Why won’t some people pay for news?
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Thursday, May 19, 2022
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Why won’t some people pay for news?Plus: The role of class in news avoidance, how local party leaders use partisan media, and what native advertising studios say to sell their work. By Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis. |
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How corporate takeovers are fundamentally changing podcasting“One of the recent shifts in podcasting has been the introduction of paywalls and exclusive content. It has since become a standard feature of the medium.” By John Sullivan. |
What We’re Reading
Current / Leigh Giangreco
Host fired by South Dakota Public Broadcasting appeals dismissal →
“Stel Kline, who identifies as transgender and uses they/them pronouns, relocated to Vermillion, S.D., last October to host statewide broadcasts of NPR's newsmagazine. Six months later, they are challenging their dismissal over issues of objectivity and social media use.”
The Guardian / Dani Anguiano
Facebook failed to stop Spanish language anti-abortion disinformation →
“Researchers found that several of the pages ‘repeatedly spread medically inaccurate information about abortion without any action from Facebook’, highlighting what experts have described as a crisis of Spanish-language misinformation that's slipping through the cracks.”
The Pivot Fund / K. Anoa Monsho
“We lost a powerful voice”: Buffalo Massacre kills citizen journalist and activist Katherine Massey →
“‘What writers like Kat Massey do is show that journalists are people who are a part of the community; they help build the fabric. It’s a real loss.'”
The Washington Post / Naomi Nix
The midterms are here. Critics say Facebook is already behind. →
“Civic groups are calling on the company to ramp up enforcement against the ‘big lie,’ saying the social media giant isn't ready.”
Axios / Sara Fischer
Campbell Brown to oversee new media partnerships team at Meta →
“In her new role, Brown will oversee a team that manages partnerships with sports leagues, film studios, broadcasters, streamers, digital media companies and news publishers across all of Meta’s products.”
Teen Vogue / Elizabeth Djinis
Can social media companies actually get people to vote? →
“Snapchat and Facebook talk a big game around voting, but do these efforts actually get people to vote?”
Substack / Richard J. Tofel
Thinking through two Pulitzer controversies →
“The Times’s Stalin problem and whether to use the Pulitzer carrot as a diversity stick.”
The New York Times / Ryan Mac, Kellen Browning and Sheera Frenkel
The enduring afterlife of a mass shooting’s livestream online →
“Dozens of recordings of a 2019 massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand, remain online, in a sobering reminder of the internet's permanence.”
The Verge / Russell Brandom
Twitter has a new “crisis misinformation policy” →
“Under the new policy, tweets classified as misinformation will not necessarily be deleted or banned; instead, Twitter will add a warning label requiring users to click a button before the tweet can be displayed (similar to the existing labels for explicit imagery). The tweets will also be blocked from algorithmic promotion.”
Nieman Reports / Nieman Reports
“Do not forget Afghanistan:” Rukhshana Media’s Zahra Joya on Afghanistan’s media landscape and more →
“At Rukhshana Media, we want to tell what it means to lose not only your rights, your job, but also your social identity. We do not simply do journalism these days: We are also covering the laws of our own rights, of our own freedoms. It is hard and painful.”
The Washington Post / Jeremy Barr
Pete Williams to retire from NBC News after epic Washington career →
“A former Pentagon spokesman, Williams made the unusual move 29 years ago to return to hard-news reporting. Many historic scoops followed.”
The New Yorker / Masha Gessen
Inside Putin’s propaganda machine →
“Current and former employees describe Russian state television as an army, one with a few generals and many foot soldiers who never question their orders.”
Poynter / Tom Jones
Media must continue to fight against the Big Lie →
“This is a battle over the bedrock of our democracy. Those who lie simply because they don't like the outcomes of certain elections must be exposed.”
Vanity Fair / Joe Pompeo
“Our mandate was to take the biggest possible swings”: With the wind out of its sails, a battered BuzzFeed News forges on →
“The site's prized investigations unit is disbanding and dropping its last bombshells—’a triumphal exit,’ says the team's editor—as a scaled-back news division narrows its search for an editor in chief.”
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