Women journalists see harassment as part of the job, a new study finds
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Wednesday, May 4, 2022
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Women journalists see harassment as part of the job, a new study findsMale journalists face less harassment — and different types of it — but seem to see it as part of a job well done. By Shraddha Chakradhar. |
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Why researchers want broader access to social media dataWhat could journalists and social scientists shed light on if they had a better view of the digital world? By Teresa Carr. |
What We’re Reading
Columbia Journalism Review / Feven Merid
Haiti: Covering a chaotic nation, with deadly consequences →
“‘Haiti is a minefield,’ said Harold Isaac, a journalist based in Port-au-Prince who works for the Associated Press. ‘The minute you start reporting news, there are so many threats, because it casts light on people that don't necessarily enjoy that.'”
The Washington Post / Jeremy Barr and Elahe Izadi
The ruling or the leak? A battle to shape the media narrative on abortion →
“As conservative media and politicians tried to deflect the spotlight to the Supreme Court leak, other outlets weighed the impact of the draft ruling. Yet the mystery still beckoned.”
Jacobin / Branko Marcetic
PayPal “permanently limited” the accounts of two left-wing independent news outlets →
“Consortium News, founded by the late Associated Press investigative legend Robert Parry in 1995 as one of the web's very first independent, reader-funded news outlets, reported over the weekend that PayPal had ‘permanently limited’ its account, just as it was launching its Spring Fund Drive … A few days earlier, MintPress News, a left-wing web-based outlet based out of Minnesota, had been similarly informed by PayPal that it was banned from the company after a review allegedly turned up an unspecified ‘potential risk.'”
Twitter / M. Ryan Murphy
The New York Times Archives account on Twitter is no longer active →
“Sad news, @nytarchives on Twitter is retiring after eight years.”
Wired / Tom Simonite
Europe’s new law will force secretive TikTok to open up →
“The Digital Services Act will extract more new information from the young app than from older platforms like Facebook.”
The Guardian / Sirin Kale
“Everyone failed these young, Black girls”: Journalist Jim DeRogatis on his decades-long battle to expose R Kelly →
“The music critic began reporting on the star's abuse of Black women and girls back in 2000 – and he kept going for 20 years. Why were his revelations ignored for so long?”
CNN / Oliver Darcy
Positive cases of Covid-19 are rising among those at the White House Correspondents Dinner →
“In the days since WHCD weekend, reporters and staffers from CNN, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, Politico, and other participating news organizations have tested positive for the virus.”
The Cut / Angelina Chapin
Is she a bully or did she just work for The New York Post? →
“Depending on whom you ask, Gotthelf was either a strong female leader in a misogynistic shark tank or a perpetuator of a toxic newsroom culture.”
The New Yorker / Cal Newport
Our misguided obsession with Twitter →
“The social-media platform has become a spectacle driven by a narrow and unrepresentative group of élites.”
Wall Street Journal / Deepa Seetharaman
Social media startups take aim at Facebook. And Elon Musk. →
“‘The era of a few big winners is ending,’ said Eli Pariser, co-director of New Public, a nonprofit trying to create online spaces to foster healthy conversations. ‘Consumer tastes are changing. The one-size-fits-all approach — they're seeing how much that's breaking down.'”
The New York Times / Katie Robertson
The New York Times now has 9.1 million subscribers →
“The purchase of The Athletic helped the company get closer to its new subscriber goal, but the sports site lost $6.8 million over two months, eating into overall profits.”
The Fix / David Tvrdon
Czech news publishers are banding together to prepare for the cookieless future by developing a unified login system across major news sites →
“Czech Ad ID” will help replace the third-party cookies that Google Chrome plans to stop supporting. We wrote about a similar single sign-on system in Switzerland last year.
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