We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.
June 1, 2023
“The yellow-walled, four-story building was built in the shape of the letter K. Former inmates describe a facility designed to instill fear, isolation and despair.” —
Washington Post / Mary Ilyushina, Francesca Ebel, and Júlia Ledur
/ Jun 1Often, in mainstream media, “audiences don’t get to see trans people as experts, even as human,” said Ari Drennen of Media Matters. —
The Guardian / Margaret Sullivan
/ Jun 1“Lichfield, himself formerly a global news and then senior editor at Quartz, has led Condé Nast‘s technology magazine since March 2021 … Seward, meanwhile, was not only Quartz’s editor-in-chief but one of its co-founders, serving variously since 2012 as executive editor, chief product officer and chief executive editor.” —
Press Gazette / Bron Maher
/ Jun 1“Cameron Barr, The Washington Post’s senior managing editor, will leave the company at the end of June, the paper announced Thursday, capping his tenure as one of the longest-serving managing editors in the paper’s history.” —
The Washington Post / Elahe Izadi
/ Jun 1Longtime Publicis ad executive and newsletterer Rishad Tobaccowala has a go-to line about ad agencies: “They say we’re like dinosaurs. But we’re like cockroaches. We are cockroaches. Everybody hates us. Nobody likes to see us. But cockroaches have outlived everyone. We scurry out of corners.” —
The Rebooting / Brian Morrissey
/ Jun 1“Reporters from Reuters, Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal have been denied invitations to Opec’s Vienna headquarters.” —
Financial Times / David Sheppard and Samer Al-Atrush
/ Jun 1“We’re one half a media company and one half a creator network and we straddle that,” said Barstool Sports CEO Erika Ayers. —SC
Press Gazette / Charlotte Tobitt
/ Jun 1“Many staff members endured the worst elements of the newsroom culture without getting to participate in its promised benefits.” —
The Walrus / Michelle Cyca
/ Jun 1“Greg Bestwick, president of the nonprofit board that publishes [The Harpswell Anchor in Maine], said print was not something he and his fellow founders especially wanted to offer. What changed their mind, he explained, was that a survey of the community revealed that 95% wanted something they could hold in their hands.”
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Media Nation / Dan Kennedy
/ Jun 1“The researchers found that human videos tended to rate more favourably in terms of ‘telling respondents things they didn’t know’, ‘professionalism’, ‘factfilledness,’ being ‘engaging’, ‘comprehensiveness’, ‘story flow’ and ‘understatedness’.” —
Press Gazette / William Turvill
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