“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.”
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 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.”
“The European Commission on Thursday threatened Musk with a ban unless Twitter abides by strict content moderation rules … in the U.S., authorities’ scrutiny of Twitter appears to be focused on foreign ownership of the social media platform.”
“In interviews conducted in the United States and Central America, more than a dozen members of the El Faro newsroom told me that the Pegasus hackings had impaired their ability to work as journalists and maintain sources’ trust. ‘It’s a shitty feeling,’ Óscar Martínez, El Faro’s executive editor, whose phone was infected with Pegasus forty-two times between July, 2020, and October, 2021, told me. ‘Sources, they were very upset with me. And they have the right to be. They just trusted me. And I failed them.'”
“When the New York Times announced, on November 7, that Wordle would have an editor, I didn’t give it much thought. How much could the mere presence of a person really change it? Oh, how naive I was!”
“In a memo to employees, the network’s chairman Chris Licht said that some people, primarily paid contributors, would be notified of the cuts on Wednesday. Others will be notified on Thursday, Mr. Licht wrote, with additional details to follow that day.”
Facing a $20 million deficit in sponsorship revenue this fiscal year, NPR is “severely restricting” hiring and making budget cuts but apparently isn’t planning layoffs.
“We have updated the story to underscore the complexity of interpreting that dispatch. We have added additional context to the story. We have also identified two factual errors inconsequential to the premise of the story. They have been corrected.”
“In a very difficult year for publishing, we found that the format provided unexpected challenges …” Astra Magazine’s site had attracted 50,000 unique visitors each month.
A number of publishers are testing subscription prices, Lindsay said, declining to share which ones he was privy to. The New York Times’ president and CEO Meredith Kopit Levien said in the company’s Q3 2022 earnings call that the publisher is considering upping the price of its individual products in the coming months to “drive more people to take our bundle.”
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