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The LA Times’ Kevin Merida thinks Los Angeles is “the perfect place to redefine the modern newspaper”
“We don’t have to turn around a whole big ship. We can try things.”
By Laura Hazard Owen
The Mississippi Free Press launched early to cover the pandemic, but aims to be in nonprofit news “for the long game”
“If you seem to be an organization that’s only concerned with large donors and large foundations, you’re probably only concerned with one type of reporting.”
By Sarah Scire
Publishers hope fact-checking can become a revenue stream. Right now, it’s mostly Big Tech who is buying.
Facebook alone works with 80 different fact-checking organizations worldwide.
By Sarah Scire
Fewer grants, more risks: Four rules for nonprofit journalism funders, from the former president of ProPublica
“Any national donor large enough to put out press releases that issues one about making a bunch of $25,000 grants is either trying to fool other people or themselves.”
By Richard J. Tofel
As Facebook tries to knock the journalism off its platform, its users are doing the same
A healthy chunk of Facebook users say they don’t get much news there any more — an outcome to be both expected and desired.
By Joshua Benton
What I learned from a year on Substack
“The only way a Substack grows is through tweets. I am like 85% serious when I say this.”
By Casey Newton
True Genius: How to go from “the future of journalism” to a fire sale in a few short years
Genius (née Rap Genius) wanted to “annotate the world” and give your content a giant comment section you can’t control. Now it can’t pay back its investors.
By Joshua Benton
This study shows how people reason their way through echo chambers — and what might guide them out
“You really don’t know whether this person making a good-sounding argument is really smart, is really educated, or whether they’re just reading off something that they read on Twitter.”
By Shraddha Chakradhar
Misinformation is a global problem. One of the solutions might work across continents too.
Plus: What Africa’s top fact-checkers are doing to combat false beliefs about Covid-19.
By Sarah Scire
Some questions (and answers) about the Local Journalism Sustainability Act
If the proposed legislation becomes law, it would offer substantial help to many local newsrooms at a critical time.
By Sarah Scire
“This shit is just embarrassing”: The New Yorker’s archive editor breaks down the print mag’s dismal diversity stats
“As someone who’s done the research, seen all the numbers, I can tell you that things are simply not changing quickly enough to present real, concrete progress.”
By Laura Hazard Owen
The LA Times’ Kevin Merida thinks Los Angeles is “the perfect place to redefine the modern newspaper”
“We don’t have to turn around a whole big ship. We can try things.”
By Laura Hazard Owen
The Mississippi Free Press launched early to cover the pandemic, but aims to be in nonprofit news “for the long game”
“If you seem to be an organization that’s only concerned with large donors and large foundations, you’re probably only concerned with one type of reporting.”
Publishers hope fact-checking can become a revenue stream. Right now, it’s mostly Big Tech who is buying.
Facebook alone works with 80 different fact-checking organizations worldwide.
What We’re Reading
The New York Times/Shelley Ross
In new op-ed, veteran journalist Shelley Ross says CNN’s Chris Cuomo harassed her
“I would…like to see him journalistically repent: agree on air to study the impact of sexism, harassment and gender bias in the workplace, including his own, and then report on it.”
Reuters
Facebook wraps up deals with Australian media firms, but leaves some out
While Facebook has announced deals with most of the country’s largest news outlets, some companies including TV broadcaster SBS and smaller publishers have been left out in the cold.
Digiday
News U.K. puts its data at the nucleus of post-cookie push for media budgets
News UK has overhauled the way it collects, sorts and monetizes its audience data across all its titles, including The Times, The Sun, Talk Sport and Times Radio, via its own first-party data platform Nucleus.
WSJ / Biography
IAC in talks to buy magazine publisher Meredith
The deal, which is expected to be valued at more than $2.5 billion, would vastly expand IAC’s collection of online publications, which include Brides, Serious Eats and TripSavvy, the people said.
Pew Research Center / MARK JURKOWITZ AND AMY MITCHELL
Americans who relied most on Trump for Covid-19 news are less likely to be vaccinated now
“Roughly six-in-ten (59%) of those who relied most on Trump say they have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, while 38% say they have not received a vaccine.”
Press Gazette / William Turvill
Paywalls are coming to India; a look at indianexpress.com
“Sindhwani says Indian Express will be one of India’s first national news websites to launch a subscription business. But he believes that others are likely to follow shortly.”
Slate Magazine / L.V. Anderson
Dan Savage revolutionized sex. Then the revolution came for him.
“The onetime rebel who semi-facetiously needled ‘breeders’ and lamented the intelligence of straight men has become an establishment figure of sorts, unwittingly ushering in a popular sexual revolution of his own. Three decades later, as the sexual landscape he confronts in his column has changed dramatically, Savage is still grappling with that responsibility.”
The Verge / Adi Robertson
Judge orders Facebook to hand over Myanmar officials’ hate posts for genocide case
The judge: “Facebook taking up the mantle of privacy rights is rich with irony.”
The Washington Post / Cristiano Lima
The whistleblower who turned Facebook documents over to The Wall Street Journal plans “to go public by year’s end”
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said she’s in touch with “a whistleblower who came forward to members of Congress and identified themselves as the source of the documents made public by the Journal’s ‘Facebook Files.'”
Digital Content Next / Charlotte Ricca
Why Vox Media acquired Hot Pod
“Before we start instituting change, we are going to prove we deserve the audience and their money.”
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