“Trump has taken over VOA, Radio Free Europe, etc…planting loyalists, firing critical journalists. He can’t do that with Stripes so he’s just…zeroing out the budget.”
Apple now won’t kneecap the ad tech industry — for all the good and bad that implies — until early 2021. Publishers should use the extra time to get their data houses in order.
Christian outlets work in tandem with religious leaders, retweeting and sharing one another’s content to maintain a media ecosystem editorially independent from the secular press.
By Jaime Longoria, Daniel Acosta Ramos, and Madelyn Webb
“Many of our interviewees had little direct experience with news, yet they ‘knew’ they could not trust it, or found it boring, or that it was part of a shady system intended to hide important matters from them.”
“Trump has taken over VOA, Radio Free Europe, etc…planting loyalists, firing critical journalists. He can’t do that with Stripes so he’s just…zeroing out the budget.”
Apple now won’t kneecap the ad tech industry — for all the good and bad that implies — until early 2021. Publishers should use the extra time to get their data houses in order.
“How Black digital news outlets combat Covid-related misinformation,” “Unmasking polarization: What conservatives really feel about Covid coverage, and how to rebuild mutual trust,” and more.
BuzzFeed News / Drusilla Moorhouse and Emerson Malone
“The editors at BuzzFeed News have become uneasy about using conspiracy theory to describe QAnon, which has grown to encompass a whole alternative world of beliefs and signals. The copydesk has to stay on top of language and note when terms become stale and reductive; QAnon has shifted, and so should how we write about it.”
The legacy magazine has pivoted from live events to video and broadcast television. One upcoming example: Time is planning to reveal its 2020 class of Time 100 honorees with an hour-long broadcast special that will air in prime time on ABC on September 22.
“I actually referenced the Russian 2016 interference in the article I wrote,” UK-based freelancer Laura Walters, who was paid $250 to write for Peace Data, said. “I appreciate the irony right now.”
“Among the most tricky decisions that NPR journalists must make are when and how to challenge a statement made by a speaker in a story. The choice to add a note of doubt, an outright dismissal or to let slide a dubious claim is made story by story, even sentence by sentence … ‘Without evidence’ shows up a lot in conjunction with things Trump says.”
With Writers Guild of America, East. “This means Parcast is now joining Gimlet Media and The Ringer, other Spotify-owned companies, in their union efforts. Both groups are also organized through WGAE, and both are still in the bargaining phase of their contract negotiations, meaning no official contract has been agreed upon just yet.”
“Many journalists see the fight for pay equity as essential for the credibility of their work: How can they hold other institutions to account when their own houses are not in order?”
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