Nieman Journalism Lab
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.
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 …
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 ...
Some resources for following the invasion of Ukraine
WEBFeb 24, 2022 · The German investigative nonprofit Correctiv launched a sanctions tracker, updated daily, of all sanctions against Russia.It’s available in German and English.. The Technology and Social Change Project at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center is tracking “moves by major technology companies and governments to limit the flow of misinformation. This includes state sponsored misinformation and ...
Why do some people avoid news? Because they don’t trust us — …
WEBNov 8, 2018 · The latest edition of the Digital News Report that came out last week included some data on news avoidance. In 2017, 29 percent of those surveyed worldwide said they “often or sometimes avoid the news,” including 38 percent in the United States and 24 percent in the U.K.By 2019, those numbers had increased to 32 percent worldwide (+3), 41 percent in the U.S. (+3), and 35 percent in the U.K ...
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.)
Reader comments on news sites: We want to hear what your …
WEBSep 16, 2015 · One of Nieman Lab’s most-read stories ever is “What happened after 7 news sites got rid of reader comments,” published in 2015.In that piece, Justin Ellis looked at sites that had made the decision — still somewhat unusual at the time — to turn off comments on their sites. “We believe that social media is the new arena for commenting, replacing the old onsite approach that dates ...
The Wire China is a new journalism-and-data business hoping to …
WEBApr 29, 2020 · Breaking stories about corruption takes a lot of careful research and patience. If you’re reporting on the shadowy business dealings of high-ranking officials in China, that type of investigative journalism also takes a fair amount of courage.
How are journalists like Instagram influencers? In some key ways ...
WEBNov 12, 2020 · What is the connection between social class and news consumption? Studies have repeatedly shown that well-educated, well-paid, highly political engaged people are more likely to spend time with news (and “higher-quality” news at that) in comparison with those of lower social grade.But it’s also quite clear that working-class individuals are at a distinct disadvantage not only in terms of ...
“No, nothing will be fine” — but could these misinformation …
WEBAug 12, 2021 · Historically, people struggle to adapt to a new technology — even to bicycles in the 19th century, said Irene Pasquetto, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Information.“There was this backlash against bicycles and how dangerous they were and how they could disrupt the local economy,” she said.