Way back in 1989, USA Today launched an online sports service. I found it at Goodwill
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Wednesday, September 28, 2022
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Way back in 1989, USA Today launched an online sports service. I found it at GoodwillUSA Today Sports Center is a time capsule from a period in which a newspaper could convince people to pay five bucks an hour to log onto their service during the big game. By Ernie Smith. |
What We’re Reading
Twitter / AMEJA
The Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association has launched a podcast →
The first episode of “Re: Orient” features Al Jazeera journalist Laila Al-Arian discussing objectivity and the killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
KERA News
In North Texas, public radio station KERA plans to acquire the Denton Record-Chronicle →
A similar deal happened in Chicago last year, when Chicago Public Media acquired the Chicago Sun-Times.
The Verge / Richard Lawler
Yikes. Fast Company’s Apple News access was hijacked to send an obscene and racist push notification. →
“The messages are vile and not in line with the content and ethos of Fast Company.”
ArtForum
Literary magazine The Drift gets a new lead funder in the blue-chip art gallery David Zwirner →
"Until now, The Drift has been operating on a small budget. This partnership will allow us to make the magazine more sustainable, and continue to provide a platform for new voices and fresh ideas for many years to come.”
Maxine Bernstein / The Oregonian
An Oregon journalist is suing the city of Medford and its police department after she was arrested in 2020 while reporting on homelessness →
“April Ehrlich alleges that a Medford police policy used to force her to leave Hawthorne Park where she was reporting on police activity violates First Amendment rights to free press and free speech and led to her bogus arrest.”
The New York Times / Liam Stack
Sex, revenge porn, and webcams: The firing of TV weatherman Erick Adame →
“Mr. Adame's case is also complicated by other factors, including his role as a television personality, an unusually public facing position. Broadcast companies usually require on-air employees to sign contracts that contain morals clauses, which give them the power to fire employees for a wide range of behavior, from arrests to offensive Tweets, that might harm the corporation's public image.”
Twitter / NPR
NPR is promoting the text-only version of its website to people who want to stay up-to-date on Hurricane Ian while keeping their battery and data usage to a minimum →
NPR has pushed the text-only version of its site to people with limited connectivity during previous natural disasters.
Reuters / Fanny Potkin
Vietnam is preparing to limit which social media accounts can post news →
“The rules, expected to be announced by the year-end and with details yet to be hammered out, would establish a legal basis for controlling news dissemination on platforms like Facebook and YouTube while placing a significant moderation burden on platform providers, two of the sources added.”
the Guardian / Alex Hern
Apple has removed VK, Russia's homegrown Facebook competitor, from its App Store →
"In order to comply with these [U.K.] sanctions, Apple terminated the developer accounts associated with these apps, and the apps cannot be downloaded from any App Store, regardless of location. Users who have already downloaded these apps may continue to use them."
Media Nation / Dan Kennedy
How an escapade on a frozen pond led one newspaper to reform its crime coverage →
It started with “one of those wacky incidents that editors and readers love.”
Washington Post / Perry Bacon Jr.
The real problem isn't the polls. It's that journalists don't use them correctly. →
“Polls are valuable, but not if they are used as the political version of Vegas odds for the Super Bowl.”
Press Gazette
Digitalbox says student news site The Tab paid off its entire purchase cost in 18 months →
“Having bought The Tab for £750,000 in the final quarter of 2020, Digitalbox got the site into profit within a month and paid off 70% of its purchase price in the first year.”
Axios / Sara Fischer
Hearst now has 338,000 digital-only subscribers — up from 65,000 in 2018 →
A larger portion of the company’s profits now comes from its specialty data and software businesses — including the credit rating company Fitch Group — compared to its magazines, newspapers, and TV stations. Ten years ago, CEO Steve Swartz noted, Hearst’s B2B portfolio represented less than 10% of total profits. This year, it will be “north of 40%.”
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