A study that seemed to claim they had was treated as “bad news for journalists: the public doesn’t share our values.” The reality is a few arbitrary research design decisions put a thumb on the scale.
Even without the L.A. Times, it still controls a lot of important newspapers. Will it sell them to Gannett, Murdoch, local individuals in each city — or to yet another private equity firm looking to strip papers for parts?
“To hold future journalism accountable (not simply to describe its dynamics to interested readers), public editors must speak a new language of platform ethics that is part professional journalism, part technology design, all public values.”
Lichterman, Joseph. "The New York Times prioritizes commenters by placing them at the center of its homepage." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 4 Dec. 2015. Web. 26 May. 2023.
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Chicago
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