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WEBNew York Public Radio cuts 26 positions. Twelve of the layoffs were voluntary. “NYPR continues to recycle a playbook focused on content cuts that amount to a short-term Band Aid rather than a long-term solution to our multi-million dollar deficit,” said union stewards representing the station’s news staff in a statement. CNN / Brian Stelter.
Some resources for following the invasion of Ukraine
WEBFeb 24, 2022 · The German investigative nonprofit Correctiv launched a sanctions tracker, updated daily, of all sanctions against Russia.It’s available in German and English.. The Technology and Social Change Project at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center is tracking “moves by major technology companies and governments to limit the flow of misinformation. This includes state sponsored misinformation and ...
“In digital, the right-wing material is 24/7”: How Sky News quietly ...
WEBNov 9, 2020 · We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.
The New York Times’ success with digital subscriptions is …
WEBMay 6, 2020 · We told you last month about The Atlantic’s startling success, with its strong coronavirus coverage earning more than 36,000 new subscriptions in March — despite putting much of that coverage outside its metered paywall.. Today, we got another piece of data: The New York Times signed up 587,000 net new digital subscribers in Q1 2020, a record.(To put that number in context: It took the ...
Reader comments on news sites: We want to hear what your …
WEBSep 16, 2015 · One of Nieman Lab’s most-read stories ever is “What happened after 7 news sites got rid of reader comments,” published in 2015.In that piece, Justin Ellis looked at sites that had made the decision — still somewhat unusual at the time — to turn off comments on their sites. “We believe that social media is the new arena for commenting, replacing the old onsite approach that dates ...
How do audiences decide what news to trust? Fairness and …
WEBDec 3, 2020 · This week, our team of researchers at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism published a new report that offers somewhat different answers than those most often focused on by journalists and other researchers (much of which we reviewed in a Trust in News Project (funded with a £3.3 million grant from the Facebook Journalism Project), a multi-year effort to better understand trust ...
The U.S. Media Index database shows news consumers who owns …
WEBMay 14, 2021 · The databases includes three indices: The U.S. Mainstream Media Index details the 176 parent companies of daily news outlets; the index of emerging nonprofit media and donors lists 231 nonprofit news outlets and who funds them; and an index of the seven owners of daily newspapers is categorized …
“No, nothing will be fine” — but could these misinformation …
WEBAug 12, 2021 · Historically, people struggle to adapt to a new technology — even to bicycles in the 19th century, said Irene Pasquetto, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Information.“There was this backlash against bicycles and how dangerous they were and how they could disrupt the local economy,” she said.
Some midterm polls were on target, but finding which pollsters to ...
WEBNov 22, 2022 · Pollsters indulged in breezy self-congratulation in the aftermath of the 2022 midterm elections. Pre-election polls, they declared, did well overall in signaling outcomes of high-profile U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races.
How to successfully pitch The New York Times (or, well, anyone else)
WEBOct 22, 2018 · Then check again. Skipping this step shows you’re either blindly shooting off pitches en masse, or you just don’t care enough to look. Meet your new best friend: Google site search. Just type “site: [newsoutlet.com] [your keywords]” and you’re set. (Do not rely on a news outlet’s built-in search engine.)