“You don’t know which side is playing you”: The authors of Meme Wars have some advice for journalists
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Wednesday, September 21, 2022
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“You don’t know which side is playing you”: The authors of Meme Wars have some advice for journalists“The media treating Twitter like an assignment editor is one of the fundamental errors that enabled meme warriors to play everyone.” By Hanaa' Tameez. |
What We’re Reading
Latino USA / Daisy Contreras
How Bianca Graulau reports on Puerto Rico’s colonial condition →
“While Graulau has years of training in traditional newsrooms, her work as an independent journalist also challenges the conventions of typical reporting. The explainers are short and meant to be shared on social media, and she doesn't get bogged down in acronyms for obscure government offices. She's also still refining the boundaries of how much to share with the public, and how to shut off from the constant cycle of producing content.”
Vox / Christian Paz
Latino voters are being flooded with even more misinformation in 2022 →
“The latest wave of misinfo … has been fueled by culture war battles about gender identity and abortion, economic fears pegged to inflation and climate policy, voter fraud conspiracy theories, and, more recently, investigations into Trump's post-election conduct.”
Twitter / Shanté Cosme
The entire Mic staff has been laid off, editor-in-chief Shanté Cosme says →
Previous reporting had indicated “at least 10 staffers” had been laid off at the news site owned by Bustle Digital Group.
New York Times / Katie Robertson
A former Axel Springer employee has accused the company of failing to stop sexual harassment →
The lawsuit centers on the workplace conduct of Julian Reichelt, a former top editor of Bild and one of the most powerful journalists in Europe. (Reichelt was fired last year, after The New York Times reported details about his relationship with the woman behind the lawsuit.)
The Verge / James Vincent
Worried about future copyright claims, Getty Images bans AI-generated content →
Getty Images will no longer allow the upload and sale of illustrations generated using AI art tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion.
Balls and Strikes / G.S. Hans
A scathing review of the new book by NPR’s longtime legal correspondent →
“Despite persistent criticisms of her decades-long friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg—including an assessment from NPR's public editor in September 2020, shortly after Ginsburg's death, that NPR should have disclosed the friendship early and often — Totenberg chose to write a turgid memoir centering that friendship. It's a ‘don't even bother coming for me’ response, emphasizing her choice to spend decades flouting basic ethical standards. Get in, losers: We're going self-aggrandizing.”
BuzzFeed News / Sarah Weinman
In its new episode, Serial can’t catch up with its own story →
“True crime has evolved as a genre, for good and for ill. But you wouldn't know it from Serial's latest episode.”
ONA22
ONA starts this week. Here’s the schedule. →
If you couldn’t make the Online News Association's annual conference in-person, many of the panels will be available online.
New York Times / Sharon LaFraniere
Data gaps are hampering U.S. response to outbreaks →
“Decades of underinvestment in public health information systems has crippled efforts to understand the pandemic, stranding crucial data in incompatible data systems so outmoded that information often must be repeatedly typed in by hand.”
New York Times / Elizabeth Williamson
A judge ordered new officials to oversee Alex Jones’s Infowars, citing an ongoing lack of transparency →
Citing a "lack of candor," including over Mr. Jones's lavish personal spending, a federal bankruptcy judge in Houston ordered substantive changes to his company's oversight.
The Daily Beast / Justin Baragona
The Daily Mail scrubbed an article about an “uncharacteristically thin crowd” at a Trump event →
By Monday morning, the Daily Mail had altered the article to remove all references to crowd size and removed the reporter’s name.
Rest of World / Andrew Deck
Fearing competition, Snap decided to shut down its mapping platform Zenly rather than sell it →
“The sudden shutdown left Zenly workers, by and large, shocked. Yes, the company hadn't yet monetized, but it had a global community of 40 million monthly active users, with hubs in Japan, Russia, Indonesia, Brazil, and Thailand.”
the Guardian / Rupert Neate
Four media outlets are facing libel claims after publishing an investigation on the ex-president of Kazakhstan →
The reports contain allegations about the assets of a fund named after the former president Nursultan Nazarbayev. The legal action — against TBIJ, openDemocracy, the Telegraph, and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) — has reignited the debate whether strategic lawsuits against public participation (Slapps) are being used to chill public-interest journalism.
Axios / Ashley Gold
Gmail has launched a pilot to keep political campaign emails out of spam folders →
“Once political campaigns are enrolled in Google's pilot program, they will no longer be affected by Gmail's standard forms of spam detection, though Gmail will keep scanning messages for phishing and malware.”
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