The Texas Tribune, trying to be less “Austin-centric,” will expand into regional coverage
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022
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The Texas Tribune, trying to be less "Austin-centric," will expand into regional coverage"What is being said in Austin may be different than what is being felt in Lufkin and in Lubbock.” By Sarah Scire. |
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A new magazine delves into the ways that people consume wrong informationOpenMind Magazine launched just a month ago, with a goal of “tackling science controversies and deceptions.” By Shraddha Chakradhar. |
What We’re Reading
Dame Magazine / Parker Molloy
Opinion journalism is broken →
“When media outlets don't hold their opinion writers to the same level of factual scrutiny that reporters are held to, their reputations, as well as the reputations of the industry as a whole, suffer. A well-written and well-argued opinion piece, on the other hand, can help readers get a fuller understanding of the world and a new appreciation for different perspectives.”
The Markup
The Markup appoints Stephen J. Adler as interim editor-in-chief; Julia Angwin becomes editor-at-large →
Angwin will “focus on writing and speaking about privacy, the threats to our democracy enabled by technology and the innovative journalistic techniques The Markup has pioneered for tech accountability.”
CNBC / Alex Sherman
CNN+ struggles to lure viewers in its early days, drawing fewer than 10,000 daily users →
And cuts are coming, Axios reported.
Poynter / Rick Edmonds
Top American newspaper and magazine trade associations have tentatively agreed to merge →
“Combinations of news associations have become common over the last decade. However, this is a particularly big one, at least symbolically.”
Washington Post Guild
Washington Post Guild releases a pay and diversity study showing that women and people of color are still paid less than their male and white colleagues →
“As of 2021, the median salary for Guild-covered women across the company was 13% lower than that for Guild-covered men….Though the company seems to be making a concerted effort to hire more people of color, it is not retaining them.”
Poynter / Dave Cantor
How Vox Media’s growth explains what happens when digital media companies combine →
“‘You used to have publishing houses that had TV stations as a separate arm…The arms and tentacles are changing, and it makes sense that some of these digital companies … are looking at what makes sense for their portfolio.’"
Associated Press / Michael Liedtke
Elon Musk accused of breaking law while buying Twitter stock →
“The complaint in New York federal court accuses Musk of violating a regulatory deadline to reveal he had accumulated a stake of at least 5%. Instead, according to the complaint, Musk didn't disclose his position in Twitter until he'd almost doubled his stake to more than 9%.”
The Washington Post / Will Oremus
TikTok created an alternate universe just for Russia →
“The Chinese-owned social media giant weathered Putin's information crackdown by muzzling its users there and cutting them off from the outside world, while allowing state propaganda.”
The New York Times / Tiffany Hsu
Substack’s growth spurt brings growing pains →
“The publishing platform's founders want Substack to be an ‘alternate universe on the internet.’ But it faces copycat rivals, an exodus by writers and a need to move beyond newsletters.”
Bitch Media
Bitch, the independent feminist outlet that started as “a stapled-together zine,” will cease all operations in June →
“Recent years have brought a multitude of challenges to our organization, and despite incredible effort, we have concluded that we are unable to sustainably continue creating the quality content that our readers and supporters expect.”
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