Peter Bale - curated media, journalism, and related tech news - Issue #76
The Melissa Bell comment is spot on and reminds us of the need to do more explanatory, contextual, and yes, even "solutions" journalism. Data and anecdote does suggest a certain exhaustion or news fatigue after the first two years of the pandemic and maybe the Trump era. On the other hand, people still need to know how bad things are in certain areas, but it can also be counter-productive, perhaps especially in climate reporting.
Today’s news, even high-quality print news, is not designed for humans. How do we fix it?
Another in the same theme. At least it's constructive.
Even though some of the parents have been alarmed by this since it came out before they were due to be shown some of the footage, it seems there is clear public interest and the paper tried to moderate the horror. Also, we need to remember that the cops have misled and obfuscated.
Duncan is a sensible chap and I do a weekly thing for him. He is right, so far as I know, that Facebook will dramatically reduce its focus on news. The motivation is as he describes but I also sense a huge amount of exhaustion and irritation in the Meta team at the way they are treated by publishers who are eager to be subsidised but then crap all over Facebook.
An interesting approach to story structure which I wonder could have implications for AI.
Not a totally original idea but quite a clever way of packaging. It is an interesting take on the old who-what-when-where-why idea.
This may be too inside baseball for some of my readers but those with a mission to improve the performance of newsrooms might find it valuable.
A small bonus, well I hope you think that: a digested read I do for The Spinoff each week.