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Thursday, May 2, 2019
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What will The Correspondent publish in English? A look at the Dutch site offers some cluesI analyzed six months of articles on De Correspondent to get a hint of what we might see on the English-language site. What I found didn’t always match the marketing. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
Columbia Journalism Review / Tiffany Stevens
How major storms alter the local news landscape →
“Justin Kiefer, who now works as a meteorologist at WATE-TV (Knoxville, Tennessee), was not the first employee to leave WMBB after Hurricane Michael, and he certainly wasn't the last.”
Journalist's Resource / Clark Merrefield
Covering political polls: A cautionary research roundup →
“This research digs into bias in evaluating political polling, polling errors across time and space, the relationship between media coverage and polling, and more.”
Wired / Paris Martineau
The existential crisis plaguing online extremism researchers →
“It’s not that one of our systems is broken; it’s not even that all of our systems are broken. It’s that all of our systems are working … toward the spread of polluted information and the undermining of democratic participation.”
American Press Institute / Amy Kovac-Ashley and Kevin Loker
Need support to build community listening into your newsroom? Apply here →
“Interested journalists can apply by May 24 for a combination of in-person training, an expert visit to their newsroom, and remote support in completing a project designed to build this engagement skillset into one's news organization. API will select roughly 10 journalists (reporters, editors, producers, etc.) representing different newsrooms to receive this support starting in summer 2019 and running through summer 2020.”
USA Today / Nathan Bomey
Gannett revenue falls (though digital subs rise) as the fight with Digital First Media continues →
“Gannett’s digital-only subscriptions rose 39% year-over-year to 538,000 in the first quarter…. Print advertising revenue fell 17.6% in the first three months of this year.”
Forbes / Peter High
The Washington Post’s CIO/CPO on building Arc Publishing →
The Post recently announced a “significant investment” to support Arc’s expansion.
Knight Center / Carolina de Assis
With listening clubs, Radio Ambulante wants to bring Latin America closer to the podcast →
“Almost all people say that the quality of conversation in a listening club is much greater than that of social networks, or say that they need more space to meet people in their community in person to discuss topics that interest them, and that listening clubs meet that need.”
John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford
Here is the new class of JSK Fellows →
Fellows will come from Instagram, Audible, The Chicago Reporter, and more will participate in the fellowship at Stanford.
University of Michigan / Wallace House
Here are the incoming Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellows →
Journalists from Marketplace, Illinois Public Radio, BBC News, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and more will study at the University of Michigan during the upcoming academic year.
Vanity Fair / Joe Pompeo
How is Craig Newmark handling The Markup’s blow-up? →
“Newmark's $20 million donation to the Markup was among the largest checks he's written, which is why the principals and the public alike are now looking at the 66-year-old erstwhile Web entrepreneur to sort out what went wrong, and how to proceed.”
BuzzFeed News / Joseph Bernstein
Sophie Schmidt, the former Google CEO’s daughter, is launching a nonprofit tech publication →
“The publication, which does not yet have a name or any full-time staffers aside from Schmidt, will be ‘focused on exploring the surprising and complex effects of technology internationally, specifically outside the US and Europe,’ the source wrote in an email to BuzzFeed News. ‘We’re most curious about human impact: social, cultural and political phenomena driven by the interaction between new tech and different cultures, institutions and norms abroad.'”
The New York Times / Isabel Kershner
Why a tech executive and his daughter are retelling the Holocaust via Instagram Stories →
“On Thursday morning, when sirens wail across Israel, bringing the country to a standstill in a moment of collective remembrance and mourning, Eva's Instagram story will end.”