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Thursday, June 6, 2019
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Promoting based on potential: How The Atlantic is putting a lot more women in charge“The only way to put women in leadership is to do it for the first time.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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Why this week’s raids on Australian media present a clear threat to democracy and press freedom thereAustralia has more national security laws than any other nation. It is also the only liberal democracy lacking a Charter of Human Rights or other foundational document that protects media freedom. By Rebecca Ananian-Welsh. |
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Sobering reality for news outlets: Your readers are somewhere else 99% of the timeAnd figuring out where else they’re spending their time online is a key part of generating competitive intelligence. By Mark Jacob. |
What We’re Reading
Bloomberg / Josh Eidelson
Hundreds of Vox employees are participating in a one-day walkout →
Bankoff’s response: “While paying people a lot more than market wages sounds great on the surface, it's not realistic or smart.”
Twitter / Bankoff
Vox employees put CEO Jim Bankoff on blast as part of the union’s campaign to negotiate a fair contract →
“.@Bankoff: I love working at Vox. But when I started, I made just $30,000 a year in DC (a pretty expensive city). I don't want anyone at Vox Media to go through that again. It's time the company agree to a fair contract with @vox_union.”
Engadget / AJ Dellinger
Twitter simplifies its privacy and safety rules (now it just has to enforce them!) →
“The company said that it has gone from 2,500 to just 600 words and now describes each rule in 280 characters or less — the same character limit that is applied to tweets.”
ProPublica / Jess Ramirez
What to ask (yourself) before starting a crowdsourcing project →
“What is the best, most efficient form of communication with the group? How will you let participants know what you find?”
Digiday / Kerry Flynn
The 2020 meme election: How memes became a mainstream tool in politics →
“I really do want Bernie Sanders to be our president, and he has the support of the entire Dank Meme network behind him. We got his back, and come 2020 we're ready to flood the internet with the Dankest Bernie Sanders memes in our stash.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Mathew Ingram
YouTube is all over the map when it comes to offensive content →
“Subsequent tweets from the official YouTube account on Twitter at first suggested that Crowder would be able to re-monetize his channel through ad-revenue sharing provided he stopped selling T-shirts, and then tried to clarify that he would remain demonetized until he made unspecified changes to his channel (including no longer selling the T-shirts).”
eMarketer / Amy He
U.S. adults are spending more time on mobile (3:43) than watching TV (3:35) →
“Consumers' use of smartphones will continue to make up the majority of their media consumption, but we predict that use will plateau by 2020, as consumers become increasingly uneasy about overuse of mobile devices.”
Poynter / Daniel Funke
How a fact-checker went from zero to 84,000 Instagram followers in 8 months →
“Teyit also fields tips on a variety of other platforms, including email, WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter. But Avşar said that, even when his team receives a tip off Instagram, it inevitably involves a link to the platform.”
The New York Times
Consumer Reports will start watching digital products — and platforms — thanks to $6M from Craig Newmark →
Newmark also recently gave $20M to The Markup to do a similar thing, but that’s still, well, in the works. “Consumer Reports, a lion of public-service journalism that can claim, among other things, to have spread early awareness of the dangers of cigarettes in the 1950s, announced… the lab will be crash-testing not cars but the digital tools that have become a part of everyday life.”
Poynter / Kristen Hare
How 14 local news organizations teamed up to cover climate change →
“We're trying to engage and create more energy and climate change journalism locally. Can we help an entire region take a step up on covering these issues? Can we serve a whole journalism ecosystem?”
ProPublica / Richard Tofel and Stephen Engelberg
“I hate it when the bad guys win”: The man who made ProPublica possible has died →
“When we won ProPublica's first Pulitzer Prize in 2010, he congratulated us briefly by phone, and then quickly added, "’this is not what's important, you know.'”