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The Objective StaffOctober 23, 2020

Keep your pants on, everyone (and quit defending the male journalists who don’t)

Plus: The SacBee wants those sweet, sweet clicks, the Dallas News Guild wins its vote to unionize, and “when bison merit 80% of the airtime afforded to Asian American history, it calls into question not only the leadership of public television but also who gets to tell these stories, and why.”

Robert Hinck, Robert Utterback and Skye CooleyOctober 22, 2020

Russian, Chinese, and Iranian media are turning on Trump, an analysis of foreign news outlets suggests

Two key moments from the 2020 campaign — the first debate and Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis — are particularly illustrative.

Hanaa' TameezOctober 20, 2020

Prism, a news site led by women of color, centers the voices of marginalized people in its reporting

“If you’re going to shift narratives in this country, you need people to actually read what you’re doing.”

Journalists are struggling with mental health, financial hardship, and disinformation, according to a “startling and disturbing” survey

The Objective StaffOctober 9, 2020

The Media 2070 project asks what media reparations would look like

Plus: The LA Times grapples with its racist history and journalists share the worst career advice they’ve received.

Joshua BentonOctober 7, 2020

Should news outlets stop making election forecasts based on polling data?

There’s good evidence that some people find predictive models like FiveThirtyEight’s confusing, and an argument that they might keep people from voting. But 2016’s scars shouldn’t mean that voters have to be kept in the dark.

Here’s how Covid-19 has changed media for publishers and consumers

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 2, 2020

The Trump Covid news broke in the middle of the night. Here’s how news orgs handled it

“Where is a town crier when you need one?”

Sarah ScireSeptember 29, 2020

The election could be contested and last for weeks after Nov. 3. Here’s what experts think journalists should know.

“Newsrooms need to prepare for a political environment in which mainstream political figures, most notably the President of the United States, are going to promote false and unsupported claims about the election. They need to prepare for that now.”

Curd Knüpfer and Robert Mathew EntmanSeptember 29, 2020

Fox News uses the word “hate” much, much more often than MSNBC or CNN

“Fox’s use of ‘hate’ really took off when Trump’s presidency began. Beginning in January 2017, the mean usage of ‘they hate’ on the network doubled.”

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