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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
We found that Americans who see news coverage that shows generic “line” images at polling places are less likely to say they will vote in future elections.
“A keyword-focused ‘close enough, good enough’ approach to white Christian nationalism risks misdiagnosing problems, muddling solutions, and alienating potentially reachable readers.”
By Whitney Phillips, Mark Brockway and Abby Ohlheiser
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.”
“It crescendoed right before election day, and then once the election was over, so was America’s crime crisis no longer the subject of maximum concern that it had been in the previous weeks.”
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism / Federica Cherubini
“Regardless of what rules organisations have put in place in terms of home versus office work, opinions are divided on whether staff are effectively coming back to the office. At the end of summer 2022, there were reports of other industries also battling with their employees to get them back into the workplace.”
“On November 20th, the Mastodon handle @LauraMartinez posted, ‘I’m here because Elon broke Twitter,’ which was more of a summary of what a great many people felt about the old platform than a zealous endorsement of the buggy, complicated new one.”
“‘One of the biggest misconceptions about my vision is that I want to be vanilla, that I want to be centrist. That is bullshit,’ [CEO Chris Licht] said. ‘You have to be compelling. You have to have edge. In many cases you take a side.'”
Financial Times / Hannah Murphy, Alex Barker, and Arjun Neil Alim
“After several waves of job cuts and departures, Twitter’s ads business team has shrunk so much that many agencies no longer have any point of contact at the company and have received little to no communication in recent weeks, according to four industry insiders.”
“A cross-party coalition of MPs has been calling for the change in the law to ‘prevent the use of court processes to silence investigative journalists’ with the threat of multimillion-pound legal costs, following a rash of Slapps seeking to ‘silence investigative journalists.'”
“Which is to say: Major media outlets promoted an inaccurate depiction of the national political mood heading into Election Day, and they have no stated regrets about it. And if they’re holding discussions on improving the coverage, they don’t care to disclose them.”
“The report says that while Alexa’s Echo line is among the ‘best-selling items on Amazon, most of the devices sold at cost.’ One internal document described the business model by saying, ‘We want to make money when people use our devices, not when they buy our devices.'”
“This is the story of some DC reporters who got upset that they didn’t get invited to a wedding. Nothing more. And naturally, when faced with pushback (such as asking why Cook didn’t bother to read the photo caption), these journalists got even more defensive, arguing that people just don’t understand how journalism works.”
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