From loading up the Wayback Machine to meticulous AirTables to 72 hours of scraping, journalists are doing whatever they can to keep their clips when websites go dark.
“We’ve always joked that we should print out our articles and hand them out door to door, so we could talk to our readers, and this is kind of like doing that.”
Plus: The BBC’s problems with race continue, Freakonomics Radio expands, Spotify is hiring for a head of audiobooks, and what it’s like to make a sports podcast right now.
Two companies with similar editorial values and brands that mostly complement instead of overlap. This is the kind of smart merger we should see more of.
“The restructuring we are undertaking will reduce our costs and improve our operating model so we can thrive and control our own destiny, without ever needing to raise funding again.”
“Recent love letters to journalistic innovations today read like declarations of world peace in 1938. Resisting the temptation to find sure-fire redeemers of journalism is important.”
Benton, Joshua. "BuzzFeed, Bourdieu, and Samantha Bee: Here’s a collection of new research on where journalism is headed." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 6 Sep. 2018. Web. 20 Nov. 2024.
APA
Benton, J. (2018, Sep. 6). BuzzFeed, Bourdieu, and Samantha Bee: Here’s a collection of new research on where journalism is headed. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved November 20, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/09/buzzfeed-bourdieu-and-samantha-bee-heres-a-collection-of-new-research-on-where-journalism-is-headed/
Chicago
Benton, Joshua. "BuzzFeed, Bourdieu, and Samantha Bee: Here’s a collection of new research on where journalism is headed." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified September 6, 2018. Accessed November 20, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/09/buzzfeed-bourdieu-and-samantha-bee-heres-a-collection-of-new-research-on-where-journalism-is-headed/.
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