The New York Times / Katie Robertson
Grid, a “fuller picture” news site, goes live →“The digital publication’s magic bullet is a story format that [executive editor and Nieman Lab alum Laura McGann] calls ‘a 360,’ which examines a single topic from a variety of viewpoints. An article published Wednesday, for instance, looks at the issue of Covid-19 vaccination refusals by pregnant people with contributions from reporters who specialize in science, misinformation, politics and race.”
The Texas Tribune / Evan Smith
Press Watch / Dan Froomkin
TechCrunch / Natasha Lomas
Columbia Journalism Review / Kirstin McCudden
Associated Press / David Bauder
The New Yorker / Peter Canby
The Guardian / Lorenzo Tondo
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
Ten days of turnover →“The first few months of 2021 had been particularly busy for high-profile media moves. The same has been true of the first few days of 2022.”
The Texas Tribune / Erin Douglas
Off The Record / Andrew Fedorov
The Wall Street Journal / Joseph Pisani
Wordle has turned fans of word games (and Media Twitter) into argumentative strategy nerds →“Players paste the Wordle game on social media, which has filled Facebook and Twitter timelines with a sea of green and yellow squares. In the game, when a guess is made, the color of tiles change to show you how close you are to the secret word. If you guess ‘weary,’ as the instructions say, and the ‘W’ turns green, the secret word starts with a W. If the E turns yellow, the letter is in the word, but is in the wrong spot. Letters that turn gray aren’t in the word.”