One lesson from pandemic times is that journalism education doesn’t have to happen in person, and remote learning can open up more opportunities for journalists to launch their own products.
Pinpoint, which uses AI and machine learning to help reporters sift through investigative materials, is part of the recently-released Journalist Studio.
The far-right site The Gateway Pundit was by far was the most-shared fake news domain; in some months, its stories were shared almost as often as stories from The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN.
Newspapers have all had to make cuts. But it doesn’t look like they’ve favored the beats that are most important to democracy — watchdog coverage of local governments — over other kinds of news.
Plus: The SacBee wants those sweet, sweet clicks, the Dallas News Guild wins its vote to unionize, and “when bison merit 80% of the airtime afforded to Asian American history, it calls into question not only the leadership of public television but also who gets to tell these stories, and why.”
Carve-your-own butter sculptures, Minnesota trivia, and cheese curd-flavored chapstick were among the Star Tribune’s virtual offerings. (Replicating the llama costume contest proved a bit too difficult.)
The Citizen Browser Project will pay 1,200 Americans to let The Markup monitor the choices that tech company algorithms are making for them. “What are they choosing to amplify? And what are they choosing not to amplify?”
“I just determined that I would rather do anything else in life than to dismantle a proud newsroom and lay off my friends and colleagues and eventually be laid off myself.”
One lesson from pandemic times is that journalism education doesn’t have to happen in person, and remote learning can open up more opportunities for journalists to launch their own products.
Pinpoint, which uses AI and machine learning to help reporters sift through investigative materials, is part of the recently-released Journalist Studio.
The far-right site The Gateway Pundit was by far was the most-shared fake news domain; in some months, its stories were shared almost as often as stories from The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN.
“The feature allows users to stream just the audio track of a show or movie in the background. This would effectively allow for a listening experience that’s similar to podcasts or audiobooks, while also cutting down on data consumption.”
Election Integrity Partnership / Kate Starbird, Michael Caulfield, Renee DiResta, Jevin West, Emma Spiro, Nicole Buckley, Rachel Moran, and Morgan Wack
Michael Pack, a Trump appointee who assumed leadership of the U.S. Agency for Global Media in June, eliminated a regulatory “firewall” intended to protect journalists at Voice of America and its affiliated newsrooms from political interference. Pack argued the policy interfered with his mandate “to support the foreign policy of the United States.'”
“At the end of the day, I’m a little personally horrified. All I wanted was to read a profile about someone with a background and identity similar to mine who’s built an impressive niche media empire. But this profile reduced Nick to a token at best and an interloper at worst. I mean jesus christ. Is that what this industry thinks of people like us?”
“Pre-bunking is a less polarizing way to address misinformation than trying to apply judgements to posts after they’ve been shared. ‘Research shows that the best time to give people accurate information is the first time they see or interact with a claim. By definition fact-checking is after the fact.'”
The New Yorker / Yasmine Al-Sayyad and Benedict Moran
“Foreigners think they know the U.S. and Americans and they really don’t. I mean, they think that someday Americans will wake up and realize that it’s not good to have all those firearms. It’s not going to happen. I reached the conclusion that we don’t understand them and they don’t understand us, which is why it’s great working in this country, because it is fun to keep being baffled by what happens.”
Originally built in-house to support Bloomberg’s subscription business, an A/B testing tool called ABBA is now being used to support the ad team’s work of optimizing its products and campaigns. It’s one part of a larger effort to better merge the two business sides.
BuzzFeed offset a steep decline in advertising with around $30 million in cost cuts, “a mix of furloughs, pay reductions, layoffs and other changes meant to stabilize the company’s finances through the pandemic, the people said.”
As of today, there are only six publications that are endorsing Trump for reelection, including an editorial in the Spokane Spokesman Review that urges its readers to vote for Trump, even though he’s “a bully and bigot.”
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