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The smart people at Harvard’s Nieman Lab want you to know that reporting on crime is really just another way of perpetuating white supremacy.
Source: News Reporting On Crime Isn’t Racist, It’s Essential
As media and news organizations try to build successful digital products, they are learning that “product thinking” is a key to success.
Source: The Rise of Product Thinking in Media: A Series | Knight Lab
Trading unattainable exactitude for unimpeachable morality will lead to a scoldier and less accurate journalism.
The news industry is full of ideas when it comes to experimenting with new storytelling formats and techniques—podcasts, virtual reality, Instagram posts. The list is long, but storytelling across these media and platforms is something the journalism-adjacent advertising industry has been experimenting with for decades. Complex ad-measurement metrics now demonstrate, in granular detail, […]
Source: Guide to Native Advertising – Columbia Journalism Review
Free Press is suggesting an analog to a carbon tax on fossil fuels — but atoning for the attention economy’s perils instead of climate change.
For as long as I can remember, journalism metrics in general, and particularly reach metrics—like pageviews and unique users—have been the subject of profound suspicion within the news industry. In recent years, the negativity has intensified, even from people I generally admire. Metrics have come to be synonymous, for some people, with a bankrupt journalistic […]
Source: You may hate metrics. But they’re making journalism better. – Columbia Journalism Review
The levels of media literacy are too low to sustain high-quality journalism.
Source: Media literacy is crucial to help sustain high-quality journalism — Quartz
City Bureau is training young reporters to improve coverage of underserved communities.
Source: How Chicago’s ‘J-school of the Streets’ Is Reinventing Local News – POLITICO Magazine
