What’s the best way to deal with a flood of misinformation? Maybe it’s time for some deliberate ignorance
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022
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What’s the best way to deal with a flood of misinformation? Maybe it’s time for some deliberate ignorance“It is only by ignoring the torrent of low-quality information that people can focus on applying critical search skills to the remaining now-manageable pool of potentially relevant information.” By Joshua Benton. |
What We’re Reading
The Fix / Sofiia Padalko
The Kyiv Independent, one year in →
“[We had] a GoFundMe fundraiser, which already had $20,000 collected, and a Patreon with 600-700 patrons and a developed plan for their engagement. Many other publishers started doing this only after the invasion began.”
9to5Mac / Ben Lovejoy
“Apple’s ad business is likely doing the company more harm than good” →
“It's becoming increasingly clear that the money is anything but free: It comes at the cost of a growing level of reputational harm…All this for 1% of additional revenue? It's just not worth it. And the more Apple grows its ad revenue, the worse the problem becomes.”
Semafor / Max Tani
Rupert Murdoch plans to replace Wall Street Journal editor Matt Murray with a Times of London veteran →
“News Corp. executives in London have told associates they expect the editor of the Sunday Times, Emma Tucker, to take the top editorial job at the Wall Street Journal…A former Dow Jones executive told Semafor that when he was considering replacements for then-editor-in-chief Gerry Baker in 2018, Rupert Murdoch flew both Murray and Tucker to Los Angeles to discuss the job.”
WNYC Studios
On the Media has a new podcast about how the right came to dominate talk radio →
The Divided Dial “charts the growth of broadcasting company Salem Media Group” and “[illuminates] how conservative dominance of the airwaves was aided by long-term regulatory erosion and strategic pressure from the right.”
The Boston Globe / Larry Edelman
The Boston Globe names NPR news chief Nancy Barnes as its next editor →
She previously ran the Houston Chronicle and the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
CNBC / Alex Sherman
The ad market is worse now than during the lows of the pandemic, according to one media exec →
“Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said the advertising market was weaker than at any point during 2020′s coronavirus pandemic … Warner Bros. Discovery has had its valuation cut in half this year. Other companies reliant on advertising, such as Snap, Meta and BuzzFeed, have all fallen more than 65% this year.”
Axios / Sara Fischer
Private equity firm CVC and media collective Media Black may be looking to buy Vox →
“Vox is not looking to sell the business at the moment, according to one source who spoke with Axios. The company declined to comment.”
Cleveland Scene / Vince Grzegorek
The new nonprofit outlet Signal Cleveland launched today →
“Signal will feature explainers, civic tools and resources, the work of the Cleveland Documenters, and stories by the newsroom’s handful of beat reporters who will be covering government, health, education, criminal justice and the economy.”
CNN / Oliver Darcy
Protocol, the tech news website launched by Robert Allbritton, will shutter and lay off its entire staff →
“The shuttering of the news organization will impact approximately 60 staffers, people familiar with the matter said.” Our story about Protocol’s launch here.
What's New in Publishing / Jez Walters
The Washington Post is “looking into products that aren't our all-access subscription product, but instead offer more limited exposure” →
“This isn't something we would do lightly so we're being thorough about it, including in-depth qualitative interviews around the correlation between price, access, and willingness to subscribe.”
Washington Post / Paul Farhi
Voice of America removes story that embarrassed Vietnam’s prime minister →
“The decision disturbed journalists in VOA's Vietnamese-language service, who objected to the removal in a meeting with senior editors shortly afterward but received no explanation.”
Defector / Lauren Theisen
How many trans people does The New York Times believe there should be? →
“Taking the side effects that members of a specific community might experience while making a potentially life-saving medical decision in consultation with their doctors and reframing it as a potential outcome so dire that it deserves a New York Times longform does nothing but put a bigger target on that community.”
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