“News as a public utility”: Outlier Media and Detour Detroit are joining forces
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022
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“News as a public utility”: Outlier Media and Detour Detroit are joining forces“We’re going past the idea of thinking ‘How can we get someone to give $5 a month?’ and thinking, ‘How do we inspire people to action?'” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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Is “headline stress disorder” real? Yes, but those who thrive on the news often lose sight of it“[T]he question is not whether the problem is real, but how research might quantify and describe its true prevalence, and how to address the problem.” By Michael J. Socolow. |
What We’re Reading
Gawker / Tarpley Hitt
The editor-in-chief of Insider makes $600,000 (with a $600,000 bonus) →
“As recently as November, a spreadsheet listing the names, job titles, start dates, salaries, bonuses, and bonus award dates of 640 Insider employees — the entire editorial staff — had been sitting on the company's shared Google Drive, accessible to anyone with a company email.”
Narco Politics / Ioan Grillo
Who is really killing Mexican journalists? →
“It's also frustrating that with a largely dysfunctional justice system in Mexico, there is much we don't know about the murders. Most are unsolved and the ones that are officially solved often have dubious case files. Which makes it harder to answer the central question, ‘who is really killing Mexican journalists?'”
Telegram
The Washington Post launches a Telegram channel for news from Ukraine →
The New York Times launched a Telegram channel on Monday.
Washington Post / Mary Ilyushina, Adela Suliman, and Maite Fernández Simon
Russian journalist who crashed TV broadcast with antiwar message fined for inciting protests →
“Producer Marina Ovsyannikova has been found guilty of organizing an illegal protest and fined 30,000 rubles (about $280), although it's not clear if further charges will be pursued against her.”
The 19th / Chabeli Carrazana
Can making employers share pay in job postings help fix the gender pay gap? →
“Advocates believe pay transparency laws, and the framework of the new bills, could drive a push for federal legislation and amass enough data to create the first databases of gender pay disparities in the United States.”
The New York Times / Katie Robertson
Dozens of BuzzFeed employees claim they were illegally shortchanged in IPO →
“The company's stock price fell sharply in the days after it went public, and the group of employees say they were not able to sell their shares until the price had dropped by nearly 60 percent, or less than $5.” They’re asking for $4.6 million in compensatory damages.
The New York Times / Blake Hounshell and Leah Askarinam
How a Murdoch hopes to save American democracy →
“The daughter-in-law of Rupert Murdoch…Kathryn Murdoch has often found herself at odds with the conservative politics of her family's TV, print and radio empire. Murdoch, a registered independent who is American, spent years funding efforts to slow climate change, only to encounter political obstacles at nearly every turn. Her new focus is building a movement to reshape American democracy itself, and she has set a goal of mobilizing $100 million to do so over the 2020 and 2022 election cycles.”
AP / Lynn Elber
In Ukraine, female war reporters build on legacy of pioneers →
“Often women do have a different perspective on war, and for a long time that was not really at the forefront of a lot of coverage.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Tegan Wendland
The struggle to give stories away →
“I'm left wondering how, in an age of collaborative journalism in the US, the process itself remains so frustrating. How much staff time will we continue to squander emailing each other Google folders and reformatting Word docs or uploading audio files to different FTP servers?”
The New Republic / Jacob Bacharach
Why is David Leonhardt so happy?: A review of “The Morning” →
“The Morning…has an awkward record of making claims that prompt actual experts, usually beleaguered epidemiologists, to rush in with corrections.”
Digiday / Sara Guaglione
How the FT got to 1 million digital subscribers →
“We know we are going to see a big increase in audience around a big news event and we want to hold onto that audience. So the first thing to do is to manage the price effectively, so the price they pay when they come in won't lead to an enormous shock in 12 months when it comes to renewal. Otherwise, that's a surefire way to lose people.”
Washington Post / Jeremy Carr
Matthew Chance, one of CNN’s star Ukraine correspondents, gets a break →
“As a conflict that seemed abstract just a month ago metastasizes into its fourth week of full-fledged war with no end in sight, news organizations are assessing how to deploy staff for the round-the-clock demands of covering it.”
Los Angeles Times / Gustavo Arellano
For $5 a month, three East Hollywood residents want to change L.A. journalism →
“Making a Neighborhood” is a Substack newsletter that “posits East Hollywood, and especially Virgil Village — which is barely bigger than a square mile — as a case study in how communities rise, fall, and resist.” It’s by Samanta Helou Hernandez, a freelance journalist; Jimmy Recinos, a middle-school English teacher; and Ali Rachel Pearl, a postdoctoral fellow at USC.
The Verge / Nilay Patel
How WordPress and Tumblr are keeping the internet weird →
“That's what's cool about the web: We can live in a bubble and that can seem like the whole thing. One thing I would explicitly try to do in 2022 is make the web weirder.”
The Daily Beast / Justin Baragona
Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski killed in Ukraine →
“‘Pierre was a constant in all of our international coverage,’ Fox News president Jay Wallace said about Zakrzewski. ‘I, like countless others, always felt an extra sense of reassurance when arriving on the scene and seeing him with camera in hand. The legacy of his positive spirit, boundless energy, and eye for the story will carry on.'”
UnderPinned / Charlotte Colombo
How should journalists build their social media brand? →
"There's a big difference between being an expert on a subject you talk a lot about, and just selling yourself and your lifestyle. One is a smart move, the other isn't journalism."
The New York Times / Katie Robertson
Ben and Justin Smith name Gina Chua as executive editor at news startup →
"’I've been certainly thinking about the issues that they want to solve,’ [Chua] said, ‘this notion of an overburdened and undeserved audience and the importance of trying to find ways to get information to people, information they need, in a timely and not overwhelming manner.’"
The New York Times / Anton Troianovski
State TV editor Marina Ovsyannikova storms a live broadcast on Russia’s most-watched news show, yelling “Stop the war!” →
“The woman, Marina Ovsyannikova, worked for Channel 1, the state-run television channel whose news broadcast she stormed, according to a Russian rights group that is giving her legal support. The group also released a video in which Ms. Ovsyannikova says she is ‘deeply ashamed’ to have worked to produce ‘Kremlin propaganda.'”
Gawker / Tarpley Hitt
Insider reportedly told departing staff to stop sending mass goodbye emails →
“We ask that should you decide to leave Insider, you consider refraining from emailing the entire newsroom … keep in mind that the @editorial listserv goes out to nearly 700 people across several continents!”
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