New York City now requires salary ranges in job posts. Here’s which media companies are complying, and which aren’t
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Tuesday, November 1, 2022
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New York City now requires salary ranges in job posts. Here’s which media companies are complying, and which aren’t“$15/hour to $125,000”? By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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AI-generated art sparks furious backlash from Japan’s anime community“I think they fear that they're training for something they won't ever be able to live off because they're going to be replaced by AI.” By Andrew Deck. |
What We’re Reading
Los Angeles Times / Samantha Masunaga
The dubious history of the Santa Monica Observer, the outlet behind the false Paul Pelosi story →
“With an official-sounding name and a professional-looking website, the Observer is one of a number of outlets masking themselves as legitimate news sources. The phenomenon has been growing and indicates how bad actors are increasingly trying to fool the public into seeing them as purveyors of accurate information.”
SlashBeats / George Mensah
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is working on a Twitter rival →
“I don't know if it'll be perfect, and I'm sure we'll have to adjust along the way," Wales says, "but it has to be better than this hellsite, yeah?"
The Verge / Jess Weatherbed
Want to use Pantone colors in Adobe apps like Photoshop and Illustrator? You’ll need a subscription for that. →
"This file has Pantone colors that have been removed and replaced with black due to changes in Pantone's licensing with Adobe," reads one message.
Digiday / Kayleigh Barber
Why Semafor’s CRO Rachel Oppenheim is putting clients first while building an entirely ad-based revenue model →
“Semafor launched on October 18 with a business model that's entirely reliant on direct-sold advertising and event sponsorship revenue – a risky business in some eyes during the current economic climate. But the company's founding CRO Rachel Oppenheim is confident that her team's client-centric approach, which prioritizes ‘innovative’ branded content and running ads against ‘experimental’ editorial products, will be the wind in Semafor's sails.”
Rest of World / Antonia Timmerman
Meet Indonesia’s Joe Rogan: Deddy Corbuzier is part YouTube star, part magician, all controversy →
“In an interview with Rest of World, Corbuzier's contradictions were on full display, and so was his charisma. Corbuzier likes to play devil's advocate, often claiming that he's presenting "the other side" of a topic, but often falls short…It's less the debate that propels him, more a sense for drama and a nose for business.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Priyanjana Bengani
A “pink slime” network is getting a $1.6M election boost from PACs backed by oil-and-gas, shipping magnates →
“The news sites can easily be mistaken for independent local outlets and—as previous investigations by the Tow Center have shown—are part of a larger network that received funding from multiple dark-money groups and pacs. The funding is not disclosed; neither are the network's collaborations with special-interest groups. The practice of publishing stories that boost the positions of special-interest groups interspersed between thousands of algorithmically generated stories and republished press releases across the network's twelve hundred sites continues.”
Business Insider / Steven Perlberg
Newsrooms consider whether to pay for Twitter verification for journalists. For CNN, it’s “highly unlikely,” but for Puck, it’s a resounding yes. →
“Jon Kelly, Puck’s cofounder and editor-in-chief, said that he views paying for verification as an extension of Puck’s marketing budget.”
New York Times / Stuart A. Thompson and Matthew Goldstein
Truth Social’s influence is growing despite its many business and legal woes →
“The website had 1.7 million unique visitors in September, according to estimates from Similar Web, a company that monitors web traffic. That barely registers as competition against mainstream sites like Facebook and Twitter. But it towers over its closest social media rivals, including Gab, Parler, Gettr, MeWe and Minds, which averaged about 360,000 unique visitors that month.”
The Verge / Emma Roth
Twitter is abruptly ending ad-free news articles for Blue subscribers →
“Twitter included ad-free articles when it rolled out its $4.99 Blue subscription last year. The feature lets subscribers read articles without ads from participating publishers while also giving a portion of Blue's revenue to those sites.” (Twitter acquired the ad-free news startup Scroll in May 2021.)
Dirt / Terry Nguyen
The Twitter Trap →
“Twitter is no town square. It's more comparable to Times Square. Scrolling through the platform is the mental equivalent of people-watching on the corner of Broadway and 42nd Street. No sane person wants to spend meaningful time there, but they do anyway. It's entertaining enough and there is always an interesting array of people walking around, loitering, shouting, fighting, or working. (Due to its proximity to The New York Times building, one can also expect many journalist sightings.)”
The Daily Beast / Lachlan Cartwright
The rogue New York Post employee has apologized for his “utmost betrayal” →
The 25-year-old digital producer Miguel Gonzalez had what he described to The Daily Beast as “an emotional tantrum” and, with relative ease, used his credentials to access the paper's content management system to post a series of racist, sexist, and lewd fake headlines.
New York Times / Tressie McMillan Cottom
In the political talk show race, outrage is winning →
“All of this is only funny in a laugh-to-keep-from-crying kind of way.”
Washington Post / Jeremy Barr
The meteoric rise of CNN’s Kaitlan Collins →
“When asked whether she thinks people have cast her politically because of her time working for the Daily Caller, Collins said she is ‘completely nonpolitical,’ adding that ‘if people surmise things, that's fine.'”
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