Which news audiences are underserved?
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022
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Which news audiences are underserved?Plus: How news organizations work to repair their histories of racism, media criticism on TikTok, and what news consumers think about fact-checking By Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis. |
What We’re Reading
TechCrunch / Manish Singh
Asia’s richest man Gautam Adani to buy the majority stake in India’s NDTV →
“Adani Group said Tuesday it will buy a majority stake in NDTV, a high-profile Indian news house, in an apparent hostile takeover as the billionaire Gautam Adani expands his media ambitions…The acquisition comes as Adani, Asia's richest man, looks to dive into media properties and compete aggressively with Mukesh Ambani, chairman of oil-to-telecom giant Reliance Industries, on another avenue. Ambani owns media property Network18.”
NPR / David Folkenflik
People of color at The New York Times persistently get lower ratings in job reviews, according to its union →
“Many journalists told the union of the bewilderment they felt at what they said were sharp gaps between glowing evaluations from editors and their numerical scores at the end of each year.” You can read the full study here.
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
Pakistan’s press gets caught in political tumult, again →
“This month, after ARY was taken off air following Gill's anti-military remarks, [Reporters Without Borders]'s Daniel Bastard said that onlookers should ‘not be fooled. Although the current government must be held responsible for the latest attacks against the media, it is the military that intervenes behind the scenes to bring Pakistan's journalists to heel.’"
Reuters / Uriel Sanchez
Mexican journalist Fredid Roman was killed on Monday, bringing the death toll of journalists killed in the country this year to 18 →
“Columnist Fredid ‘Fredy’ Roman was ambushed Monday afternoon in the city of Chilpancingo by armed attackers on a motorcycle, according to local media. The journalist was killed just after posting a column on the alleged involvement of local politicians in the disappearance of 43 students in 2014, which investigators called a ‘state crime’ last week.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
The horribly timed defenestration of Brian Stelter →
“For one, the cancellation of Reliable Sources would seem to send a troubling message about how CNN's new bosses view the worth of media criticism and reporting, exercises that are often dismissed as niche and insular but are actually—as Stelter has often noted, including in his valedictory appearance yesterday—vital in holding a highly powerful industry to account.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Andrew McCormick
Environmental journalist Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson on the human face of climate disasters in the Pacific →
“I also came to realize that, in ways, we've come to take for granted the impacts climate change has had on our people. As we laid it all out in the podcast, I was like, ‘Wow, that's some really severe stuff. We've normalized some shit that we should never have normalized.’"
Intelligencer / Matt Stieb
Jake Paul bets he can beat everyone else in sports media →
“The TikTokification of the mind is a trend Paul thinks he can use to make a lot of money with his new sports-media and mobile-betting company, Betr.”
Reuters / Andrew R.C. Marshall
A new breed of video-sharing sites thrives on misinformation and hate →
“BitChute and Odysee serve up conspiracies, racism and graphic violence to millions of viewers. Taking advantage of Big Tech disinformation crackdowns and the rise of Trump, the sites reflect a new media universe – one where COVID-19 is fake, Russia fights Nazis in Ukraine, and mass shootings are 'false flag' operations.”
Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Not pictured here”: Editors at The Plain Dealer rejected rules set by J.D. Vance and Ron DeSantis for covering their rally →
“Not pictured here are Ohio U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who scheduled a rally Friday in Trumbull County that we didn’t write about or photograph because of the absurd rules put in place for anyone covering the event. They want to take an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution while trampling all over one of its most important principles, the freedom of the press.”
Washington Post / Joseph Menn, Elizabeth Dwoskin, and Cat Zakrzewski
Twitter’s former security chief claims the company misled federal regulators and its own board of directors →
The whistleblower complaint from former head of security Peiter Zatko, a widely admired hacker known as "Mudge," depicts Twitter as a chaotic and rudderless company beset by infighting, unable to properly protect its 238 million daily users including government agencies, heads of state and other influential public figures.
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