For print newspapers, one Florida retirement community is a better market than Atlanta, St. Louis, or Portland
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Tuesday, June 28, 2022
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For print newspapers, one Florida retirement community is a better market than Atlanta, St. Louis, or PortlandFor local newspapers, print circulation has collapsed for every audience except retirees. That’s why the daily paper in The Villages, Florida (metro population 129,752) prints as many copies as the one in Atlanta (metro population 6,930,423). By Joshua Benton. |
What We’re Reading
Poynter / Alex Sujong Laughlin
It’s possible to be a journalist and a human →
“Performing objectivity is outdated, and if we want to preserve public trust in media institutions, the best thing we can do is to tell the truth.”
Intelligencer / Jen Wieczner
The BuzzFeed SPAC fiasco is only getting worse →
Some ex-employees, it turns out, were able to trade while others could only watch the shares plummet.
The Washington Post / Arelis R. Hernández and Paul Farhi
Reporters went to Texas to tell the story of the Robb Elementary School massacre. But police see them as enemies. →
“Journalists have been threatened with arrest for ‘trespassing’ outside public buildings. They have been barred from public meetings and refused basic information about what police did during the May 24 attack. After several early, error-filled news conferences, officials have routinely turned down interview requests and refused to hold news briefings. The situation has been made even more fraught by the spider's web of local and state agencies involved in responding to and investigating the shooting, some of which now blame each other for the chaos.”
Hot Pod / Ariel Shapiro
Slate is buying billboard ads to promote Slow Burn in states with trigger laws →
“Slate is launching a provocative new campaign to promote its latest season of Slow Burn, which tells the story of Shirley Wheeler, the first woman convicted of manslaughter for getting an abortion. The outlet has placed billboards in states that now have some of the strictest abortion laws in the country urging passersby to ‘Defend Shirley Wheeler.’"
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
Ukraine fatigue, and what the press can – and can’t – do about it →
“Total Western media attention to the Ukraine war hasn't proportionately tracked the changing severity of the situation over time, declining recently even as Ukraine has taken some sharp losses—but the frantic pace of the early coverage was never realistically going to prove sustainable. And, while the press is certainly important in marshaling ongoing public attention, it cannot do so alone.”
Reuters / Krishna N. Das
Police arrested a Muslim journalist in New Delhi over his tweets →
“Mohammed Zubair, who co-founded Alt News and regularly tweets on rising marginalization of the Muslim minority in the country, was arrested under two sections of a law related to maintaining religious harmony.”
Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism
Graciela Mochkofsky is the new dean of the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY →
"The news media industry is in the midst of an existential crisis, fragmented and filled with inequity — local and community media, in particular, struggling to survive — with record levels of public mistrust and a growing generational rebellion against old journalistic paradigms," Mochkofsky, a 2009 Nieman Fellow, said. "A journalism school has an incredibly important role to play in the midst of this crisis, and the Newmark J-School, which I have had the honor to call my home for the past six years, is uniquely positioned to lead the conversation about the ways forward."
NBC News / Anuz Thapa
Ethnic media was devastated by Covid. Now publishers are struggling to self-fund. →
“While the pandemic has dealt a blow to the entire journalism industry — more than 100 local newsrooms have closed since — it's been especially tough on small, ethnic news outlets that may not have the resources to stay afloat. Of the four Nepalese newspapers in New York City — Vishwa Sandesh; Everest Times, a biweekly; Khasokhas, a weekly; and Nepalaya, a biweekly — all have been forced to close their print editions and turn entirely digital.”
Variety / Todd Spangler
Roku is adding eight free local NBC News channels →
“By adding NBC's local news channels, Roku is furthering its goal of becoming the one-stop-shop for cord-cutters.”
CNET / Oscar Gonzalez
Twitch and YouTube debaters are talking people out of dangerous conspiracy theories →
“These debate streamers are having success converting people, like Argenti, by employing logic, humor and compassion to create connections with people holding extreme views…They’ve become an informal part of an alliance of fact-checkers and researchers who are fighting to promote facts about COVID-19, election security and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”
Motherboard / Joseph Cox
Facebook is banning people who say they will mail abortion pills →
“…On Friday a Motherboard reporter attempted to post the phrase ‘abortion pills can be mailed’ on Facebook using a burner account. The post was flagged within seconds as violating the site’s community standards, specifically the rules against buying, selling, or exchanging medical or non-medical drugs.”
The Verge / Russell Brandom
The biggest privacy risks in post-Roe America →
“The Verge talked to experts about where they see the greatest privacy vulnerabilities for people seeking abortions in a post-Roe United States — and how people can protect their information.”
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