Last year 2 Pulitzer prize winners used AI in their reporting. At #ProtocolsForPublishers we will talk with journalists about using open protocols to engage and inform readers via a web heavily mediated by platforms both social and AI.
A missed opportunity in civic leadership today is not capturing the wisdom of past leaders, particularly those who accomplished big things in ethnical ways. One way of doing this is for local #newsmedia to conduct “exit interviews.” In them, reporters should ask … what should those following you know about this city, its challenges and the way to get things done? https://atlantaciviccircle.org/2025/07/16/atlanta-school-board-member-cynthia-briscoe-brown/ #civiclead
Book of the Week: “Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy” is a wake-up call about the decline of daily newspapers and the loss of their news coverage. The greatest threat, the author argues, will be to democracy and good gov’t. She offers some ideas about supporting local journalism. https://www.atlantaurbanist.com/book/ghosting-the-news/ #newsmedia
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> BBC at risk of losing trust over Israel-Palestine, Ofcom boss says
"Losing"? FFS, holocaust survivors are speaking out against IDF violations of Palestinian human rights;
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25309584.holocaust-survivor-stephen-kapos-speaks-gaza-genocide/
Meanwhile BBC heads are censuring and censoring artists for standing with them. As well as censoring journalists for reporting on the IDF atrocities in Palestine, and their unprovoked invasions of a number of neighbouring countries. WTF?!
Willful ineptitude. It's the professional news reporter standard these days, the office can't risk a slapp suit from Elon
#usPol #newsMedia
Repeat after me: the #newsmedia is not your friend. It may inform you, but they color everything through the lens of their billionaire owners dictate. That’s not reporting. It’s a bunch of bobble heads with well coifed hairdos telling you exactly what their billionaires want you to in the hopes that you just unplugged your logic center of your brain and just obey.
End of story.
So much winning…I feel for the owners of the small US businesses and the workers at the large ones who are caught in the middle of #Trump ‘s stupid, destructive #tariff war with #Canada. But this is exactly what it takes to stop a #bully. US politicians, #newsmedia , and businesses, take note. Stop caving, work together, find out where you have collective leverage, and game on. Without you he’s nothing.
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/breaking-trump-is-now-begging-mark
The video of the Nine News reporter being shot on the streets of LA can be seen here.
The US has to answer to what happened to the Nine News journalist. What happened is not ok. It isn't excusable.
"For activists and journalists who have covered the press response to the crisis in Gaza, this is all part of the Palestine exception, where liberal groups and outlets might show concern for humanitarian crises around the world, but lower their outrage or stay completely silent on the subject of Palestine."
NYT Goes Silent on Greta Thunberg’s Gaza Voyage https://fair.org/home/nyt-goes-silent-on-greta-thunbergs-gaza-voyage/
This is worth a listen. Dobelli is not a fan of “news” nor of #SocialMedia.
The big question is whether there is such a thing as good news? Maybe useful news? What form does it take? Same holds true for social media
https://howtoacademy.com/podcasts/rolf-dobelli-how-to-lead-a-good-life/
Here's Piers Morgan mercilessly grilling an Israeli spokesperson. Could it be Piers is getting a little worried about having aided and abetted Israel's genocide for more than a year and half?
c: TikTok whats.happening65
The state of the legacy news media industry summed up nicely in a sub-2 minute comedy sketch;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBw61xgcfCw
A one-up on this sketch:
If you ask most people why they interact with news sources, you’ll hear some version of the same answer. We do it to stay informed. But some of us find that the price of staying informed is too high.
Most people don't trust most news most of the time, according to research from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. “Our problem is not simply that the public does not trust us, it’s that they do trust other dishonest brokers,” said Columbia Journalism School dean Jelani Cobb. He says that journalists should be more transparent in order to create trust. Nieman Lab's Gretel Kahn spoke to editors and journalists in Spain, Sweden, the U.S. and the U.S. about what that might look like. "We often make mistakes," says Eva Belmonte, managing editor of Spanish news outlet Civio. "But if you have explained how you've reached your conclusion and then you have done it wrong, at least you have explained your process."
Do you think greater transparency would increase trust in media?
Are we fated to lose daily newspapers and the coverage they provide? Or is there an exit ramp on the road to extinction? Here’s a possibility: Turn the paper into a community nonprofit, like an arts center, complete with capital campaigns and annual donations. Then sell subscriptions. Hard to imagine? Look at the plans for the daily newspaper in Spokane WA. https://www.cascadepbs.org/news/2025/04/spokanes-spokesman-review-newspaper-pivots-nonprofit-model #newsmedia
You know that "free press" we used to have in America? Oligarchs are out to stomp on it, as they seek to worship Trump.
If you are still reading the Washington Post, STOP IT.
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/26/washingon-post-jeff-bezo-opnion-editor-resign
What Comcast has done to fire all their non-white prime time anchors is despicable. But how is it best to protest?
I can stop watching the network, like I gave up my subscription to the Washington Post.
But that means giving up TV news altogether. IMHO MSNBC is the best (and maybe only remaining) credible source of facts, context, and liberal opinion on TV.
As I'm writing this I feel it would be best to give up on the network to send a strong signal to Comcast that giving in will not be tolerated.
But I really don't want to turn away from Nicole, Lawrence, Jen, Michael, Symone, and Alicia.
Very sad day for America.
Another clear demonstration that we have abandoned the principle that no one is above the law.
Trump is convicted of 34 felonies, threatened the judge, jurors, prosecutors, and witnesses and given NO PUNISHMENT.
The major news media are bending over backward to paint this as a validation of our judicial system somehow and an appropriate sentence for a President-Elect.
But it's just a horrible embarrassment.
Getting back into TV news slowly and in much lower quantity than pre-election. But I was just listening to Brian Williams being interviewed on Nicole Wallace's MSNBC show this afternoon.
I surely have missed his wit, wisdom, and eloquence.
