News publishers’ digital challenges are legion, but a more conventional problem has come into sharp focus this year: the price of paper.In its half-year results released in July, publishing giant Reach reported a 65% year-on-year increase in its newsprint...
I was hopeful that Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of the new global media startup Semafor, might speak to HEATED about the misleading Chevron ad atop the site’s debut climate newsletter on Monday.
Origen: Semafor's infuriating climate misinformation
The Instagram headline was pithy and alarming: “Head of Pfizer Research: Covid Vaccine is Female Sterilization.” And the report, from a murky source, could have had real-world consequences, coming in 2020, just as the U.S. rolled out the first...
Looks like major changes are coming to CNN. And not in a good way.Chris Licht, chairman of CNN, sent a memo to staff Wednesday, writing that a “noticeable change” is on the way. The memo came out just a...
You might wonder why, after the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, journalists would put any stock in pre-election polls. But the biggest challenge for journalists is not in the polling itself, but how we report polling results.
Origen: The problem with our reporting about...
As the U.S. heads into the 2022 midterm elections, plenty of newsrooms around the country are providing the same sort of coverage they always have. They’ll focus more on campaign stops, political attacks, and which candidates are winning or...
Only one BBC journalist was formally disciplined for breaking the corporation’s social media guidelines in the past year.The second year of director-general Tim Davie’s social media use policies for BBC journalists saw fewer disciplinary actions than the first, when...
They came as soon as Elon Musk announced he was buying Twitter. A wave of tweets from users dramatically proclaiming they would leave Twitter if/when the deal went through.
Origen: Leaving Twitter is fine. Just don't tweet about it. |...
Use newsroom automation to get journalists doing more “robust reporting” – but “do not automate a bad process”, publishers and experts in the use of newsroom AI have said.Attendees
Origen: News automation dos and don'ts - and why it's not...
Carl Azuz isn’t dead. That’s a fact. Despite some tweets about the beloved former CNN 10 host’s mortal status, Azuz is alive and focused on fighting misinformation ahead of the midterm elections. As one of two new MediaWise ambassadors, he’ll...
