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Tuesday, July 26, 2022
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Maybe don’t illustrate your stories about lethally hot weather with fun beach picsNew research finds the visuals of heat-wave news coverage are more likely to put a positive spin on extreme heat than the articles themselves. By Sarah Scire. |
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How the wealthiest 0.1% view the media (and why it matters)Plus: A more nuanced picture of misinformation on less-moderated platforms like Telegram, and a strategy for how journalists can transform “fake news” attacks into teaching moments for news literacy. By Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis. |
What We’re Reading
Vanity Fair / Charlotte Klein
Will Republicans shut out the press in 2024? →
“GOP politicians are increasingly shirking sit-down interviews, barring journalists from 2022 events, and skipping debates — an aversion to media scrutiny that could upend how the next presidential election cycle is covered.”
Politico Magazine / Joseph Gedeon
“She’s a human being who was killed in cold blood”: Shireen Abu Akleh’s family demands U.S. action →
“We're hoping for a stronger stand for a U.S. citizen, a prominent journalist killed by an Israeli sniper,” Anton Abu Akleh, Shireen's brother, said. “We're disappointed and we hope that there will be a real, independent investigation. A thorough and credible investigation opened by the U.S. government for the killing of Shireen who was also a Palestinian but an American as well. You know, this puts every American in danger if no action is taken and there is no accountability.”
Motherboard / Emanuel Maiberg and Jason Koebler
Instagram admits it’s “not good’ after Kardashians beg it to stop copying TikTok →
“Facebook, Instagram, and Mosseri are in a predicament. The app that he ran before these changes sucked. The app that he's running with these new features implemented also sucks. Every social media company in the world is trying to copy TikTok because it's new, popular, and novel, but TikTok also sucks in some familiar ways, and will surely suck in novel and horrible ways we'll discover soon enough. What is a CEO to do?”
The Daily Beast / Lachlan Cartwright
Inside The New Yorker’s flame war with the editor it just fired →
"I do feel like this is a concentrated effort to target someone who wouldn't shut up about certain issues that the magazine wanted them to shut up about," Overbey told Confider.
CoinDesk / Danny Nelson
Binance CEO is suing Bloomberg’s Hong Kong partner for defamation →
“Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao on Monday filed a lawsuit against Bloomberg Businessweek's Hong Kong publisher Modern Media CL claiming defamation over a translated Chinese language article title that portrayed the crypto exchange chief as running a ‘Ponzi scheme.’"
The Washington Post / Erik Wemple
“Wake me up when Sean Hannity editorializes against Trump” →
“Under the ineffable laws of media distribution, the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal can write editorials zinging Trump without causing much, if any, harm to their respective business models. The same doesn't hold true for the opinion hours on Fox News, where unleashing the sort of logic deployed in Friday's editorials would likely spark viewer revolts and a scramble for competing channels willing to indulge Trump's fantasies.”
The Verge / Alex Heath
Zuckerberg has a plan to rescue Meta, but can he convince his own employees? →
“Changing the company's culture might require rebuilding it, even as he also tries to rebuild its business. The task will be monumental — arguably the biggest challenge in the company's history. Zuckerberg is up for it. It's unclear if the rest of Meta will be, too.”
Inside the News in Colorado / Corey Hutchins
In rural Colorado, the Crestone Eagle newspaper transitions to a nonprofit →
“As the paper's longtime leader, Kizzen Laki, was looking to retire, a group of locals banded together to form a group called Crestone Eagle Community Media (CECM), raised money, rallied the community, and wrangled support to sustain the paper as an independent news organization.”
Intelligencer / David Freedlander
Why Republicans stopped talking to the press →
“This view — that approval from the mainstream press isn't just unnecessary but actually suspect — is one that has come to dominate GOP politics in the Trump era. And while railing against the so-called liberal media has long been a part of the Republican playbook, more than a dozen GOP campaign operatives, senior Hill aides, and political reporters from major news outlets say the past few years have brought something new: actively courting the media's scorn while avoiding anything that may be viewed as consorting with the enemy.”
Axios / Sara Fischer
Investment firm Cuadrilla Capital buys Chartbeat →
“The deal will give Chartbeat the capital it needs to scale its business beyond providing traffic analytics for publishers on the editorial side. Chartbeat’s long-term vision is to build a suite of products that help media companies grow their businesses, in addition to helping shape their editorial strategies.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
A big step backward for Tunisia's press →
“In theory, at least, press freedom has been legally protected in Tunisia since the revolution, and was enshrined into a new constitution that came into effect in 2014. That constitution took a serious blow a year ago after [President Kais Saied] moved to accumulate power. This week, he finalized his move to finish it off altogether, calling a referendum on a new constitution that would formalize his consolidation of presidential authority.”
The Associated Press / Allen G. Breed
How an AP reporter broke the Tuskegee syphilis story →
For four decades, the U.S. government had denied hundreds of poor, Black men treatment for syphilis so researchers could study its ravages on the human body.
The Arizona Republic / Javier Arce and Joanna Jacobo Rivera
Forced to flee Mexico due to death threats, some journalists seek to rebuild their lives in Phoenix →
“Due to the increased violence in Mexico against journalists and the lack of protection provided by the government, García Davish and his wife, María de Jesús Peters, also a journalist in Chiapas, made the difficult decision to leave their lifelong home. Since June, they've been trying to rebuild their life in Phoenix, figuring out how to navigate a new country and calling for international governments to intervene and better protect Mexican journalists.”
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