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Tuesday, July 30, 2019
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Is it time for “strategic silence” in news coverage of mass shootings?A study of 6,337 stories about the Christchurch attacks found that only 14 percent of U.S. publications named the shooter and almost none linked to his manifesto or the forum where he posted it. By Jon Marcus. |
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Apple’s podcast categories are on a brief vacation — and a reminder of how thin the industry’s infrastructure can bePlus: Slate leans farther into the advice game, In the Dark goes global over the airwaves, and some people just like ads. By Nicholas Quah. |
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Full Fact has been fact-checking Facebook posts for six months. Here’s what they think needs to changeMore scale, more transparency, and more help with health-related posts. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
Politico / Michael Calderone
Black journalists push media to cover this “hyper-racial” moment in politics →
“Race and politics is really the story of our time.” “While some of y'all reporters are out here talking about how reporting on Trump is ‘fun,’ your black and brown colleagues are having to deal with the psychic impacts of his racism. Maybe try considering that this is neither a game nor entertaining for many, many Americans.”
The Washington Post / Sarah Ellison
CNN promises it’ll do things differently in 2020 →
“The network won't air any candidate rallies live and unedited, as it did repeatedly for candidate Trump. He has put more reporters in the field, to stay closer to the voters in the middle of the country. And CNN has held over 20 town hall events with presidential candidates for 2020 — many of them low-rated — partly as a way to focus on the issues, [Jeff] Zucker said, and partly to make sure that the network is not putting its finger on the scale for any single candidate.”
CNN / Oliver Darcy
John Heilemann and John Battelle launch new a video-driven politics news site →
“The outlet, called The Recount, will be video-driven, featuring short videos that summarize what is happening in the news.”
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
How Le Figaro finds value in more casual readers →
“People subscribe to a promotional offer and cancel several times, but at some point, the time lapse between two subscriptions shortens and they finally stay with us.”
Press Gazette / Charlotte Tobitt
Gay Star News closes suddenly, with 20 jobs lost in “great shame” for LGBTQ media →
“London-based Gay Star News launched in January 2012 with the aim of being ‘the world's only 24-7 LGBT news service.'”
Politico / Michael Calderone
Black journalists push media to cover “hyper-racial” moment in politics →
“‘Sometimes we as an industry don't understand how psychologically and emotionally tolling these conversations can be,’ Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery told Politico, adding that white colleagues are ‘having a high-minded conversation about things that impact your life every day.'”
NewsGuard
More than 10% of the news websites Americans rely on spread misinformation about health issues such as vaccines →
“Of the nearly 3,000 news and information websites that account for 96% of online engagement in the U.S., 11% publish misinformation about health. This means that more than one in 10 news websites accessed by Americans includes bad information about health, such as false information about the risks of vaccines.”
Journalist's Resource / Denise-Marie Ordway
53% of journalists surveyed weren’t sure they could spot flawed research →
Also: “Almost 64 percent of journalists who responded to Journalist's Resource's 2019 user survey said they mention academic research in their work on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. More than 40 percent said their stories focus largely on the findings of new studies with the same regularity. However, 23 percent of journalists said they mention academic research in their coverage only once or twice a year, and 13 percent said they never or almost never do.”
ProPublica
Calling college journalists of color: Apply for ProPublica’s emerging reporters program →
Applications are due by September 8.
eMarketer / Amy He
Ad-blocking growth is slowing, but not going away →
“In the US, roughly one in four internet users will block ads this year on at least one of their internet-connected devices. Penetration will be stable, increasing only to 27.0% of internet users at the end of our forecast period.”