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Friday, November 9, 2018
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The New York Times is digitizing more than 5 million photos dating back to the 1800s“Ultimately, this digitalization will equip Times journalists with useful tools to make it easier to tell even more visual stories.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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Facebook Groups are “the greatest short-term threat to election news and information integrity”Plus: How “junk news” differs from “fake news,” and LinkedIn gets less boring (but not in a good way). By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
Columbia Journalism Review / The Editors
Journalism’s bad reflection: CJR looks closely at newsroom diversity in 10 communities, from Hawaii to Indiana →
“Macario RamÃrez, a Mexican-American activist who runs a folk art gallery in the Heights neighborhood, near downtown, says that he, too, has campaigned for better coverage from the Houston Chronicle. ‘We have picketed them more than five, six times, just because of their lack of responsiveness to the community and our needs,’ he says.”
HuffPost / Ashley Feinberg
HuffPost got audio of Axios’s weekly staff meeting, plus Slack screenshots →
“Some staffers evidently weren't comfortable with a news story being shaped into a promotional vehicle for a television series.”
Business Insider / Jim Edwards
$132 million later, Ev Williams says he is raising even more money for Medium →
Medium is not profitable.
The Algemeiner / Ira Stoll
The New York Times suspends its $7,895-and-up tours of Iran →
“After Saudi Arabia apparently killed a Washington Post columnist, the Times announced it was suspending its journalist-led Times Journeys departures to Saudi Arabia. That, in turn, led to mounting pressure also to cancel the Iran trips.”
EW.com / David Canfield
Here’s a little preview of the upcoming memoir by Erin Lee Carr on her father David Carr’s death →
“What started as an exercise in grief quickly grew into an active investigation: Did her father's writings contain the answers to the questions of how to move forward in life and work without your biggest champion by your side?”
Wall Street Journal / Jeffrey Trachtenberg
Fortune Magazine to be sold to Thai businessman for $150 million →
“The sale to Chatchaval Jiaravanon gives the business publication a new owner for the second time this year.”
International Center for Journalists
ICFJ gets $5 million from Knight →
“In addition to supporting the fellowship program, new Knight funding will also build on ICFJ's success at seeding new ways to combat the spread of misinformation and disinformation. “
Columbia Journalism Review / Mathew Ingram
Facebook slammed by UN for its role in Myanmar genocide →
“The report also says that before Facebook enters a new market — particularly one with volatile ethnic or other tensions — it should conduct a human-rights assessment and take whatever measures it can to reduce the risk of fomenting violence, something it clearly didn't do in Myanmar.”
The Lenfest Institute for Journalism / Joseph Lichterman
How Pittsburgh’s WESA mobilized its newsroom to cover the Tree of Life shooting →
“Over the past couple of years, WESA realized it needed to plan in place so it would be prepared to mobilize a major emergency if it occurred at nights or on the weekends.”
NPR
NPR launches fellowship to help diversify its sourcing — but should this really be a fellowship? →
“NPR found that its sources were overwhelmingly white, male and located on the east and west coasts…This fellowship will boost newsroom efforts to bring more voices into our journalism.” But Nikole Hannah-Jones says: “Why does newsroom ‘diversity’ always have to come through a temporary back door? If you want diverse newsrooms, hire folks, full time. Period. That fact that POC always need a trial run says it ALL.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Gabriel Arana
Newsrooms have “failed spectacularly” at achieving racial diversity →
“It's not up to people of color to do this work alone,” Dodai Stewart, a deputy Metro editor at The New York Times and a vocal advocate for diversity in media, says. “The people who have the power are the ones who need to fix this.”
The Drum / Andrew Blustein
YouTube to label state- and public-funded clips seen in UK and Ireland →
The feature was added in the U.S. this year.