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Thursday, January 19, 2023
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A new fellowship enlists students to fill reporting gaps on HBCUs“There’s no [better] way to be close to an institution than through somebody who lives in a dorm." By Hanaa' Tameez. |
What We’re Reading
Current / Jacqueline Cutler
PBS is launching a multiplatform climate initiative in April →
“Led by Nova, Climate Across America will marshal two new documentaries from the science unit at GBH in Boston with localized content created by station partners.”
TechCrunch / Sarah Perez
TikTok rolls out its “state-controlled media” label to 40 more countries →
“In TikTok's case, the company says it evaluates the editorial independence of an operation by considering its mission statement, editorial practices and safeguards, leadership and editorial governance, and its actual editorial decisions. It also offers an appeals process if an entity feels they've been unfairly labeled by its trust and safety team.”
CNN / Oliver Darcy
Davos conspiracy theories used to live on fringe corners of the internet. Now they’ve gone mainstream →
"The fact is that these conspiracies have bounced around in more fringe parts of the internet," Alex Friedfeld, associate director with the ADL Center on Extremism, said. "But when you have folks like Tucker Carlson or Glenn Beck — they start to normalize these conspiracies, they expose millions of more people to these ideas."
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
“A certain gleefulness on the part of the mainstream media”: Margaret Sullivan on the coverage of Biden’s documents →
“It goes very quickly from substance to the political fallout, and that is speculative. And it tends to be predictive. And if there's one thing that we should have learned, it's that journalists are terrible at predictions, but they love to predict anyway.”
The New York Times / David McCabe
The Supreme Court is poised to reconsider key tenets of online speech in three upcoming cases →
“On Friday, the Supreme Court is expected to discuss whether to hear two cases that challenge laws in Texas and Florida barring online platforms from taking down certain political content. Next month, the court is scheduled to hear a case that questions Section 230, a 1996 statute that protects the platforms from liability for the content posted by their users.”
The Washington Post / Pranshu Verma
Tracking rising religious hatred in India, from half a world away →
“Using video and picture evidence submitted by a network of Indian activists, along with news aggregation, the site tracks hate crimes by Hindus against Muslims, Christians and members of the lower-ranked castes. Since its founding in April 2021, it has catalogued more than 1,000 instances of violent attacks and rhetoric.”
The Verge / James Vincent
Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion for scraping its content →
“The lawsuit marks an escalation in the developing legal battle between AI firms and content creators for credit, profit, and the future direction of the creative industries.”
Los Angeles Times / Meg James
Alec Baldwin and weapons handler to be charged with manslaughter in deadly “Rust” shooting →
“The charges represent a dramatic culmination of more than a year of speculation over who, if anyone, would be held accountable for the tragic death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, a rising star in the film industry.”
The Atlantic / Derek Thompson
The wisdom of dumb questions →
“Questions that might initially seem dumb or underinformed, or downright unintelligent, are the smartest way to learn stuff if you're a journalist, an academic, or anybody else.”
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