Votebeat will cover local election administration as a permanent newsroom
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Thursday, June 30, 2022
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Votebeat will cover local election administration as a permanent newsroom“How do you produce journalism that strengthens elections? That's the question that runs through my mind every day.” By Sarah Scire. |
What We’re Reading
Axios / Sara Fischer
Wired’s union threatens to strike on Amazon Prime Days (July 12 and 13) →
“We’ve been asking for exactly the same terms that the New Yorker writers got in their contract, but Condé Nast won’t even discuss this with us.”
Pew Research Center / Mark Jurkowitz and Jeffrey Gottfried
Twitter is the go-to social media site for U.S. journalists, but not for the public →
“Around seven-in-ten U.S. journalists (69%) say it is the social media site they use most or second most for their job. Twitter is followed by Facebook at 52%.”
Substack / Chris Mohney
What we talk about when we talk about people talking about people talking →
“The fact is, having now conducted, edited, and published hundreds of as-told-to and Q &A interviews, I've never had a single objection about journalistic accuracy or veracity from an interview subject about what they actually said.”
The Texas Tribune / Sewell Chan
Since 2005, Texas has lost more newspaper journalists per capita than all but two other states →
“Only California and New Jersey have lost more newspaper journalists, relative to population.”
Lenfest Institute for Journalism / Shawn Mooring
How The Lenfest Institute is measuring impact in the Philadelphia media ecosystem →
“Over the past year, we've developed a series of metrics we're measuring to track success, hold ourselves accountable, and share what we're learning with our partners and the broader community.”
Vox / Terry Nguyen
Brands want to be more than your friend. They want community. →
“The promise of community begins to feel disingenuous when what's described is little more than a euphemism for a targeted demographic of interested consumers.”
The New York Times / Jeremy W. Peters
First Amendment confrontation may loom in post-Roe fight →
“Let's say you're deliberately advertising in a Texas newspaper and say, ‘Would you like an abortion? Go to this New Mexico abortion clinic.’ Can Texas prohibit that?”
Broadcasting Cable / Michael Malone
CBS launches a joint investigation between news, stations, and streaming →
“It’s a way to really get underneath a story locally and nationally.”
Washington Post / Glenn Kessler
The fact-checking movement grapples with a world awash in false claims →
“A fact isolated from context, whether it's true or false, is almost meaningless. You have to explain it or tell it as part of a story.”
Nieman Reports / Karolis Vyšniauskas
“We should side with democracy”: Why the war in Ukraine is existential for Baltic journalists →
“Competition in the Baltic media is generally fierce. But a new trend has emerged: solidarity. Almost all major news channels across all three countries have changed their logos to blue and yellow — the colors of the Ukrainian flag.”
Washington Post / Aaron Gregg
The U.S. might try to ban TikTok. Again. →
A commissioner at the FCC is asking Google and Apple to remove TikTok from its app stores. “It is clear that TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk due to its extensive data being combined with Beijing's apparently unchecked access to that data.”
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