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Facebook will reportedly only pay a quarter of the news outlets featured on its upcoming news tab

Joshua BentonSeptember 30, 2019

Reading political news in the age of Trump leaves people stressed, angry, and overwhelmed

“Now you feel like every day there’s a new decision and a new statement and a new issue that you need to know about.” “I think I’m taking like a slight media sabbatical, just because it’s been, like, so heavy with what Trump is doing.”

Christine SchmidtSeptember 30, 2019

Radio Ambulante’s audience is worldwide. Listening clubs help bring them together

“She said…‘What you’re describing in the episode is what I’ve lived and what my family has experienced.’ She started sharing her experience. That completely changes the mood, the direction of the conversation.”

Joshua BentonSeptember 27, 2019

Is a journalist calling out the impact of racism “bias”?

The BBC reprimands a morning-show host for saying a racist comment by Donald Trump made her furious: “Our audiences should not be able to tell from BBC output the personal opinions of our journalists.”

Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 27, 2019

WhatsApp’s message forwarding limits do work (somewhat) to stop the spread of misinformation

Plus: “Newsworthiness” and how politicians are fact-checked on Facebook, and the number of countries with political disinformation campaigns has more than doubled in the past two years.

That Chinese news aggregation app that’s been driving a ton of traffic might become an American news aggregator app

Mark CoddingtonSeptember 26, 2019

“Glory and honor”: How professional identity shapes the way journalists do their work

“In an era in which trust in news is fractured and employment is precarious, we need to look more closely at the ways that journalists’ sense of their own professional value — or lack thereof — influences the work they do and the environment in which they do it.”

Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 26, 2019

This company opens up the black box of what print newspaper subscribers are actually reading

For each article, Lesewert comes up with a “reading value” score that brings together the data on how many print readers at least noticed it and how much of it they read.

New York Times CEO Mark Thompson on local news in the U.K.: “It looks like something close to a wipeout”

Joshua BentonSeptember 25, 2019

Vox Media and New York magazine isn’t a marriage, but it’s a deal that makes sense

Two companies with similar editorial values and brands that mostly complement instead of overlap. This is the kind of smart merger we should see more of.

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