Two new bots can help newsrooms prioritize accessibility and alt text
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Thursday, July 28, 2022
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Two new bots can help newsrooms prioritize accessibility and alt text“If accessibility is only pitched as something that's related to code or only related to computers, it's going to be real easy for people in newsrooms to distance themselves from that.” By Holly Rosewood. |
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The next time someone wants your newsroom to “pivot to video,” remember some history“It’s always journalism that gets sacrificed on the altar of video metrics fakery and BS.” By Aram Zucker-Scharff. |
What We’re Reading
Nieman Reports / Adriana Lacy and Natalie De Rosa
We asked journalists to share what it’s like working with other newsrooms. Here’s what they told us. →
“Readers shared that collaborations have helped with providing more resources to newsrooms, increased reporting, engaging new audiences, and achieving things no newsroom could do alone.”
Platformer / Casey Newton
Instagram walks back its changes (for now) →
“A test version of the app that opened to full-screen photos and videos will be phased out over the next one to two weeks, and Instagram will also reduce the number of recommended posts in the app as it works to improve its algorithms.”
Sky News / Martin Brunt
In the U.K., cameras will be allowed into criminal trials for the first time →
“Coverage will be restricted to the judge handing down a sentence and explaining the reasons for it, with a time delay to avoid broadcasting any violent or abusive reaction.”
Medill Local News Initiative / Greg Burns
The future of the daily newspaper →
“If you're publishing new information daily, how much longer are we even going to use the terms daily and weekly?”
Editor and Publisher / Alyssa Choiniere
The Border Belt Independent serves readers and newspapers in North Carolina’s poorest counties →
“The publication provides in-depth reporting to local newspapers in its rural coverage area.”
Washington Post / Washington Post staff
Christopher Shea, Washington Post editor, dies at 53 →
“At The Post, he assigned and edited hundreds of pieces that reflected his voracious consumption of politics, social science and popular culture.”
The Racket / Jonathan M. Katz
“A podcast I’d never heard of before stole my work. I’m not alone.” →
“The off-the-cuff, holy shit bro can you believe this aesthetic obscures how lucrative these podcasts can be.”
Axios / Sara Fischer
Facebook officially cuts funding for U.S. news publishers →
“A lot has changed since we signed deals three years ago to test bringing additional news links to Facebook News in the US. Most people do not come to Facebook for news, and as a business it doesn’t make sense to over invest in areas that don’t align with user preferences.”
TechCrunch / Amanda Silberling
🌶 Hot Take: Twitter is testing a new status feature that’s kinda meh →
“For a limited time, we are testing a feature that allows you to add a status topic from a predetermined list to your Tweets to provide more context for your followers. So whether you are about to drop a hot Tweet thread, share your shower thoughts, or have a bad case of the Mondays, your Tweets can better convey what you are up to.”
Washington Post / Elahe Izadi
How local journalists proved a 10-year-old’s abortion wasn’t a hoax →
“While talking heads and politicians continued to question the case's existence, Bruner listened as police confirmed everything.”
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