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Tuesday, January 24, 2023
What We’re Reading
New Lines Magazine / Kareem Shaheen
Why the media didn’t publish the Muhammad paintings at the heart of the Hamline controversy →
“To show the paintings was also — and it's hard to overstate this — relevant to the story. How can you publish an essay or report about controversial paintings without including a depiction of the paintings in question? Furthermore, how do you justify their exclusion when the entire point of the controversy is the ideal of free thought and expression and how they are under assault?”
Vanity Fair / Charlotte Klein
Layoffs hit the Washington Post →
“Reports have accumulated about the Post in recent months about everything from its business struggles to questions about leadership, along with several high-profile departures. Bezos's visit has only added to the media attention on the paper, with The New York Post speculating Monday about Bezos ‘may’ sell the Post in order to buy a football team. The report, which noted that Bezos ‘told the paper's senior staff in private meetings that he had no plans to sell the paper,’ was dismissed by a spokesperson for the paper, who said The Washington Post is not for sale.”
Time / Astha Rajvanshi and Armani Syed
Why India is using emergency laws to ban a BBC documentary about prime minister Narendra Modi →
“The 59-minute documentary takes an in-depth look at the 2002 Gujarat riots—one of the worst outbreaks of religious violence in India since the country's Independence in 1947…The riots took place under Modi's watch, who at the time was Gujarat's Chief Minister. Raw and chilling footage in the documentary reveals how the police stood by as Hindu mobs attacked Muslims and religious attacks took hold of the state.”
Vice / Tess Owens
Instagram has a white nationalist ‘groyper’ problem →
“In a report shared exclusively with VICE News, Media Matters identified 40 active accounts linked to known ‘groypers,’ the name for the very online acolytes of 24-year-old white nationalist livestreamer Nicholas Fuentes and his organization "America First." Although Fuentes has been suspended from most mainstream social media platforms, including Instagram, since about 2019, his supporters continue to spread his video clips and posts.”
TechCrunch / Ivan Mehta
How the recently shuttered third-party apps contributed to Twitter’s development →
The bird logo, the pull-to-refresh feature, and even the word “tweet” were all created by third-party developers.
CNN / Oliver Darcy
Dozens of journalists were killed last year amid a “precipitous decline in press freedom,” alarming new report finds →
“The disturbing report comes on the heels of CPJ's annual prison census which found a record 363 reporters were imprisoned in 2022. That number represented a 30-year high, and comes after last year's report that also found a record number of journalists deprived of their freedom.”
Poynter / Tom Jones
Behind the L.A. Times’ decision to run a controversial photo with its coverage of the mass shooting in Monterey Park →
“We believe the photo is an important piece of journalism that captures a critical moment in this tragedy."
Columbia Journalism Review / Mercy Tonnia Orengo
A recession by any other name →
“Perhaps the most challenging part about reporting on the economy now, Delaney said, is that it tends to ‘get boring.’ He added, ‘We have been in the same economic situation, as far as we can tell, for, like, a year. The stories can be very repetitive, and it's hard to find new ways to describe things.’"
Washington Post / Robert Barnes and Cat Zakrzewski
The Supreme Court wants the Biden administration to weigh in on whether states can bar social media platforms from removing political speech →
“The request for the views of the solicitor general will delay a decision on whether the high court takes up the issue. At stake is the constitutionality of state laws in Florida and Texas that would restrict platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube from blocking or limiting political speech, and require transparency in how such decisions are made.”
Futurism / Jon Christian
CNET’s AI Journalist appears to be extensively plagiarizing →
“Jeff Schatten, a professor at Washington and Lee University who has been examining the rise of AI-enabled misconduct, reviewed numerous examples of the bot’s apparent cribbing that we provided. He found that they ‘clearly’ rose to the level of plagiarism.”
Politico / Natalie Allison
“Fox News in Spanish”: Inside an upstart media company’s big plans to impact the 2024 election →
“The network has hired more than 80 Latino journalists and producers, are expanding their radio presence to television, and by the end of the year will have studios in Miami, Las Vegas and D.C. with reporters covering the White House, Congress and embedding in 2024 presidential campaigns. This month, Americano is launching a $20 million marketing campaign to draw in new viewers.”
The New Yorker / Molly Fischer
The rules according to Pamela Paul →
“Weighing in on ‘the way we live now’ entails new scrutiny on that ‘we.'”
American Journalism Project
American Journalism Project will grant $3.25 million to Enlace Latino NC, Fort Worth Report, and Nebraska Journalism Trust →
“This brings the American Journalism Project's portfolio of grantees to 36 organizations and total investments made to more than $40 million.”
The Daily Beast / Lachlan Cartwright
Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight are on ABC’s chopping block →
“Silver … faces an uncertain future as news division boss Kim Godwin reviews the publication, which has never turned a profit. FiveThirtyEight has not backfilled key positions, including that of managing editor (Micah Cohen exited last year for data site Stacker), politics editor (Sarah E. Frostenson defected to The Washington Post), and sports editor (Sara Ziegler was poached by The New York Times).”
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