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Tuesday, June 25, 2019
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“It’s just become daily news”: Six Florida newsrooms are teaming up to cover climate change"It's not a science story for us here in South Florida. It's not some kind of theoretical exploration. It's real. It's what many in our community experience in their neighborhoods." By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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Could technology built for advertising make public radio less top-down and more bottom-up?Plus: A British podcast company finds surprising success stateside, the Supreme Court provides a S02E14 for In the Dark, and a documentary about Freaknik. By Nicholas Quah. |
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Can you spot a fake photo online? Your level of experience online matters a lot more than contextual cluesWhether an image looks like a random Facebook post or part of a New York Times story doesn't make much of a difference. But your level of experience with the Internet and image editing does. By Mona Kasra. |
What We’re Reading
The Washington Post / Paul Farhi
Migrant children are suffering at the border. But reporters are kept away from the story. →
“The blackout on press access has left Americans largely in the dark about conditions in government facilities designed to handle migrants who have crossed the border. Photographs and TV images are both rare and often dated. Rarer still are interviews with federal agency managers and employees and with the children themselves.”
Texas Monthly
Texas Monthly has been sold, again →
It's been a rocky stretch for the beloved monthly, which went through an editor-in-chief mismatch and was last sold in late 2016. New owner Randa Duncan Williams "wants to own it forever."
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe names Mike Stanton and Christine Haughney Dare-Bryan as Spotlight Fellows →
“The Boston Globe on Monday announced that Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Mike Stanton and Christine Haughney Dare-Bryan, the creative force behind the Netflix investigative series ‘Rotten,’ have been selected as the news organization's new Spotlight Fellows.”
The New York Times / Lara Takenaga
Dean Baquet says The New York Times was “overly cautious” about reporting E. Jean Carroll’s rape allegations against Trump →
“He said the critics were right that The Times had underplayed the article, though he said it had not been because of deference to the president.”
Politico / Josh Gerstein
Supreme Court rules against newspaper seeking access to food stamp data →
“The high court ruling rejected a nearly half-century-old appeals court precedent that allowed the withholding of business records under the Freedom of Information Act only in cases where harm would result either to the business or to the government's ability to acquire information in the future.”
The Guardian / Michael McGowan
Media companies scramble after an Australian judge rules they are liable for Facebook comments →
“On Monday in the New South Wales supreme court judge Stephen Rothman found that commercial entities, including media companies, could be regarded as the publishers of comments made on Facebook, and as such had a responsibility to ensure defamatory remarks were not posted in the first place.”
BusinessWire
GateHouse Media launches national investigative reporting team →
The 30-person team “will be headed by managing editor Emily Le Coz, an award-winning journalist and GateHouse Media's first national digital projects editor.”
Axios / Sara Fischer
LinkedIn has changed its algorithm to favor posts that “cater to niche professional interests, as opposed to elevating viral content” →
“LinkedIn has done this in part because internal research found that participation wasn’t even across the platform, and that much of the attention in on LinkedIn was skewed towards the top 1% of power users.”
Washington Post