“As someone who’s done the research, seen all the numbers, I can tell you that things are simply not changing quickly enough to present real, concrete progress.”
Is a defamatory comment left on your Facebook page more like graffiti on a wall, a streaker on live TV, or a hand-delivered telegram? Whatever your metaphor, Australian courts now say publishers are legally liable for words they neither wrote nor published.
With more than 50 participating newsrooms led by The Daily Yonder and the agribusiness-focused Investigate Midwest, the multi-year effort will be the nonprofit group’s largest collaboration ever.
Of the 73 editors-in-chief at award-winning college newsrooms in the Spring 2021 semester, less than 6% were Black, and approximately 10% were Latinx — significantly less than their share of the college population.
By Janice Kai Chen, Ilena Peng, Jasen Lo, Trisha Ahmed, Simon J. Levien, and Devan Karp
“As someone who’s done the research, seen all the numbers, I can tell you that things are simply not changing quickly enough to present real, concrete progress.”
Kyle Mazza “said he relies on earnings from his freelance work and money from his parents, who he says own their own data processing company, to underwrite UNF News. ‘They’re very invested in my career,’ he said. ‘It’s something that I’ll always thank them for. All of that help, that funding — that really is the driver for my career.'” (UNF stands for “Universal News Forever.”)
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“It’s those with anywhere between 10,000 and 50,000 followers — sometimes known as ‘microinfluencers’ — who are believed within the marketing industry to have an especially outsize impact on their followers.”
“University of Iowa law professor Cristina Tilley said the decision represents ‘a fairly new and unusual position that tweeting out an article that has already been published can make a speaker vulnerable to libel liability if the subject of the article has denied the original allegations in court.'”
SmartNews (here’s our overview of the company from 2019) “plans to use the money from its latest funding round to add employees in the U.S. and launch features focused on consumer health and safety.”
The team will “take on the challenge of developing innovative ways of deepening our audience’s trust in our mission and in the credibility of our journalism, no matter where it is encountered.” If you’re confused about what exactly this means, you’re not the onlyone, but they say they’ll share more details soon.
“Nina Gregory, senior editor for NPR’s Arts Desk who worked for the nonprofit media organization since 2006, is joining Clubhouse as its first head of news and media publishers.”
“At this point, every news outlet, from The New York Times to MSNBC, seems to have its own representative anecdote, and some go to great lengths to unearth new ones: In August, CNN’s Don Lemon flew to his hometown of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to shove a mic in the faces of the sick and ask, ‘Do you regret it?'”
“If a store doesn’t have a book in stock/sells out, it could be 6-8 weeks before we can get more. If we have a book in stock that we can immediately ship out, delays will be less, but there will likely still be shipping delays, especially as we get closer to the holidays.”
“‘I want to get into partnerships, and documentaries, and broaden the podcast slate, and experiment in all of the forms you can experiment with,’ [Merida] said. Of course it doesn’t hurt that the Golden State is full of major stories from climate change to the streaming wars. ‘You could argue that California is a country unto itself.'”
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