“Revolve around the voter”: How 3 newsrooms are covering elections differently
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022
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“Revolve around the voter”: How 3 newsrooms are covering elections differentlyHow Spotlight PA, Injustice Watch, and The 19th are moving beyond horse-race reporting. By Katie Hawkins-Gaar. |
What We’re Reading
Twitter / Elon Musk
Elon Musk: “Local news orgs are under-appreciated & should get way more prominence on Twitter” →
From the man who just changed his bio to “Chief Twit.”
Vox / Peter Kafka
Two of the ideas that Semafor tossed out before launch? Showing articles to subjects in advance and making their Slack public. →
“I think when you do that kind of work, you realize, you know what? You're not publishing it on a secret website. You're publishing it on the internet, where the people you're writing about are going to see it. And if you want to be really fair, you should let them really respond.”
WSJ / Anne Steele
Spotify will raise the price of Premium, which has cost $9.99 since 2011, sometime in 2023 →
In a quarterly report, Spotify also revealed paying subscribers, their most lucrative type of customer, climbed 13% to 195 million.
New York Times / Katie Robertson
The Texas Tribune names Sonal Shah as new CEO →
Shah will take over from Evan Smith, who has run the nonprofit news organization since he co-founded it in 2009.
Washington Post / Annie Gowen
Right-wing misinformation and local news mix at this Illinois radio station →
“When Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's campaign bus came to town recently, the local conservative talk radio station covered the event, dutifully informing its audience on social media that ‘counter protesters were in attendance.’ The ‘counter protesters’ were the radio station's employees. They mugged for photos in front of the governor's bus, held up signs that said, ‘Fire Pritzker’ — then turned around and covered the Democrat's event.”
Washington Post / Adam Bernstein
Neema Roshania Patel, Washington Post editor who cultivated younger audiences, dies at 35 →
“What stood out immediately was her desire to collaborate — to take what she had learned running The Lily and infuse it into every department, every article and every project.”
CNBC / Alex Sherman
CNN won’t ban guests who deny the 2020 election results but will steer them to “safe zones of truth” in interviews →
“The analogy I love to use is some people like rain, some people don't like rain. We should give space to that. But we will not have someone who comes on and says it's not raining," CNN CEO Chris Licht said.
Bloomberg / Margi Murphy and Jack Gillum
There’s a group of election skeptics inundating local election officials with public records requests →
The 13,000-person "Raccoon Army" organizes on Telegram. Their requests target each of the more than 3,000 counties in the U.S. and demand records on voting machines and email communications between election officials and vendors of those machines.
Gizmodo / Molly Taft
Semafor’s climate newsletter has launched and Chevron is its first sponsor →
“Some of these newsletter placements from Big Oil have had very deliberate targets. Last year, Earther conducted a joint investigation with HEATED looking at Big Oil buyouts of three popular political Beltway climate and energy newsletters in the month leading up to a House Congressional hearing on fossil fuel companies and climate misinformation.”
CNN
CNN just introduced a new “Guns in America” beat →
“The unit will be led by CNN guns and security correspondent Josh Campbell and feature reporting and analysis from Reload founder Stephen Gutowski, The Trace's Jennifer Mascia and Abené Clayton, reporter on the The Guardian's ‘Guns and Lies in America’ project. Together the team will explore who buys and sells guns; who makes and regulates them; and dive into the communities most impacted to help illuminate possible solutions to America's epidemic of gun violence.”
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