The GroundTruth Project, home of Report for America, launches “Report for the World” with six reporters in India and Nigeria →

“To what extent has ‘Cuomo Prime Time’ covered the undercount scandal in recent weeks? Not one bit. The host has plowed through plenty of worthy topics: coronavirus vaccines and variants, QAnon and conspiracy theories, the Capitol riot and impeachment, and more. But the absence of coverage of the nursing-home scandal contrasts sharply with other CNN precincts, which have stayed on top of the story. On Sunday’s ‘State of the Union,’ for example, host Jake Tapper ripped away, ‘So Governor Cuomo, who has declined to appear on this show despite dozens of requests over the past year, including this past week, made a bad decision that may have cost lives. And then his administration hid that data from the public.'” —SS

“Voice messages may be new on Twitter, but popular instant messaging applications such as Messenger and WhatsApp have had this for quite some time. The voice DMs are part of Twitter’s efforts to provide audio-focused services on its platform. Last year, Twitter rolled out voice tweets support for its users. As it implies, users can post audio as tweets. The feature, however, has not rolled out for everyone.” —HT

“[MIT’s] The Tech has run or faced criticism for, with similar ads — requesting donors of certain races, heights, eye and hair colors, levels of athleticism, personalities, and minimum SAT scores — printed frequently during the late 1990s and throughout the 2000s … The strategic placement of these advertisements in newspapers with an audience of barely-20-something students at ‘elite’ institutions is almost as troubling as the rhetoric found in the advertisements.”

Shortly after the release of a second episode about the toxic workplace dynamics at Bon Appétit, Reply All seems to be going through a reckoning of its own. The announcement of Vogt’s departure (and longtime reporter Sruthi Pinnamaneni’s “stepping back”) comes after a twitter thread by former staffer Eric Eddings that accused Pinnamaneni and Vogt of working against efforts to diversify the company’s staff and objecting to a workplace campaign to form a union.

ProPublica will conduct a nationwide search for his successor. “Way back when everyone began talking about the search for sustainable business models, [Tofel] was among the first to recognize a brutal truth: That much of the journalism we depend on for democracy would survive only if readers came to view it as a philanthropic priority which deserved their support as much as the local library or hospital, university, museum, symphony orchestra or dance company.” —SS

“While the ban was only meant to target Australian news publishers, dozens of pages run by key government agencies, community pages, union pages, charity organisations and politicians were also blocked for several hours. Australia’s main source of weather information, the Bureau of Meteorology, said on Thursday morning that it had been blocked, and was advising users to go to its direct website, app or Twitter page.”

“When Alden comes in, it’s slash-and-burn time. Newsroom jobs — reporters, editors, photographers — are cut to the bone. Decisions are made not for long-term sustainability, not for service to the community, not for humane treatment of skilled and dedicated staff, but for next quarter’s profit-and-loss statement.”

“[Australia] could just tax companies based on their revenues. It could earmark those revenues to support journalism — nonprofit public media, even, which has consistently been shown to have powerful civic benefits … In reality, though, none of that seems likely to happen. Google’s capitulation means that Australian crony capitalism is now likely to be exported worldwide. Legacy media outlets will become richer — and also more dependent on the tech giants that they excoriate daily for having too much power over them.” —SS

“As a journalist who can be a bit of a snob about research methods, it makes me anxious to type this advice. Use Wikipedia for quick guidance! Spend less time torturing yourself with complex primary sources! A part of my brain hears this and reflexively worries these methods could be exploited by conspiracy theorists. But listening to Ms. Ladam and Mr. Caulfield describe disinformation dynamics, it seems that snobs like me have it backward.”