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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
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The boundaries of journalism — and who gets to make it, consume it, and criticize it — are expandingReporters and editors from prominent news organizations waded through the challenges (new and old) of reporting in the current political climate during a Harvard University event on Tuesday night. By Shan Wang. |
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“I think that journalism needs to rediscover its roots as a blue-collar profession”Top journalists from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and the Nieman Foundation discuss the path forward for reporting in the Trump era. By Nieman Lab Staff. |
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Kathleen Kingsbury: How The Boston Globe decided it had reached its threshold for moral outrage“It's one of those things that a lot of us had gotten into our business to do: to have impact, to change the world, whether you worked for the opinion pages or the newsroom.” By Kathleen Kingsbury. |
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Brian Stelter: We need to talk about whether news as we know it can survive a post-fact era“Many Americans — I would say, on a positive day, most Americans — do care about sources of information, do care about the truth.” By Brian Stelter. |
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Lolly Bowean: When we tell our communities’ stories, we show people how to relate to one another“I'm here to remind you today that great journalism can also find ordinary, regular people and find the extraordinary in what they do.” By Lolly Bowean. |
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Bill Kristol: Remember, demagogues thrived long before the Internet disintermediated the news, too“Joe McCarthy, you know, was very successful before the Internet, before social media. George Wallace won five states in 1968…So I think it’s too simple to assume that all of our problems are due to this.” By Bill Kristol. |
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Wall Street Journal editor Gerard Baker defends his decision to limit use of “majority Muslim country”“I am an absolute stickler in all of our coverage for precision in language because, as you say, words are loaded. They have political meanings, they have cultural meanings, and they have identities that go that go beyond simple words.” By Joseph Lichterman. |
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Report: Mobile adblocking has exploded in Asia, but it’s still tiny in North America and EuropeIn Indonesia, 58 percent of mobile devices are running adblockers. In the United States: 1 percent. By Joseph Lichterman. |
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With its new daily podcast, The New York Times attempts to break away from “reporting from on high”“I think people are craving intimacy, and the honesty of a format in which journalists talk not just at them about the story, but are grappling with it in real time and are talking about the process they went through.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
The Verge / Chris Welch
Instagram will soon let you share multiple photos in one post →
“Instead of tapping on a photo, you long-press. From there, a prompt instructs you to select up to 10 images or videos (applying separate filters to each one if you wish) before posting everything in a single gallery. Your followers and other Instagram users will be able to like individual photos in each post.”
Axios / Dan Primack
Ex-Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: I’m sorry →
“I wish I could turn back the clock and go back to 2010 and stop abuse on the platform by creating a very specific bar for how to behave on the platform… I take responsibility for not taking the bull by the horns.”
Poynter / Melody Kramer
How do we design the news for people who are burned out? →
“We should allow people to check out or pause and return. I envision a website where someone can say how long they'd like to be away from the news and what kinds of news they'd like when they return.”
/ Robb Montgomery
5 tips for making great 360° photographs →
“These five tips will help you make more impressive 360° VR photos”
The New York Times / James Estrin
Highlighting women in photojournalism →
While there have always been women who did important work despite widespread gender discrimination and sexual harassment, the field didn't really begin to change until the 1970s and '80s. And change did not always come easy. Only in 1973 was the first female photographer, Joyce Dopkeen, hired at The Times. Currently, there are four women photographers out of a staff of 13.”
BuzzFeed / Craig Silverman
Facebook and Google are facing criticism over unexplained content takedowns →
“A conservative page owner said three posts disappeared, and there have been temporary bans imposed on other pages. Facebook said it was the result of errors by its automated systems.”
The New York Times / Christopher Mele
Fatigued by the news? Experts suggest how to adjust your media diet →
“It feels as if we are living in a Superconducting Super Collider of news, with information bombarding us at a head-spinning velocity. The result is a fatigue about the headlines — lately about politics — that has prompted some people to withdraw from the news, or curb their consumption of it.”