Every month, I get onto a Zoom with Taylor Blatchford, engagement editor for The Seattle Times’ investigative team and the editor of The Lead, Poynter’s newsletter for student journalists.We share our plans for the upcoming months to make sure...
After spending the past two years delivering media scoops, Ben Smith kicked off 2022 with big news of his own. The New York Times’ media columnist announced he’d be giving up one of the marquee gigs in journalism to...
2022 started off with some high-profile movement in the media entrepreneurship space, when Ben Smith, the media columnist for The New York Times and former editor of BuzzFeed News, announced he was leaving the Times to start a news...
There was more than a hint of the grandiose in Axios CEO Jim VandeHei’s “manifesto” announcement of the latest expansion of Axios’ year-old morning newsletter franchise. He wrote:“We want to bring smart, modern, trustworthy local news to every community...
Beside journalism’s addiction to prediction lies another comorbidity: its presumption to set expectations.Of course, we are well familiar with this co-occuring condition in coverage of politics, where journalists think they bring value to public discourse — which they do...
We take a look at news aggregators in the latest of a series exploring different ways to make journalism pay. Previous articles have looked at membership, philanthropy, crowdfunding and newsletter strategies for newsrooms and individual journalists.
Origen: Best news aggregators for publishers:...
Ms. Susan Wojcicki,It’s been almost two years since the COVID-19 pandemic started. The world has seen time and time again how destructive disinformation and misinformation can be for social harmony, democracy, and public health; too many lives and livelihoods...
Over 80 fact-checking organizations operating across more than 60 countries signed an open letter to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Wednesday, calling on the company to take stronger measures to fight misinformation on the platform.“YouTube is allowing its platform to...
Letters to the editor are a newspaper staple. Members of the community get 200 or 300 words to share their perspectives and experiences. Then, an editor selects and publishes them, and the process repeats itself.But a new project from...
For two years, coronavirus case counts and hospitalizations have been widely used barometers of the pandemic’s march across the world.But the omicron wave is making a mess of the usual statistics, forcing news organizations to rethink the way they...
