In our package: Digital news outlets reimagine the crime beat; TikTok creators balance ethics and money; public radio stations see more true crime in their future; AI might reshape court reporting.
“Sometimes as journalists, we move around with an attitude that the community is just not going to [understand] us….I think that’s a huge obstacle to being able to do this better.”
In our package: Digital news outlets reimagine the crime beat; TikTok creators balance ethics and money; public radio stations see more true crime in their future; AI might reshape court reporting.
“Sometimes as journalists, we move around with an attitude that the community is just not going to [understand] us….I think that’s a huge obstacle to being able to do this better.”
“More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday, according to two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters…The figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well. The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.”
David Hoffman and Molly Roberts join Michele Norris and Robert Kagan. “I believe we face a very real threat of autocracy in the candidacy of Donald Trump. I find it untenable and unconscionable that we have lost our voice at this perilous moment.”
“It’s more important to me that we have the right stories that really help people think in a different way on the weekend and that it’s completable, so that it doesn’t feel like an overwhelming scroll of too many stories on the weekend.”
“They watch campaign events and cable newscasts for hours on end, looking for the standout moments — those worth clipping and sharing with millions of people via social media…There are a handful of media commentators and activists who post day and night and have outsized influence because the moments they catch and clip inspire news stories, TV segments, and fundraising campaigns.”
“Several titles across genres, including Field & Stream, Nylon, Saveur, Sports Illustrated, and Vice, have committed to restarting their previously abandoned physical products in 2024. Small, print-forward indie publications, such as Apartamento, Bitter Southerner, the Drift, and HommeGirls, continue to eke out space in their respective niches, and they’ve been joined by dozens of print upstarts every year since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.”
Financial Times / Hannah Murphy and Peter Andringa
“Last year, X chief executive Linda Yaccarino told industry figures she was aiming to make $100mn annually in political ad revenues in an election year…trying to offset revenue losses caused by big brands pulling spending from the platform. However, data from X’s political ads transparency library analyzed by the Financial Times show that the company has brought in less than a fifth of its target as of October 23.”
“In general, we want to show the highest-quality video we can…But if something isn’t watched for a long time — because the vast majority of views are in the beginning — we will move to a lower quality video. And then if it’s watched again a lot then we’ll re-render the higher quality video.”
“Both Lebanon’s prime minister, Najib Mikati, and [Ziad T. Makary, Lebanon’s minister of information] called the attack a ‘war crime.’ The prime minister, who posted a statement on X, said, ‘This deliberate aggression certainly aims to intimidate the media to cover up the crimes and destruction being committed.'”
“Bash’s calling card among the Washington political elite is that she doesn’t play favorites. She has developed a reputation for maintaining ties on both sides of the aisle, making her part of a dwindling group of TV personalities whom big-name Republicans and Democrats seem to trust.”
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