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fromGothamist
1 week ago

NJ newsrooms are dying and shrinking, but is government funding the answer?

Local news coverage in New Jersey is declining, threatening community connection and information access.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Press freedom declines in Americas, with US seeing sharpest drop: Report

Press freedom in the Americas reached its lowest point since 2020, with the United States experiencing the steepest decline, dropping from fourth to eleventh place in regional rankings.
Books
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Readers say goodbye to Book World from 'The Washington Post'

The Washington Post's Book World section closure removes a major source of book reviews and recommendations for casual general readers, impacting discovery more than dedicated book enthusiasts.
Media industry
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Learn this from Bezos and the Washington Post: with hypercapitalists in charge, your news is not safe | Jane Martinson

Bezos' ownership and recent mass layoffs at the Washington Post show how ultra-rich owners can decimate journalism to serve power, influence, or personal interests.
fromAxios
2 months ago

The death of sportswriting

Zoom out: The last 10+ years have seen the hollowing out of storied publications like Sports Illustrated and Sporting News, the end of ESPN's magazine and Grantland and the erosion of local newsrooms' sports sections before the Washington Post announcement. The New York Times cut its sports section after it acquired The Athletic in 2022 - one of the few reporting-driven publications that has emerged in the current sports media landscape.
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fromThe Atlantic
3 months ago

Will Google Ever Have to Pay for Its Sins?

Big Tech, led by Google, used ad-tech monopoly power to capture and divert advertising revenue, severely harming publishers' finances and journalism's sustainability.
US politics
fromPoynter
3 months ago

A brief history of the media through political convention pins - Poynter

Political convention pins chronicle three decades of media proximity to power, shifting resources and hierarchy, reporters' camaraderie, and an overall decline in media influence.
fromNieman Lab
4 months ago

Finding a candle in the dark

Predicting the future of journalism with any precision may be a fool's errand, though the broad - and mostly bleak - contours are obvious enough: local news will still face collapse; public trust will continue to buckle under the twin pressures of social media brain rot and partisan echo chambers masquerading as "news." AI experimentation will carry on, though previous overinvestment will hopefully cool, and most of the genuinely useful applications will be internal tools.
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