Credit where it’s due
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Monday, December 12, 2022
 | Credit where it’s due“Saying people’s names isn’t difficult, but it does disrupt the assumption that brilliant journalistic work is the product of singular, virtuosic talents rather than collaboration.” By Alex Sujong Laughlin. |
 | A reckoning with why trust in news is so low“Too often the way large media organizations approach journalism implies that their audience is actually the Pulitzer Board, as opposed to their subscribers and the general public.” By Alan Henry. |
 | The press might get better at vetting presidential candidates“It remains a sad episode that Secretary Clinton’s emails received more attention for the server on which they resided than for what they said about how she had done in her job.” By Richard Tofel. |
 | Incarcerated reporters get more bylines“Our media industry, which is largely white and non-impacted by the system, has long underestimated and/or ignored people behind prison walls.” By Emily Nonko. |
 | Journalism starts working for and with its communities“Can we leave people with a sense of belonging? A sense of purpose or of wonder? A sense of agency even in the face of systemic problems?” By Masuma Ahuja. |
 | It’s time for PR for journalism“Even if the media industry takes urgent steps like diversifying newsrooms and empowering local media, the populist media bashing won’t go away. Ignoring it is not a sustainable way forward.” By Ayala Panievsky. |
 | Yes, journalists should learn to code, but…“They’ll need to think of coding as not just a single practice, but a range of related practices.” By Cindy Royal. |
What We’re Reading
Alec's Copaganda Newsletter / Alec Karakatsanis
How to smuggle ideology into the news →
“Smuggling normative opinion couched in the voice of objective reporting is among the most dangerous kinds of copaganda because it does not include indicia that the view is controversial and can thus be far more effective at manufacturing consent than when the news media explicitly informs readers that it is offering someone's opinion.”
The Wall Street Journal / Katie Deighton
Remember Tumblr? They hope you do →
“As the commotion surrounding Twitter's new ownership leads some users to consider moving to smaller social-media sites, Tumblr is pitching its free-to-use microblogging service as a welcome throwback to the early internet: a place where people can be as weird, creative, and nerdy as they like by posting and reposting media from photographs to poetry.”
The Wall Street Journal / Cordilia James and Ray A. Smith
Some Twitter power users are trying to be business casual on LinkedIn →
“Yet users are also finding that posts that work on Twitter's giddy, sometimes chaotic free-for-all don't always translate to LinkedIn, a networking site better known for work-anniversary and promotion announcements than snark and opinion.”
AP
67 journalists and media workers have been killed on the job this year →
“The Brussels-based [International Federation of Journalists] also tallied 375 journalists currently imprisoned for their work, with the highest figures in China including Hong Kong, in Myanmar, and in Turkey. Last year's report listed 365 journalists behind bars.”
Adweek / Mark Stenberg
Vox Media will no longer license Chorus, its CMS software →
“Chorus, which has six clients currently, will no longer take on new customers and will not renew its existing contracts, according to a person familiar with the business. Current clients will have 18 months to migrate off of the platform.”
NPR / Russell Lewis
Longtime soccer sportswriter Grant Wahl died covering the World Cup in Qatar →
“As NPR reported earlier, Wahl was prevented from entering one World Cup stadium in Qatar in November because he was wearing a rainbow t-shirt.”
The Guardian / Vanessa Thorpe
Is this the end of TV? U.K. broadcasters are preparing for the online-only switch →
“This glimpse of the near future came with the arrival of ITV's new digital home, ITVX, last Thursday and also in the resounding words of the BBC's director general, who the day before politely asked the nation's audiences to ‘imagine a world that is internet-only, where broadcast TV and radio are being switched off and choice is infinite.'”
Press Gazette / Charlotte Tobitt
This U.K. news site is tackling news avoidance with positive-news-only filter →
“The new feature allows users to choose to see only positive stories in the ‘latest’ feed and personalized ‘your feed’ on the app, helping people on days when they might need a ‘pick-me-up’ or not feel up to coping with some of the more depressing news stories.”
The New York Times / Michael Levenson
In a future filled with electric cars, AM radio may be left behind →
“Carmakers say that electric vehicles generate more electromagnetic interference than gas-powered cars, which can disrupt the reception of AM signals and cause static, noise, and a high-frequency hum. (FM signals are more resistant to such interference.)”
Vice / Jason Koebler and Edward Ongweso, Jr.
We are watching Elon Musk and his fans create a conspiracy theory about Wikipedia in real time →
“What was initially an obscure internal debate, which, again, is how a collective, open-source encyclopedia works, ballooned after Ian Miles Cheong tweeted that the Twitter Files were being censored by Wikipedia editors, and Musk responded.”
Breaking the News / James Fallows
More questions for ProPublica over its “lab leak” story →
“ProPublica has a great reputation, which it is eroding with its handling of this article. For instance: the next person who is visited by a ProPublica reporter with inconvenient questions can say, ‘As your boss would put it, I don't plan to comment.'”
Ad Age / Garett Sloane
Twitter is still trying to book advertisers for the World Cup →
“It is yet another example of how the platform’s beleaguered ad team is having a hard time winning back advertisers after the sudden drop-off of major brands that have fled in the Elon Musk era.”
Public Notice / Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson
Dan Froomkin on the state of political journalism →
“Journalists certainly aren't dwelling on [Trump’s] every word as much as they used to, and towards the end of his presidency they finally got much more comfortable about calling out his lies and calling them lies. But there are still problems.”
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