Would you pay to be able to quit TikTok and Instagram? You’d be surprised how many would
▪ “The relationship he has uncovered is more like the co-dependence seen in a destructive relationship, or the way we relate to addictive products such as tobacco that we know are doing us harm.”
BREAKING: The ways people hear about big news these days; “into a million pieces,” says source
▪ The New York Times and the Washington Post compete with meme accounts for the chance to be first with a big headline.
In 1924, a magazine ran a contest: “Who is to pay for broadcasting and how?” A century later, we’re still asking the same question
▪ Radio Broadcast received close to a thousand entries to its contest — but ultimately rejected them all.
You’re more likely to believe fake news shared by someone you barely know than by your best friend
▪ “The strength of weak ties” applies to misinformation, too.
To find readers for longform investigations, Public Health Watch leans on partners and in-person work
▪ Nonprofit newsrooms are competing for limited funding and attention spans, grappling with diminishing returns on social, and trying to address low trust in media. It’s forcing outlets large and small to adapt to survive.
Nearly all local online newsrooms produce newsletters, a LION report finds ➚
Now you can get news on your vape ➚
With Carlos Watson’s conviction, the Ozy story reaches its poetic ending ➚
Could social media support healthy online conversations? New_ Public is working on it
▪ “We talk to a lot of towns where there is no newspaper anymore; there’s no community center anymore; the town store shut down. And this is kind of it.”
Mashable, PC Mag, and Lifehacker win unprecedented AI protections in new union contract
▪ Ziff Davis can’t lay off workers or decrease their salary due to generative AI, according to the tentative contract.
Bloomberg Businessweek’s editor believes print remains the ultimate “distraction-free news product”
▪ “I’ve joked about Businessweek(ish); I don’t think that one was really considered.”
NPR’s Collaborative Journalism Network to expand with an Appalachia newsroom, short-form video pilot, and more ➚
The Copa, Euro, and Wimbledon finals collide on July 14. Here’s how The Athletic is preparing for its “biggest day ever.”
▪ The Athletic intends to use its live coverage as a “shop window,” giving new readers a taste of what they might get if they subscribed.
Making sense of science: Using LLMs to help reporters understand complex research
▪ Can AI models save reporters time in figuring out an unfamiliar field’s jargon?
The New York Times is “constantly thinking about the hierarchy of the stories that we’re promoting,” Joe Kahn says ➚
Are you willing to pay for CNN.com? Prepare to be asked before year’s end
▪ The cable news network plans to launch a new subscription product — details TBD — by the end of 2024. Will Mark Thompson repeat his New York Times success, or is CNN too different a brand to get people spending?
Errol Morris on whether you should be afraid of generative AI in documentaries
▪ “Our task is to get back to the real world, to the extent that it is recoverable.”
In the world’s tech capital, Gazetteer SF is staying off platforms to produce good local journalism
▪ “Thank goodness that the mandate will never be to look what’s getting the most Twitter likes.”
“Poetjournalism” slouches forth from Michigan to be born
▪ Institute for Poetjournalism founder Aaron Dworkin hopes a cash prize and a wire service for “newspoems” will help the form take off.
If Meta bans news in Australia, what will happen? Canada’s experience is telling
▪ In countries that have demanded Facebook pay local news publishers, the tech giant has responded with threats — and sometimes action. Will a Canada-style ban become the international norm?