Tuesday, June 6, 2023 |
| Most of the publishers surveyed now view “external migrants” — Ukrainians who’ve left the country — as their target audience. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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| “The absence of data, either it paralyzes you or you become more curious.” By Amel Ghani and Ayaz Khan. |
What We’re ReadingNew York Focus / Chris Gelardi
New York prisons just blocked journalism behind bars →“Last month, the agency quietly handed down new rules severely curtailing what incarcerated writers and artists can publish — and forbidding them from getting paid for it.”Marketing Brew / Ryan Barwick
Publishers’ group warns generative AI content could violate copyright law →Digital Content Next includes The New York Times, the Washington Post, Disney, and NBCUniversal. “Publishers created this original content. They have a right to monetize it, and any sort of unauthorized use of it undermines their business model and is a violation of copyright law.”Washington Post / Rick Maese
The New York Times acknowledges major reporting error after Alabama player’s defamation suit →The newspaper
said it would correct its coverage.Axios / Sara Fischer
OutVoice, a freelancer platform for media companies, has acquired Study Hall in a “six-figure deal” →Nieman Lab
wrote about Study Hall’s freelance community in 2020. Two Study Hall employees will join OutVoice with the deal.International News Media Association / Nevin Kallepalli, Sarah Schmidt, and Dawn McMullan
The Globe and Mail tested human-written Instagram posts against ones written with AI →The bots lost this round.TheWrap / Jose Alejandro Bastidas
Layoffs at CNN en Español are “basically the end of the network as we know it” →Employees are “mourning for the ambitious project that once sought to tap a Spanish-speaking audience in the hundreds of millions ‘from Alaska to Patagonia,’ as CNN executives once said, including the fast-growing Hispanic population in the United States.”The Daily Beast
The Messenger … who? →The struggling news startup
currently ranks No. 14 in a search for “the messenger.” (“We are aware of the issue with Google,” a Messenger spokesperson told The Daily Beast. “We are working with SEO experts who have never encountered this before and are attempting to resolve the issue.”)Medium / Niya Watkins
The Atlantic on the surprisingly thorny task of adding writers to their existing search results →“Our Data Science team had found two interesting trends: of the top 100 search terms on our site, 30% were Atlantic writers; of the top 20 search terms, half of those were Atlantic writers.”the Guardian / Rachel Aroesti
Podcasting turns 20: The medium has remade pop culture and launched many parasocial relationships →“What was the first podcast you listened to? For a lot of people [in the U.K.] – myself included – the answer will be The Ricky Gervais Show. An edited, downloadable follow-up to the XFM radio programme Gervais presented alongside Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington, it was first released in 2005 via the Guardian’s website.”New York Times / David Enrich
A New Hampshire reporter investigated sexual misconduct. Then the attacks began. →“Heightening the freedom-of-the-press stakes, a state judge in New Hampshire last week ordered NHPR to let him review transcripts of its interviews with certain sources, including those who had agreed to speak on an anonymous basis. Legal experts called the ruling unusual and alarming, saying such decisions could make it harder for journalists to investigate potential wrongdoing by public figures.”Reuters / Reuters
Apple to tweak iPhone autocorrect function →“About ducking time.”CNN / Olive Darcy
CNN media reporter: “Licht has lost the room” →Employees heard from Licht for the first time since The Atlantic’s
blistering profile. (Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav “had the same reaction that everyone else did to that article.”)
Nieman Lab / Fuego
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