How the AP, USA Today, and Northeastern built a database of mass killings that tracks more than shootings
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Wednesday, August 24, 2022
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How the AP, USA Today, and Northeastern built a database of mass killings that tracks more than shootingsMany mass killings receive relatively little news coverage in the U.S. By Sarah Scire. |
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What We’re Reading
Poynter / Rick Edmonds
The Asheville Citizen Times has dropped a nonprofit's investigative work, saying its focus on growing paid digital subscriptions is at odds with running the stories for free →
“I am sure your content is relevant and useful," Gannett regional editor Mark Russell wrote in July. "But that doesn't automatically mean it's going to be published in the ACT, especially when our No. 1 goal is to drive more digital subscriptions through the publication of premium content behind a paywall."
Washington Post / Erik Wemple
What does Brian Stelter's ouster from CNN have to do with Fox News? →
“In killing ‘Reliable Sources,’ [CNN boss Chris] Licht is also silencing an in-house critic.”
The New York Times Company
You can now play Wordle on The New York Times Crossword app →
The Times Company acquired the popular guessing game in early 2022.
Press Gazette / Andrew Kersley
How NowThis became a social media news powerhouse →
A large chunk of NowThis's content is repackaged news clips or videos explaining the big events of the day but the brand is also creating original in-house content. They rely on data like dwell times to inform the topics they cover and the way they edit videos.
Bumper / Dan Misener
“I made a map of Spotify podcast recommendations. Here’s what I learned.” →
“White noise” podcasts appeared more often than episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience.
AP NEWS / Terry Tang
Several Arizona news orgs have joined the ACLU in suing over a state law limiting the filming of police →
“The law, signed by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey in July, makes it illegal to knowingly film police officers 8 feet (2.5 meters) or closer without an officer's permission. An officer can order someone to stop filming even if they are on private property recording with the owner's consent if an officer finds they're interfering or deems the area unsafe.”
Washington Post / Danielle Paquette
A public library refused to remove an LGBTQ book. The town defunded it. →
"Gender Queer" was the most banned book of 2021.
New York Times / Sophie Haigney
BeReal captures nostalgia for a time when social media was boring →
“A common joke, in those early days of social media, was that it was all just people broadcasting what they were having for lunch. Who, skeptics wondered, wanted to swap the banalities of life with strangers all day? The answer, of course, was hundreds of millions of people.”
The Fix / Veronica Snoj
A look at three new projects in the Russian media diaspora →
Rubezhi ("frontiers"), Bumaga ("paper"), and Volna ("wave") are all operating on Telegram.
Novara Media
More than 1,000 journalists at Britain’s biggest regional publisher plan to strike over low pay →
“After staff accepted a 1% pay rise in 2021, Reach – the biggest regional publisher in the UK – ran a company-wide skill session titled 'How to Side Hustle', which promised advice from “super, multitasking colleagues who manage to do their day jobs at Reach whilst also running successful side hustles.'”
News/Media Alliance / Rebecca Frank
How one publisher minimized the impact of a ransomware attack →
“Do not assume your company is too small for hackers to pay attention to.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
There’s no right way to respond to GOP media restrictions →
“Often, it seems, right-wing restrictions on media access aren't supposed to have a right answer these days—however a journalist responds, it can be turned against them.”
Washington Post / Will Oremus
Birdwatch, Twitter's crowdsourced fact-checking project, seems to be working. (But it won’t be ready for the midterms.) →
“Users who see a highly rated Birdwatch note on a tweet are less likely to share the tweet to their own followers, Coleman said. If that holds true as the project rolls out more widely, it would mean that user-written fact-checking labels have the potential to reduce the spread of misinformation without Twitter itself having to take any action.”
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