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Archives: June 2021

Joshua BentonJune 30, 2021

The Appeal is dead, long live The Appeal: Muddled management is shutting down the news site, but also handing it over to its staff

Management of the justice-and-policing-focused news org: “It became clear that The Appeal could not continue in its current form.” Staffers: “Today we are officially announcing the worker-led effort to relaunch The Appeal.”

Anne SchulzJune 30, 2021

The great unbundling of local news

Local news’ bundling of hard news, soft news, and other information used to be a major selling point, but the audience now believes there are better sources elsewhere for most of it.

Ciara GreeneJune 30, 2021

Does reading fake news actually change people’s behavior? This Covid-19 study says yes, a bit — but potentially an important bit

“Some participants even developed false memories about the fake stories they had read…’Remembering’ previously hearing a fake COVID-19 story seemed to make some people in our study more likely to act in a certain way.”

Sarah MillerJune 29, 2021

All the right words on climate have already been said

What kind of awareness quotient are we looking for? What more about climate change does anyone need to know? What else is there to say?

Peter Cunliffe-Jones, Alan Finlay, and Anya SchiffrinJune 29, 2021

Punitive laws are failing to curb misinformation in Africa

We found that while these laws have a chilling effect on political and media debate, they do not reduce misinformation harm.

Hanaa' TameezJune 28, 2021

As the pandemic recedes in the United States, publishers opt to keep experimenting with virtual events

In the transition into post-Covid life, more and more news outlets in the U.S. are opting to keep putting on some virtual events even as in-person ones return.

Yuen ChanJune 28, 2021

Hong Kongers, watching closure of Apple Daily, fear for independent journalism’s future

“In my heart, I still want to be a journalist, but my only remaining choices are Stand News and Citizen News. Yet they’re likely to be the government’s next targets.”

BuzzFeed will go public. Here’s what it told investors about the future of digital media.

Joshua BentonJune 24, 2021

The Cookie Monster won’t be coming for the web’s most popular browser for another year-plus

Google’s trying to figure out how to satisfy privacy advocates without crippling its gazillion-dollar ad business — or poking regulators around the world. Now, the company says it needs more time, and publishers should take advantage.

Christian FuchsJune 24, 2021

Rather than privatizing public service media, we should be expanding it online

Imagine an advertising-free, non-commercial, not-for-profit internet, with digital archives of public service content available to everyone for an unlimited period from anywhere at any time.

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