? In the nineteen-forties, a panel of scholars struggled over truth in reporting, the marketplace of ideas, and the maintenance of a free and responsible press. Their deliberations are more relevant than ever. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-future-of-democracy/how-can-the-press-best-serve-democracy Lippman lamented the tendency of the press to act…

  • Spies, Lies, and Stonewalling: What It’s Like to Report on Facebook – Columbia Journalism Review

    Spies, Lies, and Stonewalling: What It’s Like to Report on Facebook – Columbia Journalism Review

    Spies, Lies, and Stonewalling: What It’s Like to Report on Facebook One day in July 2016, Casey Newton, a tech reporter for The Verge, sat down at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park for the biggest interview of his career. Across from him was Mark Zuckerberg. With his characteristic geeky excitement, Zuckerberg described the promising initial…

  • Opinion | A Reckoning Over Objectivity, Led by Black Journalists – The New York Times

    Opinion | A Reckoning Over Objectivity, Led by Black Journalists – The New York Times

    Opinion | A Reckoning Over Objectivity, Led by Black Journalists What’s different, in this moment, is that the editors of our country’s most esteemed outlets no longer hold a monopoly on publishing power. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/opinion/objectivity-black-journalists-coronavirus.html What’s different, in this moment, is that the editors of our country’s most esteemed outlets no longer hold a monopoly…

  • Big Tech Has Crushed the News Business. That’s About to Change. – The New York Times

    Big Tech Has Crushed the News Business. That’s About to Change. – The New York Times

    Big Tech Has Crushed the News Business. That’s About to Change. News organizations have long hoped that tech platforms would pay them for news. Now regulators abroad are moving to make that happen. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/business/media/big-tech-has-crushed-the-news-business-thats-about-to-change.html News organizations have long hoped that tech platforms would pay them for news. Now regulators abroad are moving to make…

  • Australia Moves to Force Google and Facebook to Compensate Media Outlets – The New York Times

    Australia Moves to Force Google and Facebook to Compensate Media Outlets – The New York Times

    Australia Moves to Force Google and Facebook to Compensate Media Outlets The decision, announced after talks on a voluntary system stalled, is part of a global push to save local news organizations. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/business/media/australia-facebook-google.html The Australian government said on Monday that Google and Facebook would have to pay media outlets for news content in the…

  • The Fate of the News in the Age of the Coronavirus | The New Yorker

    The Fate of the News in the Age of the Coronavirus | The New Yorker

    The Fate of the News in the Age of the Coronavirus Can a fragile media ecosystem survive the pandemic? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/the-fate-of-the-news-in-the-age-of-the-coronavirus Can a fragile media ecosystem survive the pandemic?