Bat Boy lives! An oral history of Weekly World News →

“…we’re making the unfortunate but necessary decision to change our current process of video production. While an important part of the business, some resources currently dedicated to video would be better used across other areas of the company, including editorial, and are being reallocated accordingly.”

“A ‘social listening tool to help journalists navigate scientific publications’…In partnership with Brazilian science journalism agency Bori, it features the latest updates from more than 1,300 verified scientists and scientific organizations that are tweeting in English, Portuguese and Spanish.”

“You may notice that there are a lot more paths that lead to ‘put it down’ than there are that lead to ‘publish it.’ That doesn’t mean that we actually scrap more stories than we publish. It just means that saying goodbye (even for a period of time), pivoting directions, and continuing forward are all acceptable options at any of these junctures.”

“Former Tribune Publishing CEO Tony Hunter will become CEO of McClatchy Co. when the newspaper chain emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy next month, its new hedge fund owner announced…Hunter will succeed Craig Forman, McClatchy’s CEO, who will leave the company upon its emergence from bankruptcy.”

“The Trump moment…could be coming to a close at a perilous time in the media business. The advertising market has been crushed, with layoffs, furloughs and cutbacks felt across the industry. In place of Trump, the defining story of a media generation, would likely be a much more conventional and comparatively ‘boring’ situation: President Joe Biden.”

“‘Food media in more traditional avenues has either died, calcified, or mutated, and there are hardly that many places to share these kinds of thoughts,’ says Helen Rosner…’As food magazines are falling like dominos, and newspaper food sections are less and less places to explore and go deep because of these horrific and ravaging budget cuts, it’s like, what do you have left? Blogs aren’t cool anymore, so we do newsletters.'”

“According to internal discussions from the last six months, Facebook has relaxed its rules so that conservative pages, including those run by Breitbart, former Fox News personalities Diamond and Silk, the nonprofit media outlet PragerU and the pundit Charlie Kirk, were not penalized for violations of the company’s misinformation policies.”

(Globe owner John Henry also owns the Red Sox.)

We wrote about a previous Sarah Kliff bill-crowdsourcing effort last year.

“…to institutions of higher education to enhance or create programs that will inspire high school students to embark on journalism careers. The Foundation will host a competitive application process to select two institutions, which will each receive $100,000 a year over three years.”

“We have deeply missed creating our lovely physical magazine.”

“The most skeptical perspective is that single-digit subscription rises are a long way off reversing decades of decline in magazine circulation…At best, publishers who throw time and energy at print magazine subscriptions now will have a few years of stagnation before the downward curve begins again.”

A reduction from 167 to 98. “In March, the newspaper was forced to halve its distribution to just over 400,000 copies as the nationwide lockdown kept the public at home. The Evening Standard relies on commuters into and around London and has been using an emergency distribution system to get papers to people’s doors.”

“That is, complaining vocally about a referee’s decision in the hopes of getting a better call next time. It’s a tactic the Trump movement has revived and deftly employed against the powerful, befuddled new referees of public debate, Google, Facebook and Twitter.”

“In the two weeks since baseball got the sports restart rolling, the networks are averaging 1.91 million adults 18-49 per night, down 30% compared to the same 14-day span a year ago.”

But they’re not immune to the resulting culture wars inside their own newsrooms. “I was tired of being associated with Quebecor’s culture, and being associated with these columnists who bring so much shame to our work,” said one of the young journalists who have left Quebecor recently.

“The irony is in the heat of battle we can’t rely on the newspapers themselves to tell this war story from a detached perspective, so I’m attempting to use my useless knowledge from 18 years as an SC journalist to provide at least an aerial view.”