Newsrooms get nimble in a recession
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Friday, December 9, 2022
 | Newsrooms get nimble in a recession“Every day you can scope down what you’re doing to the most important things is another day you can keep fighting.” By Snigdha Sur. |
 | There is no “peak newsletter”“People will realize the idea that we had reached ‘peak newsletter’ was both stupid and undermined by the data and consumer preference.” By Jim VandeHei. |
 | TikTok personality journalists continue to rise“It won’t just be brand accounts posting these TikToks — it’ll be reporters using their own accounts to explain their reporting.” By Jaden Amos. |
 | More newsrooms go mobile-first“The majority of those making news content decisions should be digital natives.” By Mario García. |
 | Covering the right wrong“Journalists can’t be so cavalier as to assume that ‘shedding light’ on antisemitism, transphobia, homophobia, xenophobia, and racism is always either harmless or beneficial.” By A.J. Bauer. |
 | Airline-like loyalty programs try to tie down news readers“The creative pursuit of reader revenue will continue as we borrow from other industries — even industries we often love to hate.” By Ryan Kellett. |
 | Journalists keep getting manipulated by internet culture“Content lives and dies by the number of people who engage with it. The press needs to stop giving attention away for free.” By Jessica Maddox. |
 | Everyone finally realizes the need for diverse voices in tech reporting“The lack of diverse insight, analysis, and segregated coverage seems intentional — like a form of editorial redlining.” By Dominic-Madori Davis. |
 | Facebook and the media kiss and make up“Watch for Facebook to reemerge, promoting itself as the sensible, mature alternative to Elon Musk's Twitter chaos.” By Joanne McNeil. |
 | Digital news design gets interesting again“Modern digital design has drained all sentiment and inventiveness from products we use on a daily basis.” By Al Lucca. |
 | Community partnerships drive better reporting“It shows the power behind diverse teams who bring their shared life experiences to the table. It confirms that this work can’t be locked inside in newsroom silos.” By Leezel Tanglao. |
 | Subscription pressures force product innovation“Once growth slows and the lowest-hanging fruit — the superfans — have signed up, publishers will have to get smarter about how to make money from the rest.” By Esther Kezia Thorpe. |
 | Rebuilding the news bundle“The overarching lesson of digital media's first generation is that the users have the power.” By Brian Moritz. |
What We’re Reading
Slate / Jeremy Littau
Congress’ best idea to save local journalism would actually hurt it →
“The JCPA is the kind of bad bill that threatens to surface in sudden moments because of its good intentions and patchwork of odd bipartisan bedfellows.”
Reuters / Asif Shahzad
Pakistani journalist’s killing in Kenya is now believed to be a case of pre-meditated murder →
“A two-member fact-finding team from Pakistan that travelled to Kenya and conducted a number of interviews, examined and reconstructed the crime scene and examined the deceased’s phones and computers, said in a 600-page report that [Arshad Sharif]’s killing was a pre-planned murder.”
The Atlantic / Adam Serwer
The right to post →
“The insistence that social-media companies should not be allowed to make editorial decisions about what is welcome on their platforms, that it violated the Constitution for a publisher to reject a story it saw as unreliable, that a private company is obligated to let you use its platform to hurl racist slurs at strangers from behind the safety of a screen — this understanding reflects belief in a new constitutional right. Most important, this new right supersedes the free-speech rights of everyone else: the conservative right to post.”
Esquire / Sophie Vershbow
The murky path to becoming a New York Times bestseller →
“It’s a data project full of contradictions.”
The New York Times / Joe Bernstein
Can The Daily Wire turn Nashville into Hollywood for conservatives? →
“One simple principle explains almost every aspect of The Daily Wire: culture war as entertainment, a format-flexible monofocus on the bitter conflicts that can dominate American public life.”
Intelligencer / Shawn McCreesh
Just what did the Times walkout change? →
“Ultimately, the staff just wants more money, and management has budged very little on that.”
Kate Gonzales
Examining “imposter syndrome” in journalism on Latina Equal Pay Day →
“News organizations can't be committed to building trust with overlooked communities while exploiting the staff who are connected to those communities. Pay that is equal and adequate is a major factor — but not the only one. And by ignoring or excusing these inequities when journalists point them out, they do a disservice to their news organizations and audience.”
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