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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.
What I learned from a year on Substack - Nieman Lab
WEBSep 20, 2021 · A year ago, I quit the best job I ever had to start Platformer. Today I wanted to tell you all how it’s going, what I’ve learned, and how I hope the business will evolve in year two. My hope is that this piece offers some texture to ongoing discussions about how the creator economy and traditional journalism intersect, and proves useful both to journalists considering making a move like ...
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 New York Times’ morning email newsletter is getting an …
WEBApr 30, 2020 · All that is why I’m interested in today’s announcement from The New York Times about changes to its flagship morning newsletter, The Morning Briefing.For the first time, it’s getting a true host — David Leonhardt, the current Opinion columnist and past founder of The Upshot. From a memo to staff from …
Freedom from what?: It’s time to broaden the definition of a “free ...
WEBJun 28, 2018 · Rather, press freedom is a normative and institutional product of any given era: it is what people think press freedom should mean and how people have arranged people and power to achieve that vision. Most simply, press freedom is the right and responsibility to create separations and dependencies that enable democratic self …
Newspapers cost more than twice as much today as they did a …
WEBJan 28, 2019 · If you’ve been a daily print newspaper subscriber for any length of time — whether it’s a seven-day morning habit you’ve had for decades or a Sunday-only New York Times subscription you have mainly so your four-year-old will sometimes see Dada reading something other than a screen :raised_hand: — you’ve …
The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Thomas Pettitt on parallels between …
WEBApr 7, 2010 · Could the most reliable futurist of the digital age be…Johannes Gutenberg?. Possibly. Or, definitely, if you subscribe to the theory of the Gutenberg Parenthesis: the idea that the post-Gutenberg era — the period from, roughly, the 15th century to the 20th, an age defined by textuality — was essentially an interruption in …
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.)
The New York Times’ success with digital subscriptions is …
WEBApr 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 ...
New report highlights how Black media outlets center and amplify …
WEBOct 14, 2021 · Black media outlets publish on issues of importance to Black communities much more often — as many as six times as much — than other outlets. That's among the top findings of a new report published last week by the Black Media Initiative of the Center for Community Media at the City University …
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