The Prison Newspaper Directory finds that the number of prison-based papers is growing
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023
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The Prison Newspaper Directory finds that the number of prison-based papers is growingThere are at least 24 known prison newspapers in 12 states, and four of them were launched in 2022. By Hanaa' Tameez. |
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Don’t trust “the news media”? That may be a good thingThe pervasive amount of news media criticism in the U.S. has intensified the erosion of trust in American journalism, but such discussion can be seen as a sign of democratic health. By Michael J. Socolow. |
What We’re Reading
The New York Times / Julie Lasky
What can a half-century-old magazine teach us today? →
“Apartment Life was the oddball child of the conservative Meredith Corporation, in Des Moines, Iowa, the publisher of the heartland handbook Better Homes & Gardens. Dorothy Kalins, the magazine's founding executive editor and later editor in chief, said Meredith had caught wind of an emerging market of well-educated readers who scorned Better Homes' emphasis on traditional design and housewifely values.”
New York Post / Ben Kesslen
After shutting down in 2020, Playboy Magazine is relaunching to compete with OnlyFans →
“Playboy is relaunching its iconic magazine as a digital-first publication — as the racy lifestyle brand takes on OnlyFans, The Post has learned. The revamped magazine, which shuttered in 2020 and ceased printing, will debut later this year. The online publication will serve as an entry to Playboy's ‘creator platform,’ which the brand is selling as an ‘elevated,’ ‘safe’ and ‘exclusive’ alternative to OnlyFans.”
Deadline / Jake Kanter
BBC journalists are going on strike tomorrow →
“The first 24-hour walkout is due to start tomorrow at 11AM UK time. The NUJ has confirmed that King Charles III's Coronation in May and Eurovision are also targets for industrial action.”
Digiday / Kayleigh Barber
News publishers lament the role of verification firms in the programmatic market →
“…in the past year, the war in Ukraine, the overturning of Roe v. Wade and coverage of the pending recession have joined the keyword block lists, and between that and the rise of contextual targeting, news publishers worry that the problem will only be exacerbated by the layers of optimization that buyers apply to their programmatic buys going forward.”
Mapping Journalism / Francesco Zaffarano
How German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle nails TikTok, explaining German culture to 350k followers →
“Berlin Fresh was Deutsche Welle's first TikTok account. We launched it two years and a half ago. Not many media outlets were on the platform then. Today, media companies are asking how, and not if, they should engage with users on TikTok. Right now, Deutsche Welle has nine different accounts on the platform. We want to reach our Gen Z audience, so we have to meet them where they are – and that's TikTok. Right now, Deutsche Welle has eleven different accounts on the platform.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
The rail disaster in Greece that spurred a media reckoning →
“…The relative lack of attention paid to the rail-safety story in recent years reflects a broader deficit of hard-hitting accountability journalism in the country's mass media. Bersi told me that major outlets have never really invested in investigative journalism (‘The first time I saw an investigative team inside a newspaper was in the movie Spotlight, and I've worked in the mainstream press for twenty-four years,’ she said), while other observers stressed that the Greek media industry as a whole was hammered by the debt crisis, which led to sharp cuts and spurred a further consolidation of media ownership…”
The Atlantic / Brian Stelter
How not to cover a bank run →
“Reporters who can provide historical context — explaining why 2023 is not 2008, and why SVB is not Lehman — perform a tremendous public service.”
The New Yorker / Zach Helfand
A coup at the WestView News →
“New York is a city of neighborhoods, and each has its own paper. Bowery Boogie, Rockaway Times, Norwood News, Canarsie Courier. Amid the larger forces of homogenization, the community rag remains a stubborn fixture.”
Rest of World / Fiona Kelliher
A leaked law proposal shows that Cambodia would give the government expanded powers to censor critics →
“Laid out over 13 pages, the law would allow the government to seize operating systems and copy and filter data from entities unable to mitigate the impacts of a ‘cybersecurity threat or cybersecurity incident at the critical level’ — defined broadly as an event that could cause ‘significant harm’ to ‘national security, national defense, foreign relations, the economy, public health, safety or public order.’"
Platformer / Zoë Schiffer and Casey Newton
Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams →
“The move leaves Microsoft without a dedicated team to ensure its AI principles are closely tied to product design at a time when the company is leading the charge to make AI tools available to the mainstream, current and former employees said.”
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