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The New York Times launches a free, geo-targeted extreme weather newsletter
Readers can opt in to receive morning emails explaining the level and type of extreme weather risk in up to four different places. The newsletter is free for everyone, not just subscribers.
By Sophie Culpepper
Gannett journalists across the U.S. will strike on June 5
Gannett has around 200 newsrooms, and editorial employees at around two dozen of those will go on strike.
By Laura Hazard Owen
With new widgets, The Philadelphia Inquirer wants to be readers’ favorite “second-screen experience”
The news org is catering to the readers who spend a lot of time on their phones during live events like sports games and election returns.
By Sarah Scire
How ProPublica reached workers while reporting on dairy farm conditions
“We plan to do more than simply expect that readers will find the story and find us. We plan to take the story to them.”
By Charles Ornstein, ProPublica
Last Night at School Committee distills hours-long public meetings into half-hour podcast episodes
“We have created this podcast as an easy way for any parent, citizen, or interested party to get the highlights, and our take, on what happened last night at School Committee.”
By Sophie Culpepper
How Seen’s mobile journalism reaches 7 million people across platforms
“Three years ago, I would have said that every platform is super different from the others. Now they’ve all become quite similar.”
By Francesco Zaffarano
Seeing stories of kindness may counteract the negative effects of consuming bad news
“This shows us there’s something unique about kindness which may buffer the effects of negative news on our mental health.”
By Kathryn Buchanan
How one journalist uses Instagram to pull back the curtain on her reporting process
“We ask people every day to let us in at their worst moments. To give nothing of ourselves in return sometimes feels like denying that we’re [also] people in this equation.”
By Sophie Culpepper
An incomplete list of things that rank above news startup The Messenger in a Google search for “The Messenger”
Including a hair stylist in Overland Park, Kansas, a podcast on Ugandan politics, the 15th track on Linkin Park’s 2010 album A Thousand Suns, and “a watery zone within which a naked man slowly materializes.”
By Joshua Benton
The New York Times launches “enhanced bylines,” with more information about how journalists did the reporting
“This is a way to modernize how we do what we do,” Lee said. “It’s more colloquial, it’s more plain-spoken.”
By Hanaa' Tameez
Meet the first-ever editor for Latino audiences at NPR
“The weight of coverage shouldn’t have to fall on the shoulders of a select few, but rather on the organization as a whole. I am here to make sure of that.”
By Hanaa' Tameez
No need to shoot The Messenger: Its muddled ideas are doing the job
The new site from the former owner of The Hill — backed by $50 million — feels like a remnant of an earlier age.
By Joshua Benton
The New York Times launches a free, geo-targeted extreme weather newsletter
Readers can opt in to receive morning emails explaining the level and type of extreme weather risk in up to four different places. The newsletter is free for everyone, not just subscribers.
By Sophie Culpepper
Gannett journalists across the U.S. will strike on June 5
Gannett has around 200 newsrooms, and editorial employees at around two dozen of those will go on strike.
With new widgets, The Philadelphia Inquirer wants to be readers’ favorite “second-screen experience”
The news org is catering to the readers who spend a lot of time on their phones during live events like sports games and election returns.
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Associated Press
AP Images and AP Archive platforms replaced by AI-powered AP Newsroom
“AI-powered search for video is capable of finding individual moments within an entire video clip, regardless of length. The search is powered by an engine called NOMAD™ from MerlinOne, a software company with expertise in AI applications for visual objects.”
Vice / Anna Merlan and Tim Marchman
Vice has made thousands of public records regarding Jeffrey Epstein available to the public
“We are making the entire set of records available so that researchers, journalists, and other members of the public can examine them themselves.”
The Atlantic / Tim Alberta
CEO Chris Licht said he was on a mission to restore CNN’s reputation for serious journalism. How did it all go wrong?
“I told Licht that while I agreed with his observation—that Trump had baited reporters into putting on a jersey and entering the game, acting as opposing players instead of serving as commentators or even referees—there was an alternative view. Trump had forced us, by trying to annihilate the country’s institutions of self-government, to play a more active role than many journalists were comfortable with. This wasn’t a matter of advocating for capital-D Democratic policies; it was a matter of advocating for small-d democratic principles. The conflating of the two had proved highly problematic, however, and the puzzle of how to properly cover Trump continued to torment much of the media.”
Washington Post / Mary Ilyushina, Francesca Ebel, and Júlia Ledur
The notorious Russian jail holding U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich
“The yellow-walled, four-story building was built in the shape of the letter K. Former inmates describe a facility designed to instill fear, isolation and despair.”
The Guardian / Margaret Sullivan
Gay and trans people deserve to live without persecution in the US. Why is that so hard?
Often, in mainstream media, “audiences don’t get to see trans people as experts, even as human,” said Ari Drennen of Media Matters.
Press Gazette / Bron Maher
Wired’s Gideon Lichfield and Quartz’s Zach Seward are leaving their publications
“Lichfield, himself formerly a global news and then senior editor at Quartz, has led Condé Nast‘s technology magazine since March 2021 … Seward, meanwhile, was not only Quartz’s editor-in-chief but one of its co-founders, serving variously since 2012 as executive editor, chief product officer and chief executive editor.”
The Washington Post / Elahe Izadi
Cameron Barr to leave Washington Post after long tenure as managing editor
“Cameron Barr, The Washington Post’s senior managing editor, will leave the company at the end of June, the paper announced Thursday, capping his tenure as one of the longest-serving managing editors in the paper’s history.”
The Rebooting / Brian Morrissey
The advertising cockroach
Longtime Publicis ad executive and newsletterer Rishad Tobaccowala has a go-to line about ad agencies: “They say we’re like dinosaurs. But we’re like cockroaches. We are cockroaches. Everybody hates us. Nobody likes to see us. But cockroaches have outlived everyone. We scurry out of corners.”
Financial Times / David Sheppard and Samer Al-Atrush
Opec bans prominent media groups from Vienna meeting
“Reporters from Reuters, Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal have been denied invitations to Opec’s Vienna headquarters.”
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