For years and with various levels of success, U.S. news outlets have tried to engage Latinos and Spanish-language audiences with new bureaus abroad, Latino-focused verticals, new products, bilingual storytelling and/or translations. In May, Spain’s El País took a different approach: it launched its own digital edition to cover the United States in Spanish instead of...
Journalism faces a credibility crisis. Only 32% of Americans report having “a great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in news reporting — a historical low. Journalists generally assume that their lack of credibility is a result of what people believe to be reporters’ and editors’ political bias. So they believe the key to improving public trust...
The arrest and trial of U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich on spying charges would have prompted a range of emotions in any outsider who has been a reporter or researcher in Russia. At first, there’s the sense that you yourself may have escaped after running a similar risk of working in such a potentially dangerous environment. Then comes...
This year has been a grim one for journalism, with layoffs at the Los Angeles Times, Time magazine, NBC News, Forbes, National Geographic, Business Insider and Sports Illustrated. Further cuts loom in newsrooms across the U.S. Growing numbers of reporters and editors, tired of waiting for the other shoe to drop, are exiting the profession,...
The Baltimore Banner celebrated its second birthday this week with a “B” cake, balloons, and a pair of announcements. First up, the nonprofit newsroom shared it now has 49,000 paid subscribers. Of those, 47,000 are individual subscribers and 2,000 are institutional subscribers who have activated their accounts. (Previously, The Banner included other group subscriptions in...
Seven or eight years ago much of the news industry lost its head over a supposed “pivot to video” after Facebook pushed live and other formats with the promise of monetization to come. That didn’t work out so well for publishers, many of whom had hired expensive video teams and found they had to row...
It’s no secret that news publishers have struggled to make money and sustain their businesses in the digital era. Ad revenue has been siphoned away by Big Tech and money from print advertising has been in continual decline. A solution to this problem is simple on the face of it, but not so in practice:...
“News use across online platforms is fragmenting”: That’s one of the findings from Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) in its 2024 Digital News Report, out Monday. As the use of Facebook for news declines, a number of other platforms — YouTube, TikTok, WhatsApp — are picking up the slack, “with six networks now...
In 2022, a subscriber wrote to the Indian news outlet Newslaundry. He said that he paid for his subscription, but was also blind, and found it unfair that he wasn’t always able to access it in a way that worked for him. Another user reached out to saying she was preparing for exams and needed...
YouTube’s inevitable nudge toward entertainment It’s become increasingly clear that social media platforms aren’t particularly habitable environments for news — or at least not as habitable as they used to be, or as news organizations once thought. In some cases, that shift away from news has been distinct and explicit, as in the case of...
The Wall Street Journal shared the first look at its new multimillion dollar brand campaign featuring a new tagline “It’s Your Business” on Tuesday. At the outset of the campaign, senior vice president of brand marketing Alex Dousie said the Journal had three goals: Increase brand awareness. “We’re trying to increase brand awareness of The Wall...
Last week, the Institute for Nonprofit News released its seventh annual Index Report, based on a survey of its members earlier this year about the state of their coverage, revenue, staffing, and audience in 2023. The survey data from 346 member outlets, as “the most comprehensive dataset on nonprofit news in North America,” is an...
A new report from the Reuters Institute offers up insight into how readers around the world are thinking about the place of generative AI in their news. The study cast a wide net, surveying the general public in six countries: Argentina, Denmark, France, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S. There has been much debate about...
Why do people read the news? To journalists, that may sound like a stupid question. We read news because it’s critical to democracy! Because it’s the fascinating narrative of human existence! Because it’s a daily heroic tale of reporters uncovering corruption, malfeasance, and grift! But to normies, it’s sometimes a real puzzle. News is an...
On Friday, May 31, front pages around the world blasted the historic news that a former president of the United States and current leading presidential candidate had, for the first time, become a felon. Not all front pages, though. The Seattle Times’ Jeong Park quickly noticed that several Gannett newspapers (and at least one McClatchy...
I generally click fast on sea creature news and “What is really going on with Charlotte the stingray?” by Emily B. Cataneo, published this week by North Carolina digital news magazine The Assembly, was no exception. This story has everything — a purported immaculate conception, sketchy “mall aquarium” intrigue, police coming after the reporter, quotes...