Hype is a weaponized form of optimism
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Wednesday, June 29, 2022
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Hype is a weaponized form of optimismWant to know the true value of AI, NFTs, and other much-touted technologies? Ignore the news and look at the harsh judgment of the market. By Lee Vinsel Jeffrey Funk. |
What We’re Reading
New York Times / Adlan Jackson
The accidental media critics of YouTube →
“They are highlighting just how desperately a generation needs and wants critical coverage of what it is seeing.”
New York Times / Benjamin Mullin
Substack is laying off 14% of its staff →
“The cuts are a blow to a company that has said it was opening up a new era of media.”
Poynter / Amaris Castillo
It’s intern season. Here's how to run an awesome internship program. →
“Give them meaningful assignments. At the Tulsa World, interns are called summer journalists, and they help cover major stories. They also develop a 10-week enterprise project. ‘As I tell them in our first meeting, you're in the big leagues now. You're one of us.'”
Press Gazette / Bron Maher
These are the biggest English-language news outlets on YouTube →
Press Gazette also took a look at each publisher’s most-viewed video. “The most-viewed at Vice is its famous inside look at the Islamic State. Right-leaning Sky News Australia’s is an investigation into ‘what really happened’ at a virology lab in Wuhan, China. ITV News’ is a debunk, The Sun’s is a piece of viral content and the Mail’s is the kind of celebrity voyeurism beloved by departed Mail Online editor Martin Clarke.”
The Journalist / Clark Merrefield
Should news outlets show graphic images of mass shooting victims? 12 experts weigh in. →
The question at issue is almost certainly ethical rather than legal in the U.S. One expert said if an event is newsworthy enough to cover in text, it is newsworthy enough to cover in images, even if those images are more graphic than news audiences are used to seeing.
Washington Post / Margaret Sullivan
Every week, two more newspapers close — and “news deserts” grow larger →
“One-third of American newspapers that existed roughly two decades ago will be out of business by 2025 … Already, some 2,500 dailies and weeklies have shuttered since 2005; there are fewer than 6,500 left.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Adam Piore
Punchbowl, the insidery D.C. newsletter, has at least 3,000 paid subscribers and five reporters on staff →
“Few journalists are better at serving up scooplets than [Jake] Sherman and his longtime writing partner Anna Palmer, who started Punchbowl together last year. It is a newsletter that may telegraph the particular interests, excesses, and contradictions of Washington better than any other publication.”
Axios / Nathan Bomey
Maria Ressa says Philippines government has ordered Rappler to close →
Axios editor-in-chief Sara Kehaulani Goo noted, “This means that six months after two journalists shared the Nobel Peace Prize, one has shut down his news operation (Russia) and a second has been ordered to do so (Philippines).”
Gawker / Tarpley Hitt
Should the writer of New York mag’s “Canceled at 17” cover story have disclosed her children were attending the same school? →
“If anything, an honest accounting of her personal connection and the attendant emotions might have strengthened her story. But New York was faced with an editorial conundrum: Being frank about Weil's involvement in the story would risk subjecting its underage sources to public scrutiny. It would have also revealed the piece for what it was: a personal, and by extension, particular, story — not, as it purported to be, a sweeping parable of the times.”
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