The first definition for name in the Oxford English Dictionary goes as follows: a word or phrase constituting the individual designation by which a particular person or thing is known, referred to, or addressed. Note that it’s not necessarily what someone wants to be called — it’s what they’re actually known as. Now, hopefully you...
When online Pittsburgh newsroom The Incline launched in 2016, with a party at the Il Tetto rooftop bar in the city’s Downtown Cultural District, few anticipated how significantly Pittsburgh’s media landscape would deteriorate in the years to follow. “The Incline came into being at a time…when the city still had two printed daily newspapers,” Andrew...
Communities with less local news see more government corruption, more government waste, and higher taxes. Civic engagement, voter turnout, and voter knowledge all decrease as local coverage declines. Small and rural communities are the most likely to be affected by local news deserts. But attitudes about the press are sharply polarized in the United States...
The Guardian is an international news organization — and it wants to become even more international. That’s not news, exactly, but it’s the thread running through two announcements today from the liberal U.K. daily owned by the Scott Trust. First, the Guardian Media Group released its annual financial statements, for the fiscal year ended on...
Massachusetts lawmakers are considering legislation that advocates say would make it the first state in the nation to levy fees on streaming companies like Netflix in order to help fund community media. The “Act to Modernize Funding For Community Media Programming” is proposing a 5% fee on digital streaming providers, based on a company’s gross...
A family-owned weekly newspaper has been donated to The Salt Lake Tribune, the newspaper’s first acquisition since becoming a nonprofit. As part of the transition, The Moab Times-Independent will adopt a “free-for-all model” where anyone can read online and local residents will receive a printed paper every week for free. (Those who want a print...
Innovation — in newsrooms and elsewhere — takes more than a new idea. It requires transforming that idea into value for the organization, whether that looks like a revamped business model, a new platform to more easily investigate abuses of power, or technology to distribute journalism to new audiences. A new study investigates reasons that...
What Twitter is still good for: nerdy, insider-y humor about the news business. Also, cluing you in to TikTok trends. On Tuesday, Claire Tran, an audience strategist for IndieGraf, tweeted a video of “news outlets as glass jars rolling down stairs,” playing off of a viral TikTok account that posts videos of glass jars rolling...
“Minimal” and “biased” local campaign coverage The question of how news media cover women running for political office has long been one that’s fascinated media scholars, with scores of studies — some of which we’ve written about over the past couple of years — examining media coverage over virtually every feasible dimension. (This 2020 study has an excellent analysis of...
In New Mexico, recent college grads are matched with newsrooms to complete 9-month fellowships. In California, 40 fellows will work for two years in newsrooms that operate in underserved communities around the state. And the legislature in Washington State just allocated $2.4 million to start its own two-year program to boost local journalism. The most...
Journalists are frustrated with academic research on their profession and its practices, often finding it irrelevant, impractical, or inaccessible, according to a survey we conducted with Nieman Lab readers. At the same time, many say they see value in academics doing what the journalists don’t have time or capacity to do themselves, and offering new...