Five things I learned as a pandemic mom and podcast business lady
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Monday, February 14, 2022
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Five things I learned as a pandemic mom and podcast business ladyValue and profitability are not the same. Originality and financial viability are generally not related. By Katherine Goldstein. |
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How Joe Rogan became podcasting’s GoliathRogan’s rise is particularly important because it goes beyond the standard partisan political battling that Americans have grown accustomed to in social and broadcast media. By Matt Sienkiewicz Nick Marx. |
What We’re Reading
The Atlantic / Yashica Dutt
This Oscar-nominated film offers a master class in journalism →
“Each scene attests to the journalists' grit and resilience, as well as their unmistakable excellence and sophisticated skill—without condescension. The particularities of their background aside, the women at Khabar Lahariya (which means ‘Waves of News’ in Hindi) are damn good journalists who, through their relentless reporting, are not only changing their own life but also ushering a quiet revolution in the life of nearly every subject they come across.”
Simon Owens's Media Newsletter / Simon Owens
The four hurdles micropayment platforms can’t overcome →
“A single article isn't perceived to have much value, and it's simply not worth it to the average user to go through the effort of signing up for an account and entering their credit card number just so they can access that one article. Not when there's an unlimited amount of free content just a click away.”
Digiday / Tim Peterson
Instagram’s video ad-revenue sharing program has underwhelmed participating publishers →
“Disappointed as these publishers are with the performance of Instagram's video ad-revenue sharing program so far, they're not necessarily up in arms over the situation. At this point, they are not producing long-form videos specifically for Instagram but instead are repurposing their YouTube and Facebook, so they effectively see this as free money. While the third publisher described the revenue from Instagram as ‘nothing,’ the first publisher said ‘it's better than nothing.’"
Philadelphia Magazine / Victor Fiorillo
Philadelphia news anchor Karen Hepp opens up about her battle with Facebook →
“More than two years and one pandemic later, her case against Facebook is still alive, and it could wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court one day soon. It's a case that has the potential to fundamentally change the way the internet works at a time when both sides of America's raging culture wars seem to think business as usual on the internet should change—and when public opinion has never been more stacked against Facebook and its ilk. And all because one Philadelphia woman decided she'd had enough.”
Nieman Reports / Victoria Walker
In journalism, salary transparency shouldn’t be a radical idea →
“My reasons for sharing my $107,000 yearly salary were pretty simple: I wanted the next person in the role to ask for (and hopefully get) what they deserved in compensation and in other benefits. Tweeting out my salary is also a way of holding up my end of the bargain to try and make travel and media covering the industry more equitable.”
The New York Times / Jack Nicas and Ana Ionova
“Brazil's Joe Rogan” is facing his own firestorm over free speech after making comments defending a Nazi party in the country →
“To many in Brazil, where antisemitism and Nazi imagery are a crime, Mr. Aiub's comments were unforgivable and justice was delivered swiftly. To many others, Mr. Aiub was the victim of a self-righteous cancel culture that has now infected Brazil.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
The one person who knows what Putin is thinking →
“Amid the long tables, tall state-media tales, and American intel, the only person who really knows what Putin is thinking is Putin himself; he has always been inscrutable, but he's especially so right now, and the stakes are especially high. It all adds up to a disorienting situation for reporters. Some of the coverage I've consumed so far has laid out what we know and don't, and the dynamics underpinning it all, as clearly as possible, but much of it feels awash in a choppy sea of conflicting claims and—as Beardsley and Pope discussed on The Kicker last week—Cold War-era vibes.”
International Journalists' Network / Pelumi Salako
Journalists are covering LGBTQ communities in Nigeria in face of a repressive law →
“The primary purpose of Sule's writing is to drive change and connect with those she writes about. At the peak of Nigeria's #EndSARS protests in 2020, she wrote about how the LGBTQ community is playing an important part in the movement. Articles on issues like this have helped people to become more receptive towards LGBTQ people.”
The Washington Post / Ishaan Tharoor
Right-wing nationalists are marching into the future by rewriting the past →
“And well beyond the United States, nationalists of various stripes are seeking ammunition in the past for their battles in the present. The question of history — or, more precisely, how it should be remembered — courses through global politics. The context varies in each country, but increasing numbers of right-wing parties and nationalist leaders are staking their claims to power as defenders of a glorious past under attack from enemies within.”
The Associated Press / Jamey Keaten
Swiss voters reject public aid plan for newspapers and media outlets →
“Foes of the plan had said the cash injection would waste taxpayer money, benefit big newspaper chains and the media moguls who run them and hurt journalistic independence by making media outlets more dependent on state handouts and thus less likely to criticize public officials. They also said it was discriminatory, since free newspapers wouldn't benefit.”
The Guardian / Edward Helmore
Scandals, firings and “tabloid-like” news: what is happening at CNN? →
“The scandals echo previous episodes in which executives at top American TV organizations have been accused of operating a culture of impunity for other senior, almost always male, executives. It seems to illustrate a broader problem in the top echelons of these firms: supremely powerful organizations whose leaderships seem to have assumed that normal rules did not apply to them.”
Digiday / Kayleigh Barber
Why Texas Monthly thinks a pivot to video will help attract subscribers →
“The publication is banking that the move will attract more national and international visitors to its website and subsequently turn those visitors into subscribers of both the digital and print iterations of the magazine, said Texas Monthly's president Scott Brown. And the additional coverage will (theoretically) give the publication more ad inventory to sell.”
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