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A little nudge to sign up for
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's newsletter! Includes both our own stories and (I think this will be increasingly useful) our curated rundown of the most interesting stories in digital media.
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NYT writers are complaining about Athletic reporters "introducing themselves as Times journalists."
"One Athletic staffer, who had snapped a photo in front of the Times building in Manhattan and called it his new office, was asked to take it down."👀
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it should be "at least as easy" to cancel a subscription as it was to sign up.
the
@FTC
has called one of the news industry's favorite retention tactics — "click to subscribe, call to cancel" illegal — and warned companies it's ramping up enforcement.
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The only time I unironically use 🚨 in the
@NiemanLab
Slack is when new work from
@RachelAviv
drops. On her reporting methods and why her new blockbuster
@NewYorker
article is banned in the U.K.
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That's....... the whole problem and exactly what the union has been fighting. Sports Illustrated didn't go downhill because of its staff writers, who worked through winnowing resources to do great work amongst the content farm chum. SI went downhill because of management choices.
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we have exciting news!
@NiemanLab
is growing and adding two new staff writer positions.
apply! I love working here and think you will too.
@laurahazardowen
answers some questions you might have here ⤵️
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The Internet Archive "stands alongside Wikipedia as one of the great not-for-profit knowledge-enhancing creations of modern digital technology."
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I think it's appropriate for media reporters to cite
@washingtonpost
's own publicly-available social media policy at least as often as they quote
@feliciasonmez
.
New: WaPo has suspended
@daveweigel
without pay for his retweet of a sexist joke. When emailed for comment, an out-of-office message said that he will return on July 5th.
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some 💫 personnel news ✨
Thrilled to announce that
@SarahScire
is the new deputy editor of Nieman Lab! Send congrats her way.
Now that this is official, we'll be posting a new staff writer position shortly. Details TBD.
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This report says
@BaltimoreBanner
now has 44,000 paid subscribers.
That's up 10,000 (!) individual subscribers from late January
HIRING NEWS: Two talented editors are joining
@BaltimoreBanner
next month:
@hermanywong
from
@washingtonpost
will be our deputy managing editor for news;
@bykowicz
, a WSJ alum, will be our business and enterprise editor.
@sarafischer
has the update:
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NPR layoffs beget the first
@SubstackInc
dedicated exclusively to war correspondence
"I’ve decided to go back into Ukraine to keep reporting. This time, alone."
@timkmak
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"Fox News ... is a right-wing talk channel that profits off Republican propaganda. This isn’t an opinion," given what Dominion lawsuit revealed, writes
@oliverdarcy
. "And yet, credible newsrooms continue to describe the outlet as a 'news' network."
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I love space and I loved talking to some of the scientists who put
@NASAWebb
's otherworldly images into words. 🔭✨
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Should
@NiemanLab
do a roundup of “the worst time my reporting went uncredited by a bigger/national outlet” stories?
This is a new one from NBC Boston.
What do you mean "word got out?" You mean that we reported that at
@brookline_news
? Is that what you mean? Maybe just say that and link to our story.
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@baileymeyers
antithesis. "anti" + "thesis." what else would it be? said this so confidently for so long.
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“or they could just not do this," one study participant told researchers
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Doing
@NiemanLab
series with people who are the first to hold their title in their newsrooms. News orgs are evolving, and these journos are on the leading edge. (Not always easy!)
First Q&A — with
@washingtonpost
's first-ever accessibility engineer
@hsforeman
— published today.
“It is definitely stressful to be the first in this new role. I feel deep down like I need to justify its creation with every step that I take.”
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This false MSN article is the fourth result in Google News for "katie ledecky."
Between the trans panic and AI generated content taking over Google results is a ton of articles - including one aggregated by
@MSN
- falsely claiming that Olympic Swimmer Katie Ledecky is a trans woman. We are not prepared for how much worse this is about to get.
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the news industry has questions about the
@TexasTribune
's first-ever layoffs. tried to find some answers for
@NiemanLab
.
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more about the "unapologetically down-ballot"
@boltsmag
in
@NiemanLab
⤵️
Someone else who deserves props for his work leading up to yesterday is
@Taniel
. There were a number of key sheriff/prosecutors races that flipped yesterday. He has been relentless at focusing national attention on these local races.
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New research has found a jarring contrast between articles and photos in news coverage of heatwaves.
(Takeaway: Maybe don’t illustrate your stories about lethally hot weather with fun beach pics?)
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For the Jackson water crisis, look to local reporters for the full story.
Great thread here has important context, including links to a three-part series about the neglected water system that
@MSFreePress
published last year.
Remember, Jackson is an 83% Black city and problems with the water system have been going on and getting worse for decades.
We didn't get to this total crisis point over night. It's been decades in the making. This is the predictable result.
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news avoidance is growing but many in the journalism industry (includ me + you, if you're reading this) are outliers in terms of news consumption.
here's a deep dive for anyone who's read about consistent news avoiders + wondered “who are these people?”
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sports memoirs can be hit or miss and this one by
@bostonmarathon
champion
@des_linden
definitely hit.
will make you laugh and — to steal from a text quoted in the book — make you determined to find more resilience in your own life. easy gift for every runner you know.
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a little bit of good news before we break for turkey.
@sltrib
, the first newspaper to transition to nonprofit status, says it's sustainable and growing.
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"While Meta has frequently promoted its investments into local journalism, tracing this funding has been surprisingly difficult"
incredible work by
@__gabbymiller
and
@TowCenter
tracking as much of Facebook's funding for local news as possible
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"Oh, my God, just give me the money."
@s_peppered
spent months talking to journalism orgs, funders, and small, mostly local newsrooms for this two-part story.
it's got everything — resentment, crunched numbers, local stories, and legitimate debate.
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Northeastern started to clear the pro-Palestine encampment on campus early this morning. Police told news media to “go home,” too.
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I wrote about newsrooms experimenting with Twitter Spaces today () and then checked my inbox to see
@BostonGlobe
will host one tomorrow about a new climate initiative.
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Looks like
@MBTA
Green Line train hit a car. This is right at intersection with BU Bridge and blocking traffic across Comm Ave.
@universalhub
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Update: Dozens of journalism groups have called on
@PulitzerPrizes
to make their awards open only to those who are transparent about their newsroom diversity.
More on the open letter signed by some of the biggest professional organizations in journalism:
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I have thoughts about the gap between academics who study journalism and practicing journalists. You might too?
If you’re a journalist, please take this survey. We’ll present some early responses directly to academics at
#AEJMC22
next month
@tamarwilner
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"Very rarely do things happen in a vacuum in one state capital" 👀
@statesnewsroom
is getting a big boost in policy reporting and analysis that crosses state lines as
@pewtrusts
transfers their news service Stateline to the nonprofit newsroom
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"study after study after study for a very long time"
@risj_oxford
report on falling trust in news (by
@amyross87
and others) has lots of useful info — and sounds a note of frustration
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The
@PittsburghPG
newsroom has been on strike for 100 days. My
@NiemanLab
story is about their historic strike and the perks, pitfalls, and, uh, peculiarities of family-owned newspapers (a rarity in local news nowadays!)
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🙃 42% of journalists asked to describe the industry chose a word like "struggling," "chaos," or "dying"
🙃 77% said they'd pursue a journalism career again
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I asked a dozen news orgs a straightforward question: Does your newsroom ban its journalists from betting on sports they cover?
(Surprise: I didn't get a ton of straight answers back.)
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Major changes announced today for
@BBC
:
—1,000+ jobs will be cut
—"The creation of a single, 24-hour TV news channel serving UK and international audiences, called BBC News"
—Scrapping CBBC, BBC Four, Radio 4 Extra channels
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"The story of Barry Sussman reminds us that many of the world’s most important journalists don’t get bylines at all."
I thought I'd read a lot about Watergate and was still blown away by this
@jbenton
piece.
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I love asking local news folks to tell me about the place they call home. You can tell a lot about
@RANGEMedia4all
by the way
@lukebaumgarten
and
@ValerieOsier
talked about Spokane and their neighbors.
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So much — I'd say too much! — political news focuses on the top of the ticket. The new
@boltsmag
looks at the policies and levers of local power that shape criminal justice and voting rights in this country.
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A new bill in Massachusetts would give a $250 tax credit to encourage subscriptions to local news outlets
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when my local
@celtics
podcast was canceled, I started poking around. turns out many (if not most) of
@TheAthletic
's local podcasts have gone dark.
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published this and now I'm going to take my dogs out for a walk and listen to several audio-only podcasts like the geriatric millennial I am
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this was 100% the wrong thing to read as i try to write a maid of honor speech for this weekend
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I think I gasped when I read about this study (and another one with similar findings) in this
@joshuadarr
prediction
"When 2,529 people were offered a free subscription to their local newspapers, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Philadelphia Inquirer, only forty-four accepted—less than 2 percent—according to an academic study set to be published this year..."
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Local TV news is the most popular source of news in the country and "one of the most conservative—not in a partisan way, but through the undercurrents of family and fear that course through its programming."
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"Love is embarrassing. Every aspect of it requires maximum humiliation. And while it’s human nature to love, to want love, it’s mortifying to be caught in the act of it: putting yourself out there for it, asking for it"
@allisonpdavis
profiles Emily Henry
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"It was very much the problem here that no one will advertise on Jezebel because we cover sex and abortion."
@jason_koebler
and
@emanuelmaiberg
from
@404mediaco
on the role "brand safety" played in
@Jezebel
's demise
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"It’s really difficult not to anthropomorphize—I struggle with this too—because it’s a very evocative way to explain it to audiences. But I do think we should strive to describe [AI] as a tool, rather than as a 'brain' or a companion of some kind."
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“Stories are told — but with an agenda. Facts displeasing to Chevron are omitted; hard truths softened."
@neel_dhan
interviews
@davidfolkenflik
and
@mirandacgreen
about uncovering “news mirage” sites
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“Whoever convinced the executives at the LA times to give this account a budget – we love you,” wrote one TikTok user.
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How to meet readers where they are (when where they are is offline)
Impressive and innovative work in data journalism, hyperlocal audience engagement, and problem solving by
@owen_19999
,
@THECITYNY
, and co.
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"Much like liberty, these exceptional levels of commercial airline safety require eternal vigilance against the usual foes: greed, negligence, failure to adapt, complacency, revolving doors at regulatory agencies and so on."
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“A few months ago, I told a higher-up at The New York Times—we’re talking very high altitude—that I’d been struggling with long COVID. His reply: ‘Is that the excuse everyone at The Atlantic uses when they’re unproductive?’”
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So glad
@farhip
wrote about gov't officials feeling emboldened to bully the press. Have heard stories and worries from too many small and local news orgs.
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The fired editor-in-chief: "I was not given a clear reason for this decision other than our CEO saying we needed a more 'digital first' direction. This is confusing because we are digital only."
Just six months after launch, the nonprofit news org Houston Landing has fired its top editor and a star reporter.
@s_peppered
on the changes that "blindsided" the newsroom.
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"The anti-talk show format has grown tremendously popular over the past decade ... It’s concurrent with the rise of—and demand for—soft, non-critical press: the Vogue makeup tutorials, the GQ 'What’s in my bag' videos, the NPR Tiny Desk Concerts."
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What one journalism school learned after taking over a rural weekly newspaper
@amandacbright
for
@niemanlab
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“At the moment, Apple News is as good a partner in Big Tech as many media companies are going to find. Almost every publisher Semafor spoke to said that Apple paid well and directed eyeballs to their longer, more ambitious work”
Big
@maxwelltani
story on a huge, unnoticed story in media:
The rise and rise of Apple News
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Seeing more small-scale experiments in the wake of some big changes in the news industry.
Nonprofit newsrooms — often public service-oriented and asked to "demonstrate impact" for funders — are trying out in-person engagement and different formats for news and info.
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"Increasingly, journalists have moved on from ascribing blame for the collapse of the news business to 'the internet' and vast tech forces beyond their control. They’re blaming execs unable to come up w/ plans that cobble together revenues from subs, ads, e-commerce, & events."
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"We need a dogged Taylor Swift reporter willing to report unflattering stories with public-interest value (even if Taylor won’t talk to that reporter, and she probably won’t)."
@s_peppered
, a mastermind and diehard Swiftie, on reporting w/o fear or favor:
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“The hardest thing will be discipline, I think. As an independent journalist I’ll be on my own, without an institution to pull me out when I need it. I’ll need to have the discipline to make wise decisions to keep me and my team safe.” —
@timkmak
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Here's
@NiemanLab
's pitch guide, including some sample pitches we liked and links to pitch guides for our
@niemanfdn
sister publications
@NiemanReports
and
@niemanstory
.
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"Does anyone think that Reed deserves to be paid more than the CEO of The New York Times Co., which he is?"
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users should have the News filter back and Google told me today they "do not have plans" to remove it.
updated my piece with the new statement from Google ⤵️
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wrote about a very alliterative crew in Baltimore (
@BaltimoreBanner
@baltbeat
@BaltimoreBrew
) in the wake of worrying changes at
@baltimoresun
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“[Editors] try to whitewash or water it down so things seem less aggressive toward one side or the other and I’m like, ‘That’s a fact. The thing that you’re trying to delete is a fact.’”
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“It’s like tasering an elderly person who’s already on a pacemaker.” (Is it?) Anyway, the cost of paper is up.
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“I’m having a tough time raising my rates with people who say to me, ‘Well, why should I pay more for
@sfchronicle
than
@nytimes
?' If I’m going to succeed, I need them to not only pay more, but maybe 2 or 3 times more than what the Times is charging.”
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“We know journalism, we don’t need help on that from them. What we need is how do you sell a fucking subscription? How do you market yourself? How do you grow this thing? What are the things that work here, and there was very little of that.”
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have been excited about this book ever since I saw Harry hired J.R. Moehringer, who worked on Andre Agassi’s OPEN.
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Many parts of the news industry already see easy online cancellation and transparent pricing for digital subscribers as good business. The legacy newspapers — even some of the biggest, most prestigious ones? Not so much.
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“Users will spend more time with devices without screens. They will get information directly from AI assistants that can summarize information without sending the user to a news website.”
one of my favorite
@niemanlab
predictions so far is from
@sguzik
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As part of their terrific (and harrowing) series on the AR-15,
@washingtonpost
has taken "the unusual step" of publishing graphic images from mass shootings.
Executive editor
@SallyBuzbee
on digital storytelling and the newsroom convos behind the decision
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have you noticed some news articles look a little different on
@Twitter
? a few details on the Tweet Tiles experiment here.
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YouTube says podcasts with video of the hosts receive twice as many views.
@ashleyrcarman
reports news publishers are learning that lesson, uh, nowish.
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"These companies are betting that customers will be too impatient, busy, or confused to jump through every hoop."
@FTC
wants to formalize "click to cancel" as a rule for newspaper subscriptions, gym memberships, and more.
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Reporter
@PatLohmann
has lived in New Mexico for most of his life, but covering the Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon Fire required building trust in a divided community. Here’s how he did it.
@Source_NM
/
@propublica
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The goal was to "tell the story as fast as an eviction typically happens."
@RominaAdi
on wanting her journalism to reach the communities she reports on, the need for reporters to be "less precious" about our work, and more.
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A group of smaller digital-only publications (
@RawStory
,
@AlterNet
, and
@theintercept
) is charting a new legal strategy against AI developers like OpenAI
first story from
@niemanlab
's generative AI staff writer
@decka227
🔎
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"In several conversations, Lewis repeatedly—and heatedly—offered to give me an exclusive interview about the Post’s future, as long as I dropped the story about the allegations."
Later: "That first interview appears to have gone to Puck’s Dylan Byers."
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Canada announced a new tax credit to encourage digital news subscriptions back in 2019. After hearing one editor-in-chief describe the benefit as "negligible," I asked the Canada Revenue Agency for nationwide data.
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