We are familiar with seeing content creators and influencers in our social feeds. It may seem as if brands are just giving out contracts to every creator they come across, but a lot more goes into finding the right brand-creator relationship. Many brands use platforms like Influential to help find people who align with their...
Do academics know secrets about journalism that working reporters and editors don’t know? For curious journalists like me, spending time reading academic research about journalism and democracy reveals a mixed picture. There’s plenty of research to show that journalism is still a critical part of an engaged society. Decades of evidence–based studies show a correlation...
FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver and at least some of the data-driven site’s 35-person staff are leaving ABC News as part of broader layoffs at The Walt Disney Company. (Or, in the words of ABC News, FiveThirtyEight is being “streamlined.”) Silver said on Tuesday that he expects to leave the politics and sports news site when...
There’s a new report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism that focuses on distrust of news media — and what news organizations might be able to do about it. Let’s get the bad news out of the way: the news industry is unlikely to find a silver bullet. “There is no single trust...
We’ve written about the ups and downs of BuzzFeed News since 2011, when BuzzFeed hired Ben Smith to launch what would become a Pulitzer Prize–winning news organization. BuzzFeed News’s first few years were a time of global expansion and excitement. This is the era when Stratechery’s Ben Thompson called BuzzFeed “the most important news organization...
Here in our backyard of Cambridge, Mass., The Harvard Crimson is breathing new life into the local news landscape. On April 7, the Crimson sent out the first edition of its Metro Briefing newsletter, a new weekly roundup of coverage of the Cambridge-Boston area. The Metro Briefing includes summaries of the top local news and...
Fed up at being slapped with a 100% false “state-affiliated media” label and then a still almost completely wrong “government-funded media” label (all because Elon Musk read a Wikipedia page!), NPR said this week that it is “turning away from Twitter.” This doesn’t exactly mean that NPR’s 50 official Twitter accounts — @NPR, @allsongs, @altlatino, @jazznight,...
Sitting on the sofa watching TV one night at home in Indonesia, Pak Yana gets a video call from his daughter. She tells him that he needs to get his Covid-19 booster shot so that he can visit her when her child is born. Irritated and skeptical, Pak Yana fumbles the phone into his wife...
It has recently come to my attention that some people prefer to watch podcasts. In my house, podcasts are for multitasking, like walking the dogs or doing the dishes — but it turns out I’m in the minority, according to Morning Consult data. The research firm found that more podcast listeners in the U.S. prefer...
The local news business is in crisis. The nation is currently losing two community newspapers a week, on average, and 70 million Americans live in news deserts, communities with little or no local news coverage. In much of the remaining territory, all that’s left are decimated newsrooms and advertisement-heavy publications with little local news, sometimes called “ghost...
Back in 2018, the far-right influencer Steve Bannon shared his theory of American politics. “The Democrats don’t matter,” he told journalist Michael Lewis. “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.” It’s not hard to see the Bannon strategy at work at Elon...
In the first episode of Season 4 of Succession, Kendall Roy describes his would-be media venture, The Hundred, as “Substack meets Masterclass meets The Economist meets The New Yorker.” Perhaps feeling as if Substack is getting a little too much attention, especially since the company announced an upcoming short-form content feature called Notes1, Twitter over...
Looking for NPR stories on Twitter? Look elsewhere. NPR has not tweeted since Twitter slapped a “US state-affiliated media” label on its main account on Wednesday, a designation that lumps the news org in with propaganda outlets like Russian broadcaster RT and China’s People’s Daily newspaper. And it doesn’t plan to until the label is...
In some online mom groups recently, I’ve seen people ask other members if they can “share a gift link.” Twitter is filled with people “gifting” articles they think are important. The evidence is anecdotal, but it suggets the concept of giving paywalled articles to family members or friends (or your whole feed, although you are...
The new app Hookle is designed to make reaching your audience 100 times faster across all social media networks.
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The detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in Russia on espionage charges marks an unusual throwback to the old Soviet tactics for handling foreign correspondents. Authorities in Vladimir Putin’s Russia have increasingly used criminal charges against their own journalists as part of a “increasing crackdown on free and independent media,” as Jodie Ginsberg,...
For many nonprofit newsrooms, NewsMatch is the most important fundraising campaign on the calendar. The results from the latest campaign — which ran from November 1, 2022 through the end of the year — are in, and they skew local. NewsMatch is the annual end-of-year fundraising campaign that uses gift-matching to encourage donations to nonprofit...
Men and sports! Women and families! U.S. journalists’ beats vary based on their gender and race — and still largely break down along stereotypical lines, according to some research that Pew Research released Tuesday. The new data points were pulled from a report on nearly 12,000 U.S. journalists that Pew published in 2022. Here are a...
People haven’t seen much news on Facebook for years now. The company’s algorithm has changed over time, as has people’s desire to see news on Facebook. And news is now an even tinier sliver of what people worldwide see in their Facebook News Feeds, according to a new paper, “Meta and the News: Assessing the...