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The Washington Post launches a year in news à la Spotify Wrapped
“We initially built a ‘look-back’ experience but pivoted when we learned that our readers are more interested in insights that center on their reading ‘personality’ and content discovery rather than revisiting news from the past.”
By Hanaa' Tameez
How risky is it for journalists to cover protests?
Plus: Exploring why women leave the news industry, the effects of opinion labels, and susceptibility to disinformation.
By Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis
Coming to a Hawaii library near you: Honolulu Civil Beat is hosting pop-up newsrooms around the state
“We learned that people have an interest if they can get to us.”
By Hanaa' Tameez
How the Covid-19 pandemic pushed preprint-based journalism into the mainstream
“Verifying preprints appeared to be a real challenge for journalists, even for those with advanced science education.”
By Alice Fleerackers and Lauren Maggio
Post, the latest Twitter alternative, is betting big on micropayments for news
“What I believe consumers want is to be able to get multiple sources of news in their feed.”
By Laura Hazard Owen
Some midterm polls were on target, but finding which pollsters to believe can be tough
The outcomes confirmed anew that election polling is an uneven and high-risk pursuit.
By W. Joseph Campbell
Can Mastodon be a reasonable Twitter substitute for journalists?
Adam Davidson: “I think we got lazy as a field, and we let Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and, god help us, Elon Musk and their staff decide all these major journalistic questions.”
By Julia Angwin, The Markup
11 (and counting) things journalism loses if Elon Musk destroys Twitter
Goodbye to screenshotted best bits, DMs, “that tweet should be a story”…
By Laura Hazard Owen
This German news outlet is teaching people about local politics with an in-person game
“It gives you a much better view on what politics on a local level is, instead of just reading about it or going to a meeting yourself and sitting in as a guest.”
By Hanaa' Tameez
What’s the best way to deal with a flood of misinformation? Maybe it’s time for some deliberate ignorance
“It is only by ignoring the torrent of low-quality information that people can focus on applying critical search skills to the remaining now-manageable pool of potentially relevant information.”
By Joshua Benton
Meta’s layoffs make it official: Facebook is ready to part ways with the news
“Meta had the resources at its peak to do incredible things. Not just the dollars, but the encouragement to think of the best outcome possible, to make the biggest impact we could.”
By Sarah Scire
“We actually go back to the beginning”: After launching in London, the TikTok-focused News Movement comes to the U.S.
“One of our first successful TikTok videos that surpassed over a million views is our explainer of where Ukraine is on a map.”
By Marina Adami
There’s a 68 in 100 chance you’ll read this article about the audience for FiveThirtyEight-style election predictions
In other words, the odds are pretty good — but it’s far from a lock.
By Nicholas Diakopoulos
The Washington Post launches a year in news à la Spotify Wrapped
“We initially built a ‘look-back’ experience but pivoted when we learned that our readers are more interested in insights that center on their reading ‘personality’ and content discovery rather than revisiting news from the past.”
By Hanaa' Tameez
How risky is it for journalists to cover protests?
Plus: Exploring why women leave the news industry, the effects of opinion labels, and susceptibility to disinformation.
Coming to a Hawaii library near you: Honolulu Civil Beat is hosting pop-up newsrooms around the state
“We learned that people have an interest if they can get to us.”
What We’re Reading
Axios / Sara Fischer
The Recount, John Battelle and John Heilemann’s video news site, is “suspending operations”
“A source told Axios last month that the Recount lost $10 million in 2021 on $1 million in revenue.”
Pocket
Pocket’s most-read stories of 2022
“Your stolen attention, a uniquely ridiculous American decade, and the best sleep and time hacks no one ever tells you.”
Business Insider / Rob Price and Melia Russell
Andreessen Horowitz’s tech publication, Future, is shutting down
“Future ended up being a hodgepodge of self-serving content. That’s what we have Medium for.”
The Seattle Times / Chase Hutchinson
Journalists near and far react to the journalism of ABC’s new show “Alaska Daily”
“Created by Tom McCarthy, who helmed the Oscar-winning film ‘Spotlight,’ it stars Bellingham-raised actor Hilary Swank as hard-boiled reporter Eileen Fitzgerald, who moves to Alaska from New York after her previous job fell through. She begins working with intrepid local journalist Rosalind ‘Roz’ Friendly, played by Secwépemc actor Grace Dove, on an investigation into the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the state.”
The New York Times / Tiffany Hsu
Sympathy, and job offers, for Twitter’s misinformation experts
“On LinkedIn, under posts eulogizing Twitter’s work on elections and content moderation, comments promoted openings at TikTok (threat researcher), DoorDash (community policy manager) and Twitch (trust and safety incident manager).”
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism / Waqas Ejaz, Mitali Mukherjee, Richard Fletcher, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
How we follow climate change: Climate news use and attitudes in eight countries
“Selective news avoidance, where people actively try to avoid news often, even if they also continue to follow it at least some of the time, is almost as widespread for news on climate change as it is for news in general, ranging from 10% in Japan to 41% in India.”
AP
Guatemala’s investigative El Periodico newspaper stops print edition after the government arrests the paper’s president
“‘It has been 30 years of struggle against corruption and impunity, against governmental abuses and terrorism, in favor of freedom transparency and accountability,’ [José Rubén] Zamora wrote in a final editorial, datelined from the prison cell where he is being held.”
The Washington Post / Ben Strauss
It’s a(nother) big moment for U.S. soccer. Men in Blazers are here for it.
“The goal is to turn Men In Blazers into a full-fledged media company powered by the growth of soccer’s popularity in the United States.”
Poynter / Angela Fu
As Pittsburgh and Fort Worth strikes continue, newspaper owners seek scab labor
“McClatchy, which owns the Star-Telegram and 29 other dailies, has posted at least five on-call positions ranging from Accountability Reporter to Visual Journalist. Block Communications, the owner of the Post-Gazette, has eight jobs listed including Investigative Reporter and Advertising Sales Rep that contain notices that the offered employment is in place of employees involved in an ongoing ‘labor dispute.'”
The New York Times / Benjamin Mullin
Gannett starts another round of staff cuts
“Employees at Gannett’s newspapers, which include USA Today, The Indianapolis Star and the Detroit Free Press, began receiving layoff notifications Thursday, part of an effort to cut about 6 percent of the company’s roughly 3,440-person U.S. media division.”
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