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Thursday, June 28, 2018
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Seven newsrooms, 4 countries, thousands of kids: ProPublica launches a project to find immigrant children“This is the beginning of the reporting on this for our newsroom. We are being transparent about what we know and what we don’t know and what we need help with.” By Christine Schmidt. |
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More than a magic electoral map: How Politico plans its (open source) Slack chats during the midtermsIt’s like the readers going to a watch party or trivia event, but with less effort — perhaps literally by staying at home. By Christine Schmidt. |
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Freedom from what?: It’s time to broaden the definition of a “free press”“If we see press freedom not as heroic isolations — journalists breaking free to tell truths to the publics they imagine — but as a subtler system of separations and dependencies that make publics, then we might see each era's types of press freedom as bellwethers for particular visions of the public.” By Mike Ananny. |
What We’re Reading
Lenfest Institute / Joseph Lichterman
How to prepare for your own viral-animal-next-door engagement opportunities →
“So as the raccoon continued its climb, MPR began thinking about how it could make the most out of the unexpected attention. ‘The conversations were how do we, Minnesota Public Radio, respond to this? It was more about feeding what the audience wanted and being true to who we were than how can we make money,’ said Jennifer Van Zandt, managing director of marketing & creative services.”
Digiday / Jessica Davies
“Everyone is breaking the law”: GDPR compliance efforts are falling short →
“‘The European Union is very aggressive about privacy. This won't stop just because we have a found a way for people to ignore it. This is coming,’ said Denmark-based media analyst Thomas Baekdal. ‘They'll likely attack Google and Facebook first. That's how it will start, but through that, we will realize that as publishers, we're just as bad.'”
Washington Post / Margaret Sullivan
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory points to a media failure that keeps repeating →
“‘Kind of pisses me off that @nytimes is still asking Who Is Ocasio-Cortez? when it should have covered her campaign,’ Abramson tweeted. The Times had included her in stories during the campaign but had not devoted a profile to her; in addition, its editorial board took Crowley to task for sending a Latina surrogate to debate Ocasio-Cortez.”
Robert Feder / Robert Feder
The DNAinfo Chicago archive is now back in the hands of alumni at Block Club Chicago →
“It's quite a coup for Block Club Chicago, which acquired the treasure trove Thursday as a gift from New York Public Radio WNYC. The station obtained the assets from DNAinfo in February as part of a larger deal that included Gothamist and associated sites.”
Global Editors Network / Freia Nahser
Behind the scenes of a murder investigation that mobilized 230 journalists →
“One project within Monitor da Violência tracked all murders that occurred in Brazil over the course of one week. The massive investigation took place between 21–27 August 2017 and involved 230 journalists from 55 affiliated newsrooms all over the country. They discovered that that there was one murder every eight minutes. This amounts to a staggering total of 1,195 deaths in one week, painting a gloomy picture of a country where a man can be murdered for a debt of $20, domestic disputes can escalate into violent killings, and data surrounding police killings is hard to find.”
Poynter / Rachel Schallom
Women in public-facing journalism jobs are exhausted by harassment →
“Men get attacked for their opinions, and women get attacked because they have opinions.”
Membership Puzzle Project / Cherie Hu
Please stop saying "Spotify for news" is going to get people to pay for news →
“A music streaming service, a daily metropolitan paper, and a specialized weekly email newsletter could all charge $10 to $15 a month for content access, but they're ultimately fostering vastly different customer relationships — and their supporters have different motivations for paying. To conflate the value of these products in users' lives is sloppy thinking.”
Digiday / Max Willens
BuzzFeed France’s shutdown is paused by a judge, requiring the publisher to show more proof →
“In the meantime, BuzzFeed France's employees, who vowed to strike on Monday, have gone back to work, said the source familiar with the matter.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Shaya Tayefe Mohajer
Life after Tronc: Norman Pearlstine’s plans for the L.A. Times →
“Throughout the interview Pearlstine spoke with the guarded curiosity of a reporter who has just begun digging into what promises to be a really good story. He won't overpromise, but doesn't believe he'll under-deliver—the goods are there. Pearlstine is in an exploratory phase and faces formidable challenges such as restaffing a Washington bureau that many veteran journalists fled under threat of closure from previous owners, in a time when covering the president presents unprecedented challenges.”
Wired / Tarleton Gillespie
How social networks set the limits of what we can say online →
“The CDA, approved in 1996, was Congress's first response to online pornography. Much of the law would be deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court less than a year later. But one amendment survived: Designed to shield internet service providers from liability for defamation by their users, Section 230 carved out a safe harbor for ISPs, search engines, and ‘interactive computer service providers.’ So long as they only provided access to the internet or conveyed information, they could not be held liable for the content of that speech.”