✍️ Journalism Jobs and Media News Update ✍️ October 31
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Hello folks and a happy Tuesday to you all. We have another bumper edition today as we added exactly 500 new jobs and internships to the jobs board over the weekend, and have a revamped format of our weekly news media roundup.
New openings at some of the industry’s biggest names include ABC News, BBC, Bloomberg, CBS News, Channel 4, CNN, DAZN, ESPN, FT, Hearst, ITV, NBC News, Nexstar, NPR, Scripps News, Sky Sports, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today. And if you’re looking for an internship, don’t forget to check out our friends at Bloomberg Industry whose Summer 2024 News Internship Program is closing tonight. More details below.
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And today’s news media stories include The New York Times’ Tech Workers Strike; 2023 Global Impunity Index; Does It Matter If Julian Assange Is a ‘Journalist’?; Nonstop War Coverage Is Bad For Your Health; X’s Value Down 57% In One Year; Meta Sued For Depression, Anxiety, Insomnia In Kids; Investigating Organized Crime in the Amazon; Is SEO Over?; and The Guardian’s Interview With James O’Brien.
Be sure to check out Friday’s Journalism Calendar where we have 48 total listings — 21 fellowships and grants, 21 webinars and workshops, and 6 awards. And this coming Friday we already have 51 total through mid-December, so keep an eye out for that later this week.
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📰 Media News Roundup 📰
New York Times Tech Workers Strike — NYT software engineers and product managers went on strike yesterday afternoon, accusing the company of forcing them back to the office without negotiating in good faith.
2023 Global Impunity Index — The Committee to Protect Journalists will today publish its 2023 Global Impunity Index, its annual list of countries where perpetrators of journalist murders continue to evade justice. Here is 2022’s list.
Is Julian Assange a ‘Journalist’? Here’s Why It Doesn’t Matter — Seth Stern, Director of Advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, outlines why Assange’s prosecution under the Espionage Act is a threat to all journalists, whether or not you think Assange is a journalist.
Nonstop War Coverage Is Bad For Your Mental Health — This one seems obvious and a no-brainer, but I’ve found it only makes sense after the fact. Poynter agrees, and points out that even thousands of miles from the actual warzone, images of war, violence, hate and protests cause mental harm long after the events have ended.
X’s Value Down 57% In One Year — The value of X has plunged to $19 billion, just a year after Elon Musk bought the social media company for $44 billion.
Meta Sued For Depression, Anxiety, Insomnia In Kids — Meta is being sued by 33 U.S. states, over accusations Instagram has fuelled a youth mental health crisis by making their social media platforms addictive.
The Business of Fashion — The Financial Times’ Head of Newsletters, Sarah Ebner, details how the Fashion Matters newsletter became the newsroom’s most opened newsletter, just 12 months since its launch.
Investigating Organized Crime in the Amazon — The Global Investigative Journalism Network details how journalists are still investigating organized crime networks in the Amazon Rainforest after the deaths of Guardian journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenist Bruno Pereira were murdered last year.
Is SEO Over? — Technology Writer Ian Betteridge argues that, because of Google’s adoption of LLMs (large language models), SEO for publishers will soon be over.
Guardian Interviews James O’Brien — And lastly, The Guardian interviewed popular radio talk show host James O’Brien on his new book, How They Broke Britain.