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Tuesday, March 22, 2022
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Black Rifle Coffee has a reputation. Its military news site is aiming for something different.“I want to swing above our weight class. I want us to be able to cover and do more than we should be able to do.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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How maps show — and hide — key information about the Ukraine war“The everyday experiences of civilians on the ground in this war remain elusive in these maps.” By Timothy Barney. |
What We’re Reading
Columbia Journalism Review / Joel Simon
For journalists, Ukraine is a WhatsApp War →
“Ian Phillips, the AP’s international editor and the organization's safety lead, agrees that the use of messaging apps and tracking technology has accelerated during the Ukraine conflict but believes that overall they represent a significant net positive. ‘Technology is helping us here,’ said Phillips. Yes, he regularly wakes up in the middle of the night to check his phone, but being able to see his teams moving down the road or on a train gives him some peace of mind.”
The Verge / Mia Sato
Fringe YouTubers are profiting off-platform →
“A new peer-reviewed study by researchers at Cornell Tech in collaboration with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) found that YouTubers, including fringe creators making alt-right and anti-feminist videos, use their channels to promote their other income streams off-platform.”
Committee to Protect Journalists / Muthoki Mumo
A Tanzanian investigative newspaper is allowed to publish again after five-year ban →
“The ban was only supposed to last two years, but it stretched on as officials failed to lift it even after a court found it ‘illegal’ and ‘irrational.’ Then, in February, the government took a U-turn.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
The asymmetric interest in Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination →
“It's no surprise that, in the reality-based media, the war in Ukraine has drowned out Jackson's nomination; news organizations are capable of covering multiple big stories at once, and have covered this one in all sorts of ways, but it's harder for different stories to command consistent focus at the top levels of the news cycle, and it's understandable that the war has taken priority here.”
Block Club Chicago
Block Club Chicago is launching a TV show to bring community stories to the small screen →
“‘On The Block,’ a half-hour weekly show, will launch in April on The U and CW26. It will tell community stories with visually rich and longer-form news content, giving viewers television news in a way they've never seen before.”
The Daily Beast / Lachlan Cartwright
Barstool’s Dave Portnoy may have a mole at Insider →
“What makes the affair even more bizarre: Portnoy's lawsuit is for defamation and invasion of privacy, yet he personally published some of the more salacious claims about his sex life that Insider actually withheld out of ostensible editorial prudence.”
Wired / Morgan Meaker
Why WhatsApp survived Russia’s social media purge →
“WhatsApp is one of Russia's few remaining Western services. Although the app is not used to disseminate news in the same way as Facebook or Instagram, both experts and people inside Russia suspect the Kremlin is hesitant to block the country's most-used platforms. WhatsApp is hugely popular in Russia, with 84 million monthly users in January 2022, according to Statista.”
Axios / Sara Fischer
Ben Smith and Justin Smith plan to name their new company “Semafor” →
“The word “semaphore” is derived from the ancient Greek word meaning “sêma,” or signal, and “phore,” which means carrier or bearer of a signal…The pair is hoping to use the URL semafor.com for its website.”
VentureBeat / Ashleigh Hollowell
Ukrainian tech publications are pivoting to cover the war and provide survival advice →
“The three publications, which are made up of 70% women and 40 total journalists, normally focus on emerging technology and business news in Ukraine and receive four million monthly readers. Now, after the shift to on the ground war coverage and articles about how to get involved for Ukraine's victory and protection, the company's readership has skyrocketed to nearly half a million readers per day.”
The New York Times / Jennifer Schuessler
Two religious conservatives and a Marxist launch a new digital magazine →
“Compact, a new online magazine edited by two religious conservatives and a Marxist proponent of ‘labor populism,’ aims to challenge both ‘a libertine left and a libertarian right.’"
The Washington Post / Niha Masih
Family of Indian journalist killed in Afghanistan petitions the International Criminal Court to try Taliban for war crimes →
"’Danish, our loving son, was murdered by [the] Taliban for simply carrying out his journalistic duties. He was subjected to barbaric levels of torture and mutilation while in their custody,’ said Akhtar Siddiqui, his father. ‘While our son will not come back, our petition will ease our grief in the hope that someday, justice will be done.’"
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