Raíchali Noticias focuses on community listening in Northern Mexico’s Indigenous communities
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Thursday, July 14, 2022
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Raíchali Noticias focuses on community listening in Northern Mexico’s Indigenous communities"You have to understand the context that these communities live in before you go in with a recorder, extract information, and leave.” By Hanaa' Tameez. |
What We’re Reading
The Guardian
The Guardian U.S. hires Betsy Reed as its new editor →
Reed was editor-in-chief of The Intercept.
The New York Times Company
The New York Times will start selling a board game based on Wordle this fall →
In the board game, players are competing against others. The fewer tries a player needs, the fewer points they score. The player with the fewest points at the end of the game wins.
Los Angeles Times / Fidel Martinez
“An organization for journalists ignored a very basic principle of journalism: Do not become the story.” →
“The first lady tried poorly to explain how the Latinx community isn't a monolith. What she didn't do was directly compare Latinxs to tacos…Beyond purporting to know what the more than 60 million Latinxs want, [the National Association of Hispanic Journalists’] demand for an apology didn't actually accomplish anything beyond legitimizing the ridiculous claims that the first lady said anything racist.”
Washington Post / Will Oremus
Ukraine says Big Tech has dropped the ball on Russian propaganda →
“The tech giants' attention has flagged over time, Ukrainian officials and researchers say, as headlines and public outrage in the United States and Western Europe have shifted from Russian aggression to domestic issues such as inflation, gas prices and, in Europe, the influx of Ukrainian refugees. The Kremlin has taken note.”
Poynter / Kelly McBride
How the editor of the Chicago Sun-Times decided to publish a photo of victims of the Highland Park shooting →
“After thinking about all these things and all the different ways that harm could be minimized, I felt pretty confident about the decision.”
Local News Initiative / Greg Burns
The rise of the large regional newspaper barons →
“Recent headlines have focused on the strategic maneuvering of the biggest chains – Gannett, Lee Enterprises and Alden Global Capital, which own most of the newspapers in the country's largest markets. At the same time, however, privately owned regional chains have snapped up dozens of newspapers shed by the mega-chains, as well as smaller family-owned operations.”
The Verge / Alex Heath and Shirin Ghaffary
How the News Feed turned Facebook into a juggernaut (podcast) →
“In this episode, we talked to Ruchi Sanghvi, one of Facebook's first engineers who helped build the News Feed, which at launch, was disliked enough to spark widespread protest from users. ‘It was the first time we actually got a security guard to stand outside the doors of the Facebook offices,’ she says.”
Popular Science / Charlotte Hu
A copyright lawsuit threatens to kill free access to Internet Archive’s library of books →
“Last week, the ongoing case entered a new chapter as the nonprofit organization filed a motion for summary judgment, asking a federal judge to put a stop to the lawsuit, arguing that their Controlled Digital Lending program ‘is a lawful fair use that preserves traditional library lending in the digital world’ since ‘each book loaned via CDL has already been bought and paid for.'”
New York Times / Emma Goldberg
The magic of early-career work friends →
“High school and college friends see each other through parties, family feuds, crushes and coming-of-age. But work friends see each other through the world of ideas. And they can be easier to find early in a career.”
L.A. Taco / Lexis-Olivier Ray
More than 140 L.A. Times staffers demand The Times stop surprise testing new hires for weed →
“Current and former L.A. Times staff say it's hypocritical to test some employees for cannabis while allowing others to cover the industry and consume cannabis on the job. Reporters that spoke to L.A. TACO for this story said they find the policy inconsistent and ineffective at deterring people from consuming substances while on the job (since employees are not regularly tested). Instead, they say it puts new hires on edge and possibly even discourages people from applying for positions with The Times in the first place.”
Local News Initiative / Greg Burns
Several new "newspaper barons" are aggressively buying dailies and weeklies in small and mid-sized markets →
Two-thirds of the 82 papers Gannett sold in the past two years were bought by CherryRoad Media or Paxton Media Group.
Pew Research Center / NAOMI FORMAN-KATZ AND MARK JURKOWITZ
Journalists who work in online media are the least likely to embrace “bothsidesism” →
“A little more than half of the journalists surveyed (55%) say that every side does not always deserve equal coverage in the news. By contrast, 22% of Americans overall say the same.”
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