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Wednesday, August 2, 2017
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Has U.S. press freedom gotten worse under Trump? A new site aims to find outSo far in 2017, U.S. Press Freedom Tracker says, there have been 19 arrests of journalists, 12 equipment searches and seizures, 11 physical attacks on journalists, and 4 border stops of journalists. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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Migratory Notes reflects the movement of immigration from fringe topic to key beat“We’ve noticed a lot of people paying attention to immigration coverage who didn’t report it before, and there’s been a broadening of who’s covering it.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
BuzzFeed / Steven Perlberg and Charlie Warzel
These two TV producers started tweeting and are now kinda famous →
“Two reporters independently likened them to the infamous conservative aggregator Matt Drudge for their ability to take the reporting of others and use it to set narratives.”
Fusion Media Group / David Ford
Susie Banikarim named editorial director for Gizmodo Media Group →
She was at Vocativ and was most recently a filmmaker-in-residence at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center. Twitter: https://twitter.com/banikarim.
Facebook Newsroom
Facebook will prioritize fast-loading stories in News Feed →
“We’re making an update to News Feed to show people more stories that will load quickly on mobile and fewer stories that might take longer to load, so they can spend more time reading the stories they find relevant.”
The Washington Post / Tracy Jan
A white man called her kids the n-word. Facebook stopped her from sharing it. →
“Minority groups say they are disproportionately censored when they use the social-media platform to call out racism or start dialogues.”
Washingtonian / Elaina Plott
How The Hollywood Reporter became a must-read in DC →
“I think this line between entertainment and politics is only going to keep merging.”
Journalism.co.uk / Abigail Edge
“Be useful and delightful”: Lessons learned in Denverite’s first 12 months →
“Denverite’s two main newsletters are distributed at 7:07am and 3.03pm which, conveniently, are the two area codes in Denver.”
Recode / Peter Kafka
VCs don’t love podcasting, but Gimlet Media has raised another $15 million anyway →
“Lieber says Gimlet will use some of the money to build out new programs, train new podcasters, expand the company's in-house advertising shop and work on exporting hit podcasts into other formats.”
The Guardian / Ruth Jamieson
Zine queens: how women’s magazines found new life via indie publishing →
“Access to cheap digital tools and print-loving online communities, driven by blogs such as MagCulture and indie magazine subscription service Stack, have created a boom in indie publishing.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
How CBS News is trying to reinvent itself →
“We don't want to be in the category of trying so hard that it's painful to be a millennial news outlet.”