This, THIS, is why I came to Chicago Public Media. Local news – especially publicly accessible local news – is our most urgent and pressing industry need to solve for. We've quietly been doing a lot of work this past year at CPM, and I can't wait to talk about it more soon.
Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post offering “financial runway." This month it gutted its newsroom—more than 300 layoffs.
Whatever you think of legacy news, the hard data shows us that newspaper closures hurt Americans. Here's how: 🧵
@Shutterfly Your help desk ... is not helping me with my stuck Christmas presents. Can y'all please help? There seems to be a delightfully easy solution here, but it's somehow very stuck.
It was an honor to serve as a judge for the @ICFJKnight International Journalism Awards. This year’s winners have shown incredible courage covering corruption and conflict: @riadkobaissi of Lebanon & Mariam Ouédraogo of Burkina Faso. Read more here: https://t.co/5FJBhiWQC2 @ICFJ
Our friend and former SB Nation writer Stephen White @sgw94 passed away on Tuesday after a lengthy battle with leukemia.
We send our condolences to his loved ones and we hope you consider joining the @bethematch registry in his honor to help save lives.
https://t.co/JBTXaRjNAO
My thoughts are with his family and friends in this moment. And I want to thank them for being forthright about the very real, very difficult illness of depression.
I am so very sorry to hear the news about Chris Shea, a former Vox colleague, and a deeply thoughtful human. Going to read some of his unique and wonderfully thoughtful pieces tonight.
Excited to introduce you all to @VoxMedia’s Language, Please – guidance and tools for newsrooms to examine their language use and interrupt biases in reporting: https://t.co/bz1UiBTmpa. Huge congrats to everyone who worked on this, esp. @TanyaPai@clermontave and EVS!
@bay_bay2005 Fair! I have a tech background so I think of it like you would a tech product. I.e. are we creating a good product experience for our users? Not if they avoid using us!
Are you in New York this Wednesday?
🗽 There are still a few places left for our #DNR22 launch event at 10:00 in Midtown Manhattan with @rasmus_kleis@monicadrake@arlyntg@oliviama@MelissaBell
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What if, to win @PulitzerPrizes, news organizations were required to publicly report data about their staff demographics?
I know so many journalists who have privately asked themselves or one another this question. Today, we asked the Pulitzers.
Join us: https://t.co/hsGV5L9Hgq