Archives: 2018

Ken DoctorJanuary 18, 2018
Newsonomics: Inside L.A.’s journalistic collapse
Southern California has gone from five significant daily newspaper companies three years ago to two today. And they’re both in trouble.
Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 17, 2018
HURRY UP BEFORE IT’S GONE, NEW YORK CITY: The Awl and The Hairpin are shutting down
Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 17, 2018
“We stepped in and started doing it”: How one woman built an award-winning news outlet from her dining room table
“This is all going on in my apartment. My kids were small and running around, there were always interns here. And then that spring, we were nominated for a really big award.”
Christine SchmidtJanuary 17, 2018
Cold, hard numbers will drive the stories on this Internet-crawling company’s new media arm
Fintech company Thinknum has lots of interesting data to sell access to. Now it wants to build public-facing stories out of it.
Dan KennedyJanuary 17, 2018
At The Boston Globe, the editorial pages are looking for new ways to engage readers
“We learned how important it is to have writers and editors and digital producers working collaboratively, near each other. It’s a model for the future.”
Ricardo BiltonJanuary 16, 2018
Americans say greater access to news sources is actually making it harder to stay informed
But they’re evenly split on whether or not the news selection algorithms on sites like Facebook and Twitter should be regulated.
Ricardo BiltonJanuary 16, 2018
For news nonprofits, the tax overhaul is bringing new uncertainty about future donations
“For us, it’s rare that someone cites the tax deductibility as a reason for giving. People are supporting us because they’re passionate about what we’re doing. People want to be a part of the community thats supporting us.”
Nicholas QuahJanuary 16, 2018
Who needs video? Slate is pivoting to audio, and making real money doing it
Plus: WBEZ tries to turn a podcast into a franchise, Science Friday joins WNYC Studios, and Gimlet opens up the HBO playbook.
Joshua BentonJanuary 12, 2018
If Facebook stops putting news in front of readers, will readers bother to go looking for it?
The idea that the value of a piece of news is defined by likes and comments — that taking in information without getting into a back-and-forth with your uncle about it is somehow unworthy — is actually a profoundly ideological statement.
Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 11, 2018
Facebook drastically changes News Feed to make it “good for people” (and bad for most publishers)
News publishers that have relied on Facebook for traffic will suffer.
Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 11, 2018
Maybe the science and psychology of “post-truth” can’t explain this moment at all
Plus: A French law against fake news during elections; Facebook meets with its fact-checkers; fake news jeans.
Ken DoctorJanuary 11, 2018
Newsonomics: Can a new management team soothe the roiled Los Angeles Times newsroom?
New hires from The New York Times and The Washington Post bring new faces to a news organization that has been in flux under Tronc management.
Shan WangJanuary 11, 2018
Global unhappiness with the news media is high. In the U.S. (surprise!) partisanship drives what people think about the media
In the U.S., supporting the party in power correlates with thinking the media does a terrible job. The opposite is true in nearly every other country surveyed.
Christine SchmidtJanuary 11, 2018
It’s not “citizen journalism,” but it is “citizens taking notes at public meetings with no reporters around”
Chicago’s City Bureau is betting on local residents doing this sort of low-key not-quite-journalism at meetings, and now it’s expanding the model to Detroit.
Christine SchmidtJanuary 10, 2018
China’s news agency is reinventing itself with AI
“We saw lots of interest in AI in China, and the sector is moving so fast in the country…The U.S. still has the best AI talent, but there are many good engineers and AI researchers in China as well.”
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