“Traffic whoring” or simply optimizing? Finding the boundaries between clean and dirty metrics
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Thursday, January 6, 2022
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"Traffic whoring" or simply optimizing? Finding the boundaries between clean and dirty metrics“Journalists go to some lengths to construct symbolic boundaries that allow them to incorporate metrics into their work while preserving their professional self-conception.” By Caitlin Petre. |
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Just a little too slow: Why journalists struggle to cover climate changeThe biggest news story of all time doesn't quite fit our working definition of news, and hence is going remarkably undercovered. By Bill McKibben. |
What We’re Reading
Oregon Capital Chronicle / Julia Shumway
Oregon’s secretary of state says former New York Times columnist Nick Kristof hasn't lived in the state long enough to run for governor →
Kristof’s campaign has maintained that he has always considered Oregon home and was therefore eligible to run for governor. Kristof, however, voted in New York as recently as November 2020 and used his New York address on other recent public documents. (The campaign said they would challenge the decision.)
The New York Times / Marc Tracy
Slate’s top editor leaves after a three-year run →
“Mr. Hohlt led Slate's newsroom during a rocky moment for first- and second-generation online publications. The bet that many of them had made to rely mainly on advertising revenue had essentially failed to pay off.”
The Washington Post / Paul Farhi
Steven Ginsberg named managing editor of The Washington Post, rounding out senior management team →
“In this position, Ginsberg will oversee the organization's main news sections, including the National, Metro and Sports sections.”
New York Public Radio
Janae Pierre named host of WNYC’s news podcast Consider This →
“Pierre joins from WBHM in Birmingham, Alabama, where she hosts All Things Considered and does general assignment reporting.”
Substack / Freddie deBoer
An ode to Choire Sicha →
“In addition to the (often very charming) gay men who hated women, in my youth I also knew some who had a remarkable capacity for amused and knowing empathy, who took the experience of being ridiculed and hated and used it to find a broader moral imagination that could encompass a concern for all kinds of human beings. That's a rare and valuable quality, and one of the few places I find it consistently is in Choire's writing.”
Twitter / Audie Cornish
Audie Cornish’s tweet thread on leaving NPR →
“I am leaving of my own accord with no malice or resentment. I have had a great run with a company full of people I respect and admire. And I am ready to try something new. I also understand that 4 hosts leaving in a year — three of them POC women — is a red flag…”
Financial Times / Anna Nicolaou
Ben Smith and Justin Smith will not “start spitballing with you” on their new venture →
But, said Justin Smith: "I think some people on social media missed the point. It's pretty straightforward, if you do the math. There are 1,200 universities that teach in English outside the UK and US, that graduate 9 million graduates a year into the world. Over the next 10 years there will be exponential growth of the college-educated class globally."
The New York Times / Katie Robertson
Federal labor officials claim New York Times violated workplace law by telling some employees not to publicly support a tech workers’ union →
“The complaint, filed Dec. 29, claimed that The Times had been ‘interfering with, restraining and coercing employees’ in violation of their rights.” The Times denies the claim
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