Category: Journalism

Exploiting suffering or hogging the spotlight? Media slammed for covering Harvey, no matter how they do it – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2017/exploiting-suffering-or-hogging-the-spotlight-media-slammed-for-covering-harvey-no-matter-how-they-do-it/ Hurricane Harvey has made broadcast journalists covering the…

Link: This annual gathering is usually a moment to hammer out what divides the fractious conservative movement. What it has revealed so far is what unites it: contempt for “#fakenews” and the journalists that the former Breitbart News writer Ben Shapiro memorably described as “advocates of leftism, masquerading as objective truth-tellers.”

Ice Poseidon’s Lucrative, Stressful Life as a Live Streamer When your job is to constantly share your life, even your worst moments are an opportunity to please your audience. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/09/ice-poseidons-lucrative-stressful-life-as-a-live-streamer When your job is to constantly share your life, even your worst moments are an opportunity to please your audience.

Notebook: The Writer of the Future by Ann Kjellberg, editor Link: https://books.substack.com/p/notebook-the-writer-of-the-future As the monopolies grow, the possibilities for securing revenue for writing and being party to its distribution constrict. According to the Poynter Institute, jobs in journalism shrank by 23 percent between 2007 and 2018 (in print by 45 percent). Shane Bauer’s 2016 report…

The Year in Pivoting to Video | Hazlitt There’s only ever so much you can control at any job. You make the things you make as good as you can, at which point they are not really yours anymore, or anyway not yours to control. via Hazlitt: https://hazlitt.net/feature/year-pivoting-video There’s only ever so much you can…

More Than 1 in 5 U.S. Papers Has Closed. This Is the Result. Readers across the country told us how they were affected by the decline of local news: “Our community does not know itself.” Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/21/reader-center/local-news-deserts.html Readers across the country told us how they were affected by the decline of local news: “Our community…

A special Poynter Report: The year in media – Poynter Today, I look back at the year in media — from the best to the worst to the odd to the inspiring and everything in between. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/newsletters/2019/a-special-poynter-report-the-year-in-media/ Good morning and welcome to a special edition of the Poynter Report. Today, I look back…

Looking Forward to 2020, Here are 10 Themes for News A human-centered design research process to understand how people use technology and what that might mean for news. via Medium: https://open.nytimes.com/looking-forward-to-2020-here-are-10-themes-for-news-166d84125172 No matter where we spoke to people, certain themes continuously came up regardless of the topic we were researching. We looked at these themes…

‘No One Believes Anything’: Voters Worn Out by a Fog of Political News Paying attention to the impeachment inquiry and other developments means having to figure out what is true, false or spin. Many Americans are throwing up their hands and tuning it all out. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/us/polls-media-fake-news.html Paying attention to the impeachment inquiry and other…

Americans Trust Local News. That Belief Is Being Exploited. A growth in impostor local news that promotes ideological agendas. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/upshot/fake-local-news.html A growth in impostor local news that promotes ideological agendas.

After the Fall of the Glossy Magazine, What’s Left of Condé Nast? Two years after Si Newhouse died (and Graydon Carter left), Anna Wintour and a new CEO map out the future they can afford. via Intelligencer: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/conde-nast-anna-wintour-roger-lynch.html What’s Left of Condé Nast Two years after Si Newhouse died (and Graydon Carter left), Anna Wintour…

Inside TheMaven’s Plan To Turn Sports Illustrated Into A Rickety Content Mill Now that Sports Illustrated’s three owners, Meredith Corp., Authentic Brands Group, and TheMaven, have completed the callous layoff of half of Sports Illustrated’s newsroom and finalized a deal that gives control of the publication to TheMaven, a wannabe via Deadspin: https://deadspin.com/inside-themavens-plan-to-turn-sports-illustrated-into-a-1838756286 Now that…

Google Made $4.7 Billion From the News Industry in 2018, Study Says Journalists create the content, and big tech companies are profiting off it, according to a new analysis. “We need to share the revenue,” a news publisher says. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/09/business/media/google-news-industry-antitrust.html?emc=rss&partner=rss The journalists who create that content deserve a cut of that $4.7 billion, said…

The ‘Liar’s Dividend’ is dangerous for journalists. Here’s how to fight it. – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2019/the-liars-dividend-is-dangerous-for-journalists-heres-how-to-fight-it/ This is a bigger problem than the Oxygen Theory, which argues that by…

Can Paul Huntsman Save The Salt Lake Tribune? Life got complicated for this scion of a powerful Utah family when he became the publisher of a struggling newspaper. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/business/media/paul-huntsman-salt-lake-tribune.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Since buying the struggling daily from its hedge-fund ownership group for an undisclosed sum in 2016, Mr. Huntsman has sometimes found himself at odds with…