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When the podcast Signal Hill launched last year, I was immediately struck by its formatting. Instead of seasons, it launches issues; episodes, which vary in length from less than two minutes to more than an hour, are broken down by type, like “dispatch” and “feature” and “profile.” It looks, in other words, like a magazine...
One week into the FIFA World Cup, the Argentinian streaming channel Luzu TV was live on the air when host Florencia Peña falsely declared that Lionel Messi’s father, Jorge Messi, had died. Minutes later, Peña said nervously that producers had told her the information via her earpiece, but that she hadn’t seen it herself, that...
Civic engagement takes many forms. The term describes activities as disparate as voting, volunteering, attending religious services, and following the news. Yet “these behaviors are often studied separately, making it difficult to see how they come together in people’s day-to-day lives,” researchers from the Pew-Knight Initiative write in a new report published Thursday. Their study,...
PITTSBURGH — One indicator of the energy and interest around live events in newsrooms these days: At INN Days — the Institute for Nonprofit News’ annual conference, held last month in Pittsburgh — a series of lightning talks on “Events that Build Audience and Revenue” was a standing-room-only session. Presenters from five nonprofit newsrooms described...
“It’s not: Some people do features, some people do spot stories. You’re commanding your beat. You’re doing everything,” said Jamie Heller, Business Insider’s editor-in-chief. It’s a Tuesday morning news meeting at Business Insider’s headquarters in New York’s Financial District. More than a dozen editors have gathered in the conference room, while several more chime in...
In the final days of World War II, as the German Reich collapsed, Nazi officials ordered millions of party membership cards to be destroyed. The vast card index that documented membership across Germany survived largely because a paper mill operator, Hanns Huber, chose to hand the records over to the advancing US forces rather than...
As reports of drone strikes and fresh clashes between Ethiopian government forces and Tigrayan fighters surfaced in late January, fears of a return to full-scale war spread quickly. Flights to northern Ethiopia were cancelled, and tensions rose ahead of the national elections in June, bringing renewed attention to the role misinformation played during the last conflict. In...
The Black-focused national-and-local news outlet Capital B launched in 2022 with a staff of 16 and a first local focus on Atlanta, with plans to expand. Co-founders Lauren Williams and Akoto Ofori-Atta — then editor-in-chief of Vox and managing editor of The Trace, respectively — were looking for “large Black cities that have especially bad...
The 2026 FIFA World Cup, hosted in North America this summer, has been fascinating to watch from different angles — from the matches themselves to community celebrations to the controversies. The tournament has brought hundreds of thousands of visitors to major cities in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It’s been directing new and returning...
As an elder millennial who still mourns the death of Google Reader (13 years ago this month, sigh) and uses the Feedly daily, I was intrigued by TechCrunch’s post: “A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed.” HyperTexting, launched on iOS June 29, describes itself like this: Allow us...
