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Thursday, April 25, 2019
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Support for Julia Angwin grows as funders investigate the “coup” at The MarkupAfter her ouster as editor-in-chief, multiple funders say they are taking steps to “reassess” their support. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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L’affaire Luminary continues with more podcasts dropping out and allegations of technical bad behaviorThe paid podcast app may well be doing nothing wrong in its hosting of podcasts from the open web — but nonetheless, what they’ve been best at thus far is generating pushback. By Joshua Benton. |
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Collaboration jackpot: How three local journalism projects in Europe are getting more bang for their buckA case study into local news collaborations in Italy, the U.K., and Finland suggest some methods that any newsroom can use. By Christine Schmidt. |
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Culture clash or compatibility? Despite some flashy differences, British and German media cultures share a lot of similaritiesAgenda-setting tabloids vs. muted restraint: Journalists in the two European countries may seem to have divergent views of their roles, but new data suggests they’re not all that different. By Neil Thurman and Imke Henkel. |
What We’re Reading
Columbia Journalism Review / Eric Berger
His father installed printing presses, he dismantles them →
“In some cases, the newspapers hire companies to simply demolish the presses and haul them away. In others, they locate other publications interested in the equipment. For the latter, they hire Birket, who carefully takes the press apart and then transports parts of it.”
BuzzFeed News / Alex Kantrowitz and Ryan Mac
Setting aside $3 billion for an anticipated fine increased Facebook’s market cap by $40 billion →
“The figure may sound massive, but Wall Street is giddy. In after-hours trading on Wednesday, Facebook’s stock price shot up more than 8%, signaling that investors consider the estimated fine to be a slap on the wrist that could’ve been far worse.”
The Guardian / Julia Carrie Wong
How Instagram and YouTube disrupted child labor laws →
“…while today's child stars can achieve incredible fame and fortune without ever setting foot in a Hollywood studio, they may be missing out on one of the less glitzy features of working in the southern California-based entertainment industry: the strongest child labor laws for performers in the country.”
The Washington Post / Margaret Sullivan
Trump has made the White House Correspondents’ dinner “as dull as it should be” →
“By refusing to attend the dinner himself and by making the government-press relationship truly adversarial — ‘enemy of the people,’ etc. — he's sandblasted the high gloss off the party. What's left is a high-minded journalism awards dinner, which is what the organizers, all along, defended it as.”
Poynter / Ren LaForme
Gannett launches its own image licensing and wire service →
“Imagn makes photos available for licensing at a per photo basis or via a subscription service with three options: only sports; only news and entertainment; or combined sports, news, and entertainment.”
Associated Press
Religion News Service, AP, and The Conversation launch global religion journalism initiative with $4.9M grant →
“Staffed by journalists from RNS, a subsidiary of RNF, and AP and editors from The Conversation, an independent, nonprofit publisher of commentary and analysis sourced from academic experts, the desk will produce multiformat religion journalism intended to improve general understanding and analyze the significance of developments in the world of faith.”
The Ken / Rohin Dharmakumar
India’s The Ken introduces patron-funded subscriptions for readers who can’t afford them →
“The Ken's Patron subscriptions enable business leaders, investors, senior executives and companies to directly fund annual subscriptions in bulk for readers who may not yet be able to afford them. Each Patron subscriber funds a certain number of annual subscriptions (ranging from 50 to 250), which we double by matching an equal number of subscriptions from our side.”
Vanity Fair / Evgenia Peretz
Vanity Fair profiles The New York Times’ Bari Weiss →
Jennifer Senior: “I always marvel at the huge gulf between the Bari who's this Twitter bogeyman and Bari the actual person. She is the subject of more unexamined hatred in our profession than almost anyone I can think of. She's the target of so much snark. The irony, and what almost breaks my heart, is that she has almost no snark in her. She's super-generous and loving.”
Facebook
Facebook’s EU fact-checking initiative now includes 21 partners in 14 European languages →
“Our program now includes 21 partners fact-checking content in 14 European languages: Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. “