Coming to a Hawaiian library near you: Honolulu Civil Beat is hosting pop-up newsrooms around the state
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022
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Coming to a Hawaiian library near you: Honolulu Civil Beat is hosting pop-up newsrooms around the state"We learned that people have an interest if they can get to us.” By Hanaa' Tameez. |
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How the Covid-19 pandemic pushed preprint-based journalism into the mainstream“Verifying preprints appeared to be a real challenge for journalists, even for those with advanced science education.” By Alice Fleerackers Lauren Maggio. |
What We’re Reading
Far & Near / Yan Cong, Beimeng Fu, and Ye Charlotte Ming
How to minimize harm while covering protests in China with discretion and empathy →
“While we understand the journalistic responsibility to document what happens in public spaces, we're concerned that those photos may create openings for retaliation, from doxxing and professional consequences to persecution by police.”
The Intercept / Robert Mackey
Elon Musk appears to be outsourcing decisions about who to ban from Twitter to the platform's right-wing extremists →
“Several prominent antifascist organizers and journalists have had their accounts suspended in the past week, after right-wing operatives appealed directly to Musk to ban them and far-right internet trolls flooded Twitter's complaints system with false reports about terms of service violations.”
CNN / Oliver Darcy
Unprecedented protests in China are making headlines around the world, except inside China →
“…Chinese media have largely ignored the uprising, considered to be one of the largest that has erupted in decades, as Xi employs a host of iron-fist measures to clamp down on coverage and quash the swelling acts of dissent in the authoritarian country.”
Poynter / Angela Fu
Fort Worth journalists launched their first open-ended strike at McClatchy →
"Bargaining is supposed to be a compromise on both sides," Fort Worth NewsGuild vice president Kaley Johnson said. "We know we're not going to get everything we want. But McClatchy also should be aware that they're not going to get the exact company policy in the contract because that's why we unionized in the first place."
The Philadelphia Inquirer / Joseph N. DiStefano
Al DÃa, Philly’s Latino newspaper, is adding staff and retooling for the digital age as it plans to go national →
“Our main bet is on digital as we continue to see our readership expand throughout the country, especially in areas with high Latino population. We see approximately 300,000 to 400,000 website visitors on a monthly basis. The print readership [with several readers per copy] is estimated around 100,000 weekly.”
The Washington Post / Salvador Rizzo
The New York Times and other media outlets call for end to Assange prosecution →
“The letter was signed by Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger and the editors and publishers of the Guardian (Britain), Le Monde (France), Der Spiegel (Germany) and El Pais (Spain). ‘This indictment sets a dangerous precedent, and threatens to undermine America's First Amendment and the freedom of the press,’ they wrote.”
Digiday / Kayleigh Barber
How Apartment Therapy’s Riva Syrop is pivoting its events business around the economic climate →
"What we often see is consumer content consumption behaviors change, you sometimes see consumer purchasing behavior change, sometimes the advertiser behaviors change, but rarely do they all change at the exact same time. So this was definitely a readjustment year for us," Syrop said.
The Washington Post / Elahe Izadi
Covering Iran’s unrest and crackdown from thousands of miles away →
"We never have seen it before like this," said Jiyar Gol, a Kurdish Iranian journalist for the BBC reporting the story from London. "They really want the world to know about what is going on. People don't fear anymore."
Axios / Sara Fischer
Grid News CEO and cofounder Mark Bauman steps down →
“Sources say the company is losing millions of dollars paying for high-end office space in Washington while also supporting the salaries of over 50 employees.”
Semafor
CoinDesk, the crypto news site that sparked an industry-wide meltdown, has attracted takeover interest →
“One of the approaches suggested a $300 million purchase price but it was considered too low, some of the people said. CoinDesk was making about $50 million in annual revenue from a mix of traditional online advertising and its popular Consensus conference.”
The Guardian / Rupert Neate
British media figures call for a law to stop oligarchs from silencing U.K. journalists →
“More than 70 newspaper editors, publishers and media lawyers wrote to [Justice Secretary Dominic] Raab on Tuesday demanding that the government take urgent action to stop oligarchs and kleptocrats from using their fortunes to exploit British courts, intimidating and silencing investigative journalists with strategic lawsuits against public participation (Slapps).”
Wired / Morgan Meaker
Layoffs have gutted Twitter’s child safety team →
“Following widespread layoffs and resignations, just one staff member remains on a key team dedicated to removing child sexual abuse content from the site, according to two people with knowledge of the matter, who both requested to remain anonymous. “
CNN / Donie O'Sullivan
Twitter is no longer enforcing its Covid misinformation policy →
“Musk has promised to restore many previously banned Twitter accounts as soon as this week. It is possible that among the restored accounts will be some of the 11,000 banned under Twitter's former Covid misinformation rules.”
The Kyiv Independent / Daryna Antoniuk
Making sense of Ukrainian war memes: From watermelons to Saint Javelin →
“North Atlantic Fellas Organization (NAFO) is a meme and social media movement dedicated to countering Russian propaganda and disinformation. Its members post comments and create memes to fight Russia's false narratives with humor.”
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