Good piece by Jack here.

“Whatever else you can say about technology and how any of us use it, the more it disrupts sleep, the more likely it will be to contribute to mental-health concerns,” Lisa Damour, PhD says. nyer.cm/4f8iYAh

⚙️What do people think of algorithmic selection of news and how does this compare with attitudes towards editorial selection? These questions are explored in a #DNR23 chapter by Richard Fletcher

📱The chapter: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-r…
🎙️Our podcast: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/our-podca…

Here’s an edited down version of my interview with Joe Kahn, editor of The New York Times for those who want to get into how he’s running the newsroom, the people and the stories.

We look at the impact on Ukraine: “even if Russian commanders return to their posts,” we argue, the mutiny “will leave a lasting imprint on the battlefield. The friction within Russia’s military leadership was already bad; it has become worse than ever” economist.com/europe/2023/06…

Das war's! Unsere erste Spotlight-Event war ein grosser Erfolg. Vielen Dank an alle, die an unserem Livestream teilgenommen haben, sowohl vor Ort als auch remote. Besonderen Dank an unsere Referenten von der Süddeutsche Zeitung ! Impressionen folgen. Bis zum nächsten Mal! #LivingdocsSpotlight

Nur noch 3 Wochen! Sei beim Livestream dabei und erfahre von Leitenden Redakteur für Digitalstrategie und Innovation, Hannes Vollmuth, und Managing Editor, Fabian Heckenberger, wie die Süddeutsche Zeitung ihr Seitenmanagement mit Unterstützung von Livingdocs handhabt. lnkd.in/efMi2pH5

.The New York Times exec editor Joe Kahn on DEI: “It’s not only bringing people in, it’s creating a culture that incentives people to stay.”
#ISOJ2023

The only way I know of to develop better product intuition for your own product is to:

1) constantly use your product as a real user would
2) constantly research your target customer

12 ways to make this practical in your week-to-week 👇

A “culture war” within Ukraine’s armed forces is hurting its performance in the fight against Russia, warns Franz-Stefan Gady. He suggests a solution econ.st/3yKG37l

can we please build a more artisanal internet / media landscape before this happens, or as it inevitably happens? newsletters and subscriptions are a big part of that

We provided mental health support to about 4,000 people — using GPT-3. Here’s what happened 👇

'' In 2015, Pausewang, then 87, agreed to accompany Hannes Vollmuth, a journalist and editor at Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, on a road trip to Grafenrheinfeld. replug.link/26ee0d20 via @bbcworld

Mein Name unter, über und vor allem neben so vielen tollen Leuten! Lucky me! #reporterpreis22 Hannes Vollmuth

✍️❓Wer sind die Nominierten in der Kategorie #Kulturreportage ? #reporterpreis22

Alle Texte findet ihr hier 👉 reporter-forum.de/reporterinnen-…

How many media execs would pass ‘The Jim VandeHei Test’? I reckon less than 10%.

(via Puck puck.news/vandehei-in-th…)

Zufall!!! Ich schwöre, ich habe nichts mit der ganzen Geschichte zu tun. #derfalschekalender

Immer noch skeptisch, was konstruktiven Journalismus angeht? Die dpa hat nachgemessen: Bad News macht Reichweite. Lösungen konvertieren in Abos: 👇🏾👇🏼👇🏿👇 scoopcamp

Unsurprising; terrible.

nytimes.com/2022/09/01/us/…

My lecture class on the 'Making of Modern Ukraine' starts tomorrow. Video will be posted on YouTube a couple days after each lecture.