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Tuesday, September 3, 2019
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Young people may download news apps, but they spend very little time with them“No news app (with the exception of Reddit) was within the top 25 apps used by respondents.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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Book publishers are suing Amazon over text captions for audiobooks. What might that mean for podcasts?Plus: A canon of podcasts, the failures of the Apple Podcasts platform, and an update on plagiarism allegations against Crime Junkie. By Nicholas Quah. |
What We’re Reading
The New York Times / David McCraw
The New York Times explains how it uses the Freedom of Information Act →
“The Times continued to be the leading filer among media organizations over the first year and a half of the Trump administration. The Times has now filed 27 FOIA lawsuits in the Trump years.”
FIPP / Jessica Patterson
Magazines join fight against single-use plastics by looking into alternatives to polybagging →
“Consumers trust what we say. So if we were asking them to choose the planet, we could not continue to send out our own magazine wrapped in plastic. We had to find an alternative.”
The Guardian / Jillian Ambrose
New York Times drops sponsorship of oil conference →
“We want there to be no question of our independence or even the potential appearance of a conflict of interest. Over the last several years [the New York Times] has significantly expanded its reporting on climate change and its impact, as well as broader investigative and explanatory coverage of energy and environmental policy.”
Lenfest Institute for Journalism / Kyra Marie Miller
What can journalists learn from community organizers? →
“If a journalist is only building relationships with powerful people, how will that change the type of information they gather? How are you building relationships with baristas at the local coffee shop? The cashier at the grocery store? People who you encounter on the street?”
Esquire / David Karpf
“Bret Stephens compared me to a Nazi propagandist in The New York Times. It proved my point.” →
” If Stephens can abuse his position by searching out and threatening anyone who makes a joke about him online, and then devote an entire column to the nonsense personal vendetta that ensues, then I have to ask…how embarrassing is too embarrassing for Times editorial page editor James Bennet and his team?”
Editor and Publisher
Editor and Publisher sold to media consultant Mike Blinder →
“Looking ahead, Blinder wants E&P to continue being the go-to resource for publishers when it comes to implementing successful sales and business strategies, and he plans to expand the E&P brand onto other platforms such as podcasting and voice, while delving into deeper issues regarding news publishing including freedom of the press and the power of local journalism.”
Bloomberg / Josh Eidelson
New Yorker fact-checkers win employee status after union push →
“Condé Nast's New Yorker magazine will hire its subcontracted fact-checkers and editors as direct employees, a change that comes amid ongoing contract negotiations with the magazine's newly unionized staff.”
Teen Vogue / Rainesford Stauffer
Why teens are creating their own news outlets →
“I don’t think other news sources or a lot of people are aware that young people don’t really use email addresses.”