Why a Murderers’ Row of Media Barons Want to Buy The Telegraph: “Imagine a Sort of Broadsheet Version of the New York Post” | Vanity Fair
In August 1939, a young woman named Clare Hollingworth got her first journalism assignment. “You must go to Warsaw tonight,” her editor said. Days later, after Hollingworth spotted “hundreds of tanks, armored cars and field guns” near the Polish border with Czechoslovakia, the 27-year-old cub reporter kicked off her career with a once-in-a-lifetime dispatch heralding […]
Navigating nonprofit journalism – The Fix
As publishers are struggling to monetise news, there’s been growing interest in the nonprofit model. The idea is that high-quality journalism is a public good that either cannot be monetised commercially at all or would suffer under commercial incentives. Origen: Navigating nonprofit journalism – The Fix
How a journalism professor helps students understand harassment — and how to protect themselves – Poynter
One of the most vexing, and even dangerous, issues facing journalists these days is harassment, both online and in real life. Among the best-known examples is New Hampshire Public Radio, whose reporter Lauren Chooljian, along with her editor, Dan Barrick, and her parents were the targets of vandalism to their homes, apparently in retaliation for […]
DMGT Telegraph bid: Publisher interested in US potential – Press Gazette
The Daily Mail‘s publisher has revealed the “enormous potential” of The Telegraph in the US, alongside its successful subscription model and the potential cost efficiencies, are behind its bid to buy the rival newspaper.Mail publisher DMGT, which also owns Metro and the i, has previously confirmed it was considering a bid to buy The Telegraph. […]
Driving systemic change one behavior at a time – American Press Institute
For two days about 60 news leaders and mental health experts gathered for API’s Local News Summit on Mental Health and Sustainability earlier this month in Atlanta. We shared solutions and served as co-conspirators for opportunities to support the mental health and well-being of an entire industry of first — and last — responders. Many […]
Opportunities to advance DEI in nonprofit news: What the INN Index tells us about progress made and room for growth | by Institute for Nonprofit News | INNsights | Oct, 2023 | Medium
INN seeks to build a nonprofit news network that ensures all people in every community have access to trusted news. A cornerstone of this work is to support nonprofit journalism that is led and staffed by individuals that reflect the communities they serve and is invested in serving the information needs of communities of color […]
The death toll for journalists in the Gaza conflict has reached 29 | Nieman Journalism Lab
The war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas is shaping up to be one of the deadliest single events for journalists in decades.In the 23 days since Hamas’ initial attacks in Israel, at least 29 journalists have died, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists: 24 Palestinian, 4 Israeli, and 1 Lebanese. (An additional 9 […]
Data Journalism Top 10: Visualizing War in Israel and Gaza; Australia’s Indigenous Voice Vote, Aging Taiwan, Romance Novel Covers – Global Investigative Journalism Network
This edition of our Data Journalism Top 10 — covering stories published between October 9 and October 22 — includes The New York Times’ graphic analysis of the waiting periods before Israeli civilians received any IDF response following Hamas attacks on October 7. Also featured this week: analyzing the first-round results of Argentina’s presidential election, […]
FT visual storytelling: How award-winning team does it
The visual storytelling team at the Financial Times has developed a “playbook” for covering events like the war between Israel and Hamas since it was created in 2021.In the first week of the conflict, the FT’s visual and data teams began a regularly updated “war in maps” piece and published the visual investigation “Seventeen hours […]
How the BBC fact-checks celebrity deaths (and other prominent news stories) | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
3030When BBC Senior Reporter Daniel Rosney was assigned to verify the death of a social media personality, he did not anticipate the assignment was going to take over 10 hours. The star in question was Lil Tay, a Canadian teen rapper/social media star who rose to brief fame by posting pictures and videos of herself […]