Top news of the week: 07.08.2022.
“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 ...
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
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.
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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
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.
“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 ...
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."