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By Sandra Bell-Lundy
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4/24/23
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Twitter has removed labels describing global media organizations as government-funded or state-affiliated, a move that comes after the Elon Musk-owned platform started stripping blue verification checkmarks from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee.
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Hearst avoided a trial over claims it broke California laws in how it managed independent contractors delivering its newspapers.
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Natalie Hanson | Courthouse News Service
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4/21/23
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Many of the media policy issues at the local, state and national levels are similar regardless of their origin. This report from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism highlights those recurring challenges and considerations, as well as some of the ideas and opportunities that might help to address them.
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Damian Radcliffe with Nick Mathews | Tow Center for Digital Journalism
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4/21/23
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"My heart dropped," one senior reporter said. "This is people’s lives, you know?"
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Amaris Castillo | Poynter
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4/21/23
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A southeast Oklahoma newspaper has released the full audio recording it captured of county officials talking about killing journalists and lynching Black people.
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Molly Young | The Oklahoman
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4/21/23
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The Post and Courier (Charleston, South Carolina) is relaunching its climate and environment newsletter with a new name, Rising Waters: Climate Stories of the South. This newsletter will focus on the environment and climate issues not only facing the South Carolina Lowcountry, but the entire Southeast region of the United States.
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Press Release | The Post and Courier
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4/21/23
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ABC News President Kim Godwin has announced the appointment of Mary Bruce as chief White House correspondent.
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Press Release | ABC News
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4/21/23
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The Associated Press and NORC at the University of Chicago has made available the data from AP VoteCast’s more than 120,000 interviews with voters in the runup to the 2022 U.S. midterm elections.
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Nicole Meir | The Associated Press
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4/21/23
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Last month, the Texas Observer, a nonprofit magazine with a distinguished history, most notably including the work of Molly Ivins and Ronnie Dugger, had a near-death experience. Its board suspended publication before reversing itself in the face of a GoFundMe campaign.
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Richard J. Tofel | Second Rough Draft
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4/21/23
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By Niklas Eriksson
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4/21/23
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Cassie Thornton will join Bloomberg Media as head of Intellectual Property (IP) Partnerships. Thornton will lead the company’s efforts to build and scale its intellectual property business and bring its powerful journalism and brand to new, global audiences via license deals with production companies, streaming platforms and TV networks.
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Press Release | Bloomberg Media
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4/20/23
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The Los Angeles Times has published “The Great Big Highly Specific Guide to Disneyland,” a 16-article package to help readers plan an epic visit to Disneyland and California Adventure Park.
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Press Release | Los Angeles Times
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4/20/23
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Vice Media, which has been looking to sell itself for several months, is discussing shutting down Vice World News if a sale doesn’t materialize in coming weeks, according to people familiar with the situation.
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Alexandra Bruell and Jessica Toonkel | The Wall Street Journal
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4/20/23
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This account of how the talks came together, averting what would have been the most significant defamation case to go to trial in a generation, is based on interviews with 10 people closely involved in or briefed on the negotiations, most of whom spoke anonymously to reveal details of the confidential talks.
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Jeremy W. Peters, Jim Rutenberg and Katie Robertson | The New York Times
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4/20/23
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Stories published on BuzzFeedNews.com will be preserved, spokesperson Carole Robinson wrote in an email. Robinson did not answer a question about when the newsroom, which has 59 people, will be shut down.
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Angela Fu | Poynter
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4/20/23
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Podcasts have become a big part of many Americans’ normal routine — and their news diet. But a new Pew Research Center survey reveals that podcast listening is highly fragmented, and no one show dominates.
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Jacob Liedke | Pew Research Center
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4/20/23
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Blue checkmarks for legacy accounts have begun disappearing from Twitter.
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Sareen Habeshian | Axios
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4/20/23
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Nieman Lab has chronicled the ups and downs of BuzzFeed News since 2011, when the company hired a blogger named Ben Smith. Here’s part I of its history, from 2011 to 2017. Stay tuned for Part II.
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Laura Hazard Owen | Nieman Lab
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4/20/23
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BuzzFeed (BZFD) is shutting down its news division as part of wider company layoffs.
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Alexandra Canal | Yahoo! Finance
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4/20/23
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