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Monday, June 27, 2022
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The Tributary, covering Florida’s largest city, will be a worker-directed nonprofitStaffers will take part in making collective decisions about the organization, from hiring and compensation to developing the budget, along with their journalistic work. By Hanaa' Tameez. |
What We’re Reading
CNN / Ariane de Vogue
The Supreme Court has declined to revisit New York Times v. Sullivan, leaving the higher bar for libeling public figures in place →
Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch have both expressed interest in weakening or eliminating the “actual malice” standard, which would make it much easier for news subjects to sue publishers for libel.
Press Gazette / William Turvill
There only 9 U.S. newspapers that still sell 100,000 print copies a day →
The nationals (Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post), the New York Post, and the metro dailies in L.A., Chicago, Minneapolis, and Tampa Bay.
Nieman Reports / Javier Garza Ramos
What American gun violence looks like to reporters who have to deal with a very different kind of threat →
“The massacre in Uvalde, Texas this May, where 21 people died, shot by an 18-year-old with two assault rifles, was not a surprise after scores of shootings in the United States that apparently have no motive. The media in Latin America covers these events intensely, mystified by the lack of explanation as to why they happen mostly in the United States.”
South China Morning Post / Tracy Qu
China is increasing its censorship of live-streaming video →
“The 31 banned behaviours during live-streaming sessions include publishing content that weakens or distorts the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, the socialist system or the country's reforms and opening-up.”
Scientific American / Jenna Sherman
Is there any medical procedure subject to more misinformation than abortion? →
“This is the bleak future for science-based reproductive health decisions; the highest volume of online searches about abortion are in the states with the most restricted access. Even a change in local policies on abortion in the U.S. is associated with more attempts to find abortion information online.”
The Washington Post / Taylor Lorenz
The trans star who delivers news to a legion of LGBTQ teens on Twitch →
“Canadian Clara Sorrenti, known as Keffals online, has amassed over 3,000 subscribers as of May, who pay $4.99 per month to support her streams…Her stream is one of the few media outlets where viewers can hear the news from a trans person.”
TV News Check / Mark Miller
Too much sponsored content has helped fuel a staff exodus at a New Jersey TV station →
“An increase in sponsored content during news programs in the past two years has hindered the ability of News 12 New Jersey producers to deliver impactful stories to the community, sources say. There's no longer as much time in a given newscast to do so. Some believe the channel's managers have also taken steps to present sponsored content while framing it as news.”
The Washington Post / Sarah Ellison, Jacqueline Alemany, and Josh Dawsey
How TV production values have changed the Jan. 6 hearings →
“…a subtle stagecraft has lent the hearings an unexpected momentum and pull that has drawn in many viewers…Committee members have even deployed some of the tropes of episodic drama to help viewers follow the intricate storyline: flashbacks, flash-forwards, repetition of key scenes, even previews of coming attractions.”
The Guardian / Sum Lok-kei
A year after Apple Daily was shut down, what’s left of Hong Kong’s free press? →
“Now, even though the newspaper no longer appears on newsstands, seven Apple Daily executives remain behind bars…Apple Daily's demise was swiftly followed by the closure of other prominent local media outlets, in a shake-up that left an estimated 1,000 journalists and media workers out of work, and has had a chilling effect on press freedom in Hong Kong.”
Bloomberg / Davey Alba
Facebook’s slow-motion killing of CrowdTangle worries disinformation researchers →
“In February, Meta started an official internal process to shut down CrowdTangle…CrowdTangle became a tool not just for insight into social media strategy, but manipulation…Executives could no longer stomach supporting a feature that resulted in so many public relations crises for Meta.”
Los Angeles Times / Kevin Rector
Los Angeles police are still shoving journalists around at protests →
“Over the course of several hours [at weekend abortion-rights protests], LAPD officers repeatedly ignored recently expanded protections established for journalists covering protests in the state and used physical force to remove them from areas where they had a right to be, journalists said.”
CNBC / Alex Sherman
Can media companies weather a recession? Executives say they’re in stronger shape this time →
“I don't know if that's because most of you are out for the first time in a long time or because we're in the south of France in June, but no, it doesn't feel like a down market.”
The Wall Street Journal / Megan Graham
Digital advertising companies want to reduce the industry’s carbon footprint →
“It's difficult to calculate the precise amount of electricity that online advertising consumes. But according to a study on the topic released in 2018, roughly 10% of the energy usage of the internet comes from online ads, an estimate the researchers say was based on conservative assumptions.”
CNN / Brian Stelter
SCOTUSblog loses about $400,000 a year and is run as a “public service” →
“The site was founded by Tom Goldstein and Amy Howe, a husband and wife team who care deeply about the judicial branch…[Goldstein] has mulled a subscription model, but said ‘I just don’t see the people we most want to educate deciding to pay.'”
ITV News
A documentary is being made about the life and death of Northern Ireland journalist Lyra McKee →
“Ms McKee, 29, was murdered while observing riots in the Creggan area on April 18, with an extremist group styling itself as the New IRA previously claiming responsibility.”
The Wall Street Journal / Patience Haggin
Netflix confirms it’s looking for someone else to sell the ads on its new, cheaper service →
“Co-Chief Executive Ted Sarandos confirmed that the streaming company is speaking to multiple potential partners to help it enter the advertising business, telling an industry conference that it may build its own ad business in the future…[Netflix wants] to design an ad experience that would be ‘more integrated and less interruptive’ than traditional TV advertising.”
The New York Times / Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t seem to care as much about protecting elections these days →
“The core election team at Facebook, which was renamed Meta last year, has since been dispersed…Safeguarding elections is no longer Mr. Zuckerberg's top concern, said four Meta employees with knowledge of the situation. Instead, he is focused on transforming his company into a provider of the immersive world of the metaverse, which he sees as the next frontier of growth, said the people, who were not authorized to speak publicly.”
The Guardian / Haroon Siddique
Arron Banks will be allowed to appeal the libel case he lost against Carole Cadwalladr →
“Banks, who funded the pro-Brexit Leave.EU campaign group, raised five grounds on which he said Mrs Justice Steyn had made a wrong decision in her judgment relating to comments Cadwalladr made about him in a Ted talk and a tweet, both in 2019.”
The Guardian / Adam Gabbatt
Group aims to strip Fox News of ad revenue over “fueling next insurrection” →
“Check My Ads, an organization run by two former marketing executives, launched its campaign to target Fox News in early June…More than 40,000 people signed up in the first five days, forming an increasingly powerful lobbying group which aims to get ad exchanges to drop Foxnews.com.”
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