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    Archives: May 2023

    Meta threatens to remove news from Instagram and Facebook over proposed California law
    Sarah ScireMay 31, 2023
    With new widgets, The Philadelphia Inquirer wants to be readers’ favorite “second-screen experience”
    The news org is catering to the readers who spend a lot of time on their phones during live events like sports games and election returns.
    Charles Ornstein, ProPublicaMay 30, 2023
    How ProPublica reached workers while reporting on dairy farm conditions
    “We plan to do more than simply expect that readers will find the story and find us. We plan to take the story to them.”
    Sophie CulpepperMay 25, 2023
    Last Night at School Committee distills hours-long public meetings into half-hour podcast episodes
    “We have created this podcast as an easy way for any parent, citizen, or interested party to get the highlights, and our take, on what happened last night at School Committee.”
    The number of nonprofit digital newsrooms grew again in 2022
    Francesco ZaffaranoMay 24, 2023
    How Seen’s mobile journalism reaches 7 million people across platforms
    “Three years ago, I would have said that every platform is super different from the others. Now they’ve all become quite similar.”
    Kathryn BuchananMay 23, 2023
    Seeing stories of kindness may counteract the negative effects of consuming bad news
    “This shows us there’s something unique about kindness which may buffer the effects of negative news on our mental health.”
    Sophie CulpepperMay 22, 2023
    How one journalist uses Instagram to pull back the curtain on her reporting process
    “We ask people every day to let us in at their worst moments. To give nothing of ourselves in return sometimes feels like denying that we’re [also] people in this equation.”
    Joshua BentonMay 19, 2023
    An incomplete list of things that rank above news startup The Messenger in a Google search for “The Messenger”
    Including a hair stylist in Overland Park, Kansas, a podcast on Ugandan politics, the 15th track on Linkin Park’s 2010 album A Thousand Suns, and “a watery zone within which a naked man slowly materializes.”
    Hanaa' TameezMay 18, 2023
    The New York Times launches “enhanced bylines,” with more information about how journalists did the reporting
    “This is a way to modernize how we do what we do,” Lee said. “It’s more colloquial, it’s more plain-spoken.”
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