Juno Zhu

news product thinker • content strategy/partnerships @NewsBreakApp #journalismAI • proud @USCAnnenberg @MedillSchool alum• views are my own. (she/her)

[Juno Zhu @junoindisorder]

@SarahScire @latimes's merch designs are so chic. Personal favorite is this beach towel from West Coast collection.

[Darryl Holliday @d_holli]

We won’t emerge from this by “saving” the old system. We need to accelerate the transition to a new system centered on community info needs & news products that help people act & solve local issues

A participatory public good that's worth investing in. Yes, I made a chart 🤖

[Amir Shevat @ashevat]

Today we’re beginning to test Tweet Tiles with @nytimes, @wsj and @guardian. Tweet Tiles will let developers extend the Tweet experience and will pave future innovation for our @TwitterDev developer community🚀
https://t.co/LDyExFq4b1

[Francesco Marconi @fpmarconi]

Using machine learning to measure media bias based on how frequently news sources use certain discriminative phrases. @WSJ @AP @NPR appear to be the least biased/most balanced publications.

https://t.co/fCZP7do9Wq

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

100 years ago today

[Dan Kennedy @dankennedy_nu]

As Gannett’s latest bloodbath unfolds, a reminder that its CEO gets nearly $8 million a year and its part-time board members each pull in more than $200,000. https://t.co/iDfPkwZ6ZJ

[Juno Zhu @junoindisorder]

@dmitryshishkin @nytimes @HannahPoferl @charohenriquez Great sketch. What’s the nuance between improving and enriching life, and why does Games satisfy the needs of the former instead of the latter?

[Dmitry Shishkin @dmitryshishkin]

If you don't yet follow @ritvvijparrikh, you absolutely should. If you do, you won't miss gems like this one. Probably, one of the most inspiring end-to-end, vertical product solutions I've seen in the news sector this year. Bravo @timesofindia! https://t.co/67aCYS0Mx1

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Compelling read (via @tferriss 5-bullet friday) on how influencers become brainwashed by their audiences.

e.g. "Nicholas Perry when he first started making mukbang videos. Bottom: Perry transformed by his audience’s desires into Nikocado".
→ https://t.co/unABxMJ7k3

[Ramsammy @ramsammy]

What does Facebook's "deprioritization of news" mean for local publishers? Here's what we know and how it'll impact you by @EmLuto. https://t.co/mqb0maRKNK

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

The last era of the internet has been dominated by platforms owning people, but the next era will be about people owning platforms

[Juno Zhu @junoindisorder]

@kimbui A story by @ABC on a mass shooting in South Africa did not indicate it's not domestic in the headline. Then I found out this clickbaity version was crafted only for off-platform channels to drive traffic, but was not used for publishing on their own website. What a strategy.

[Juno Zhu @junoindisorder]

A story by @ABC on a mass shooting in South Africa did not indicate it's not domestic in the headline. Then I found out this clickbaity version was crafted only for off-platform channels to drive traffic, but was not used for publishing on their own website. What a strategy.

[P. Kim Bui @kimbui]

I get we all need traffic and clicks, but I think it does a disservice to the community when local news orgs (in particular TV) post wire stories about other states with a headline that does not indicate it is not a national story.

That's clickbait. I thought we were over that.

[Josh Miller @joshm]

@CaseyNewton The perspective that Medium did not "define the zeitgeist" is a preposterous claim.

Sounds like an employee who did not work there in early years.

Here are 3 transformative, cultural changes that Medium is responsible for (and directly led to Twitter threads, Substack, etc):

[Juno Zhu @junoindisorder]

But we live for the moment when we close all of them

[angel @angelmendoza___]

all journalists ever do is open a bunch of tabs

[Ed Ludlow @EdLudlow]

Breaking: Elon Musk has terminated his agreement to purchase Twitter $TWTR

[Scott Brodbeck @scottbrodbeck]

A guide to NYT and other mainstream coverage of local news outlets… 1. If it’s owned by a billionaire, a wealthy family or invested in by VCs, it’s INTERESTING and HEROIC, provided it’s still hiring journalists.

[Chris “Law Dork” Geidner @chrisgeidner]

Any time a journalist tells you they "just report the facts" or "go where the story leads" them, ask them how they chose their story subject, ask them how they chose their sources, ask them how they chose which anecdotes to highlight, ask them what they cut.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. @meta is reportedly shutting down @CrowdTangle, a once-independent social media analytics tool

This is very bad news

Along with many journalists, I have used @Crowdtangle to break stories about how Facebook operates

Now they are getting rid of it