Tuesday, December 21, 2021 | “In the face of climate collapse, it’s time for the North to start looking South — and learn from its people and journalists.” By Natalia Viana. |
| “If money and criminality know no boundaries, then why should journalism?” By Raney Aronson-Rath. |
| “To grow talent, news organizations need to invest in creating fertile ground for emerging journalists to do their best — and to make occasional mistakes.” By Doris Truong. |
| “We’ll see more attacks on public institutions — libraries, universities, school boards, news organizations. They’ll be hard to parse and hard to think about as connected.” By Melody Kramer. |
| “The gravitational pull toward the grave remains rather ferocious. But what’s exciting is that there are many seeds being sown, watered, and tended to in the bottom loop — the emergent system.” By Jennifer Brandel. |
| “Old journalism will be swept away about newer, younger, more diverse journalism that looks like my students.” By Robert Hernandez. |
| “To be truly impactful, any such coalition should be built to put the people and communities most affected in decision-making roles and also focus on policy and systems change.” By Stefanie Murray. |
| “‘Too hard’ isn’t an acceptable answer in a college classroom, much less from some of the smartest technically minded people in the world.” By Nikki Usher. |
| “There’s nothing wrong with for-profit as long as your company isn’t interested only in profit.” By Larry Ryckman. |
| “Newsrooms won’t find the key to any of this in their analytics.” By Ariel Zirulnick. |
| “Whether they center their reporting on elected officials or everyday Americans, journalists are faced with a nearly impossible choice when it comes to the Republican Party.” By Shannon McGregor and Carolyn Schmitt. |
| “Data can trick us into repeating the same patterns because they satisfy our current audience — instead of helping us build a larger or more deeply engaged one.” By Francesco Zaffarano. |
| “It might let you glimpse that almost imperceptible frown on your source’s face when you ask a question.” By Alice Antheaume. |
| “It’s not hard to imagine that many in the next generation of challengers to established digital media players like BuzzFeed and Vox Media will be DAOs.” By Daniel Eilemberg. |
| “We’ll mitigate the risks of our often uneasy relationships with Facebook, Google, and Apple by further doubling down on diversifying our audience sources and cultivating direct relationships with readers.” By Sarah Marshall. |
| “Issues of care extend not just to newsrooms but also to how we do the news; our audiences are suffering, too.” By An Xiao Mina. |
| “Maybe it’s the pandemic, maybe it’s just a pendulum swinging back, but data suggests people are moving in the direction of more finite forms of news in their diets.” By Tamar Charney. |
| “Today’s audio documentaries are allergic to rhythm and obsessed with a hero’s narrative.” By James Green. |
| “Journalism is a team sport. We rely on each other to help us best reflect a complicated world and to wrestle with the most accurate versions of a variety of perspectives in good faith.” By Joy Mayer. |
| “Direct publishing through conversational platforms offers a mobile-native, highly interactive experience in apps and interfaces that most people are using every day.” By Tom Trewinnard. |
| “You won’t see many mask-wearers in films this year.” By Megan McCarthy. |
| “We’re past the point of ‘If you podcast it, the audience will come.‘” By Joni Deutsch. |
| “We must take advantage of new technologies in the name of inclusion.” By Chicas Poderosas. |
| “2022 will be the year of a plural, accessible, inclusive journalism — and in being so, one that is more capable of representing the complexity of Brazil.” By Moreno Cruz Osório. |
What We’re ReadingAxios / Sara Fischer
Media layoffs and job cuts hit their lowest point since 2008 →“An unprecedented level of job cuts in 2020 led to fewer-than-expected cuts in 2021.”
Nieman Lab / Fuego / Encyclo
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