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How Esquire lost the Bryan Singer story

On February 11, news broke that Millennium Films was delaying Bryan Singer’s Red Sonja, which was to begin production this year. This was, on the face of it, a remarkable turn of events. Singer’s Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, had just been nominated for five Oscars. It performed exceedingly well at the box office, as is […]
Posted: February 22, 2019, 9:21 pm

The New York Times’ Mark Thompson on how he’d run a local newspaper: “Where can we stand and fight?”

What would New York Times CEO Mark Thompson do if he ran Gannett? How much does he attribute the Times’ accumulation of millions of digital subscribers to the journalism produced by its burgeoning newsroom? Does the Times have a role to play in helping local news recover? In this edited Q&A — assembled from my...
Posted: February 22, 2019, 6:33 pm

Newsonomics: Can The New York Times avoid a Trump Slump and sign up 10 million paying subscribers?

Mark Thompson’s nautical and military metaphors have generated some ribbing from others at The New York Times. He once said, early on in his now-six-year tenure as CEO, that the print paper was like the Titanic — “the movie,” he laughs, “which ran another two hours after the ship was hit.” His point — that...
Posted: February 22, 2019, 6:33 pm

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a journalism ethics quandary!

The most famous journalist of all time is also the most famous superhero. For the past three-quarters of a century, with a few exceptions, his alter-ego, Clark Kent, has been working as a reporter for the Daily Planet. In a new DC Comics series, he and Lois Lane, his Pulitzer Prize-winning wife, meet a fiendish […]
Posted: February 22, 2019, 5:48 pm

‘Safety in numbers’: Philippine fact-checkers team up to debunk election misinformation

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Posted: February 22, 2019, 4:00 pm

How Your Voice Ohio worked with Youngstown’s WFMJ to highlight solutions in the opioid crisis

Remember the 2016 election? (Who could forget it.) For many, it felt like a breaking point between journalists and their audiences; neither party in that pairing seemed to be very good at listening at the other. But the fissure between writer and reader had been opening up for some time. “Journalists embarrassed themselves as they...
Posted: February 22, 2019, 3:21 pm

While YouTube and Facebook fumble, Pinterest is reducing health misinformation in ways that actually make sense

“Freedom of speech versus freedom of reach.” Pinterest got a positive spate of publicity Thursday as a couple different outlets reported on its policy (“which the company hasn’t previously publicly discussed but which went into effect late last year,” per The Wall Street Journal) of refusing to surface certain “polluted” terms like “vaccine” and “suicide”...
Posted: February 22, 2019, 2:39 pm

Investigations that make a difference; her son’s heart still beats; a tragic cat death

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Posted: February 22, 2019, 12:30 pm

The media’s Smollett coverage was fair; Ruhle and Under Armour’s no-no; spring training death

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Posted: February 22, 2019, 12:27 pm

Virginia blackface scandal: Journalists share their experiences

On February 4, Virginia residents gathered outside the governor’s mansion in Richmond to call for Ralph Northam’s resignation. A racist image from his medical school yearbook page had surfaced on a right-wing news site. Soon, Northam and General Mark Herring, the attorney general, admitted to wearing blackface. National news outlets heralded a “political crisis” in […]
Posted: February 22, 2019, 11:50 am

Podcast: Who is going to pay for journalism?  

ON THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, CJR Editor and Publisher Kyle Pope and Mathew Ingram, CJR’s chief digital writer discuss The Cairncross Review, a report published in the UK, and the role of tech companies like Google and Facebook on news. They are joined by Josh Young, creator of our trust-based engagement platform, Galley by CJR, who […]
Posted: February 21, 2019, 8:58 pm

When the story comes before the survivor

In late 2017, on the shores of southern Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people completed a grueling march to escape the campaign of rape and murder by Myanmar’s military. As they settled into huts dotting the muddy landscape, journalists from around the world descended on the camps to tell their story. “Can you speak to […]
Posted: February 21, 2019, 8:54 pm

In a solo show, a writer performs interviews on polyamory

This week, in a rehearsal room at Molloy College in downtown Manhattan, Xandra Clark sat in a folding chair, one leg tucked under the other, hand on her forehead, deep in thought. The room, fluorescent lit, was mostly empty. Clark, who is 28, had earbuds in; her cell phone was tucked into a pocket. “Most […]
Posted: February 21, 2019, 5:56 pm

Media outlets routinely present a distorted picture of communities of color. It’s time for a change.

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Posted: February 21, 2019, 4:36 pm

Flipboard wants tighter abs, Pinterest wants good wine, and Linkedin wants to read about…shopping? Here are the kinds of content platform users seek (or avoid)

Maybe it’s because I spend a lot of time around audience engagement teams, but after publishing the first part of my analysis on platform growth, my favorite part was the feedback I got from readers. Before we dive into my next analysis, I wanted to clarify something about one common theme of the responses I...
Posted: February 21, 2019, 4:34 pm

How News 12 is working with ProPublica’s Documenting Hate database to track local hate crimes

Ten years in, ProPublica is basically synonymous with “sustainable nonprofit journalism” and “collaborations.” Many news nonprofits use collaborations in part to get their names out there, but ProPublica has gotten how to make the collaboration a two-way street — one that less-resourced (at this point) organizations want to jump on — down to a science....
Posted: February 21, 2019, 3:43 pm

The state of women in U.S. media in 2019: Still f’ing abysmal — especially at Reuters and the AP

The dismal factoids in a new report released Thursday by the Women’s Media Center go on and on. And on. While women outnumber men in journalism programs and in colleges, they represent just 41.7 percent of newsroom employees, according to the 2018 diversity survey by the American Society of News Editors. That survey also received...
Posted: February 21, 2019, 3:00 pm

‘No image can be taken on face value’: Fake photos flood social media after a terrorist attack in India

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Posted: February 21, 2019, 2:52 pm

Trump remarks’ ‘ugly history’; questionable CNN hire; Gannett performs poorly

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Posted: February 21, 2019, 12:53 pm

Google says it’s fighting misinformation, but how hard?

Google recently presented a white paper at a digital-security conference in Germany, in which the search giant detailed all the steps it is taking across its various divisions—YouTube, Google News and Google Search—to fight misinformation and disinformation. The company said it is working hard in a number of areas including using quality signals to help […]
Posted: February 21, 2019, 12:45 pm

RCFP updates its one-stop shop for public records law, reporter’s privilege

On January 4, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press published the latest edition of its Open Government Guide—an indispensable resource for journalists navigating the tricky waters of government access, and a go-to compendium of state-level sunshine laws for 30 years. The guide, which is free and online, provides users with up-to-date statutory and […]
Posted: February 21, 2019, 11:55 am

He helped expose one of the biggest scams in history. Now he’s being prosecuted.

When I met Oliver Schröm at the Berlin offices of Correctiv.org, the investigative journalism non-profit he co-founded in 2014, I was his third interview of the day. It’s been like that, he told me, with a trace of outrage in his voice, since news broke last December that he’s being investigated by prosecutors in Hamburg […]
Posted: February 20, 2019, 8:16 pm

Local TV is still the most trusted source of news. So how do you collaborate with a station?

A squeezed industry, the constant threat of layoffs, a shrinking audience — local news is a tough place to be right now. But sometimes, when everything else feels like it’s falling, teaming up can stretch limited resources a little farther. Collaborations, many argue, will soon be core to the work of local newsrooms — partnering...
Posted: February 20, 2019, 6:57 pm

How Tribune Publishing, The Guardian, and Slate tackled reader revenue by valuing their journalism more

Reader revenue, reader revenue, reader revenue. It’s much easier said than done, but these two case studies from Tribune Publishing, the Guardian, and Slate prove that it’s possible. In a report from Digital Content Next and the Lenfest Institute, Matt Skibinski and Rande Price outline the for-profit and nonprofit approaches to increasing readers’ contributions, a...
Posted: February 20, 2019, 6:57 pm

How the Lenfest Local Lab used texting to inform Philadelphians about election issues

Text messaging gets overlooked in most local news strategies. Maybe it seems too simplistic. Maybe it feels too personal or intimate. Or maybe it just doesn’t seem like journalism. (Spoiler: It is.) But the list of reasons for newsrooms to consider adding texts to their mix of products is growing. Here are just some of...
Posted: February 20, 2019, 4:17 pm

A Somali journalist launches new effort to cover Minnesota’s immigrants

On January 25, Mukhtar M. Ibrahim, a reporter at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, announced that he would leave the paper to formally launch the Sahan Journal, a news organization dedicated to covering immigrant communities in his state. (Sahan means “pioneer” in Somali.) A Somali immigrant himself, Ibrahim plans to focus on his community as well as […]
Posted: February 20, 2019, 4:04 pm

What isn’t your newsroom covering that your audience wants more of?

This piece originally appeared in Local Edition, our newsletter following the digital transformation of local news. Want to be part of the conversation? You can subscribe here. 

It took some time, but Jesus Jimenez now has a pretty good …

Posted: February 20, 2019, 3:03 pm

Anti-vaccine conspiracies are still getting engagement on Facebook — despite being fact-checked as false

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Posted: February 20, 2019, 3:00 pm

The Dallas Morning News found a loyal audience when it started covering – wait for it – the weather

Last year, staff at the Dallas Morning News decided to experiment with three new beats: real estate, audience engagement and local weather.

Weather, in particular, looked like an opportunity. When DMN covered big weather events, audiences always showed up.

“But …

Posted: February 20, 2019, 2:29 pm

Family sues Washington Post; remembering a photographer; Polk winners

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Posted: February 20, 2019, 1:06 pm

It’s time for a “radical shift in the balance of power between the platforms and the people,” the British parliament says

Companies like Facebook are behaving like “digital gangsters,” British parliament said in a final report on disinformation and fake news released on Sunday after 18 months of work, and it’s time to rein them in. “We need a radical shift in the balance of power between the platforms and the people. The age of inadequate...
Posted: February 19, 2019, 7:00 pm

So is Spotify now the inevitable next King of Podcasts? Or will it struggle, like everyone else, to get past Apple?

Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 196, published February 19, 2019. Sort-of reader mailbag: Spotify edition. It’s Spotify Day +13. My inbox has pretty much started to chill after all the news, which has given me some time to sift through and check out what’s been occupying the Hot Pod...
Posted: February 19, 2019, 3:07 pm

“Rebuilding a local news ecosystem”: Knight pledges $300 million to local news, free speech, and media literacy organizations

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will provide a whopping $300 million over five years to organizations including the American Journalism Project, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and and ProPublica, the foundation announced Tuesday. The funding announcement follows the Knight Commission’s release earlier this month of a report outlining its recommendations...
Posted: February 19, 2019, 10:00 am

How can local TV news fix its young person problem? Maybe it needs to look more like Vox

Would more young people watch local TV news if it looked more like a Vox video and less like, uh, local TV news? It’s worth a try, according to a report released by Shorenstein and Northeastern this week. The authors suggest that local TV stations “remix” their hard news offerings by borrowing tactics from digital-native...
Posted: February 15, 2019, 4:00 pm

If Facebook wants to stop the spread of anti-vaxxers, it could start by not taking their ad dollars

How much should we freak out about anti-vaxxers? WHO named anti-vaxxers one of the top 10 global health threats for 2019. But is the threat from internet crazies overblown? Or are there certain things about the anti-vaccination movement that make it particularly dangerous? This debate is the health version of an argument we see often...
Posted: February 15, 2019, 2:01 pm

Clicks are an “unreliable seismograph” for a news article’s value — here’s new research to back it up

Go with your gut, not with the clicks: In a saturated media environment, news consumers most value news that is relevant to them — a factor that can’t be sussed out in a newsroom by measuring clicks, according to new research from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. (But you should still make...
Posted: February 14, 2019, 5:03 pm

Acing the algorithmic beat, journalism’s next frontier

Algorithms shape large parts of everyday life: our interactions with other people, what products we purchase, the information we see (or don’t see), our investment decisions and our career paths. And we trust their judgment: people are more likely to follow advice when they are being told that it came from an algorithm rather than...
Posted: February 14, 2019, 4:21 pm

Inside Inside’s new local newsletters and its plans to keep scaling (with 750,000 active subscribers on board)

Surprise: Subscribers to a nerdy bitcoin newsletter are just about as engaged as subscribers to a nerdy local newsletter. Inside.com, the startup that waited over a decade for the domain with its core product now in the inbox and not the browser, focuses on growing relationships using curated email newsletters to grab your attention. Last...
Posted: February 14, 2019, 2:20 pm

How Capital Public Radio covered a community’s high suicide rate (and developed a tool for residents to keep)

Covering suicides has, sadly, become more and more codified in the journalism industry — literally, here’s a site called Reporting on Suicide. Don’t include how they died, link to a support hotline or other resources in the piece, use words like “died by suicide” instead of “successful attempt.” But that’s been largely reactive as more...
Posted: February 13, 2019, 3:05 pm

BuzzFeed News and the Toronto Star team up to report on misinformation around the Canadian election

2019 is a general election year in Canada (as it is in many countries around the world), and the Toronto Star wanted to be on top of the misinformation and disinformation efforts that will almost inevitably arise as voting day draws closer. Star editors didn’t have to start from scratch in getting a handle on...
Posted: February 13, 2019, 3:00 pm

A major British government review proposes some light regulation of Google and Facebook (and perhaps new limits on the BBC)

It’s become something of a trend for national governments to convene a commission of some sort to review the status of their countries’ news industry — and to recommend what policies or regulatory changes might help sustain a vibrant free press. Australia had its Senate Select Committee last year and a new review that came...
Posted: February 12, 2019, 7:54 pm

In Liverpool, a football podcast has grown into a real media company — based mostly on listener payment, not advertising

Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 195, published February 12, 2019. That’s an (Anfield) wrap [by Caroline Crampton]. Hot Pod readers probably know that I’m based in the U.K., but I’m not sure it’s entirely clear that I don’t live in London. I moved away in the summer of 2017...
Posted: February 12, 2019, 2:45 pm

With Supporting Cast, Slate wants to build the paid-membership layer of podcasting

As the Swedish dust from last week’s Spotify acquisition-palooza settles, there’s little time to wait. Slate, the veteran digital media company and purveyor of fine podcasts, announced this morning that it’s rolling out something called Supporting Cast, a new technology service meant to help podcast publishers set up paid subscription layers or membership programs. For...
Posted: February 12, 2019, 2:00 pm

More than 240,000 people donated to nonprofit newsrooms via NewsMatch in 2018 (50,000 for the first time)

In journalism’s long and treacherous move away from ad dependency, the growing nonprofit news sector is trying to build a culture of philanthropy. At one level, that involves convincing foundations to send grants their way. But probably more important for the long term is building the habit of giving to news in a large number...
Posted: February 12, 2019, 12:00 pm

Want to reduce political polarization? Save your local newspaper

It almost seems impossible to ignore national politics today. The stream of stories about the president and Congress is endless; whether online, in print or on television, it’s never been easier to follow the action. National news outlets are adapting well to this environment: The New York Times and Wall Street Journal made big gains...
Posted: February 11, 2019, 4:26 pm

Newsonomics: In the Consolidation Games, enter the bankers

The bankers are now hired. Is the early 2019 newspaper chain M&A face-off now getting serious? It’s reminiscent of an earlier brand of warfare. Newspaper chains — all cutting desperately, each facing a shortening deadline to make a “digital transition” — line up their dealmaking armies, swords sharpened if not yet crossed. Gannett, having rejected...
Posted: February 11, 2019, 3:35 pm

Patch is launching paid, “ad-lite” memberships

A profile of hyperlocal news site Patch pops up once a year or so, and here’s the latest one, from Recode’s Peter Kafka. A few tidbits: — Patch is profitable (and has been for a few years — the company also said it was profitable in early 2016 and in mid-2017). — It now consists...
Posted: February 11, 2019, 3:21 pm

Here’s where your new readers are going to come from in 2019

Data has a habit of giving us advance signals about particular trends. It shouts: “Hey, something big is happening.” Like when we saw Facebook decline for six months before they announced official changes to their News Feed. Some of those trends jump out more than others. Wouldn’t it be great to predict how reliable those...
Posted: February 8, 2019, 3:23 pm

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing — no, seriously, it is, according to this new research

People who’ve scanned Facebook for news gain a little knowledge. Why do some of them think they’ve gained a lot? Consider statements like “I feel that I need to experience strong emotions regularly” and “I feel like I need a good cry every now and then.” How much do these statements apply to you? If...
Posted: February 8, 2019, 12:29 pm

Tony Haile’s Scroll acquires the news-reading app Nuzzel (it’ll remain free)

When you’re building a healthy web environment for journalism, there are a few key groups to keep in mind, says Scroll CEO (and Chartbeat founder) Tony Haile. Of course, you need to think about the publishers — the content creators — and the readers. Scroll, the $5/month, ad-free premium news site–reading experience that will roll out...
Posted: February 7, 2019, 5:00 pm

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