✍️ Journalism Jobs and Media News Update ✍️ — January 16
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📰 Media News Roundup 📰
How the Internet Reshaped Itself Around Google — The Verge’s Mia Sato details how website design and organization changes start small, but quickly transform it until it’s optimized for Google first and readers last.
ESPN Rocked By Another Scandal — ESPN’s list of recent scandals is growing, this time in the form of fake Emmy nominations. The Athletic’s Katie Strang details how the network, since 2010, submitted fake Emmy entries and then handed the awards to real reporters without their knowledge of any wrongdoing.
How The Crimson Covered a Historic Harvard Controversy — The Boston Globe’s Andrew Brinkler explores how Harvard’s student newspaper covered the university’s president, Claudine Gay, resigning over her response to antisemitism on campus and accusations of plagiarism.
CNBC To Begin Selling Paid Courses — Axios’ Sara Fischer explains how and why CNBC is looking to increase its digital consumer revenue with its first course, “How to Ace Your Job Interview."
How To Decide Whether a Psychology Study Is Worth Covering — The Journalist’s Resource looks at a recent study that found sample size is the only factor having a robust influence on 181 science journalists’ ratings of the trustworthiness and newsworthiness of a study.
Local Journalism Worth Reading From 2023 — The New York Times has gathered a list of more than 70 examples of their best local journalism from 2023.
Cleveland Residents Help Cover Important Civic Events — ABC News’ Anna Katharine Ping and Ivan Pereira joined Signal Cleveland’s Documenters program, which has trained 400 residents how to cover local government events since 2020, in a bid to fill the dearth of local journalism.
7 Things Newsrooms Can Learn From Beekeeping — Poynter has identified the similarities between newsroom management and beekeeping. Among them are how the workers are the key, how mood matters, and how swarming is natural and thus should be accepted.
Back UK Creative Sector Or Gamble On AI — The boss of Getty Images has told UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak he risks gambling with the UK’s creative sector if he allows AI firms to continue to harvest copyrighted material to train its artificial intelligence.
Audience Participation in Newsletters — The Reynolds Journalism Institute look at the best ways of how to authentically ask for participation from your audience in your newsletter.