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Thursday, March 2, 2023
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Those meddling kids! The Reverse Scooby-Doo theory of tech innovation comes with the excuses baked in“The largest, most profitable, most powerful companies in the world ought to be judged based on how they are impacting the present, not based on their pitch decks for what the future might someday look like.” By David Karpf. |
What We’re Reading
Dirt / Daisy Alioto
The taste economy →
“Magazines are the original creator economy, so why is nobody talking about them?”
New Jersey Globe / David Wildstein
The New Jersey Star-Ledger is closing its Washington bureau →
“This marks the first time in over 100 years that the state's largest newspaper will not have a reporter assigned to cover New Jersey's U.S. Senators and members of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington.”
Hell Gate / Esther Wang
The New York Times’ Philip Corbett responds to the organizers of the trans coverage letter →
“I believe the specific news stories cited in your letter were entirely in keeping with our journalistic standards.”
PBS NewsHour / Kenichi Serino
The Black Press Archives at Howard University is helping people learn their local history for the first time →
“In many communities across the United States, the ‘first rough draft of history,’ as the saying goes, has been told by the mainstream press. Often that has meant white reporters who were writing for white audiences. The stories told by Black newspapers about their own communities are less well known. The Black Press Archives seeks to change that by digitizing decades of Black publications and making them available to the public.”
Vox / Sara Morrison
TikTok isn’t really limiting kids’ time on its app →
“Users aged 13 to 17 can enter their own passcode and continue to use the app. They can also opt out of the 60-minute default screen time limit, but if they spend more than 100 minutes on TikTok a day they will be forced to set their own limits — which they can then bypass with their code.”
Center for Public Integrity
The Center for Public Integrity acquires a tool to make data more accessible to journalists →
“The Accountability Project, launched by the Investigative Reporting Workshop in 2019, is an innovative platform that allows journalists to search 1.8 billion public records and counting, as well as organize resulting data for analysis in reporting.”
Northwestern Medill Local News Initiative / Mark Caro
The case for government support of local journalism →
“How do we make a formula that describes how journalistic ethics manifest in business models? We’re not going to describe what journalism is because that’s getting into dangerous territory. But we know that if you’re creating journalism, then you’re probably transparent about who your owner is. And we know that if you’re making journalism, you probably hire journalists. And we know that if you’re doing local journalism, those journalists probably live within a certain radius of their coverage area. And we know that you probably don’t take money from PACs, and you’re probably not owned by a PAC.”
The Financial Times
The Financial Times launches its FT Edit curated-stories app in the U.S. →
“As a journalist, it's a fascinating challenge. How do you curate eight stories for Americans who most likely haven't read the FT before?”
TechCrunch / Kyle Wiggers
OpenAI launches an API for ChatGPT, plus dedicated capacity for enterprise customers →
“The ChatGPT API underpins My AI, Snap's recently announced chatbot for Snapchat+ subscribers, and Quizlet's new Q-Chat virtual tutor feature. Shopify used the ChatGPT API to build a personalized assistant for shopping recommendations, while Instacart leveraged it to create Ask Instacart, an upcoming toll that'll allow Instacart customers to ask about food and get ‘shoppable’ answers informed by product data from the company's retail partners.”
Politico / Jack Shafer
Rupert Murdoch rides the Trump tiger — and gets eaten →
“Far from being a media superpower, as his foes would describe him, Murdoch comes off as trapped by the craven choices he made to serve as Trump's supplicant and protector.”
Digiday / Sara Guaglione
Fox News redesigns its homepage to focus more on soft, non-politics news →
The idea is to “provide more ‘brand safe’ content to advertisers, said Porter Berry, EVP and editor-in-chief of Fox News Digital.”
The Guardian / Jonathan Yerushalmy
Axel Springer CEO Mathias Doepfner says journalists could be replaced by AI →
“‘Artificial intelligence has the potential to make independent journalism better than it ever was – or simply replace it,’ CEO Mathias Doepfner said in an internal letter to employees.”
Vanity Fair / Joe Pompeo
With her latest media project, Jane Pratt is still telling all →
“Classic Sassy headlines include, ‘My Mother Was a Coke Fiend’; ‘My Best Friend Died of AIDS’; and ‘The Dirty, Scummy Truth About Spring Break.’ DeedDa has its own TMI content teed up: ‘Yeah, I Have Herpes. You Probably Do Too. Ask Me Stuff’; ‘These Candles Smell So Good, If I Could Cut and Snort Them I Would’; ‘Someone With No Medical Background Said to Sun My Butthole So Now I'm Spread Eagle Every Morning.'”
Washington Post / Rachel Weiner
To fight defamation suit, Fox News cites election conspiracy theories →
“A key part of Fox's defense strategy appears to rest on many of the conspiratorial themes that prompted the lawsuit in the first place and that now pepper its recent court filings: alleged links to late Venezuelan socialist leader Hugo Chávez, an ominous affidavit from a supposed ‘former military intelligence officer,’ claims of ‘glitches’ in voting machines.”
CBC / Peter Zimonjic
Canada is summoning top Google executives after the company blocked some news content →
Google blocked news in some Canadian searches in response to a proposed media law. The Canadian government also ordered Google and its parent company Alphabet to hand over all documents and messages related to its decision.
The Wrap / Josh Dickey
Ozy Media suspends operations following federal fraud indictment of founder Carlos Watson →
“‘In light of its current operational and legal challenges, the OZY board has determined that it's in the best interests of its stakeholders to suspend operations immediately,’ the company said.”
Reuters Institute / Maurice Oniang'o
“Mobile journalism is the fastest way to change how Africa’s narrative is told.” →
Emmanuel Yegon, founder of Mobile Journalism Africa, on trying to make mobile journalism mainstream in the continent.
D Magazine / Tim Rogers
The Dallas Morning News fired an education reporter after she called the mayor “bruh” on Twitter →
In a tweet that would change the trajectory of her career, Megan Mangrum wrote the following: "Bruh, national news is always going to chase the trend. Cultivate relationships with quality local news partnerships." Mangrum was a member of the paper’s union and joined a protest on the day she was fired.
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