Top news of the week: 12.05.2020.
Weekly newspaper, Allbritton Communications Company, Google, Names of large numbers, Funding, Leonard Downie, Jr.
Future Of News & Journalism
RT @VWPickard: This is an inherently thorny process, but it's a necessary one-and some of its problems are fixable. Public investments in local journalism can be deployed in ways that favor innovation, independence & public service over profit-first incumbents https://t.co/KvOpYfiZ61 @NiemanLab
OpenIn Canada, a government program to support local news tries to determine who’s most deserving
The country's $50 million Local Journalism Initiative is funding more than 160 reporting positions across the country. But critics say that it's subsidizing old media at the expense of new ...
Like it or not, Google and Facebook are becoming the leading patrons of the news industry
After years of fighting or ignoring media companies, Google and Facebook have become patrons to news.
Yeah, Allbritton brought in Tolchin, who began staffing for Capitol Leader, which later became Politico. But at Politico's Jan. 2007 launch, Harris and VandeHei were running it, not Tolchin. I covered VandeHarris' arrival and their plans for the outlet https://t.co/MNTUZ4zeJR https://t.co/XCYoHJ9jX5
OpenOff the Record
Allbritton Communications, which owns seven ABC affiliates, including WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C., now wants to own a newspaper. A newspaper? Didn’t everyone write those old, unprofitable ...
He Said, She Said Journalism: Lame Formula in the Land of the Active User
Print Any good blogger, competing journalist or alert press critic can spot and publicize false balance and the lame acceptance of fact-free spin. You try making any dispute story …