Today in the Future of News: The latest from Nieman Lab
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Thursday, December 1, 2022
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The Washington Post launches a year in news à la Spotify Wrapped“We initially built a ‘look-back’ experience but pivoted when we learned that our readers are more interested in insights that center on their reading ‘personality’ and content discovery rather than revisiting news from the past.” By Hanaa' Tameez. |
What We’re Reading
Axios / Sara Fischer
The Recount, John Battelle and John Heilemann’s video news site, is “suspending operations” →
“A source told Axios last month that the Recount lost $10 million in 2021 on $1 million in revenue.”
Pocket
Pocket’s most-read stories of 2022 →
“Your stolen attention, a uniquely ridiculous American decade, and the best sleep and time hacks no one ever tells you.”
Business Insider / Rob Price and Melia Russell
Andreessen Horowitz’s tech publication, Future, is shutting down →
“Future ended up being a hodgepodge of self-serving content. That’s what we have Medium for.”
The Seattle Times / Chase Hutchinson
Journalists near and far react to the journalism of ABC’s new show “Alaska Daily” →
“Created by Tom McCarthy, who helmed the Oscar-winning film ‘Spotlight,’ it stars Bellingham-raised actor Hilary Swank as hard-boiled reporter Eileen Fitzgerald, who moves to Alaska from New York after her previous job fell through. She begins working with intrepid local journalist Rosalind ‘Roz’ Friendly, played by Secwépemc actor Grace Dove, on an investigation into the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the state.”
The New York Times / Tiffany Hsu
Sympathy, and job offers, for Twitter’s misinformation experts →
“On LinkedIn, under posts eulogizing Twitter's work on elections and content moderation, comments promoted openings at TikTok (threat researcher), DoorDash (community policy manager) and Twitch (trust and safety incident manager).”
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism / Waqas Ejaz, Mitali Mukherjee, Richard Fletcher, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
How we follow climate change: Climate news use and attitudes in eight countries →
“Selective news avoidance, where people actively try to avoid news often, even if they also continue to follow it at least some of the time, is almost as widespread for news on climate change as it is for news in general, ranging from 10% in Japan to 41% in India.”
AP
Guatemala’s investigative El Periodico newspaper stops print edition after the government arrests the paper’s president →
“‘It has been 30 years of struggle against corruption and impunity, against governmental abuses and terrorism, in favor of freedom transparency and accountability,’ [José Rubén] Zamora wrote in a final editorial, datelined from the prison cell where he is being held.”
The Washington Post / Ben Strauss
It’s a(nother) big moment for U.S. soccer. Men in Blazers are here for it. →
“The goal is to turn Men In Blazers into a full-fledged media company powered by the growth of soccer's popularity in the United States.”
Poynter / Angela Fu
As Pittsburgh and Fort Worth strikes continue, newspaper owners seek scab labor →
“McClatchy, which owns the Star-Telegram and 29 other dailies, has posted at least five on-call positions ranging from Accountability Reporter to Visual Journalist. Block Communications, the owner of the Post-Gazette, has eight jobs listed including Investigative Reporter and Advertising Sales Rep that contain notices that the offered employment is in place of employees involved in an ongoing ‘labor dispute.'”
The New York Times / Benjamin Mullin
Gannett starts another round of staff cuts →
“Employees at Gannett's newspapers, which include USA Today, The Indianapolis Star and the Detroit Free Press, began receiving layoff notifications Thursday, part of an effort to cut about 6 percent of the company's roughly 3,440-person U.S. media division.”
Twitter / Ben Mullin
The Washington Post will end its print Sunday magazine →
The last issue will be published on Dec. 25 and 10 staff jobs will be cut.
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