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Thursday, January 20, 2022
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Axios launches a premium subscription product aimed at the “dealmakers” among usAfter a two-week free trial, Axios Pro costs $600/year for one newsletter or $1,800/year for all Pro newsletters. (There’s no monthly option.) By Sarah Scire. |
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A new report shows the impact of racial justice protests in 2020 on three local newspapersA study of crime reporting in three major U.S. dailies found coverage included less dehumanizing language by the end of the year. By Shraddha Chakradhar. |
What We’re Reading
Columbia Journalism Review / Covering Climate Now
Uproot Project’s Monica Samayoa on climate coverage by and for communities of color →
“Climate change disproportionately affects communities of color and lower-income communities, but these stories really get overlooked; because of that, the climate crisis is not seen as a crisis by everyone. By encouraging journalists of color to work on these stories, we want to make clear, ‘Hey, this is already happening. It's not something we're expecting in the future. The climate crisis is here.’"
The New York Times / Julie Turkewitz and Mitra Taj
In Peru, courts “used like whips” to silence journalists →
“The author of a book about a powerful politician has been sentenced to two years in prison. Media advocates say the case is part of a trend in which the courts are being used to punish critics.”
TikTok / Taylor Lorenz
“TikTok is uniquely good at facilitating these mass, viral, collaborative investigations”: Taylor Lorenz on West Elm Caleb and the consequences of online harassment →
“It's also incredibly disappointing to see big media companies frame this as ‘drama’ content and basically strip this man who we know zero about(!!) of any humanity,” Lorenz said in a Twitter thread.
The Information / Mahira Dayal
TikTok is testing ways to join the paid-accounts bandwagon →
“A subscription model for TikTok could mimic Instagram, but it might have to look very different because of the app's robust For You page algorithm, which has users scrolling on the app for hours without the need to follow individual creators.”
Press Gazette / Charlotte Tobitt
Why BBC News dropped Snapchat and is avoiding TikTok →
“We have to be true to our brand, true to BBC News. So what we’re not going to do is light news on TikTok. If we go onto TikTok, we’d be true to the news brand so we’d be able to report any news in the way that we’d want to… We’re only going to go on to these platforms if editorially we think they’re the right platforms to be on.”
Press Gazette / Andrew Kersley
How Bellingcat tries to stay one step ahead of Putin →
“A new Russia team is being established led by Christo Grozev, the Bulgarian investigative journalist behind much of Bellingcat's ongoing Russian reporting. The full-time team working for the organisation is set to grow too, giving it a total of 30 staff.”
The New York Times / Michael M. Grynbaum
Robert Costa is leaving The Washington Post for TV →
Specifically, CBS News. “He is also the second well-known correspondent to exit The Post in recent days. David Fahrenthold, a 21-year veteran of the paper and a Pulitzer Prize winner for his investigations into the Trump family's charitable donations, joined The New York Times earlier this month.”
The Guardian / Nesrine Malik
Facebook’s second life: The unstoppable rise of the tech company in Africa →
“Western users may be logging off, but across the continent of Africa, the social media company is indispensable for everything from running a business to sourcing vaccines. How has it become so inescapable?”
The Washington Post / Paul Farhi
“China will be China”: Why journalists are taking burner phones to the Beijing Olympics →
“The Committee to Protect Journalists cast the situation in Orwellian terms. ‘Assume your hotel room is under surveillance,’ the New York-based advocacy group warned in a ‘safety advisory’ last week. ‘Assume that everything you do online will be monitored. Any call made using a hotel landline or cell phone is not encrypted and can be intercepted. . . . Any conversation you have in your hotel room may be subject to eavesdropping.’"
CBC / Haydn Watters
This journalist says Canada saved him. Now he’s saving a 136-year-old Ontario newspaper →
“‘I know the importance of local journalism,’ [Mohsin Abbas] said. ‘It’s our social responsibility.'”
NPR
A new NPR working group is developing a standards and practices handbook →
“The ability to create a shared framework of standards and practices elevates our credibility as a public media organization and as a network working to deliver accurate and fair news and information to our communities.”
Boston Globe / Steven Wilmsen
The Boston Globe will expand and rethink its climate change coverage to be “intensively local” →
“The tepid agreement settled on in Glasgow last fall underscores the need for local action. States like Massachusetts and cities like Boston must pave a way, even if national and international solutions falter.”
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