The Guardian
Guardian to ban advertising from fossil fuel firms
3 min · · Move follows efforts to reduce carbon footprint and increase reporting on climate crisis · Shared by 272, including 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Jörgen Camrath, Frederic Filloux, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Marius Bleuer, Bjorn Larsen, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Enrique Dans, Florian Hanke 🍎, Matteo Fogli, Ian M Calvert, Katja Evertz, Vincenzo Tremonte, Stephanie A Kowalski, Arie Goldshlager
Slate
What Substack Is Really Doing to the Media
8 min · · The company is targeting one of news organizations’ weak points. · Shared by 268, including Trey Tweets Into the Void, Vincenzo Tremonte, Glenn Greenwald, Katja Evertz, BenYT, Jay Rosen, Mark Little, Mathew Ingram, Matt Navarra, Jonathan Kogan, Mitch Joel, Casey Newton, Brian Stelter, Matthias Lampe, HeidiCohen - Top Global Marketer, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange
youtube.com
ADL International Leadership Award Presented to Sacha Baron Cohen at Never Is Now 2019
· https://www.adl.org/news/article/sacha-baron-cohens-keynote-address-at-adls-2019-never-is-now-summit-on-anti-semitism copyright © 2019 ADL · Shared by 237, including THAT @REM SHOW, Tomas Pueyo, Anne Thompson, Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡, Martin Varsavsky, Audrey Watters, Barry Ritholtz, Peter Steinberger, Patricia Churchland, Gerd Leonhard, @jason, Amy Jo Kim, Dr Skye Cleary, Scott Monty, DHH, Joel Califa, Merlin Mann, Azeem Azhar, Christopher Knight, Eric Idle
Nieman Lab
One subscriber or 48,000 pageviews: Why every journalist should know the “unit economics” of their content » Nieman Journalism Lab
10 min · · Shared by 234, including Mathias Menzl, Tom Connor, Kevan Lee 👋, Oscar MacDonald, AJ Ghergich, Mathew Ingram, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Jonathan Kogan, Pieter van Diggele, Anita Zielina, Nieman Reports, Katja Evertz, Lelio Simi, Armin Wolf, Thomas Knüwer, Vincenzo Tremonte, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, luis antónio santos, Clemens M. Schuster
Nieman Lab
Want to see what one digital future for newspapers looks like? Look at The Guardian, which isn’t losing money anymore…
7 min · · It's a remarkable turnaround for an institution that's been losing money for what seems like forever, and there are lessons to be had for other digital publishers. · Shared by 199, including Mathew Ingram, Klaus Eck, Charles Baldwin, Nieman Reports, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, bouiboui, Joshua Benton, Adrian🇨🇭, Lluís Codina, Frederic Filloux, Carl Morris, Jane, almagentia369, Adrian Zumbrunnen, Vincenzo Tremonte, ErmanTaylan.eth, NZZ Editorial Tech
Forbes
The Impact of AI on Journalism
4 min · · AIs write hundreds of thousands of the articles that are published by mainstream media outlets every week. What next? · Shared by 164, including Nrupal Akolkar, Katja Evertz, Stephanie A Kowalski, Terence Mills, Gabriele, Nicolas Babin, Vincenzo Tremonte, Ronald van Loon, ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Matteo Furia, Kenneth Cukier
Frederic Filloux
Sorry publishers, but your digital products suck
8 min · · The vast majority of news sites or apps are filled with flaws that make the experience painful. Many are easy to fix. · Shared by 148, including Vincenzo Tremonte, Michaël Jarjour, Adam Tinworth, Jason Hirschhorn, Katja Evertz
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
How we went from individual styles to a consistent look-and-feel in the NZZ Graphics Team
9 min · · What a style guide can bring to the visual harmony of a publication. And how implementing this in a daily newspaper is “complicated.” · Shared by 142, including Beni Buess, Daniel Schwarz, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Kaspar Manz, Benjamin Wiederkehr, Mark Kaigwa, Andy Kirk | Visualising Data, NZZ Editorial Tech, Vincenzo Tremonte, Tom Connor, Dominic Grzbielok, Oscar MacDonald
The Guardian
Daily Telegraph plans to link journalists' pay with article popularity
3 min · · Guardian has seen email revealing plan, which is said to have dismayed staff who fear it will warp priorities · Shared by 140, including David Madden, Charles Arthur, Chris Schilling, Kevin_Indig, Ste Davies, Chris Moran, Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org), Benedict Evans, Dirk von Gehlen 🤷🏻♂️, Bruce Lawson, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave), Mathew Ingram, Vishal Gulati (I back scientists), Liv 😷, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷, Matt Navarra, Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, American Theatre, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Rob Weinert-Kendt
Digiday
Publishers are growing audiences by producing less content
3 min · · Over the years, publishers have been reducing their output to focus on fewer stories of better quality, and this is paying off. · Shared by 134, including Josep M. Ganyet, Klaus Eck, Stowe Boyd, Mark Little, Vincenzo Tremonte, Mathew Ingram, Chris Moran, Konrad Weber, Robert Rose, Franziska Bluhm 💥, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Katja Evertz, Neal Schaffer | ニール・シェーファー, Oscar MacDonald, luis antónio santos, Nils Hitze, Thomas Knüwer, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Stephanie A Kowalski, C̷͈̳̫͗͊̾had P̸̜͇̱̗̻̝̙͆͑͑͝͝ollitt
The New Yorker
The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News
12+ min · · The current system for delivering news online is broken. Readers and journalists will need to work together to find a new one. · Shared by 133, including luis antónio santos, 瑞拿頭, Dominik Grolimund, Charles Baldwin, Jeremy Caplan, Mathew Ingram, Nieman Reports, CORRECTIV, Jane, Liv 😷, Mark Little, Stéphane Renault, Vincenzo Tremonte, Oleg Baskov, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Oscar MacDonald
Nieman Lab
The New York Times has a course to teach its reporters data skills, and now they’ve open-sourced it » Nieman…
3 min · · You can now VLOOKUP the SUMPRODUCT of the Times' training efforts. It's SORT of a TREND; even AVERAGE journalists can CONVERT data skills TO_DOLLARS. · Shared by 129, including Liv 😷, Mara Averick, Leni "Lee" Krsova ⚔️, Stephanie A Kowalski, Tom Connor, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Charles Baldwin, luis antónio santos, Thomas Power, Jeremy Caplan, Esther Schindler, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Arne Keuning, Vincenzo Tremonte, Katja Evertz
Datawrapper
What to consider when visualizing data for colorblind readers
9 min · · Different ways to ensure red-/green-/blue-blind readers can read your data visualizations. · Shared by 113, including Tom Connor, Stephanie A Kowalski, Marius Bleuer, Katja Evertz, rohit, Casey Smith, Lisa Charlotte Muth, Vincenzo Tremonte, René Clausen Nielsen
NBC News
In a Pennsylvania town, a Facebook group fills the local news void
12+ min · · The News Alerts of Beaver County has filled the void left by the decline of the local newspaper. That's worked out, sometimes. · Shared by 106, including Carrie Brown, Mathew Ingram, Mark Little, Steve Faktor, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Jay Rosen, emily bell, Nieman Reports, Vincenzo Tremonte
lucykung.com
Transformation Manifesto. 9 Priorities for Now
2 min · · This is an urgent call to action for all of us who lead newsrooms to seize this moment and make every change we might have been hesitating over. Lucy’s insight comes from unparalleled access to news… · Shared by 82, including niazakhan, Vincenzo Tremonte, Leo Blazquez