Archives: 2017

Shan WangFebruary 6, 2017
Univision’s plans for the former Gawker sites: A shared business backend, less duplication, and a push into TV
“Think of all these sites as the digital, non-linear television arm of Univision.”
Ricardo BiltonFebruary 6, 2017
The history of American conspiracy theories holds some lessons for fake news debunkers, says Jesse Walker
“For a lot of people, the real assumption that they bring to the news, even beyond their partisan affiliations, is an expectation of a smooth narrative…That’s the real bias that readers have to combat, and it’s something that people in the media have to think about.”
Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 3, 2017
Newspaper readers in the U.K. still spend nearly 90 percent of their time with print. Oh well?
Joseph LichtermanFebruary 3, 2017
How local publisher Technically Media is trying to diversify its business with a focus on community
The company, which publishes tech sites in the Mid-Atlantic, wants to grow beyond its core events revenue model while keeping community at the heart of what it does.
Ricardo BiltonFebruary 3, 2017
What happens when a mid-sized city loses its last daily newspaper? Guelph, Ontario offers a case study
“This problem is creeping up the ladder, from the small town that has 10,000 people to the decent-sized community that has 50,000 people to, now, a place that has over 100,000.”
Ricardo BiltonFebruary 2, 2017
Reddit’s /r/worldnews community used a series of nudges to push users to fact-check suspicious news
“We found a method that can invite a much wider readership into the work of dealing with this problem, and at scale.”
Damian Radcliffe and Christopher AliFebruary 2, 2017
If small newspapers are going to survive, they’ll have to be more than passive observers to the news
Adopting the role of a good neighbor does not mean abandoning critical perspective. It’s an opportunity to ensure that local newspapers are at the heart of the conversations taking place in their communities.
Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 2, 2017
Marketplace doesn’t “believe in the view from nowhere,” but still fired a reporter over a blog post
Newsrooms are struggling to apply traditional ideas about objectivity to the current moment, and some journalists are being caught in the middle.
Shan WangFebruary 1, 2017
The boundaries of journalism — and who gets to make it, consume it, and criticize it — are expanding
Reporters and editors from prominent news organizations waded through the challenges (new and old) of reporting in the current political climate during a Harvard University event on Tuesday night.
Nieman Lab StaffFebruary 1, 2017
“I think that journalism needs to rediscover its roots as a blue-collar profession”
Top journalists from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and the Nieman Foundation discuss the path forward for reporting in the Trump era.
Kathleen KingsburyFebruary 1, 2017
Kathleen Kingsbury: How The Boston Globe decided it had reached its threshold for moral outrage
“It’s one of those things that a lot of us had gotten into our business to do: to have impact, to change the world, whether you worked for the opinion pages or the newsroom.”
Brian Stelter: We need to talk about whether news as we know it can survive a post-fact era
“Many Americans — I would say, on a positive day, most Americans — do care about sources of information, do care about the truth.” Brian Stelter
Lolly BoweanFebruary 1, 2017
Lolly Bowean: When we tell our communities’ stories, we show people how to relate to one another
“I’m here to remind you today that great journalism can also find ordinary, regular people and find the extraordinary in what they do.”
Bill KristolFebruary 1, 2017
Bill Kristol: Remember, demagogues thrived long before the Internet disintermediated the news, too
“Joe McCarthy, you know, was very successful before the Internet, before social media. George Wallace won five states in 1968…So I think it’s too simple to assume that all of our problems are due to this.”
Joseph LichtermanFebruary 1, 2017
Wall Street Journal editor Gerard Baker defends his decision to limit use of “majority Muslim country”
“I am an absolute stickler in all of our coverage for precision in language because, as you say, words are loaded. They have political meanings, they have cultural meanings, and they have identities that go beyond simple words.”
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