Social media policies are failing journalists
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023
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Social media policies are failing journalistsPlus: The trouble with journalists’ involvement in news literacy programs, soft news as a gateway to propaganda, and social media editors between news and marketing. By Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis. |
What We’re Reading
The New York Times / Karan Deep Singh
How a Dalit journalist founded The Mooknayak to cover caste and oppression in India →
“The ‘almost complete absence’ of Dalit journalists, writers and television personalities in the Indian media, said Harish Wankhede, a professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi who studies caste in media, creates ‘a black hole of gatekeeping"’ in which articles highlighting crimes against Dalits are routinely buried.”
TechCrunch / Sarah Perez
Medium launches a “premium” Mastodon instance as a membership perk →
“Medium is the first major tech company to offer users a ‘premium’ Mastodon experience — meaning access to the instance isn't free as it is elsewhere when signing up directly. Instead, interested users would have to purchase a Medium membership, which currently runs $5 USD per month or $50 per year with its annual plan.”
The Washington Post PR
The Washington Post is offering new subscribers access to Headspace →
“New subscribers will have access to The Washington Post's world-class reporting and put their wellness goals into practice with Headspace's science-backed mindfulness and meditation content that offers a range of tools for managing stress, increasing positivity and compassion, improving sleep, finding focus and so much more.”
Press Gazette / Bron Maher
Proton launched dedicated VPN servers for access to censored Deutsche Welle stories →
“DW, a German state-funded news agency, is currently blocked in Russia, Turkey and Iran. An internet user in those countries should now be able to access DW if they download Proton's VPN application. Proton VPN's chief technology officer Samuele Kaplun wrote on the company's website that DW approached Proton in autumn last year ‘to see if we could help them make their independent reporting available all around the world.'”
Poynter / Poynter Staff
A majority of millennials and Gen Zers pay for news →
“Both millennials and Gen Z were more than twice as likely to pay for news from independent creators (i.e. email newsletters, video or audio content) than traditional print and digital outlets.”
Digiday / Tim Peterson
How NBC News’ Devan Joseph and Stephanie Scrafano cover the news on TikTok →
"Something we do too is clue the audience into what's about to come. On [videos that use TikTok's quote-tweet-style stitching feature] we'll often put the phrase 'stitch incoming' so that the audience knows that [they] might have seen this video already floating around the internet but we have something to add to it."
Rest of World / Nilesh Christopher
YouTube has created a multimillion-dollar dubbing economy →
“If you take the top 10,000 YouTube videos by performance and dub them in 20-plus languages, you could easily unlock an additional half a trillion to a trillion views.”
The New Yorker / Masha Gessen
How Russian journalists in exile are covering the war in Ukraine →
“TV Rain, which is known as Dozhd in Russian, began broadcasting on Latvian cable last July — and almost immediately started racking up warnings and violations.”
The Guardian / Mark Sweney
The U.K. publisher Reach publishes its first articles written using AI →
The articles (like this one) were published on local news site InYourArea.co.uk under the byline “InYourArea Community.”
New York Times / Reggie Ugwu
The new hosts of Radiolab get ready to remodel a landmark →
"We're like a rat king, but a nice rat king. Our tails have been tied together through fate and circumstance and we all have to scurry in the same direction."
Washington Post Engineering / Chris Zubak-Skees
How The Washington Post verified its journalists on Mastodon →
“Verification on Mastodon isn't dependent on a central authority like Twitter. No one person can sell verification or revoke it.”
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