City Bureau gets $10 million to make public meetings more public
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Thursday, July 7, 2022
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City Bureau gets $10 million to make public meetings more publicDocumenters has already trained more than 1,700 people who’ve covered more than 2,300 public meetings. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
New York / Shawn McCreesh
Among the media billionaires in Sun Valley →
“The titans tolerate Ross Sorkin because he reminds them of their own sons, except he actually does what they tell him.”
Mediapost / Ray Schultz
Iowa couple buys Indianola Record-Herald from Gannett →
“Between the two of us, we worked at the Record-Herald for close to 50 years.”
Hold the Front Page / David Sharman
The U.K.’s last Saturday sports paper is closing, after 119 years →
“Sports Mail was previously closed down in October 2012 after 109 years, but returned nearly 10 months later after an ‘outpouring of emotion’ from readers.”
The Verge / Tom Warren
Twitter starts testing new CoTweets feature that lets two accounts co-author a tweet →
“Several Twitter users have been testing the CoTweets feature today, and the experience allows a main tweet author to invite someone else to be tagged in the tweet and discuss the contents over DM.”
Poynter / Rick Edmonds
A year after UNC’s journalism school lost Nikole Hannah-Jones, the fallout continues →
“Hannah-Jones has emphatically moved on … At UNC, though, the aftereffects linger. The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media has had its 64-year-old accreditation reduced to provisional, with two years to improve diversity and inclusion efforts, along with resolving some governance questions.”
The Guardian / Jane Martinson
Why did the Daily Mail support Boris Johnson long after his other press allies turned their backs? →
“Rather than the sort of splash headlines calling for heads to roll that are typical when the Mail's enemies in the judiciary or Labour party do something wrong, Wednesday's edition compared ‘Boris’ to a baby pig and asked if he could ‘wriggle’ his way out of a situation in which he'd been accused of lying to his parliamentary colleagues and the people.”
The Righting
Many U.S. conservative sites have seen massive traffic declines over the past year →
For instance, Breitbart’s unique visitors were down 64% in May 2022 compared to the previous year. Epoch Times, meanwhile, saw a big bump.
Poynter / Seth Smalley
Fact checker detained in India for allegedly inflaming religious strife →
“Alt News cofounder and editor Pratik Sinha called the arrest an ‘attempt to stop us from doing what we do.’ Sinha is facing unrelated legal attacks.”
Gallup
Americans are less confident in newspapers than they were a year ago, Gallup finds →
In 2021, 21% of Americans told Gallup they had “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in newspapers; in 2022, that figure is 15%.
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
The sad state of press freedom in Hong Kong after 25 years of Chinese rule →
“If the outlook is particularly bleak for local news organizations in Hong Kong, international outlets with a presence in the territory have not been immune to the deteriorating media climate.”
New York Times / Steven Lee Myers and Eileen Sullivan
Disinformation has become another untouchable problem in Washington →
“We're basically at this point unable to have a calm discussion about this problem. And there's a weird, circular, looping-around effect. The problem itself is helping make us unable to talk about the problem.”
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