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I like the idea of separating out the functions of local news.
https://cjr.org/the_media_today/local-needs-local-news-crisis.php… via
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1. “Local news” has many forms, and it’s just the tip of the iceberg.
2. Local journalism faces many of the same challenges as national journalism.
3. Local information functions differently in each place.
4. Be careful what you label as insignificant
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New: For her last edition of the Journalism Crisis Project newsletter, writes with a few lessons learned
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John Mecklin, of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, on climate change and other existential threats https://cjr.org/covering_climate_now/ukraine-russia-nuclear-climate-crisis.php… via
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1/3: In part one of a 2-part series for , president and co-founder of explains that to truly understand how bleak the collapse of local news is, we have to look beyond the decline in newspaper newsroom employees.
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For today, I wrote about the different considerations around, and audiences for, Russian war propaganda—supply and effectiveness; foreign and domestic—and how these spheres further divide in all sorts of messy ways. /1
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New: As the war goes on, it’s vital that we try to understand what Putin’s propagandists are saying, who they’re trying to say it to, and to what end, writes.
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The editor of the won't bring down your party.
"This all looks bad. But these kinds of long-term global problems are fixed by remaining constant, by doing what we need to do to minimize risk, and I still think we will."
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Australia—with a population just over 25 million—has managed to force tech companies to do something they’ve long fought: provide financial support to the news business under government pressure
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Ukrainian media battles for its future as Russia invades via
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What happened when Australia pressured Google and FB to pay news organizations?
The tech firms coughed up > $150 million so far, in a market 1/13th the size of the US.
It brought in new jobs. New investment.
And new critiques -- like this one 
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You may not know that Australia passed a law pressuring Google and Facebook to negotiate payments to (some) news publishers for— well, it's not easy to summarize what for. But here's an outstanding report on how it's going by in .
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Russia is becoming increasingly cut off from the world — from social media, from traditional media, and even from the internet itself. But is that a good thing? https://cjr.org/the_media_today/russias-diminishing-information-access.php… via
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Writes : “Australia…has managed to force tech companies to do something they’ve long fought: provide financial support to the news business under government pressure”https://cjr.org/business_of_news/australia-pressured-google-and-facebook-to-pay-for-journalism-is-america-next.php… via
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New from : “Australia looks like a success story to those who’ve long yearned to force big tech to prop up suffering newsrooms. But it’s a murky deal, with critical details guarded like they’re nuclear launch codes.”
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“I would say our priority is not letting the independent, ethical Ukrainian media landscape die because rebuilding it would be very difficult”
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The echoes and intersections of the pandemic and war stories
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deplatforming, withdrawals/ censorship / law and policy changes relating to media during the Russian invasion of Ukraine: have creted a timeline ( work) which we will be updating fequently https://cjr.org/tow_center/a-platform-and-publishers-timeline-of-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine.php… tag us w/missing items
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The latest from Tow: Reporting Fellow spoke with to discuss the challenges journalists and newsrooms currently face in Ukraine. read on
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New: The is tracking actions taken globally by platforms, publishers, and governments that affect the information ecosystem in Russia and Ukraine.
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I've been thinking about the enormity of the pandemic and war stories, how they're similar and not. I wrote about it for today, jumping off 's shocking war photo and on COVID normalization—in part for want of shocking images.
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My latest for on :
I spoke w/ to discuss newsroom operational resiliency in wartime, the challenges of getting vital supplies for journalists into Ukraine, and how this fits into Ukraine's broader struggle for press freedom
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New: spoke with about logistical challenges of supporting Ukrainian journalism, operational resiliency for newsrooms during wartime, and the broader history of Ukraine’s turbulent post-Soviet history and press freedom challenges.
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Shah’s arrest is the latest in a series of punitive efforts by police to target journalists in Kashmir with detention and harassment
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"Leaders never enter crucial moments as a blank canvas; indeed, a feature of democracy (which Zelensky is now fighting to protect) is that the press should scrutinize politicians, always, and not lapse into hagiography."
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For today, I wrote about Zelensky's impressive media strategy as well as current US media coverage of him, which reads very differently to his past (even recent) appearances in the US news cycle, and has sometimes cast him as a 2D action hero. /1
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A new tool allows journalists to quickly sort through FOIA data dumps
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“Given all that has transpired since, it is remarkable that the arguments CJR’s editors laid out six decades ago, and indeed much of the tenor of the magazine’s earliest coverage, resonate today.”
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Gumshoe, the AI tool designed to drastically reduce the time needed comb through #FOIA & other data caches, featured in ! | https://buff.ly/3hEQj8u #DataAnalytics #DataLeak #journalism
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“The functions of the local newsroom have been largely disaggregated; too often, we continue to ignore this reality in our conversations about possible interventions in the modern information crisis.”
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The Putin regime obliterates press freedom via
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I was out from last week, so just catching up to my colleague 's wonderful profile of Facility, a magazine that uses toilets and bathrooms as a lens to tackle bigger questions.
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The steady erosion of press freedom overseas can sometimes seem abstract to Western readers. What we’re seeing in Russia is the logical endpoint of that erosion, or something close to it—and the consequences are anything but, for all of us. Me for :
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The functions of the local newsroom have been largely disaggregated; too often, we continue to ignore this reality in our conversations about possible interventions in the modern information crisis.
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A new tool allows journalists to quickly sort through FOIA data dumps
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The virality of the images from Russia's invasion of Ukraine may drive attention, but, from a journalistic perspective, the same images often do a poor job of representing the stakes and the scale at-hand.
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The case for adding 50,000 new local reporters to the US
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On the podcast: 's and 's talk with about Russia's invasion of Ukraine and their decision to leave the country
https://cjr.org/podcast/beardsley-kossov-ukraine-russia.php… …
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Our goal should be to create a better local news system, including far better service for communities of color and for rural areas. To make that local news system a reality, writes, we need to add 50,000 local reporters.
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“We’re just delighted by the idea that someone would find this in twenty years and be like, ‘What is this?’”
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“The functions of the local newsroom have been largely disaggregated; too often, we continue to ignore this reality in our conversations about possible interventions in the modern information crisis.”
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Fascinating. A new AI tool helps journalists sort through FOIA data dumps:
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“The local-news crisis looks very different on the ground, depending on where, specifically, you are.” So, what’s the way out of it?
’s points to a few solutions, highlights two-part report from ’s .
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“Social media is a little like pointillism—a collection of tiny dots that, taken together, reveal a broader picture. But, over the long term, war defies such a portrayal.”
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New from : “It’s easy to wield the term ‘local news’ as a response to a civic-engagement crisis without digging into which approaches to local news actually bolster civic engagement.”
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Over the past week, Ukrainians have used social media to document Russia’s attacks on civilians. Those efforts have been more effective at blunting the Russian propaganda machine than anything that has come out of the technology companies themselves.
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Gumshoe: A new tool allows journalists to quickly sort through FOIA data dumps https://cjr.org/innovations/gumshoe-foia-data-dumps-ai.php… via
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this is an important piece from . We recently settled labor grievances w/ NYPR in order to obtain just cause for reporters and hosts, with the hope that securing this provision would allow members to voice concerns with less fear of retaliation. …1
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Fahad Shah, and the perils of reporting in Kashmir
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As soldiers and civilians in Ukraine continue to resist an invasion by Russian troops, a very different kind of war is being fought on a separate front: the internet. | via
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Loved this 'best journalism piece of advice' column in .
Also, why reporters should be loudly protesting the Assange case: The DOJ thinks what the dean of Columbia j-school says is the best piece of advice ever given to him—by Bob Woodward—is illegal: https://cjr.org/special_report/margaret-sullivan-fahrenthold-ioffe-ben-smith-gay-talese-steve-coll.php…
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New from : The virality of the images from Russia's invasion of Ukraine may drive attention, but, from a journalistic perspective, the same images often do a poor job of representing the stakes and the scale at-hand.
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“I don’t necessarily know what or where the smoking gun will be, but I know I don’t need to read hundreds of emails about someone’s lunch schedule to find it.”
On the tool that wants to make FOIA data dumps easier:
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“It is essential work, not just for Fahad, or the readers of the Kashmir Walla, but for all of us who claim the title of journalists and reporters, rather than mere stenographers to power.”
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So many documents, so little time, but & now helping reporters better manage FOIA file dumps w/ new AI tool, via 's :
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New: In the past year and a half, at least eighteen people have left WNYC. We looked into why:
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“Facility leans into the inherent silliness of the topic—there’s a guide on which household item best replicates the look of urine—but deftly maneuvers through being a literary publication, art portfolio, beauty blog, and trade magazine.”
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“It is just devastating. We thought we were so close and got him home…and then it happened.”
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A new tool allows journalists to quickly sort through FOIA data dumps
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Turns out that a few years ago I profiled JoJo Burgess, the Pennsylvania steelworker whom Biden invited to the State of the Union.
I wrote about Burgess's vies of how the news media cover blue-collar workers -- Not Nearly Enough
https://cjr.org/special_report/through-the-working-class.php…
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