“A lot of times, people are not drawn in when climate is the top line. So I like to start with [a question like] ‘O.K., what’s affecting your daily life?’”
From loading up the Wayback Machine to meticulous AirTables to 72 hours of scraping, journalists are doing whatever they can to keep their clips when websites go dark.
Questions from readers ranged from basic (What’s ranked choice voting?) to skeptical (Why are we even doing this?) to strategic (How can I optimize my ballot so that [Candidate X] doesn’t win?).
He marked his purchase of Chicagoist — formerly part of the media empire of Joe Ricketts, whose family owns the Cubs — by beefing with Crain’s Chicago Business.
Signs that the sites’ owner Joe Ricketts didn’t hold journalistic independence sacrosanct came soon after DNAinfo acquired Gothamist LLC, which promptly deleted at least five stories since 2010 about its new owner.
Bilton, Ricardo. "The risk of billionaire-funded media, the importance of archiving, and other takeaways from the demise of DNAInfo and Gothamist." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 3 Nov. 2017. Web. 3 Oct. 2024.
APA
Bilton, R. (2017, Nov. 3). The risk of billionaire-funded media, the importance of archiving, and other takeaways from the demise of DNAInfo and Gothamist. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved October 3, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/11/the-risk-of-billionaire-funded-media-the-importance-of-archiving-and-other-takeaways-from-the-demise-of-dnainfo-and-gothamist/
Chicago
Bilton, Ricardo. "The risk of billionaire-funded media, the importance of archiving, and other takeaways from the demise of DNAInfo and Gothamist." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified November 3, 2017. Accessed October 3, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/11/the-risk-of-billionaire-funded-media-the-importance-of-archiving-and-other-takeaways-from-the-demise-of-dnainfo-and-gothamist/.
Wikipedia
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