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How ProPublica reached workers while reporting on dairy farm conditions
“We plan to do more than simply expect that readers will find the story and find us. We plan to take the story to them.”
By Charles Ornstein, ProPublica
Last Night at School Committee distills hours-long public meetings into half-hour podcast episodes
“We have created this podcast as an easy way for any parent, citizen, or interested party to get the highlights, and our take, on what happened last night at School Committee.”
By Sophie Culpepper
How Seen’s mobile journalism reaches 7 million people across platforms
“Three years ago, I would have said that every platform is super different from the others. Now they’ve all become quite similar.”
By Francesco Zaffarano
Seeing stories of kindness may counteract the negative effects of consuming bad news
“This shows us there’s something unique about kindness which may buffer the effects of negative news on our mental health.”
By Kathryn Buchanan
How one journalist uses Instagram to pull back the curtain on her reporting process
“We ask people every day to let us in at their worst moments. To give nothing of ourselves in return sometimes feels like denying that we’re [also] people in this equation.”
By Sophie Culpepper
An incomplete list of things that rank above news startup The Messenger in a Google search for “The Messenger”
Including a hair stylist in Overland Park, Kansas, a podcast on Ugandan politics, the 15th track on Linkin Park’s 2010 album A Thousand Suns, and “a watery zone within which a naked man slowly materializes.”
By Joshua Benton
The New York Times launches “enhanced bylines,” with more information about how journalists did the reporting
“This is a way to modernize how we do what we do,” Lee said. “It’s more colloquial, it’s more plain-spoken.”
By Hanaa' Tameez
Meet the first-ever editor for Latino audiences at NPR
“The weight of coverage shouldn’t have to fall on the shoulders of a select few, but rather on the organization as a whole. I am here to make sure of that.”
By Hanaa' Tameez
No need to shoot The Messenger: Its muddled ideas are doing the job
The new site from the former owner of The Hill — backed by $50 million — feels like a remnant of an earlier age.
By Joshua Benton
“The world’s largest Black group chat”: Behind the mission to preserve Black Twitter
A number of efforts are underway to document not just the content created on the platform but how Black women used it for communication and community — along with the abuse they received.
By Jasmine Mithani, The 19th
Google is changing up search. What does that mean for news publishers?
A shift to AI-generated search results will decrease the traffic that Google sends to publishers’ sites, as more people get what they need straight from the Google search page instead.
By Laura Hazard Owen
The Athletic’s live audio rooms bring sports talk radio into this century
The Athletic’s first live room took place in September 2021. By January 2022, they’d done 100. Today, they’re closing in on 1,000.
By Sarah Scire
In Spain, a new data-powered news outlet aims to increase accountability reporting
Demócrata.es, launched in March, publishes data-driven reporting and plans to expand.
By Hanaa' Tameez
How ProPublica reached workers while reporting on dairy farm conditions
“We plan to do more than simply expect that readers will find the story and find us. We plan to take the story to them.”
By Charles Ornstein, ProPublica
Last Night at School Committee distills hours-long public meetings into half-hour podcast episodes
“We have created this podcast as an easy way for any parent, citizen, or interested party to get the highlights, and our take, on what happened last night at School Committee.”
How Seen’s mobile journalism reaches 7 million people across platforms
“Three years ago, I would have said that every platform is super different from the others. Now they’ve all become quite similar.”
What We’re Reading
The Verge / Amrita Khalid
A new magazine will chronicle “the future of podcasts” in print
“I also think that journalism about culture now has to compete with stuff made by influencers, which gets far more views because it has none of the ethical concerns our work does. Scary stuff!”
The Verge / Jay Peters
The New York Times’ push into games meant a major change for its crosswords app
“On Tuesday, people who subscribe to the NYT’s Games or All-Access subscriptions will start to get an extra perk: the NYT is rolling out access to the previous two weeks of Spelling Bee puzzles so that subscribers have an archive to chip away at.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
Circles within circles in the coverage of the debt ceiling
“It might feel as if 2025 is a long way off, but it will quickly come around — and, if we can collectively find the time to obsess over an election that is almost as far away, we have the bandwidth to talk, too, about the prospect of yet another circular policy psychodrama, and how it might be averted before the cliff’s edge. We don’t have to be cynics.”
Esquire / Ben Mack
Breaking news at the end of the earth
Meet the one-person team behind Antarctica’s longest-running newspaper, the Antarctic Sun.
The Wall Street Journal / Keith Zhai
China and India are kicking out nearly all of each other’s journalists as the rivalry between the two countries escalates
“The reciprocal moves are likely to add to acrimony between the two neighbors, whose relationship has deteriorated since a deadly brawl on the contested Sino-Indian border in June 2020. Since then, a once-warming relationship between the two members of the so-called Brics grouping of emerging powers has grown testy, spilling over into a wide-ranging bilateral dispute.”
A Media Operator / Jacob Cohen Donnelly
Vice failed because of Vice, not private equity
“The team was more worried about all the accolades that come with a massive, top-line valuation versus building a highly sustainable media company. And its decision making was immensely flawed.”
Financial Times / Roula Khalaf
The Financial Times’ editor explains how the paper is thinking about AI
“We won’t publish photorealistic images generated by AI but we will explore the use of AI-augmented visuals (infographics, diagrams, photos) and when we do we will make that clear to the reader. This will not affect artists’ illustrations for the FT.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Danny Funt
“The last good website”
“Decisions at Defector are made by committee, and every co-owner is expected to sit on one.”
The Guardian / Jesse Armstrong
Jesse Armstrong on the roots of Succession
“The Sun doesn’t run the U.K., nor does Fox entirely set the media agenda in the U.S., but it was hard not to feel, at the time the show was coming together, the particular impact of one man, of one family, on the lives of so many.”
Observer / Rachyl Jones
American Journalism Project CEO talks fundraising for local news
“I think we are going to see that nonprofit news is a much larger portion of the original reporting happening in the country. Already in some of the places we support, the largest news organizations in those markets are nonprofits.”
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