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Sarah ScireSeptember 22, 2020

Nonprofit news organizations are becoming more diverse, but they still lag behind the communities they cover

More than half of all nonprofit outlets have either no people of color or “only a small percentage” within their ranks. The vast majority — more than two-thirds — do not have a single person of color in leadership at the executive level.

Poynter now offers six months of parental leave, putting it on par time-wise with much larger media companies

Joshua BentonSeptember 21, 2020

“Politics as a chronic stressor”: News about politics bums you out and can make you feel ill — but it also makes you take action

“Daily political events consistently evoked negative emotions [which] predicted worse day-to-day psychological and physical health, but also greater motivation to take action aimed at changing the political system that evoked the negative emotions in the first place.”

Hal CrawfordSeptember 21, 2020

Digital-only newsrooms are in the firing line as Australian news law grinds toward reality

Lifestyle and youth publishers that source the majority of their traffic from Facebook face closure, while traditional media players that campaigned for the laws look set to be the relative winners.

The New York Times will flag viral misinformation with a new Daily Distortions feature

Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 18, 2020

Spanish-language misinformation is flourishing — and often hidden. Is help on the way?

“Conspiracies are flourishing with virtually no response from credible Spanish-language media outlets.”

A new hotline promises answers to your race and gender questions — on deadline

Joshua BentonSeptember 17, 2020

For COVID-19, as with everything else, Americans on the right and left live in different universes when it comes to trusting the media

A new study looks at how people in seven countries view the motives of the news media in covering the pandemic. Only in the United States is that a profoundly partisan question.

Sarah ScireSeptember 17, 2020

A new nonprofit newsroom, Mountain State Spotlight, wants to be the watchdog for West Virginia

“In my experience in legacy media, the answer was to throw your hands in the air and say, ‘There’s not much we can do.’ Well, I don’t find that acceptable. We have to find ways to reach those audiences.”

The Objective StaffSeptember 17, 2020

Are news companies already putting diversity pledges on the back burner?

Plus: Writers reveal problems at Chicago Magazine, and The Atlantic damages trust with transgender readers.

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