Seattle’s local papers are a single daily owned and editorialized by a rich Republican fuckstick I refuse to give any money to, an alt biweekly that has laid off all but one actual news reporter but has room for Dan Savage, and a non-alternative weekly that has refocused its coverage on…the suburbs or something. Fuck all of them, I’m supporting my neighborhood blogger on Patreon.
― devops mom (silby), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 03:12 (six years ago) link
Anyway nobody seems to believe in the importance of journalists more than journalists. But The News has never stopped being one of the many machines that turns anger and anxiety into money.
― devops mom (silby), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 03:16 (six years ago) link
Like how much honestly happens on a given day that I have to know about the next day, there’s nothing to be done about any of it.
― devops mom (silby), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 03:17 (six years ago) link
Not all journalism is daily journalism. Reportage and think-pieces in monthly or quarterly magazines is journalism, too. For democracy to work, people have to have some kind of trusted source for what is happening beyond their front door.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 04:38 (six years ago) link
So to follow up on my last thread revive, a friend and I have both quit our jobs to start this thing -- compassknox.com -- to cover gubmint, politics and business in our fine city. We have low overhead and we're doing subscription only, so we figure we only need a couple of thousand subscribers to be sustainable. (In a metro area of well over half a million people.) Reaction from our first week of offering subscriptions has been good -- especially because we aren't even publishing til September, so right now people are just signing up because they know us or like the idea. Here's hoping.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 00:24 (six years ago) link
Oh, here's a clickable link: https://compassknox.com/
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 00:25 (six years ago) link
Best wishes~ hope you can pay the bills ASAP
― faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 00:42 (six years ago) link
You’re probably the one who looks like an ilx user right
― faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 01:25 (six years ago) link
yeah that other guy looks like one of those guys with money or one of those guys who knows people with money, smart move getting hooked up with him
― j., Tuesday, 21 August 2018 01:29 (six years ago) link
that's great tipsy, best of luck
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 01:39 (six years ago) link
I enjoyed the "son of" bio openers
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
omfg the dichotomy of your accents in the video
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 02:41 (six years ago) link
I fully support this but I no longer live in Knoxville
Thanks all! Yeah, I love the mix of accents too. We gotta have at least one real East Tennessean.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 04:00 (six years ago) link
best of luck tipsy! :)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 08:03 (six years ago) link
Great initiative tipsy, hope you rack up the subscribers soon!
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 09:28 (six years ago) link
go tipsy go!! local news has been absolutely decimated by decades of bad corporate policy (fuck gannett forever) and recent trends toward focusing only on the phony metric known as "trending"
― maura, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
i was fucking astonished at how bad local tv news is now in Knoxville. WBIR literally just runs packages from random Gannett affiliates. if it's vaguely near Knoxville that's a bonus but it totally doesn't have to be. craft beer festival in, i dunno, california? WBIR has you covered! the only actual local news they do on the reg is sports and weather. the last 10 minutes of the show. it's kind of unbelievable!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
Yeah, the local media landscape is pretty dismal. It's not like it was ever great, but there are so many fewer actual reporters in town than there were 10 or 20 years ago (even though there are tens of thousands more people living here).
local news has been absolutely decimated by decades of bad corporate policy (fuck gannett forever) and recent trends toward focusing only on the phony metric known as "trending"
I've talked to some people at the local (Gannett) daily, and they don't even pretend otherwise. It is literally all about generating clicks.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:49 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/business/media/mic-staff-layoff.html
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 30 November 2018 01:06 (five years ago) link
I wrote a piece for them once, and it was a good experience overall. Hopefully Kyle and everyone else lands okay.
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 30 November 2018 01:09 (five years ago) link
36,000sf of 1WTC for this
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 30 November 2018 01:31 (five years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/at-npr-an-army-of-temps-resents-a-workplace-full-of-anxiety-and-insecurity/2018/12/07/32e49632-f35b-11e8-80d0-f7e1948d55f4_story.html
Botero quickly realized what she was up against. As a “temp,” she floated among unfamiliar co-workers and faced an ever-changing set of responsibilities, some of which she’d never been trained for. Her work contracts were sometimes as brief as two weeks, at the end of which she’d have to persuade a manager to extend her.Worse was the sense of constant competition among her fellow temps, many of whom were angling to be hired for a limited number of permanent positions. “The only person I felt I could trust,” she said, “was the person I was dating, who was in the same position I was.” After a year of such uncertainty, she left, taking a job as a reporter for a group of public radio stations in New York state.What’s surprising about Botero’s experience is how unsurprising it is at NPR.For decades, the public broadcaster has relied on a cadre of temporary journalists to produce its hourly newscasts and popular news programs. Without temporary workers — who are subject to termination without cause — NPR would probably be unable to be NPR. Temps do almost every important job in NPR’s newsroom: they pitch ideas, assign stories, edit them, report and produce them. Temps not only book the guests heard in interviews, they often write the questions the hosts ask the guests.
Worse was the sense of constant competition among her fellow temps, many of whom were angling to be hired for a limited number of permanent positions. “The only person I felt I could trust,” she said, “was the person I was dating, who was in the same position I was.” After a year of such uncertainty, she left, taking a job as a reporter for a group of public radio stations in New York state.
What’s surprising about Botero’s experience is how unsurprising it is at NPR.
For decades, the public broadcaster has relied on a cadre of temporary journalists to produce its hourly newscasts and popular news programs. Without temporary workers — who are subject to termination without cause — NPR would probably be unable to be NPR. Temps do almost every important job in NPR’s newsroom: they pitch ideas, assign stories, edit them, report and produce them. Temps not only book the guests heard in interviews, they often write the questions the hosts ask the guests.
― j., Sunday, 9 December 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
The only thing worse than Gannett being the largest newspaper company in America would be MNG being the largest newspaper company in America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/business/dealbook/gannett-takeover-offer-mng.html
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 14 January 2019 19:24 (five years ago) link
i know there's a long line of american industries that should have all their executives prosecuted but hedge funds have to be, like, top 5
― maura, Monday, 14 January 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link
my tweet portal is whacki hv been trying to say i am sorry i offended and i so appreciate my colleague— Tom Brokaw (@tombrokaw) January 28, 2019
― j., Monday, 28 January 2019 02:22 (five years ago) link
nothing says you mean it like abbrevin’ words like “have”
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 28 January 2019 02:23 (five years ago) link
“abbreviNATION: what social media leaves out” could be a book
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 28 January 2019 02:25 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/nyregion/nyc-taxis-medallions-suicides.html
props to a genuine act of journalism for once
― j., Sunday, 19 May 2019 22:01 (five years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/whats-at-stake-in-the-takeover-of-cahiers-du-cinema
Haven't looked at it in 40 years, since university, but it's just one of those things you always assume will be there. (And it still is.)
― clemenza, Monday, 27 April 2020 00:15 (four years ago) link
Anybody signed up for this?
https://thecorrespondent.com/
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 May 2020 08:11 (four years ago) link
I was a member for some years of the Dutch version, from which the English version originated. I ultimately bowed out because of the pedant tone a lot of the articles had, that rubbed me up the wrong way (the "this is right/wrong, and here's why", which is way more de rigeur in the USA imo). Having said that, I do think they are doing some things right and occasionally publish stories that 'matter'. With Jay Rosen on board I think they have a decent shot at getting a foot in the door in the US, and I'm interested in seeing how they'll fare.
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 May 2020 08:46 (four years ago) link
signed up for the us version and it's been pretty eh
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:51 (four years ago) link
Final update on the thread of news dystopia: Microsoft’s artificial intelligence news app is now swamped with stories selected by the news robot about the news robot backfiring. pic.twitter.com/X0LwfVxw8e— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) June 9, 2020
― stet, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article243391186.html
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
hasan generally on pointhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icNirsV1rLA
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
Once the hedge funds have snarfed up your local paper, it becomes much more difficult to follow his advice to support it, because you're getting fleeced, just like all the other 'assets' the paper owns. Figuring out how to convert them to employee-owned and run co-ops seems like a pipedream, but maybe that's the best avenue for keeping them viable.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link
something something cryptocurrency something something
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
Aimless otm. I worked in newspapering from approximately 1985 to 1999. My grandfather was the owner/editor/publisher of a small-town paper. My grandmother, mother, and my two sisters were all print-era creatures. I have ink in my veins. If I'm not a stan for print journalism, no one is. And yet...
The project of shlurping local papers into a homogenous corporate blob was already well underway in 1982 (having essentially started with the establishment of USA Today/Gannet/Tegna).
Nowadays, the remaining "local" papers are as local as those Clear Channel-style radio stations that have identical programming, except for the weather and traffic and one or two "this one goes out to Janie in Incestville" requests that help them "localize" what is otherwise centralized. In most cities it is not doing anything different from the local Fox affiliate.
On a personal note: You can not imagine how hard it was for me to cancel print delivery of the Washington Post, after 42 years of having the day begin with its arrival on the doorstep. I don't know what to do about this, but it is a minor heartbreak.
― Tom Paine in the membrane (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
i just started getting the ny times international edition delivered! it's magic, i love it. i got a very good introductory price and it saves me having to wait in a queue for the print edition on the weekends just so i can do the crossword.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
I suspect your subscription also entitles you to access the online crossword?
Mine does.
― Tom Paine in the membrane (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 22:13 (four years ago) link
i'd rather not do it at all if i couldn't use a pen. faintly ghosting in a guess with a ballpoint is one of my key techniques.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 22:14 (four years ago) link
it also takes my eyes away from a screen for a few goddamn minutes.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 22:15 (four years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/pqrQItG.png
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 22:28 (four years ago) link
Might throw some dollars at this: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1478924964/the-brick-house-cooperative
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 22:48 (four years ago) link
More info here: https://www.cjr.org/first_person/introducing-the-brick-house-the-wolf-proof-media-cooperative.php
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 22:49 (four years ago) link
so it’s civil without the crypto and with a few new faces
― maura, Thursday, 27 August 2020 02:33 (four years ago) link
Is it? I didn’t pay much attention to civil
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 27 August 2020 03:06 (four years ago) link
other people vouch for maria b and certainly i admire the effort but establishing a post-click *and* post-blockchain economy seems like a lot
― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 August 2020 03:14 (four years ago) link
ah shit paywalled. it's the story of how Wirecard tried to discredit the FT, going to mad lengths to set up fake news operations with some (shitty) former intelligence people bribing market manipulators and ... hell, it's all insane Bourne-Ultimatum stuff
― stet, Friday, 4 September 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link