More digital media companies want to go public. Can their newsrooms survive?
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Thursday, April 21, 2022
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More digital media companies want to go public. Can their newsrooms survive?“Investors can't force me to cut news, and the union can't force me to subsidize news,” BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti wrote in an email to employees. By Luke Winkie. |
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Yes, journalists show more (cognitive) bias on TwitterPlus: Why judges’ definitions of journalism matter, and how forgiveness offers a new way to think about news errors. By Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis. |
What We’re Reading
New York Times / Michael M. Grynbaum, John Koblin, and Benjamin Mullin
CNN+ is shutting down, effective April 30 →
It lasted a month.
Substack / Christopher Ingraham
When millionaires decide what’s news →
“His extreme wealth makes Kahn a conspicuous choice for a time when staggering wealth inequality is one of the greatest challenges facing the country.”
Bloomberg / Ashley Carman and Lucas Shaw
Obamas to leave Spotify, seek podcast deal elsewhere →
“Higher Ground is seeking a deal that will allow it to produce several shows and release them on multiple platforms at the same time.”
Poynter / Rick Edmonds
Houston gets an ambitious $20 million nonprofit news startup — details to follow →
“Investigative and accountability journalism will be in the mix but not dominant. ‘We're not ProPublica,’ I was told. Doings at an undercovered school district or a big community fair — smaller news that now slips through the cracks — will be part of the mission.”
The Guardian / Fleur Britten
Vogue Russia closes as Condé Nast stops publishing after “rise in censorship” →
“While we've had a successful business in Russia for over 20 years, the continued atrocities brought on by this unprovoked war and the related censorship laws have made it impossible for us to continue operating there.”
INNsights / Katie Hawkins-Gaar
“We are in a really dire moment”: How three environmental newsroom leaders find peace and purpose →
“Reporting offers me a place to locate all of this energy — this intensity — this desire to be some small part of the solution.”
Digiday / Sara Guaglione
Inside the relaunch of The Economist’s subscription mobile app →
“We think it's important that we have a better gender balance and a younger reader as we plan for the future.”
Mediapost / Tony Silber
Martha Stewart Living ends 32-year run in print →
“The title is the seventh Meredith magazine this year to be shifted to online-only format. It joins six of the industry's noteworthy titles that made the pivot in February: EatingWell, Entertainment Weekly, Health, InStyle, Parents and People en Español.”
Substack / James Fallows
Two new possibilities for The New York Times →
“[The] lack of a public editor is a real problem…Please, new regime: Do a favor for yourself, and the audience, by looking seriously into re-creating the job, or something like it.”
The Marshall Project
Jim Crutchfield named editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project’s first local news team in Cleveland →
“The Cleveland news team is the first of several planned as The Marshall Project seeks to amplify local accountability and criminal justice journalism in communities across the country.”
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