🗞 Harvard Business Review｜20200930
✅ Breaking Up Facebook Won’t Fix Social Media

ℹ One idea I discuss at length in the book is whether breaking up Facebook will fix the social media morass. Antitrust regulators are certainly eager to dismantle the world’s largest social network. Their argument for doing so cites a litany of real harms, including the erosion of privacy, the spread of misinformation and hate speech, the acceleration of political polarization, and threats to the integrity of elections.

🗞 journalism.co.uk｜20200922
✅ New online tool helps journalists report on suicide ethically

ℹ Despite existing guidelines, one in four stories published in the UK still provides explicit details of the method and more than a half of articles do not contain helpline information. This guide aims to tackle the problem.

🗞 NIEMAN REPORTS｜20200915
✅ Newsrooms Should Make Space for Emotions

ℹ Fostering more empathetic, honest, and grounded newsrooms will produce deeper storytelling.

🗞PASSAGE｜20200908
✅A Guide to Bullshit, Power-Serving Journalism Phrases

These phrases function as PR for police, victim-blame sexual assault survivors, support Canadian foreign policy, and minimize racism.

✅NIEMAN REPORTS｜20200825
🔗Is Movement Journalism What’s Needed During this Reckoning over Race and Inequality?

A movement journalist examines what it means to engage with communities and challenge the status quo.

✅NEW YORK TIMES｜20200812
🔗The Daily News Is Now a Newspaper Without a Newsroom

Newspapers across the country have been struggling for more than a decade because of punishing industry trends like the move away from revenue-generating print products and the nationalization of news. The pandemic, which has sharply squeezed advertising revenue, has added to the publications’ woes.

✅NEW YORK TIMES｜20200812
🔗The Daily News Is Now a Newspaper Without a Newsroom

Newspapers across the country have been struggling for more than a decade because of punishing industry trends like the move away from revenue-generating print products and the nationalization of news. The pandemic, which has sharply squeezed advertising revenue, has added to the publications’ woes.

✅NIEMAN REPORTS｜20200811
🔗“Collaboration is the Future of Journalism”

To meet the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and the racial justice movement, the historically competitive media culture is becoming more collaborative.

✅UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS｜20200805
🔗Journalists’ Twitter use shows them talking within smaller bubbles

Twitter seemed an ideal way to do that, given its unique role among journalists as a virtual water cooler, Usher said. “Most of the time, what happens on Twitter does not reflect the real world. But in the case of political journalism and political elites, generally speaking, what happens on Twitter is reality.” It’s an online reflection of their offline lives and work, she said, and plays a significant role in agenda-setting.

✅POYNTER｜20200724
🔗As journalism jobs decrease, the future of the discipline might depend on general education

Without a robust news industry monitoring government and investigating the corporate elite, our only hope may be in the hands of the people.