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On Aug 2, 2022
We caught up with @themarkup's new editor-in-chief @sisiwei about how her experiences at ProPublica, OpenNews and founding the DEI Coalition Slack will feature in her new role. Read our Q&A here 👇 https://t.co/dTr8YBGu2q
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“A bigger focus on the human impact of technology”: Sisi Wei is The Markup’s new editor-in-chief

“A bigger focus on the human impact of technology”: Sisi Wei is The Markup’s new editor-in-chief

"What we often don’t think about is how tech accountability is also so many other types of coverage. It’s labor coverage, climate change coverage, healthcare coverage, criminal justice ...

@mediagazer shared
On Aug 3, 2022
Startup Zette will offer access to paywalled stories across publications via a browser plugin for $10/mo; founder Yehong Zhu has signed up McClatchy and others (@rickedmonds / Poynter) https://t.co/LSmln8E8IH https://t.co/JMkPA328KO
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A 26-year-old entrepreneur takes a fresh shot at selling news one story at a time

A 26-year-old entrepreneur takes a fresh shot at selling news one story at a time

With Zette, Yehong Zhu says she has what young readers want and can succeed where other startups have failed

@jeffjarvis shared
On Aug 1, 2022
RT @wblau: “Most newsrooms have not understood yet that just like with digitisation, where culture desks, travel desks, science desks, all of them had to increase their digital literacy as quickly as possible, that we are facing the same with basic climate literacy.” https://t.co/YavL8E8TJj
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Former Conde Nast chief Wolfgang Blau: Newspapers downplay climate change to boost sales

Former Conde Nast chief Wolfgang Blau: Newspapers downplay climate change to boost sales

Newspapers and climate change: Editors are taking 'short-term, opportunistic decisions' to downplay the threat of climate change, Wolfgang Blau claimed.

@propublica shared
On Aug 2, 2022
RT @propubnerds: The News Apps team is hiring! We use our coding, design and data analysis skills to do deep investigative reporting that has real-world impact. Join us! https://t.co/kofpbOP5Sk
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News Apps Developer

News Apps Developer

ProPublica is looking for a journalist to join our award-winning news applications team.

@ggreenwald shared
On Aug 2, 2022
Highlighting the radical difference between the international left and whatever passes for the US "left" (just a branding flank of the Dem Party), Jeremy Corbyn urges the West to stop arming Ukraine, arguing it's just prolonging the war with no benefits: https://t.co/j5HVoyYWRu
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Jeremy Corbyn urges west to stop arming Ukraine

Jeremy Corbyn urges west to stop arming Ukraine

Ex-Labour leader also tells Beirut-based TV channel he was criticised over antisemitism because of stance on Palestine

@mediagazer shared
On Aug 6, 2022
Pulitzer-winning Associated Press reporter Martha Mendoza and eight more investigative reporters discuss their mistakes and what journalists can learn from them (@rowanphilp / Global Investigative Journalism Network) https://t.co/Dez0vpt5h0 https://t.co/tZBbrwSfTS
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9 Watchdog Reporters and Lessons Learned from Their Notable Mistakes

9 Watchdog Reporters and Lessons Learned from Their Notable Mistakes

GIJN asked a diverse group of nine investigative reporters to share a memorable misstep they’ve made in an investigation, and a key lesson learned from it.

@NiemanLab shared
On Aug 2, 2022
RT @jbenton: My first time using @midjourney to generate art for a @NiemanLab story. It absolutely refused to make a literal number soup! prompt: one ceramic soup bowl, filled with spreadsheets and data, on a table, from above, in the style of Gustav Klimt –ar 16:9. https://t.co/4UwGpUYnPN
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“Number soup”: Can we make it easier for readers to digest all the numbers journalists stuff into their stories?

“Number soup”: Can we make it easier for readers to digest all the numbers journalists stuff into their stories?

"Numbers do not speak for themselves. All the same, many people believe that they do. An ideology we call numerism, which accords a privileged epistemic status to quantification, is ...

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On Aug 3, 2022
RT @voxdotcom: The newsletter boom is over, again. Long live newsletters! https://t.co/iop30yVqU1
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Newsletters aren’t news anymore. But they’re not going away.

Newsletters aren’t news anymore. But they’re not going away.

The Substack frenzy seems like a thing of the past. But lots of publishers are still leaning into newsletters. "They’re a great minimally viable product."