✅Media Matters for America｜20200101
🔗Climate coverage is improving, but challenges abound heading into 2020

Marked by innovative initiatives and high-quality reporting, 2019 was a breakout year for climate journalism. But there is still work to be done. Broadcast and cable TV news are still greatly underreporting catastrophic extreme weather, failing to cover the crisis on the Sunday shows, and ceding discussion of proposed climate solutions to right-wing media.

✅THE NEW YORK TIMES ｜20191221
🔗More Than 1 in 5 U.S. Papers Has Closed. This Is the Result.

Readers across the country told us how they were affected by the decline of local news: “Our community does not know itself.”

✅Facebook Journalism Program｜20191210
🔗How BBC News Built a More Engaged Audience on Instagram

Ciara Riordan, assistant editor of social news at BBC News, shared an inside look at their Instagram strategy, which reinvigorated engagement numbers without requiring additional resources.

✅QUARTZ ｜20191210
🔗Why so much investigative journalism gets published in December

News organizations will maintain that investigations are published only when they are ready. But editors and reporters know that if, ah, that story you’re working on can be ready in the next couple of weeks, that would be ideal, right?

✅THE TIMES OF INDIA｜20191204
🔗From sitcoms to satire: How comedy is becoming news

New sitcoms speak to a more self-aware and socially conscious audience. Because of the chances of getting called out online for careless … a new generation of writers is more clued in to diversity, TV shows are now more inclusive and layered than ever before.

✅THE NEW YORK TIMES｜20191124
🔗Internet Companies Prepare to Fight the ‘Deepfake’ Future

For internet companies like Google, finding the tools to spot deepfakes has gained urgency. If someone wants to spread a fake video far and wide, Google’s YouTube or Facebook’s social media platforms would be great places to do it.

✅DIGIDAY｜20191119
🔗How Reuters is building a marketplace for video-hungry publishers

With news publishers’ video needs growing all the time, Reuters is hoping to build itself into a marketplace that can serve all of them.

✅HACKS/HACKERS LONDON｜20191111
🔗Why it’s about time we talk seriously about AI and journalism

“This is a complex technology and it is going to take years to discover its impact

✅THE WASHINGTON POST｜20191102
🔗How The Washington Post Estimates Turnout on Election Nights

Our model is founded on the assumption that past turnout predicts future turnout. While it is true that there are exceptions, this maxim often gets us very close to where we want to be. And because our model was built to adapt to live data rather than act as a static pre-election prediction, these estimates are just our starting point.

✅THE GUARDIAN ｜20191026
🔗National Geographic’s new issue shows how the world looks through women’s eyes

National Geographic would go on to build a reputation for bringing such striking images of people in global communities to US readers. It would also face criticism for photographs taken from a decidedly colonialist perspective that, in the words of US history scholar Jessamyn Neuhaus, often constructed a “racialized, gendered, sexualized Other.”