Category: Journalism
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Chicago Sun-Times ends Journatic relationship as dozens of fake bylines discovered at more papers
Link: Fake bylines now have been found on stories at four news organizations, according to the Chicago Tribune, an investor in Journatic and a client. Journatic used fake bylines in stories for the Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, and at Hearst’s Houston Chronicle and San Francisco Chronicle
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Weekly World News erects paywall, ending debate forever
Link: The Weekly World News will move its website behind a paywall, the company announced Wednesday. Listen up, information-needs-to-be-free types: When Bat Boy goes behind a paywall, there’s nothing left to discuss.
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While diversity in newsrooms is stagnating, not plummeting, there are still concerns
Link: In its most recent survey, the American Society of News Editors found 90 percent of newsroom supervisors are white. White men were also most likely to appear on broadcast networks and CNN, according to Media Matters.
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The Certainty of Donald Rumsfeld (Part 1)
The Certainty of Donald Rumsfeld (Part 1) The former Secretary of Defense’s most famous quip is explored through the impressions of the journalists who covered him for years. via Opinionator: https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/the-certainty-of-donald-rumsfeld-part-1/ I was often struck by the difference between Rumsfeld and Robert McNamara. McNamara said that he never answered the question he was asked but…
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Working at Vice Media Is Not As Cool As It Seems
Working at Vice Media Is Not As Cool As It Seems Vice Media is one of the hottest media properties in America. It's the counterculture empire that even Rupert Murdoch could love. Vice's founder, Shane Smith, has speculated his company could raise tens of billions of dollars. So why are its employees so broke and…
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Chinese Journalists Bemoan Decline Of Traditional State-Run Newspapers, Rise Of State-Run New Media | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Link: “These days, being a journalist is more about getting pageviews than it is about actually scrubbing out all the information deemed too sensitive for the masses,” she added.
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Mild-Mannered Reporter Suddenly Transforms Into Incredible Unemployed Man | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Link: Upon receiving word of the Unemployed Man’s situation, sources confirmed that his arch-nemesis, the Viral Man—operating from deep within his News Aggregator Lair—smiled, nodded, and said that all was proceeding according to plan
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Death by a thousand likes: How Facebook and Twitter are killing the open web – Quartz
Death by a thousand likes: How Facebook and Twitter are killing the open web What do we lose when we get our news via social media? via Quartz: https://qz.com/545048/death-by-a-thousand-likes-how-facebook-and-twitter-are-killing-the-open-web “Go where the readers are” is what publications whistle to themselves as they slink by the graveyard of their inflexible or unlucky brethren. “Go where the…
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Beat the Press – The New York Times
Opinion | Beat the Press (Published 2015) Because it’s open season on journalism — from the left and right — powerful partisan voices have emerged, injecting lies into the public arena. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/opinion/beat-the-press.html I’d like to believe that this video snippet was just another absurdity of campus life, where the politics are so vicious, as…
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Facebook’s referral traffic has plunged for some media outlets – Fortune
Facebook and the Media Have an Increasingly Landlord-Tenant Style Relationship Some publishers have seen traffic from Facebook plummet by 40%, which reinforces the risks of handing over control of your audience. via Fortune: https://fortune.com/2015/11/09/facebook-media/ Some publishers have seen traffic from Facebook plummet by 40%, which reinforces the risks of handing control over your audience to…
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In Conversation with National Geographic Photographer Jay Dickman — Vantage — Medium
In Conversation with National Geographic Photographer Jay Dickman ‘The Power of the Frozen Moment’ via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/ai-ap-pro-photo-daily-ppd-master-series-jay-dickman-and-the-power-of-the-frozen-moment-74efe511aae6 Dickman, who is an Olympus Visionary, took time out from his relentless travel schedule to talk with writer Jeff Wignall about his accomplishments, his work with National Geographic and his lifelong passion for the still image.
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» Departing Oregonian reporter: ‘If you write a story to win an award, you won’t get one’ JIMROMENESKO.COM
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: https://jimromenesko.com/ Two-time Pulitzer winner Richard Read wrote this farewell note to Oregonian colleagues after taking the paper’s buyout and leaving the paper on Dec. 31. “Hopefully other reporters can get a little bit of his wisdom,” writes the Oregonian staffer who forwarded Read’s email.
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Harper’s boss Rick MacArthur on blogging, paywalls, his editor shakeup and the future of journalism – Poynter
Harper’s boss Rick MacArthur on blogging, paywalls, his editor shakeup and the future of journalism – 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/reporting-editing/2016/harpers-rick-macarthur-on-blogging-paywalls-his-editor-shakeup-and-the-future-of-journalism/ Every idiot who could blog, and claim to be covering…
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Vice shows how not to treat freelancers – Columbia Journalism Review
Vice shows how not to treat freelancers In an era of journalism in which freelancers have grown accustomed to being treated like disposable cogs of news production, Vice appears to be in a league of its own. Interviews with more than a dozen freelance journalists suggest the young, edgy news organization heralded as the future…
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The Trauma of Violent News on the Internet – The New York Times
The Trauma of Violent News on the Internet (Published 2016) How violent images and news on the internet may be more traumatic for some viewers than those in traditional media. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/fashion/the-trauma-of-violent-news-on-the-internet.html “The world has always been messy,” President Obama said in 2014 after a string of doom-and-gloom news events. “In part, we’re just noticing…
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Gallup: Trust in media is at all-time low – Poynter
Gallup: Trust in media is at all-time low – 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/reporting-editing/2016/gallup-trust-in-media-is-at-all-time-low/ Photojournalist and documentary photographer Marissa Roth has a long photographic legacy of documenting the affects of war.…
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What’s behind the recent media bloodbath? The dominance of Google and Facebook – Poynter
Link: “There is a clear correlation between layoffs and buyouts with the growth in market share for the duopoly — Google and Facebook,” said Jason Kint, CEO of the trade organization Digital Content Next, in an email to Poynter.
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When Silicon Valley Took Over the ‘New Republic’ – The Atlantic
When Silicon Valley Took Over Journalism The pursuit of digital readership broke the ‘New Republic’—and an entire industry. via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/when-silicon-valley-took-over-journalism/534195/ The pursuit of digital readership broke the New Republic—and an entire industry.
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How a Journalist Uncovered the True Identity of Jihadi John
How a Journalist Uncovered the True Identity of Jihadi John – Longreads Souad Mekhennet’s thrilling tale of late-night rendezvous, burner phones, and secret codes — and her quest to reveal the man in black. via Longreads: http://longreads.com/2017/08/16/how-a-journalist-uncovered-the-true-identity-of-jihadi-john/ Souad Mekhennet’s thrilling tale of late-night rendezvous, burner phones, and secret codes — and her quest to reveal…
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How the Media Captured Charlottesville and Its Aftermath – The New York Times
Link: As tensions mounted around Charlottesville’s Emancipation Park on Saturday, Ryan M. Kelly stepped onto the sidewalk. Photographing Saturday’s rally was to be his final assignment for the The Daily Progress newspaper in Charlottesville; he had accepted a job as the digital and social media coordinator at a brewery, where, as he noted on Twitter,…