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The 2021 RJI Fellowship Program now accepting applications
The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute invites proposals from individuals and organizations who wish to partner with us on innovative projects that strengthen journalism's future. Fellowships range from $20k - $80k and last 8 months. The deadline to apply is Dec. 18.
Read more here.
The Washington Post creates its first Super Bowl spot
The Washington Post will debut its first Super Bowl commercial — a message underscoring the importance of newsgathering and the dangers journalists can face — during Sunday’s game between the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams. The 60-second spot, narrated by actor Tom Hanks, will air in the fourth quarter of the game, shortly before the two-minute warning.
Maura Judkis has the details HERE.
Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance in Turkey plays into Middle East media war
More than a week after the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, all parties involved agree that the journalist walked into Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul on the afternoon of Oct. 2.
When it comes to what happened next, however, the Saudis have a very different story.
Saudi Arabia says Khashoggi left the consulate, where he was seeking papers that would allow him to marry his Turkish fiancee, after an unremarkable visit. Yet Turkish authorities, as well as the missing Saudi journalist’s friends and family, say Khashoggi did not come out of the consulate, where his fiancee was waiting for him outside.
Adam Taylor, writing for The Washington Post, examines the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Read it HERE.
Civil Token Sale Disaster Won't Kill the Colorado Sun, Editor Says
As promised, the ambitious media company Civil has provided an update about the sale of CVL tokens, a cryptocurrency intended to fund journalism startups such as the Colorado Sun, a new online news agency operated by former Denver Post staffers that was able to launch last month thanks to its resources. And while the token sale doesn't officially end until Monday, October 15, it appears to be a catastrophe that will fall well short of its goal.
Still, Colorado Sun editor Larry Ryckman insists that the ultimate success or failure of the sale is largely immaterial to the local site. "It doesn't threaten our future," he says. "It's really not a huge event for us one way or the other."
Michael Roberts, writing for Westword, reports that Colorado Sun editor Larry Ryckman is not going to let paltry Civil token sales derail his organization. Read it HERE.
Local Independent Online News Publishers gets $100,000 grant from Facebook
LION, Local Independent Online News Publishers, announced at the start of its annual conference in Chicago that it has received a $100,000 grant from Facebook. The grant supports that group's work helping journalists "make the transition to running their own online news business and others who have stepped up to fill gaps in local journalism across the country," according to a press release.
The news comes a day after the social media network announced the second round of newsrooms that will participate in its membership accelerator, including several LION members such as Berkeleyside, Richland Source and Spirited Media.
Kristen Hare, writing for Poynter.org, reveals that LION Publishers has received a $100,000 Facebook grant. Read it HERE.
Shoptalk: What to Teach Journalism Students When Their Field is Under Attack?
Early August is when I usually begin planning for the basic news reporting course I’ve taught for more than 20 years to University of Minnesota journalism students.
What was different this summer was the backdrop: harsh, attacking noise from our U.S. president’s resurgent campaign branding journalists the “enemy of the people.” The vitriol has gotten particularly sharp recently, with angry crowds at Trump rallies shouting obscenities at reporters for merely showing up to do their jobs.
The spectacle bothers one former student, who recently posted a photo of a CNN reporter’s ambushed stand-up at a rally showing a man wearing a “F*** the Media” T-shirt, his face twisted in hate. My student posted: “What if your profession were being targeted in this way by scary/angry/violent people?”
Gayle Golden, writing for Editor & Publisher, is a senior lecturer at the University of Minnesota School of Journalism. HERE’S what she tells her students, when the entire profession is under attack.
James Bennet, the editor of the New York Times editorial page, lately has been waging his share of battles, which he no doubt would be enjoying more if he did not give a damn about rude things combatants say about him and his publication.
But he does give a damn.
A conversation between The New York Times' James Bennet and Politico's John Harris about journalism, Donald Trump and a whole lot else. Read their conversation HERE.
They’ll do it live: The New York Times is going beyond poll results and showing how the numerical sausage gets made
But will the added transparency enlighten, confuse, or open up new vectors of misinformation?
You may have heard there are some important elections coming up in the United States — ones that might have an impact on how some minor governance issues we’ve been having could play out.
The return of big elections means the return of large-scale election polling, and if you were alive in 2016, you may recall that that doesn’t always go well. Individual polls have long been subject to critique, but it was the burgeoning group of polling aggregators who seemed to get the most blowback — not least because their methods were, despite the best efforts of data journalists and others, necessarily opaque.
Joshua Benton, writing for Nieman Journalism Lab, takes a look at the new New York Times approach to reporting on polling. If you’re interested in politics, data journalism or statistics, we think you’ll find this one’s worth a read. Check it out HERE.
Are you sure that promoted article is still political content, Facebook?
“Any human being that would put an eye on it would be able to say this is not political propaganda. This is really fair and well-documented journalism. It should not be confused.”
It happened again: A news organization tried to pay Facebook to promote its journalism — which included reporting on politics — and Facebook said no, declaring it “political content” the news organization wasn’t authorized to push.
Christine Schmidt, writing for Nieman Journalism Lab, takes a look at the impact Facebook’s new policy for political advertising is inadvertently ensnaring unbiased reporting on politics from legitimate news organizations. Read it HERE.
Study shows Venezuelan journalists work amid threats and economic precariousness
Venezuelan journalists work in an environment often characterized by threats, economic precariousness, limited resources and few job opportunities.
This is according to a 2018 study from Medianálisis, a nonprofit organization dedicated to studying journalism and media in Venezuela. For the past four years, a team of professional journalists has analyzed the working conditions, censorship, transparency and other elements of the profession in the country.
"In general, the surveys done annually since 2015 allow us to confirm that the situation has gradually worsened in recent years," Andrés Cañizalez, director of Medianálisis, told the Knight Center. "There are no expectations for a better political, economic or social situation for the country or for journalists, and this increases the massive migration of Venezuelans.”
Valeria López de Vergara, writing for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, shares the results of a new study on journalists working in Venezuela. Read it HERE.
The seven-year jail sentence handed down to two Reuters journalists arrested in Myanmar while investigating a massacre of Rohingya Muslims was condemned worldwide as a travesty of justice and severe blow to press freedom in the south-east Asian country.
Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were found guilty on Monday of breaching the Official Secrets Act, under laws introduced in 1923 under British rule.
They have been held in prison since December, when they were arrested while reporting on an alleged killings of 10 Rohingya at the hands of soldiers and Buddhist villagers in Inn Din, a village in the north of Rakhine state.
The sentences, and the lack of condemnation from Aung San Suu Syi, the Nobel peace prize winner and now state counsellor, a position akin to prime minister, led to claims that her international reputation was now in shreds…
The new UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, said she was shocked by the case, and called for the two men’s unconditional release. “The reporters’ coverage of the Inn Din massacre by the military … was clearly in the public interest.”
This is quite a serious matter that we are watching very closely.
We wrote about free photo sites. Many journalists were outraged. Now what?
On Thursday, Poynter reporters Ren LaForme and Kristen Hare published an article about how journalists can use a variety of websites to add visuals to their work for free.
The article was part of an informal series of published conversations that introduce helpful tools and sites for journalists. We generally frame the conversation around a problem to be solved and then discuss ways in which a tool or two might help.
We frequently hear from reporters that many of their stories lack visuals, often because of strapped resources and too few visual people on their team. We also hear that many reporters are working on multiple stories each day, which makes it increasingly difficult to have thoughtful conversations about the importance of visuals for each piece. And so we sought to provide them with some options, especially for illustrations and stories without obvious photo cues.
Neil Brown, writing for Poynter, dives into a recent controversy that erupted after the site shared a story about free photo sites. Journalists were NOT amused. Read why HERE.
What the 2018 Pulitzers tell us about the state of American journalism
The 14 Pulitzer prizes for American journalism can be a form of tea leaves for the state of the industry. The winners and finalists offer a highly imperfect view of who's doing notable work. It is often said that you have to be both good and lucky to win one of the prizes. Here are a few observations:
The New York Times and Washington Post dominate
Together, they won five prizes, including one that the two papers shared.
As widely predicted, the New York Times and The New Yorker shared the Public Service prize for reporting on Harvey Weinstein and Times' sequels on sexual harassment. The pieces launched the #MeToo movement, a rare impact whose only obvious recent counterpart was the Boston Globe's reporting on pedophile priests which won for Public Service in 2003.
Rick Edmonds, writing for Poynter, analyzes what this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners tell us about the current state of American journalism. Read it HERE.
Flush with spectrum-sale dollars, a Pennsylvania PBS station is doubling down on a different kind of local news
“Our goal is a newscast that is complementary to the commercial news”: Think important local issues, not car crashes and sports scores.
Hailed as a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity for local TV stations, the FCC’s spectrum auction last year drove billions of dollars to hundreds of broadcasters across the country. The windfall of cash came from wireless carriers seeking infrastructure for more powerful networks, and now the proceeds are landing in the stations’ bank accounts. So what are the local TV stations doing with a little extra coin?
While some are using it to pay off debt (important!), other stations are thinking outside-of-the-TV-box with new types of newscasts and new forms of journalism, new hires, and new infrastructure.
Christine Schmidt, writing for NiemanLab, looks at how one Pennsylvania PBS station is doing things differently. Read about their outside-the-box approach HERE.
Here’s a blueprint for a sustainable online state news nonprofit
VT Digger is the little nonprofit that could. The online news outlet serving the second least-populous state in the U.S. is turning nine this summer, and now has 19 full-time staff, an annual budget over $1.5 million, and close to 300,000 average monthly visitors (almost half the population of the entire state of Vermont). It publishes eight to 12 stories each day, and is trying everything under the sun to grow its audience and its revenue streams: email newsletters, podcasting, its own mobile app, Instant Articles experimentation, a bill tracker, pushes into obituaries, job postings.
A new case study out from the Institute for Nonprofit News and the Shorenstein Center explores the origin story and growth of VT Digger in useful detail.
The Shorenstein Center takes a look at VT Digger, a nonprofit, online news outlet that has proven sustainable. We think those interested in the future of journalism will find this interesting. Read it HERE.
The Last Days of Time Inc.
An oral history of how the pre-eminent media organization of the 20th century ended up on the scrap heap.
It was once an empire. Now it is being sold for parts.
Time Inc. began, in 1922, with a simple but revolutionary idea hatched by Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden. The two men, graduates of Yale University, were rookie reporters at The Baltimore News when they drew up a prospectus for something called a “news magazine.” After raising $86,000, Mr. Hadden and Mr. Luce quit their jobs. On March 3, 1923, they published the first issue of Time: The Weekly News-Magazine.
In 1929, the year of Mr. Hadden’s sudden death, Mr. Luce started Fortune. In 1936, he bought a small-circulation humor publication, Life, and transformed it into a wide-ranging, large-format weekly. Later came Sports Illustrated, Money, People and InStyle. By 1989, with more than 100 publications in its fold, as well as significant holdings in television and radio, Time Inc. was rich enough to shell out $14.9 billion for 51 percent of Warner Communications, thus forming Time Warner.
Sridhar Pappu and Jay Stowe, writing for The New York Times, capture this remarkable oral history of Time, Inc. Read it HERE.
The Mafia Reporter With a Police Escort (and the 200 Journalists Like Him)
ROME — For many of his days over the past four years, Paolo Borrometi has lived in isolation, though he is barely ever alone. He has not walked through a park or by the beach in his native Sicily for years. He cannot go to a restaurant freely, or to a concert or the movies. He can’t drive a car alone, go shopping alone, or go out for dinner by himself.
Before heading to work as a reporter covering the mafia, he starts each morning with an espresso, a cigarette — and his police escort.
Angering the mafia as a journalist in Italy makes for a lonely life. And yet Mr. Borrometi, 35, is in good company. Almost 200 reporters in Italy live under police protection, making it unique among industrialized Western countries, advocacy groups say.
Gaia Pianigiani, writing for The New York Times, profiles reporter Paolo Borrometi, who has made a career of covering the mafia. That has made his life very, very difficult. Read about HERE.
