Another language, another alphabet: Polish media adds Ukrainian sections amid war
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Thursday, May 12, 2022
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Another language, another alphabet: Polish media adds Ukrainian sections amid warPoland, which has taken in more Ukrainian refugees than any other country, is launching news products for them. By Lydia Tomkiw. |
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As grisly images spread from Ukraine, open-source researchers ask what's too gory to share“With the rise of Telegram, graphic imagery has proliferated in the world of open-source intelligence. Does it serve a purpose?” By Leo Schwartz. |
What We’re Reading
New York Times / Susan Dominus
When a reporter is lost without translation →
“During interviews, the translator is standing in for the reporter, trying to channel not just the reporter's words but approach — the pauses, emphases, and corny tension-breaking jokes, whatever emotion might be felt with a sensitive question.”
Center for Journalism & Liberty / Nikki Usher and Jody Brannon
As local news suffers, local health departments find themselves with little choice but to rely on Facebook →
Interviews with public health officials representing 29 nonurban Illinois counties raised questions about relying on a private, largely unregulated for-profit corporation to deliver essential health messages.
Columbia University
Zeynep Tufekci will be the inaugural director of a new center for journalism ethics and security at Columbia University →
Tufekci, a sociologist as well as a columnist at The New York Times, will start at The Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security this summer.
Mediaite / Jackson Richman
A Pentagon spokesman praised Pulitzer-winning coverage critical of U.S. airstrikes →
“I cannot say that this process was pleasant. But I guess that's the whole point. It's not supposed to be. That's what a free press at its very best does, it holds us to account and makes us think even as it informs.”
Substack / Richard J. Tofel
What to make of the retreat of BuzzFeed News →
“[BuzzFeed News’] top three editors resigned, a fourth having headed out the door just a few days earlier. It offered buyouts to everyone in its excellent Investigative, Politics, Science and Inequality groups. That includes everyone left from the work that won BuzzFeed News its first Pulitzer just eleven months ago.”
The Texas Tribune / Andrew Zhang
A law prohibiting social media companies from banning users over their viewpoints is moving forward in Texas →
“The decision hands a win to Republicans who have long criticized social media platforms such as Twitter for what they call anti-conservative bias … Two large industry trade groups that represent companies such as Google and Twitter sued to block the law last fall.”
Time / Lisa Abend
Olga Rudenko, editor-in-chief of the Kyiv Independent, on the cover of Time →
"If I need to do a presentation in front of 20 people, it freaks me out. But an audience of 2 million on Twitter does not. Both the war, and running the team—when the challenge is so big and so important, it's like something arises in you; a coping mechanism, or some inner force that you didn't know you had."
Substack / Dan Stone
The proportion of multi-bylined articles at The New York Times has skyrocketed in recent years →
The number of multi-bylined articles has doubled since 2016, quadrupled since 2009, and octupled since 2001. Back in 2003, “the revelation that Times reporter Rick Bragg had relied almost entirely on an intern's reporting in articles appearing under his byline led to his resignation.”
New York Times / Katie Robertson and Benjamin Mullin
Bloomberg aims to compete directly with British press →
“Bloomberg UK will include a website, a weekly Bloomberg Quicktake video series profiling British newsmakers, a podcast about the City of London and a summit this year on the future of British business. Bloomberg has been in the British market for three decades, but the new venture is a targeted approach to an untapped audience of at least seven million in the ‘professional, affluent space,’ said M. Scott Havens, the chief executive of Bloomberg Media.”
Vanity Fair / Charlotte Klein
With the Supreme Court poised to eliminate a constitutional right, some newsroom managers are telling journalists to keep their abortion views to themselves →
“With the Supreme Court poised to obliterate reproductive rights that most Americans have had all their lives, news organizations, including newer ones such as Axios and Vox.com, are mostly falling back on well-established ground rules. NPR and The Associated Press were among the newsrooms that issued all-staff memos last Tuesday morning, hours after the SCOTUS draft leak was publicized.”
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