What diversity looks like on public radio: Christopher Chávez explores how NPR could be reimagined to serve everyone
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Thursday, February 17, 2022
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What diversity looks like on public radio: Christopher Chávez explores how NPR could be reimagined to serve everyoneNPR sells itself on the idea that it’s a public broadcasting network. But, Christopher Chávez argues in a new book, that hasn’t fully included Latinx listeners. By Hanaa' Tameez. |
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Palin’s appeal could set up a Supreme Court test of a decades-old media freedom rule“I can see the Palin case providing a vehicle to return libel laws back to a time when it was much easier for public figures to sue the press.” By Bill Kovarik. |
What We’re Reading
Washington Post / Paul Farhi
A judge’s unusual timing may keep Sarah Palin’s legal hopes alive →
“By making his announcement in the middle of deliberations on Monday, Rakoff baffled legal observers — and may have breathed new life into a lawsuit he first tried to end more than four years ago. ‘I think it was very unusual how the judge handled it," said Charles Harder, the attorney who has made his name representing famous people in high-profile battles against media organizations — with successful judgments for Hulk Hogan in his invasion-of-privacy suit against the gossip site Gawker in 2016, and Melania Trump in a suit against the Daily Mail.”
WyoFile / Sofia Jeremias
Requiem for a family-owned local newspaper →
“Many former Ranger employees felt the paper's opinion pages had taken a noticeable swing to the far right, and the layout was now riddled with errors. The Sunday, Jan. 23 paper, for instance, included an item titled "Federal Judge blocks Biden vaccine mandate" with the byline ‘From Press Release.’ … Other oddities included a front page press release from the Wyoming Department of Transportation announcing a public meeting that occurred roughly three weeks prior.”
MIT Technology Review / Abby Ohlheiser
Dementia content gets billions of views on TikTok. Whose story does it tell? →
“Some influencers record people with dementia at their worst, and without their consent. Now, advocates are raising important questions about the ethics of these popular videos.”
Slow Boring / Matthew Yglesias
The regrettable death of the Slatepitch →
“Slate had a whole editorial style that was based around provocative — some would say trolly — articles and up-is-down theses. At its best, Slate championed unpopular causes and provoked fantastic debates. At its worst, Slate seemed to be deliberately stretching to come up with indefensible ideas. But everyone understood what made a pitch a Slatepitch. That's something Slate has sort of lost.”
Journalism.co.uk / Jacob Granger
Quartz launches new Africa membership product →
Quartz Africa is Quartz’s second geographical membership program (Quartz Japan launched in 2019). It costs $60 per year.
Center for Community Media
NYC community media sees a big jump in city agency advertising →
“Community media in New York City received a record $15.6 million in city agency advertising in fiscal year 2021, an increase of more than $5 million from the previous year … This is the result of an executive order signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2019 that sought to rectify a glaring inequity in how city agencies advertised.”
The Verge / Ashley Carman
Spotify is acquiring two major podcast tech platforms, Chartable and Podsight →
“If [Spotify] wants everyone to purchase ads through its marketplace, then it needs technology to better figure out who's listening to those ads and what they're doing after hearing them.”
Digiday / Sara Guaglione
The BBC will double its digital news team in North America to grow the commercial side of the business →
“The Americas business has grown to bring in around a third of our total sales, with most of those revenues coming from the U.S.”
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