Archives: 2019

Nicholas QuahJanuary 8, 2019
These are the trends to watch for podcasting in 2019
Plus: More daily news podcasts are on the way, a union win at WNYC, and Kanye.
Christine SchmidtJanuary 8, 2019
Local public meetings are a scrape and a tap away, on City Bureau’s Documenters tool
“The goal is not to produce content for media outlets. It’s to repair broken bridges with local government, to get people to the meetings, get their voices heard, and figure out the line between where the active citizen and journalist is.”
Christine SchmidtJanuary 7, 2019
The Dallas Morning News — still family controlled — shears its newsroom by 20
Christine SchmidtJanuary 4, 2019
In 2018, push alerts featured less yelling and more thinking
Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 4, 2019
2019: A year when fake news gets intimate and everyone disagrees on everything
Predictions and looks back.
Local news needs local conversation to survive
“Most people don’t consume news because they want to be more informed about the news; they want to be informed about the news that they’re likely to talk about.” Celeste LeCompte
Learn from Indigenous journalists on covering climate change
“Indigenous journalists and media counter this systematic bias often by reporting on what isn’t covered (or covered well, or covered consistently) by other media. But also — and this is a crucial difference — they do so by turning to Indigenous people as experts on their lives and their histories.” Candis Callison
From pageviews to impact
“Metrics of impact will be our golden data points; we need to understand if what we’re creating has any effect on the world we live in.” Mariana Moura Santos
Reported facts, weaponized in service of action
“Readers facing big issues will crave actionable perspectives.” Almar Latour
The rise of vertical storytelling
“In 2019, horizontal scrollytelling will feel stale and old. Vertical Storys will be all the rage.” Ole Reißmann
Journalism doesn’t fit well in a funnel
“Some public-minded publications are beginning to sound like an NPR station during pledge week: An increasing amount of the work they produce seems to be about how important and vital it is that they continue to produce work.” Gabriel Snyder
A long, slow slog, with no one coming to the rescue
“Much of the news currently published online is simply not worth paying for. Some of it is hardly worth our fleeting attention, let alone hard-earned cash.” Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Unlocking the commons
“The most powerful and interesting media model will remain raising money from members who don’t just permit but insist that the product be given away for free.” Tim Carmody
Correcting our corrections
“Reporters will use emerging technologies, new workflows, and input from their audiences to catch mistakes before they hit the web.” Salem Solomon
Return of the water cooler
“When it comes to news, we want to know what everyone else knows, to make sure we’re seeing what we think we should.” Sue Cross
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