No, the Green Bay Packers are not a realistic business model for your local newspaper
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Tuesday, August 30, 2022
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No, the Green Bay Packers are not a realistic business model for your local newspaperUntil the news business adopts NFL-style revenue sharing — which, um, it won’t — the Packers are more of an exception than a useful metaphor. By Joshua Benton. |
What We’re Reading
Medill Local News Initiative / Penny Abernathy
How to fill the gaps in local news →
“As policymakers at the state and national levels have looked for ways to support local news, they have relied not only on historical precedent — including postal subsidies that date back to 1792 — but also on lessons learned from European and Asian counterparts who are pioneering new approaches.”
New York Times / Benjamin Mullin and Katie Robertson
The Washington Post has fewer than the 3 million paying digital subscribers it had in 2020 →
The organization is on track to lose money in 2022, after years of profitability. Fred Ryan, the chief executive and publisher, in recent weeks has floated with newsroom leaders the possibility of cutting 100 positions.
Axios Latino / Shawna Chen
Abortion misinformation is surging in Latino communities →
“Advocates say they’ve also seen more Spanish-language misinformation coming out of crisis pregnancy centers — led by anti-abortion activists — that appear to offer medical services but often share false claims about the operation’s illegality in bids to dissuade pregnant people.”
Vanity Fair / Charlotte Klein
Behind The New York Times’ new politics podcast hosted by Astead Herndon →
"It felt like that version of a kind of strict horse race run-up isn't the only question for right now. People stormed the Capitol. The only question isn't who gets more votes at the ballot box."
Wired / Guillaume Ptak
The Telegram-powered news outlet waging guerrilla war on Russia →
“Created by exiled former Russian MP and dissident Ilya Ponomarev, February Morning was the first to report on a group claiming responsibility for Dugina's death. Ponomarev himself took to YouTube, where February Morning airs its shows, claiming that the perpetrators were a little-known Russian resistance group called the National Republican Army. According to Ponomarev, an all-out war against ‘Putinism’ had just begun.”
United States Department of Labor
The U.S. Department of Labor is suing the Killeen Daily Herald for allegedly retaliating against a worker who complained of an insect infestation →
"Rather than addressing an employee's concerns about the safety and health of their workplace, the Killeen Daily Herald terminated their reporter who sought to prevent workplace exposure to unknown diseases carried by the insects," said OSHA Regional Administrator Eric S. Harbin in Dallas.
Rest of World / Viola Zhou
Hong Kong’s gossipy Facebook pages are disappearing to avoid arrests →
“In August, police in Hong Kong arrested two administrators of the Facebook page Civil Servant Secrets on suspicion of sedition, without specifying what content they found problematic. Shortly after the arrests, many other popular pages each with tens of thousands of followers shut down, as people feared becoming the next targets of Hong Kong's crackdown on dissent.”
Media Nation / Dan Kennedy
Boston Globe Media will add a sports betting section to its free Boston.com site →
The partnership with Better Collective, a global sports betting media group, will launch at Boston.com/betting.
The Verge / Zoe Schiffer
How Twitter’s child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans competitor →
“What the Red Team discovered derailed the project: Twitter could not safely allow adult creators to sell subscriptions because the company was not — and still is not — effectively policing harmful sexual content on the platform.”
TechCrunch / Devin Coldewey
The Federal Trade Commission is warming up for a major ruling on data privacy →
“The best time to initiate this lengthy process was years ago, but the second-best time is now. Effective nationwide rules governing the collection and use of data are long overdue. As the nation's principal consumer-protection agency, we have a responsibility to act.”
The Daily Beast / Lachlan Cartwright
Changes at NBC's “Meet the Press” have raised questions about the future of its host Chuck Todd →
"At what point does anyone have the balls to say 'Maybe the problem is the face of it'?" one Meet the Press source wondered.
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