Can’t afford $40/month? The Financial Times wants to tempt you with a subset of its stories at a fraction of the price
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Monday, March 28, 2022
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Can’t afford $40/month? The Financial Times wants to tempt you with a subset of its stories at a fraction of the priceIts new app, FT Edit, will feature “a curated selection” of eight “deep-dive articles” each weekday morning at a price almost all of its readers can afford. But the ghost of NYT Now looms ominously nearby. By Joshua Benton. |
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“Newspubs”: Let’s try a new word for a new era“It's simple, fast, and gloriously free of baggage. It's not what we're not, it's simply what we are. And anyone is free to use it.” By Ken Doctor. |
What We’re Reading
Columbia Journalism Review / Priyanjana Bengani and Jon Keegan
Who’s behind this website? A checklist. →
How to unmask the owner of a website, from backlinks to WHOIS records.
Press Gazette / Charlotte Tobitt
The U.K.’s police watchdog has apologized for lumping together “journalists and extremist groups” →
“The Crime Reporters Association objected to a report on corruption in the Met Police by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary.” The phrasing in the report: “We were surprised to find that police officers and staff did not have to disclose their association with journalists or extremist groups. This is despite national guidance to the contrary and a history of scandals.”
CNBC / Alex Sherman
Morning Brew has added another 1 million newsletter subscribers in the past 8 months →
“Riding its popularity, Morning Brew now has more than 230 employees creating newsletters for retail, marketing, HR and emerging tech. Rief, 27, and co-founder Alex Lieberman, 28, are pushing into podcasts and YouTube shows to extend the brand.”
The Daily Beast / Barbie Latza Nadeau
Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper of Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov, has been forced to shut down amid Russia’s media crackdown →
“Journalists can be jailed for up to 15 years for violating the draconian law, forcing many Western media outlets to cease reporting from the country. Some independent broadcasters made the same decision, which is a hammer blow to freedom of speech. Until now, Novaya Gazeta has been arguably the country's most important media institution.”
The Washington Post / Amy Argetsinger
A judge has dismissed Felicia Sonmez’s lawsuit against The Washington Post →
“In a ruling issued Friday in D.C. Superior Court, Judge Anthony C. Epstein said that politics reporter Felicia Sonmez had not demonstrated that The Post showed ‘discriminatory motive’ when its editors decided to temporarily bar her from covering stories related to sexual harassment or misconduct.”
The Washington Post / Margaret Sullivan
The Kremlin tries to stifle Radio Free Europe — and its audience surges →
“The Kremlin kept putting the screws to its Russian-language broadcasts, throwing up ever more regulatory hurdles. But it was in late 2020 that the hammer really came down. The ‘media regulator’ demanded that every broadcast, digital story and video carry an intrusive disclaimer at the top stating that what followed was the product of a foreign agent.”
The Guardian / Jane Martinson
The U.K. government’s pick to lead Ofcom, Michael Grade, “is a threat in plain sight” to the BBC →
“His trenchant views could not have been more visible if he had lit them up on ticker tape — essentially, big broadcasters and platforms are bad, free speech and Conservatives are good — and this has naturally endeared him, not just to his party's backbenchers but of course to the two people now driving his appointment, Nadine Dorries, the culture secretary, and Boris Johnson, guardians both of all that spiritually sustains us as a nation.”
NPR / Rachel Treisman
Russian forces are reportedly holding Ukrainian journalists hostage →
“The Paris-based global nonprofit Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Friday that Russians have kidnapped, detained and tortured dozens of journalists, while the U.N.’s Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights told the BBC that it has verified at least 36 cases of civilian detentions in Ukraine.”
Vice / Trone Dowd
Your right to film the cops is under attack →
“Lawmakers told Vice News the bills and laws are meant to protect officers’ safety and privacy — not infringe on civilians' rights…’The real concern is, whereas these bills are presented as a shield to protect officers’ safety, we worry that it’s going to be used as a sword against anyone who’s got a camera.'”
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism / Raksha Kumar
Building a mission-based news site: Premesh Chandran on his success at Malaysiakini →
“Publishing in a restrictive media atmosphere where most of the news platforms are either owned or controlled by the government, Malaysiakini has gained global reputation by remaining independent… What began as a five-member operation in 1999 is now a company with 100 employees.”
MIT Technology Review / Sam Richards and Tate Ryan-Mosley
The secret police: Inside the app Minnesota police used to collect data on journalists at protests →
“Officers sorted the press from the protestors, walked them to a parking lot, and began photographing them, one by one, with cell phones…’I asked where the pictures would go,’ [photojournalist J.D.] Duggan says. ‘And the officer told me that it just goes into their system. He didn’t really give me any details. He said they have an app.'”
The New York Times / Anton Troianovski
Fed up with deadly propaganda, some Russian journalists quit →
“Dmitri Likin spent more than two decades helping shape the look of Russian state television, but he says neither he nor his friends ever watched the news. It is an illustration of the kind of bargain long made by some employees of the Kremlin propaganda machine — people who valued the steady work and the creative challenge, even if they did not agree with the mission of their workplace.”
The New York Times / Michael M. Grynbaum
Chris Wallace says life at Fox News became “unsustainable” →
“‘I'm fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion,’ Mr. Wallace said in his first extensive interview about his decision to leave [for CNN’s new streaming service]. ‘But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable.'”
WFTS / Jillian Ramos
La Gaceta, America’s only trilingual newspaper, celebrates 100 years of publishing →
“La Gaceta is printed in Spanish, Italian and English…’we’re also the second oldest minority-owned newspaper in America, and the oldest Spanish language newspaper in America. And once again, this is part of this unique Ybor community that people just a lot of times don’t know about.'”
Nieman Reports / Celeste Katz Marston
How to get poll coverage right in the run up to the midterms →
“When polling data is off — as in 2020 when polling indicated that Joe Biden had a larger lead than what he wound up winning by — and coverage amplifies it, that dynamic can lead to distrust, especially in such a hyperpartisan environment. ‘It's added an additional layer [of] responsibility [to] the way we cover data and elections,’ [Margaret Talev, managing editor for politics at Axios] explains.”
Reuters / Kirsty Needham
Australian journalist Cheng Lei will be tried in Beijing next week →
“Cheng Lei, who worked as a television anchor for Chinese state media for a decade before being detained in 2020, was formally arrested a year ago on suspicion of illegally supplying state secrets overseas.”
Media Matters for America / Ted MacDonald
How did TV news cover climate change in 2021? More than before, still not much →
“… approximately 1,316 minutes — nearly 22 hours — were spent discussing climate change on morning, evening, and Sunday morning news shows on ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox Broadcasting Co., more than a threefold increase from 2020. However, all those hours of climate coverage on corporate broadcast TV networks represented roughly 1% of overall news programming in 2021…”
The Guardian / Kari Paul
The EU has agreed on sweeping new rules to curb big tech’s power →
“The regulation would target what the act deems to be ‘gatekeepers’ — companies with a market capitalization of at least €75bn ($82bn); at least 45 million monthly users; and a ‘platform’ like an app or social network. That includes well-known firms like Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Apple and smaller sites like Booking.com.” It “still needs other approvals.”
Politico / Hailey Fuchs
Russian state media is turning to the conservative social platform Rumble to get their messaging out →
“Over the past few weeks, four shows on Sputnik, a news agency and radio broadcaster controlled by the Russian state media group Rossiya Segodnya, began broadcasting on Rumble, which has become popular with the far right and Donald Trump-supporting crowd. Their adoption of the venue has come following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, after which platforms like Google and DirecTV booted Russian programming off their services.”
The New York Times Company
The New York Times has won its first Oscar →
“The Op-Doc ‘The Queen of Basketball’ won the 2022 Academy Award in the Documentary Short Subject category.” This was the Times’ fifth Oscar nomination. (Another nontraditional competitor, Apple, won Best Picture.)
The Bluestocking / Helen Lewis
“The hardest challenge for journalism in the social media age is proportion.” →
“It's really, really hard to write about popular sentiment or received wisdom when Twitter in particular is such a distorting force.”
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