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Wednesday, January 18, 2023
What We’re Reading
Open Campus / Amy Morona
“I've had to find different roads to grow”: A look at Inside Wire Colorado Prison Radio →
“Inside Wire is one of several programs operated by the DU Prison Arts Initiative. It is among several prison radio stations across the country. The Louisiana State Penitentiary has operated KLSP-91.7 FM (known as the ‘Incarceration Station’), the country's only FCC-licensed prison radio station since 1986, though earlier iterations of the station existed in the late 1950s. In Texas, men on death row run their own station. There's even an international prison radio association.”
The Verge / Ariel Shapiro
New podcast creation has fallen off a cliff →
“One thing I keep hearing over and over is that it is so much harder to launch a podcast now than it was, say, three or four years ago…It is not entirely surprising that, according to data compiled by Chartr from Listen Notes, fewer podcasts were created in 2022 than in the two years prior. Even so, the margin is shocking: the number of new shows created dropped by nearly 80 percent between 2020 and 2022.”
Whynow / Harvey Solomon-Brady
CNN’s Great Big Story will live again, as a licensed brand →
It’s being licensed to Whynow, a U.K. “team of creatives who work across video, podcasts, music, and journalism to bring you the best stories in the arts.”
Nieman Foundation
Apply to the Nieman Foundation’s Bingham & Taylor awards by this Friday, January 20 →
The Worth Bingham Prize ($20,000) honors investigative reporting of stories of national significance where the public interest is being ill-served. The Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism ($10,000 for the winner, $1,000 each for two finalists) encourages fairness in news coverage by American journalists and news organizations.
Digiday / Sara Guaglione
Traffic from Twitter to news sites has dipped →
“Twitter referral traffic to a dozen major publishers' websites declined, on average, by 12% in December 2022 compared to November 2022, according to an analysis by Similarweb…Publishers Digiday spoke with mostly blamed the removal of Twitter Moments in December as the reason for this drop.”
The Information / Erin Woo
Report: Twitter’s daily revenue has dropped 40% →
“In a staff meeting on Tuesday, Siddharth Rao, an engineering manager overseeing the engineers working on Twitter's ad business, also told employees in a presentation that more than 500 of Twitter's top advertisers have paused spending on Twitter since Elon Musk took over in October.”
The Guardian / Christopher Knaus
Australian journalists are angry over new federal court restrictions on their reporting →
“The changes were made without any consultation and were only publicly revealed last week — a process the court justified by claiming the changes were ‘administrative or internal in nature.’ Fifty-eight journalists from the ABC, Guardian Australia, Nine, and News Corp wrote to the chief justice, James Allsop, on Monday, urging him to undo the changes.”
The Washington Post / Jhesset O. Enano
Maria Ressa has been acquitted of tax evasion charges in the Philippines →
“The Philippine Court of Tax Appeals cleared Ressa, 59, and her social news site Rappler of four charges of tax evasion that had been filed by the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte…’These charges were politically motivated…a brazen abuse of power meant to stop journalists from doing their jobs," said Ressa.”
The New York Times / Derrick Bryson Taylor
U.S. News’ college rankings business hits another bump, with Harvard Medical School dropping out →
“U.S. News has published the rankings for decades, and while they have come under growing criticism, they continue to be an influential guide for students and their parents during the college selection process.”
The New York Times / Michael M. Grynbaum and John Koblin
The GOP is considering CNN — and Newsmax — to host presidential primary debates →
“Networks typically foot the significant costs for holding a debate…in return, TV executives secure big ratings and big revenue. Primary debates in 2015 and 2019 broke viewership records. In the 2016 race, when both parties' nominations were openly contested, CNN hosted more than a dozen primary debates and candidate forums; the network often made up to $2 million in profit from each event.”
The Verge / Richard Lawler
Apple reportedly won’t be releasing AR glasses any time soon →
“…if creating a set of lightweight, all-day wearable AR glasses is currently out of reach for Apple for ‘technical challenges,’ it gets harder to imagine that Google's Project Iris, or the Meta glasses that Mark Zuckerberg reportedly hoped to launch in 2024, will be ready to wear anytime soon.”
The Verge / Emma Roth
Twitter acknowledges it’s breaking third-party apps like Tweetbot on purpose →
Though without specifying why, exactly. “Twitter's vagueness isn't much of a surprise, given that the company dismantled its communications team as part of CEO Elon Musk's mass layoffs.”
Dame Magazine / Allison Hantschel
“There’s a reason why every new news site looks, feels, and reports the same way” →
“Day after day, Semafor has covered the kinds of things you read on Bloomberg, Vox, Barron's, the Federalist and most of the editorial pages of the New York dailies.”
The New York Times / Benjamin Mullin and David Yaffe-Bellany
Turns out 40% of Semafor’s initial funding came from Sam Bankman-Fried →
Bankman-Fried was Semafor’s biggest outside investor with $10 million. Now, the news startup is planning to buy out Bankman-Fried's ownership while it explores raising new money.
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