A new study finds that the more local newspapers there were in a county, the worse it performed on a measure of social distancing in the early days of the pandemic. But take the findings with a grain of salt.
“We’re starting to wonder, ‘Okay, can this work as a social audio conversation? How can we get more voices on this whether from the audience or our sources?'”
“We all grew up with All the President’s Men. You don’t want to take away from the power of that moment and the press holding the administration accountable. But we have to think, why was there not a Black person or a woman on that team?”
Hong Kong’s sedition laws were introduced in the early 20th century and had been unused since the 1970s. Now they are being used to charge Apple Daily and Stand News journalists.
A new study finds that the more local newspapers there were in a county, the worse it performed on a measure of social distancing in the early days of the pandemic. But take the findings with a grain of salt.
“Barring an epochal change of heart or habit on the part of the public, the flow of information will only get faster and more discordant in the years ahead.”
“Financial power is the indispensable prerequisite for the kind of power that interests me more: Agenda-setting power. This is where media institutions, both established ones and the relative newcomers like POLITICO, need to reclaim ground.”
“No one has challenged the broader focus of Totenberg’s original story, which asserts that the justices in general are not getting along well. The controversy over the anecdotal lead, which was intended to be illustrative, has overwhelmed the uncontested premise of the story.”
“Climate change disproportionately affects communities of color and lower-income communities, but these stories really get overlooked; because of that, the climate crisis is not seen as a crisis by everyone. By encouraging journalists of color to work on these stories, we want to make clear, ‘Hey, this is already happening. It’s not something we’re expecting in the future. The climate crisis is here.’”
The New York Times / Julie Turkewitz and Mitra Taj
“The author of a book about a powerful politician has been sentenced to two years in prison. Media advocates say the case is part of a trend in which the courts are being used to punish critics.”
“It’s also incredibly disappointing to see big media companies frame this as ‘drama’ content and basically strip this man who we know zero about(!!) of any humanity,” Lorenz said in a Twitter thread.
“A subscription model for TikTok could mimic Instagram, but it might have to look very different because of the app’s robust For You page algorithm, which has users scrolling on the app for hours without the need to follow individual creators.”
“We have to be true to our brand, true to BBC News. So what we’re not going to do is light news on TikTok. If we go onto TikTok, we’d be true to the news brand so we’d be able to report any news in the way that we’d want to… We’re only going to go on to these platforms if editorially we think they’re the right platforms to be on.”
“A new Russia team is being established led by Christo Grozev, the Bulgarian investigative journalist behind much of Bellingcat’s ongoing Russian reporting. The full-time team working for the organisation is set to grow too, giving it a total of 30 staff.”
Specifically, CBS News. “He is also the second well-known correspondent to exit The Post in recent days. David Fahrenthold, a 21-year veteran of the paper and a Pulitzer Prize winner for his investigations into the Trump family’s charitable donations, joined The New York Times earlier this month.”
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