Your 24/7 view of global media coverage from Nieman Lab, Digiday, Poynter, Columbia Journalism Review, FIPP, Mumbrella, Recode, The Drum, The Guardian, and New York Post
Nieman Lab
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Nonprofit news organizations are becoming more diverse, but they still lag behind the communities they cover
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Poynter now offers six months of parental leave, putting it on par time-wise with much larger media companies
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“Politics as a chronic stressor”: News about politics bums you out and can make you feel ill — but it also makes you take action
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Digital-only newsrooms are in the firing line as Australian news law grinds toward reality
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The New York Times will flag viral misinformation with a new Daily Distortions feature
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Spanish-language misinformation is flourishing — and often hidden. Is help on the way?
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A new hotline promises answers to your race and gender questions — on deadline
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For COVID-19, as with everything else, Americans on the right and left live in different universes when it comes to trusting the media
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A new nonprofit newsroom, Mountain State Spotlight, wants to be the watchdog for West Virginia
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Are news companies already putting diversity pledges on the back burner?
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AJ+, Al Jazeera’s social-video-friendly service, will now have to register as a “foreign agent” in the United States
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NPR adds localized news for 10 cities to its afternoon podcast Consider This
Digiday
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How TV networks are setting up for the expanding ad-supported streaming war
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‘It’s a virtuous cycle’: Audiences and advertisers seek health and wellness content and publishers are seeing green
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Election-focused products charge U.S. growth at The Economist
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‘Necessary, but insufficient:’ Advertisers are starting to question the value of low exchange fees
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‘Doubling down’: Inside the 49ers social and digital rush to replace lost in-stadium marketing dollars
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‘One beat in an ongoing movement’: BET+ general manager Devin Griffin on the streamer’s evolution
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‘Gives us more control’: To grow revenue, Schibsted built its own podcast platform
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TikTok’s unusual spinoff: 4 outstanding advertiser concerns
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‘We have seen increasing demand’: Facebook video powers a user-generated content surge
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‘This is for cord cutters’: Discovery aims to launch Discovery+ streaming service in early 2021
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‘Can’t really be ignored’: Marketers and media buyers are finally taking the on-going TikTok saga seriously
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Apple’s latest anti-tracking changes present fresh headache for publishers
Poynter
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Universities continue to block athletes from talking to the media. That’s got to stop.
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New group offers a place for product people in newsrooms (and the newsrooms that need them)
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Why the student newspaper at Syracuse University launched a membership program
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A fresh publishing study argues that paid digital subscriptions are the only avenue to growth
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The death toll from the coronavirus passes another grim number
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Poynter to honor Chris Wallace at its fundraising gala
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FDA plans guidance this week to assure the public there will be no ‘October surprise’ vaccine
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Are journalism academics worth a listen? This new podcast says yes
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The coronavirus has closed more than 50 local newsrooms across America. And counting.
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Poynter now offers six months paid parental leave. Here’s how it happened.
Mumbrella (Australia)
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BMW shreds the rumours behind the new M3 and M4 models in announcement campaign via Clemenger BBDO Melbourne
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M&C Saatchi Sport and Entertainment launches lifestyle division, Fabric
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The end of WFH? Mumbrella’s Market Review webinar series unpacks the tech and psychology behind the future of work
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Kayo recovers from COVID-19 hit, reporting new high of 600,000 subscribers
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335,000 metro viewers tune in for the finale episode of Seven’s Plate of Origin
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Tiktok reveals it took down over 100m clips in the first half of the year in transparency report
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Mark Hamill and Patrick Stewart face off to launch Uber Eats’ ‘Tonight I’ll be eating’ in the US
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Charcuterie or Sherootery?: Hans relaunches its brand with The General Store
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AANA cracks down on stereotypes and sexualised imagery in updated code of ethics
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Mediasmiths hires Corey Eyre, former Carat investment director, as senior account planner
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Tim Bailey says Ten redundancy was a ‘knife through the back’ as he joins 2GB
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Mike Napolitano leaves TBWA for DDB Melbourne, replaced by Ricci Meldrum
FIPP
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My media life: Nicola Murphy, Founder and CEO, The River Group
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[Webinar video] MPA Factbook 2020: Covid-19 accelerates advertiser shift from print to digital
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[Download] Global Digital Subscription Snapshot 2020 Q3
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FIPP Insider Podcast Ep. 4: Publishing and climate change
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First peek at World Media Congress agenda as thousands get All-Access passes
Columbia Journalism Review
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How The 63106 Project funds independent journalism in St. Louis
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Mueller revisionism, and the culpability of the press
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The media’s climate coverage is improving, but time is very short
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Year of Fear, Chapter Thirty-One: A Confederate Soldier Moves On
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The messaging mess among Trump’s top health officials
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The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and covering the Republican push to replace her
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Reporting today, with yesterday’s context
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‘Eugenics’ in Georgia
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CNN public editor: A tale of two stories
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Whistleblowers and the cacophonous sounds of America
Recode
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Trump’s Justice Department proposes legislation that could end the internet as we know it
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This billionaire built a big-money machine to oust Trump. Why do some Democrats hate him?
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The best alternative streaming services, from anime to arthouse
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Everything you need to know about voting in 2020 (but were afraid to ask)
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Inside the Biden campaign’s surprising influencer strategy
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Why Walmart thinks TikTok is the future of its business
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It’s easier than ever to find out how your favorite websites are tracking you
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After 6 months and $1.8 billion, Quibi wants a new owner. That will be a hard sell.
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“It’s kinda like a first date”: Making the most of starting a new job remotely
The Drum
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The time is right for Retail Media
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Omnichannel marketing doesn’t need to be ominous
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Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance
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A 360° view of lockdown and the new abnormal
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TikTok bans weight loss ads to tackle ‘body shaming’
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A closer look at Channel 4’s biggest 2020 launch, The Great British Bake Off
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Creative Works: including Deliveroo, B&Q and Public Health England
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Lego’s green packaging is about more than eco-conscious parents
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The Drum dials up the solutions: introducing our new editorial sections and team changes
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Fairtrade’s fight to reclaim leadership as multinationals in-house certification
The Guardian
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Immigrant representation on TV over-emphasizes criminality, study finds
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French journalists unite to back Charlie Hebdo after death threats
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Facebook removes fake accounts with links to China and Philippines
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'It looks like a haunted waxwork': The Great British Bake Off bust cakes – ranked!
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UK charity launched to support public interest journalism
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You're doing amazing, sweetie: how I lost my Kardashians virginity
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'Boris gives UK both barrels': how UK papers covered Johnson's Covid speech
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A Perfect Crime: Netflix to examine Germany's answer to JFK assassination
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ABC and SBS may be included in ACCC code requiring Google and Facebook to pay for news
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Hong Kong police tighten control on media with new accreditation rules
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‘I will be cut off’: Chinese Americans feel targeted by Trump's WeChat order
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All Premier League games in October likely to be shown live on TV
New York Post
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CNN shuts down streaming news network ‘Great Big Story’
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National Society of Professional Journalists elects first-ever Latina president
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Vogue.com promotes Chioma Nnadi to editor position
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Playboy in exclusive talks with Mountain Crest on IPO bid
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NBCUniversal chief plans revamp, set to focus on streaming
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Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi app is exploring a sale, report says
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NBCUniversal quietly looking to replace TV exec amid toxic workplace probe
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Playboy is eyeing a return to the stock market, sources say
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NBCU ends Roku dispute over Peacock app after threatening to pull channels
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Rachel Maddow uses Obama-era images of immigrant kids to blast Trump
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Meredith cuts 180 employees, or 3.6 percent of workforce
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Macmillan CEO forced out over ‘disagreement’ with direction of company
Others
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The News Product Alliance will offer training, networking, and career development for professionals and “product thinkers”
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Using aggressive pricing and referrals, The Athletic nearly doubled subscribers since June
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CNN closes Great Big Story, its one-time answer to Vice and Buzzfeed
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Climate change news coverage has declined. The audience has not.
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“How I ran an NPR-style pledge drive to grow my newsletter”
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Casey Newton on leaving The Verge for Substack, journalism’s influencer economy, and the potential in bundling newsletters
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A newly formed PMRC will operate Variety, Billboard, Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, and Vibe
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Chioma Nnadi has been named the new editor of Vogue.com
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The editor-in-chief at Digiday Media will step down to start a newsletter on building sustainable media businesses
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Nina Totenberg was close friends with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Was that a conflict for NPR?
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The Guardian chose seven Gen Z climate activists (and first-time voters) to curate a special section on environmental justice
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How work became an inescapable hellhole
Colin Morrison on Twitter
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Penske Media buys Hollywood Reporter in JV https://t.co/jTONMWPK1W Context: https://t.co/LpeqfDAyMN https://t.co/MR0kTo4F3J
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Steve Brill's NewsGuard online news ratings system to be sold https://t.co/RosdEr2Lmn If you read Flashes & Flames, you read...
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What media brands are next on Jay Penske's shopping list? https://t.co/LpeqfDAyMN Signup to join the world's media leaders and r...
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How B2C is melting into B2B: Vogue Business launches its membership model. https://t.co/cKLN3ujed5 https://t.co/iwkIYCoYH0
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What next for Bonhill Group Plc? Troubling times for a bold B2B strategy by UK financial publisher. https://t.co/3KyU7GiMjv Sign...
