“We do advocate against the racist function of policing, [but] we focus equally on being present in the community, doing poetry nights, basketball park takeovers, and other community-building, life-affirming activities.”
Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises has spent the past decade selling off most of its media properties as it brings in billions from cable. So why dive back in?
“What we often don’t think about is how tech accountability is also so many other types of coverage. It’s labor coverage, climate change coverage, healthcare coverage, criminal justice coverage, immigration coverage — I could go on and on.”
“Numbers do not speak for themselves. All the same, many people believe that they do. An ideology we call numerism, which accords a privileged epistemic status to quantification, is widespread.”
“If accessibility is only pitched as something that’s related to code or only related to computers, it’s going to be real easy for people in newsrooms to distance themselves from that.”
“We do advocate against the racist function of policing, [but] we focus equally on being present in the community, doing poetry nights, basketball park takeovers, and other community-building, life-affirming activities.”
“In Aspen, the dispute has left residents and officials asking whether local journalism could still tell the truth fearlessly and independently in a town with such outsize gaps in wealth, where an average home costs nearly $3 million, small shops are being supplanted by the likes of Gucci and Dior and local workers are being pushed out.”
“In May, the Los Angeles Times saw 4% of its traffic come from the Jun Group on one specific day … Both TheGrio and Scary Mommy received about 91% and around 61% of their traffic from the Jun Group, on given days, respectively … Further, according to [ad-fraud researchers Rocky] Moss, none of the bid requests he observed from publisher-bought traffic were labeled as rewarded.”
“If digital-only operations are to fill the gap in existing news deserts, then funders and entrepreneurs must begin to address the disparity between the resources available to urban sites compared to those in smaller suburban and rural communities, as well as traditionally underserved urban neighborhoods.”
“A problem that a lot of reporters have privately wrestled with is, how do you report this, which is important, without acting as a PR person for the ransomware groups?”
“With virtually no independent media left inside the country and foreign reporters banned from entering, Nicaragua has become ‘an information black hole,’ said Natalie Southwick of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Government propaganda is all that remains.”
“I’m about killing the alligator closest to the boat. And right now that means getting information to men who have sex with men about how to avoid this.”
“Google Search can now understand what is the consensus on a certain query by checking across other sources deemed to be high-quality. Search can also now detect some false premises, the company said.”
“Facebook has been criticized for not making [end-to-end encryption] default on Messenger, especially in the wake of the reversal of Roe v. Wade in the United States, where digital footprints like app chats will be used as evidence in prosecuting newly criminalized abortions.”
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