Top news of the week: 03.11.2020.
Journalism genres, New York City, Google, Truman Capote, Display advertising, New York
Future Of News & Journalism
CUNY's Journalism Creators Program, which began in 2010 as a 4-month NYC program, is now fully remote and 100 days long, encouraging smaller community ventures (@hanaatameez / Nieman Lab)
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OpenThe Journalism Creators Program at CUNY teaches participants to launch their own news products, from wherever they are
One lesson from pandemic times is that journalism education doesn't have to happen in person, and remote learning can open up more opportunities for journalists to launch their own products.
RT @JamesFallows: Really excellent and important @monthly special issue on *practicalities* of “saving journalism”
- @glastris https://t.co/Z0oys9aqL2
- @stevenwaldman https://t.co/GlcWPgMX0A
- @LongmanPhil https://t.co/ce2nXZZb3w
- @GraceGedye https://t.co/xWYwX4Avj8
OpenStarving the News
To save the free press, bust the tech monopolies’ control over advertising.
RT @rasmus_kleis: *Surge in news use and high trust in news early in #covid19 pandemic
*Followed by sharp decline in news use and in trust over summer
*And political polarization in interpretation of the crisis
@dragz summarizing some @risj_oxford research on our podcast🎧
https://t.co/1lEFdtjPdt
OpenOur podcast: Who are the most vulnerable to misinformation about the pandemic
Then finally we find that there is a growing minority of people in the UK who are using very little news around the coronavirus crisis and also express very low levels of trust in …
RT @jbenton: I am not normally a credit-grubber, but I don't think it would have been inappropriate here to link to my piece on this angle from two weeks ago
https://t.co/CKuFdcGFGi https://t.co/ormPwMuyEZ
OpenThe fired New Yorker writer who helped birth Media Twitter has died (and I’m sure he’d apologize if he could)
When Dan Baum started spooling out the story of his ouster on Twitter in 2009, the media world was entranced — and a new kind of digital serial storytelling seemed possible.