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Thursday, May 26, 2022
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What We’re Reading
HuffPost / Monica Torres
The worst thing you can do at work after another mass shooting is nothing →
"You can't do 'business as usual' after a tragic event, which is something that many employers do and fail to prioritize the needs of their staff during such a difficult time," said Katheryn Perez, a California-based psychotherapist. "The needs and humanity of your staff should take priority over anything."
The Washington Post / Paul Farhi and Elahe Izadi
Another gun massacre, the same grim news story →
"Every single time, there is an urgent need to represent the loss in those communities and to hear the stories of the victims' families and the outrage, but it has become this painful routine that is just excruciating," [NPR host Rachel Martin ] said, and paused, holding back tears. "It's hideous."
The New Voice of Ukraine / Veronika Melkozerova
Russia has killed nearly 30 journalists in Ukraine in three months →
“Russian aggression against Ukraine has also caused damage to Ukraine's journalism industry as a whole – at least 113 regional media outlets have been forced to shut down due to threats from Russian invaders, the seizure of editorial offices, and the inability to work under conditions of occupation, etc.”
The Fine Print NYC / Andrew Fedorov
How The New Yorker’s Ukraine war reporting reaches Russians →
"I don't know what I really learned from that experience — perhaps the futility of arguing with people in Instagram comments," [contributing writer Joshua Yaffa] added. "But it was an indication that there was and is an interest in the conversation around this kind of reporting among Russian speaking audiences who are interested in the war, and for the most part, the people who seem to be reading my stuff, whether it's these Instagram posts or on Mediazona, are horrified by it."
Columbia Journalism Review / Mathew Ingram
Facebook’s new data-sharing plans raise old concerns →
“Some [researchers] say they have spent years trying to get Meta to provide even the smallest amount of useful information for research purposes, but even when the company does so, the data is either incomplete—Meta admitted last year that it provided researchers with faulty data, omitting about 40 percent of its user base—or the restrictions placed on its usage are too onerous. In either case, researchers say the resulting research is almost useless.”
Global Investigative Journalism Network / Santiago Villa
How three journalists covered one of the world’s most dangerous border crossings →
“Nadja Drost, along with video and photojournalists Bruno Federico and Carlos Villalón, joined one group of migrants on foot, following the same perilous path many others have taken, sleeping in hammocks, protected from the rain with just a tent, and guided by a local smuggler.”
Apnews / Bassem Mroue
Lebanese general renews mediation over missing American journalist Austin Tice →
“Nizar Zakka, President of the U.S.-based Hostage Aid Worldwide, told The Associated Press by telephone that Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim was discussing the fate of six Americans held in the Middle East, but that the "primary objective" of his mission is journalist Austin Tice who went missing near the Syrian capital of Damascus a decade ago.”
Press Gazette / William Turvill
Why The Washington Post is opening a permanent bureau in Ukraine →
"However long the war itself lasts, there are going to be ramifications for this," [bureau chief Isabelle Khurshudyan] tells Press Gazette. "Whether it's for people, whether it's for Nato security going forward, European security, US security – the whole kind of world order changed the second Russia invaded on 24 February.”
Cape Gazette
The Delaware Journalism Collaborative will launch to address community polarization →
“For its first two years, the collaborative will focus on uniting Delaware communities driven apart by polarization. The DJC will apply a solutions journalism approach focused on identifying challenges and working to address them.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
A massacre in Uvalde, and the “numbing script” of gun-violence coverage →
“Each tragedy is new in important ways, too—not least in terms of the different individual victims snatched away. We owe it to them to break the cycle, a universal truism in the aftermath of shootings, but one imbued each time with the fresh moral force of lost lives.”
Poynter / Angela Fu
Here’s why the BuzzFeed News Union’s contract includes protections from ghosts →
“While the inclusion of ghosts was a joke, Baird said it was important that the union include in its contract protections that might seem ‘ridiculous on paper.’ They needed to account for worst-case scenarios like layoffs despite BuzzFeed's insistence that the staff trust that the company had the newsroom's best interests at heart.”
Reuters
Russia says Western reporters will be expelled if YouTube blocks more foreign ministry briefings →
“Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, who holds a weekly briefing on Russian foreign policy, including the country’s military intervention in Ukraine, said the foreign ministry had warned YouTube against blocking her content. “We just came and told them: ‘You block another briefing, one journalist or American media outlet goes home,'” TASS news agency quoted her as saying.”
TechCrunch / Taylor Hatmaker
Jack Dorsey steps down from Twitter’s board →
“While this particular change doesn't come as a surprise, Twitter is still entering an unknown phase without the at times enigmatic leader who steered it as CEO during two different periods, shaped its policies during the political chaos of the Trump administration and ultimately signed off on Musk's bid to take to the company private.”
BBC
Read the BBC’s plan to deliver “a digital first BBC.” (It involves cutting several channels and 1,000 jobs.) →
The BBC will shift “significant amounts of money into new programmes for iPlayer” and put savings from cuts in broadcast news toward video and digital news.
Decision Desk HQ / Drew McCoy
Decision Desk HQ called an election before polls closed →
“No one likes making mistakes. We're no different. When we do we need to acknowledge them and take responsibility.”
Variety / Todd Spangler
After the Texas school shooting that left 19 children and two adults dead, The Onion posted 21 stories with the same damning headline →
“‘No Way to Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens”
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