“Space is for everyone”: Meet the scientists trying to put otherworldly images into words
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Wednesday, August 3, 2022
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“Space is for everyone”: Meet the scientists trying to put otherworldly images into words“It is a lot like science writing in general. You need to have a very good understanding of the content.” By Sarah Scire. |
What We’re Reading
Insider / Natalie Musumeci
The Alex Jones defamation trial reveals Infowars was making as much as $800,000 per day in 2018 →
“Jones testified on Wednesday that InfoWars’ revenue for the most recent fiscal year was $70 million and that the website employs around 80 workers and contractors.”
Vox / Peter Kafka
Newsletters aren’t news anymore. But they’re not going away. →
“The scaled-down, sobered-up reality of newsletters is … sinking into media and tech companies that became newly interested in them over the last couple years.”
Freedom of the Press
The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker looks back at its first 5 years →
“The most press freedom violations were recorded in 2020; More journalists were assaulted in the one week immediately following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis than 2017-2019, combined.”
Bloomberg / Thomas Seal
A textbook publisher wants to turn its e-books into NFTs so it can profit from secondhand sales →
"The move to digital helps diminish the secondary market, and technology like blockchain and NFTs allows us to participate in every sale of that particular item as it goes through its life." A Pearson executive suggested this would be done by tracking the material's unique identifier on a blockchain ledger.
The New Yorker / Eric Lach
A small nonprofit news outlet has compiled more complete data on homelessness in New York City than the city government itself →
“Late last year, after years of watching the city resist publishing a more complete daily census, Brand and his editor decided to do what the city wouldn't.”
American Press Institute
API is launching a grants to help newsrooms implement community listening in their elections coverage →
“News organizations that have ideas for ways to forge stronger community relationships through deep listening and engaged reporting may apply for these grants of $1,500 to $5,000 per newsroom through August 17, 2022.”
FT / Anna Nicolaou
New media venture Semafor hires for its Africa bureau and makes plans to cover “the Middle East, India, Japan and Europe” →
"Our big competitors that dominate global news were created back in the 20th century. [They are] exporting news from London or from Atlanta or from New York," co-founder Ben Smith said. "We're trying to build a much more networked way for a totally different moment."
Vanity Fair / Charlotte Klein
But not everyone is buying Ben Smith’s analogies for Semafor’s global play →
“The Semafor co-founder appears to be running out of ways to pitch his buzzy news startup. Having just hired a couple of journalists in Africa, he analogized his ambitions to Netflix's international footprint, but in an interview with Vanity Fair, he didn't seem quite sure what he meant by that.”
Poynter / Rick Edmonds
A new startup will take another shot at selling news one story at a time →
“The Zette deal, as Yehong Zhu envisions the mature product, will be $9.99 a month for 30 articles, though it will cost much less in the beta phase. With a Google Chrome browser extension, the user hits a paywalled article, clicks a Zette button, and the story opens in its original format including illustrations and ads.”
Black Enterprise / Derek Major
The Black News Channel will become theGrio →
Byron Allen's Allen Media Group acquired The Black News Channel out of bankruptcy for $11 million from billionaire Shahid Khan, owner of the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars. Khan had invested over $100 million into BNC.
Talking Biz News / Chris Roush
A former Politico Pro reporter has launched a new publication dedicated to food policy →
"From fights over what's served to millions of kids at school to how FDA will handle a wave of food innovation coming out of Silicon Valley, these policies don't just affect the trillion dollar food industry, they affect every single one of us," Helena Bottemiller Evich said. "I believe there is demand for more focused, in-depth coverage both in Washington and outside the beltway, where consumers are increasingly interested in these topics."
Bloomberg / Ashley Carman
Podcast guests are paying up to $50,000 to appear on popular shows →
“It appears the practice is particularly popular among podcasts in the wellness, cryptocurrency, and business arenas.”
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