‘A sword against journalists.’ Schmitt’s office seeks emails of Mizzou fact checkers
The partnership has not issued a new fact check since 2020. It only fact checked Schmitt once and found the claim it was looking into to be “mostly true.”
How Serena Williams forced sports journalists to cover tennis as more than a game
Early coverage sidestepped conversations about the unique kinds of gendered racism that a Black girl from a working-class California neighborhood might face on the professional tour.
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."
The Kansas City Defender is a nonprofit news site for young Black audiences across the Midwest
"We do advocate against the racist function of policing, [but] we focus equally on being present in the community, doing poetry nights, basketball park takeovers, and other community-building, life-affirming activities."
Apple Podcasts Marketing Tool for Social Media Released
Apple has released a free web app that lets podcasters create artwork and links to promote their shows on Apple Podcasts. The app offers several customization options that should appeal to a wide variety of creators who want to market their shows on Apple’s service. Still, there are a couple of limitations worth keeping in
5 cities at the vanguard of Ireland’s hard dance revolution
Ireland has a storied history of legendary parties and productions. Likewise, Buckfast and dance music, especially sounds on the harder end of the spectrum go together like slip matts and dubplates and there’s few places where this relationship is more implicitly intertwined. Andrew Moore took a virtual roadtrip to all corners of the country to explore the disparate thriving microscenes and get a snapshot of the sounds shaping their cities.
Why Digital News Outlets Haven’t Nailed Alt-Story-Form Journalism
Alt-form storytelling, a key magazine-and-newspaper design trend, and hasn’t truly flourished on the modern internet. Axios could go way further than it does.
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The U.S. is losing an average of two weekly newspapers a week
The U.S. has lost a quarter of its newspapers since 2005 and is losing two a week (almost all weekly papers) on average, according to a new report from Northwestern University's Medill School. In all, 2,500 American papers have disappeared since 2005.
Penny Abernathy, the author of the report an…
Streaming Enters the DJ Booth and With It, Big Data · Feature ⟋ RA
Cloud DJing will soon be the industry standard. But is this new technological development leading artists towards a paradise of convenience—or a data-hungry dystopia?
In Our City You Can Rollerblade Near Water I like my dinners ethnic, my coffee latté, my gossip salacious, and my conversation wired. Not a lot to ask, you might think, but difficult to know where to…
Facebook looks ready to divorce the news industry, and I doubt couples counseling will help
Out of every 1,000 times someone sees a post on Facebook, how many of them include a link to a news site? Four. No wonder Facebook doesn't want to write publishers big checks anymore.
Electronic Music Is in a Social Rut. TikTok Might Just Save It. · Feature ⟋ RA
Artists are struggling to engage with their audiences online, but the virality of the short-form video platform is coming at an opportune time for the genre—challenging how music is packaged, shared and listened to.
Views of the News: Should journalists get off Twitter?
Is it time for journalists to get off Twitter? One of the nation’s leading newspapers has made a presence on the social platform optional. We’ll talk about why, and what effects this could have on the quality of reporting and the safety of reporters. Also, Warner Bros. Discovery’s takeover of CNN and HBO, the collapse of Black News Channel and the USA Today’s innovative use of comic journalism. From Missouri School of Journalism professors Amy Simons, Earnest Perry and Kathy Kiely: Views of the News.