Top news of the week: 09.12.2021.
Future Of News & Journalism
The 19th hires Julia B. Chan as its next editor-in-chief
As editor-in-chief, Julia B. Chan will lead the The 19th newsroom in reimagining politics and policy news to better serve women, women of color and the LGBTQ+ community.
“Everything clicks for a different reason”: Why journalism analytics are so hard to interpret
<p>In 2004, journalist Michael Lewis published Moneyball, a bestselling book about how baseball general manager Billy Beane was able to turn around the flailing and cash-poor Oakland ...
Fixing journalism’s credit score to earn back audience trust
"As in banking, there are only so many times a journalistic outlet can misprice a story and suffer a proverbial default on it before readers begin to lose trust."
Solidarity eclipses objectivity as journalism’s dominant ideal
"Objectivity as an aspirational ideal ends up encouraging journalists to avoid addressing what matters."
How Scrolla is reimagining South African journalism
This story is part of IPI’s Local Journalism Project. Read more here. Scrolling through the news on a mobile phone might be taken for granted in some parts of the world, but in many parts ...
In 2022, it’s all about community
"The silver lining of Covid-19: Everyone’s a change agent now, whether they like it or not."
Aid to publishers will be politicized
"Populist alt-right and activist left-wing publications will use the tax credit as a cudgel to hammer reporters and editors for being in the pocket of the Biden administration."