Kinda cool to be the **correct** answer to this question in the The New York Times news quiz. ProPublica

Y’all, we have to advocate for ourselves and be unapologetically noisy about it, or people are not going to understand all the ways that local journalism is in deep trouble right now. pewresearch.org/journalism/202…

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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org), Brian Beutler, Paul Waldman, Jeff Nesbit, The Kansas City Defender and more.

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2/ We are in the upside down and paying a very steep price for it. No pun intended.

THIS is an important read about the obsession with bad news click bait & the horrible impact it's having. Just this graphic alone on coverage of gas prices ought to make journalists across the country hang their heads in shame.
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My column this week asks whether the media (both mainstream and social) and its incentives to maximise engagement could be playing a key role ft.com/content/8cd76c…

“Documents deployed by claimants allege that Lewis [now WaPo CEO] …played a key part in “the scheme to destroy… as much of the [Murdoch] company’s historic electronic data as possible, and were empowered... to complete this task and to conceal what had taken place.”

🎉🎉🎉 ProPublica Wins Pulitzer Prize for Supreme Court Coverage propublica.org/article/pulitz…

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Each week we compare our Pro-Democracy Election Coverage Guidelines to ongoing coverage to highlight which newsrooms are defending democracy and which are sleepwalking us towards a dictatorship.

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12 horses died at last year's #KentuckyDerby . Context is important.

Lamenting #horserace election coverage, Jay Rosen asks journalists to focus on 'not the odds, but the stakes.'

Are voters getting substantive coverage of issues that matter? mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2024-election-…

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Eric Cortellessa, George Stephanopoulos, Baltimore Beat, Mark Jacob and more.

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When American Economic Liberties Project Open Markets Institute Sports Fans Coalition, EFF & NEWSMAX DISH Fubo & DIRECTV agree that the proposed sports streaming joint venture is anticompetitive, it's time for Congress to give it a hearing. ir.fubo.tv/news/news-deta… Senator Amy Klobuchar Rep. Nadler Rep. Jim Jordan

This is the New York Times’ performative objectivity: publishing a stupid piece by Matthew Schmitz that depicts a traitorous criminal as an “outlaw hero.”
NYT apparently will treat this crisis like a Netflix series until the last editor is led out of the newsroom at gunpoint.

Jack Shafer, defender of the indefensible, says Biden has no case and that political journalists should go right ahead with the horserace and gotcha coverage. What do you think? politico.com/news/magazine/…

This article is worth your consideration.

'Ultimately, the U.S. public media system is a critical information and communication infrastructure whose potential capacity remains grossly underutilized.'

The Latest: Lori Henson explains how Connecticut's government advertising bill prioritizes ads in local news outlets, allowing agencies to effectively connect with hard-to-reach audiences and share essential info using existing funds.

Via Connecticut Mirror: ctmirror.org/2024/04/30/ct-…