“Think carefully before you quote-tweet”: The Guardian releases new social media guidelines for staff
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Thursday, May 5, 2022
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“Think carefully before you quote-tweet”: The Guardian releases new social media guidelines for staff“We strongly encourage staff to regularly delete historical tweets and other social posts.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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“Help is really available”: The International Women’s Media Foundation’s Nadine Hoffman on resources for addressing online violence"It has to be something that every level of the news organization is on board with and is taking seriously." By Curtis Yee. |
What We’re Reading
The Atlantic / James Parker
A late-night show for Red America →
“In the counterworld of Gutfeld!, there is no eclipse of the republic, no fascist sludge on the rise, no QAnon nibbling at the roots of reason, and barely any racism — or at least not as much as everybody says there is. There are only regular, Gladiator-loving, cow-eating Americans, and the venomous wokery that seeks constantly to bum them out.”
Wall Street Journal / Suzanne Vranica
Digital-advertising giants are coming back to earth after pandemic boom →
“A round of tech earnings last week made it starkly clear that the Covid-led surge in digital advertising has begun to ease.”
Washington Post / Margaret Sullivan
The media fell for “pro-life” rhetoric — and helped create this mess →
“When journalists agreed to accept terms such as ‘pro-life’ to describe those who oppose abortion, they implicitly agreed to help stigmatize those who support it. After all, what's the rhetorical opposite of ‘pro-life’?”
RTDNA
More than 1 in 5 TV news directors say their journalists were attacked in 2021 →
“The bigger the market, the more likely that there have been attacks, with nearly a third of news directors in top 25 markets reporting attacks.”
Better News / Michael Feeley, Brittany Horn, Audrey Harvin, and Michael Kilian
How Gannett sites embraced a whole-community approach to public safety stories” →
“Our newsrooms were accustomed to rewriting press releases from police and prosecutors' offices, with no context, offering no input from victims, families or community members.”
Reuters
EU to ban three Russian state-owned broadcasters →
“The European Union will ban three Russian state-owned broadcasters as part of a sixth sanctions package over Moscow’s war in Ukraine, the bloc’s chief executive said on Wednesday.”
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