Wednesday, November 10, 2021 |
| Instead of letting public access channels wither due to commercial market fluctuations, we should publicly fund and expand the precious communication infrastructure that access media offers. By Antoine Haywood. |
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| A seminal 2004 study was among the first to investigate the connection between deception rates and technology. What does a 2021 update show? By David Markowitz. |
The Verge updates its policy for tech PR people speaking “on background,” noting the practice can be “hilariously stupid” What We’re ReadingThe Washington Post / Ethan Porter and Thomas J. Wood
Fact checks, even on Facebook, actually work. But not enough people see them. →“Given the clear evidence that fact checks reduce false beliefs — and the fact that Facebook already helps underwrite the production of fact checks — why doesn’t the company increase the visibility of fact checks on the platform?” The Verge / Mitchell Clark
YouTube has given dislikes the thumbs-down. It’ll hide public counts on videos across its site. →“Dislike counts going private could help hide an embarrassing piece of YouTube history: the most disliked video on the entire site is the company’s own Rewind from 2018.”Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
Few reporters from Pacific island states, imminently threatened by rising seas, have been able to attend COP26 →Meanwhile, Bloomberg sent twenty-five journalists to Glasgow and The New York Times built an entire indoor forest.Substack / James Fallows
What does the problem of “horse-race” or “sports-page” coverage actually look like? →“A major Democratic-backed bill passed with bipartisan support, and the nation’s leading newspaper framed it as a scramble backward for ‘Democrats.’ The roughly 40 paragraphs of the story that followed, from the front page to a long inside jump, were strictly about the politics, deal-making, factional maneuvers, and polling implications of the bill.”FT / Alistair Gray
The New Statesman embarks on its biggest expansion ever, capitalizing on a growing interest overseas →“The editor, Jason Cowley, has set his sights on engaging an overseas readership — with a focus on the US, Germany and France — in an attempt to approximately triple its paid-for readership to 100,000 and emulate the international success of other UK-based publications such as The Economist … ‘The UK has suddenly become quite interesting.'”The New York Times / Ken Belson and Emily Anthes
Scientists’ latest source of vaccine misinformation: Aaron Rodgers →“‘When you’re a celebrity, you are given a platform,’ said Dr. Paul A. Offit, the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. ‘When you choose to do what Aaron Rodgers is doing, which is to use the platform to put out misinformation that could cause people to make bad decisions for themselves or their children, then you have done harm.’”WSJ / Keach Hagey and Jeff Horwitz
Facebook has allowed plagiarized content to flourish on its platform, despite warnings from internal researchers →“About 40% of the traffic to Facebook pages at one point in 2018 went to pages that stole or repurposed most of their content.”Poynter / Alex Sujong Laughlin
“Why do we still structure our newsrooms like everyone has a wife at home?” →On parental leave, newsroom work culture, and caregiving. New York Times / Marc Tracy
Hundreds of Hearst employees are protesting a mandatory return to the office →“Hearst, whose titles include Cosmopolitan, Esquire and Good Housekeeping, told staff members in October that they would be required to return to U.S. offices starting Nov. 15. For the first two weeks, workers are expected to come in once a week; then the requirement will be two days per week until early 2022. Eventually, workers will be required to be in the office — the Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan for many — three days a week, the company has said.”Washington Post / Paul Farhi
How the media missed a New Jersey senate candidate’s racist social media posts — until he’d already won →“Edward Durr was such a long-shot candidate in his New Jersey state senate race that no one seemed to notice something rather striking about him: He had a history of posting bigoted, misogynistic and derogatory comments on social media.”New York Times / Michael M. Grynbaum
Brian Williams is leaving NBC News →“[Williams’s show ‘The 11th Hour’] debuted at the height of the 2016 presidential election and quickly found an audience. Left-leaning viewers shocked by the election of Donald J. Trump as president were flocking to MSNBC, and they seemed to forgive Mr. Williams’s past transgressions.” Bloomberg / Josh Eidelson
Politico has voluntarily recognized a union of its employees →“Politico employees went public with their unionization campaign on Oct. 29, saying they had secured over 80% support among roughly 250 eligible employees.” (You might remember that Robert Allbritton, who recently sold Politico to Axel Springer,
had been fiercely opposed to unionization.)
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