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Pew: Young journalists, journalists of color most likely to join unions
In an industry in which coverage of labor concerns often overlaps with personal worries about wages and benefits, journalists are increasingly turning to unions at news outlets nationwide. About one-in-six U.S. journalists at news outlets are part of a union, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. The survey...
‘We need a Bezos in Hartford.’
Michael Kirk has watched the Hartford Courant wither for years. When Kirk worked in Washington, D.C., more than 20 years ago, he remembered several Courant reporters covering Connecticut’s lawmakers from the nation’s capital. Less than a decade later, management at Tribune, Courant’s parent company, closed that bureau.
Listening to life
Associate Editor Margot Susca’s favorite podcast remains This American Life, which in 2020 was the first-ever radio program to win a Pulitzer Prize. The site describes its history and influence this way: “Back in 1999, the American Journalism Review declared that the program was ‘in the vanguard of a journalistic revolution’ and since then, a generation of podcasts and radio shows have sprung up — Radiolab, Invisibilia, StartUp, Reply All, Snap Judgment, Love + Radio, Heavyweight — building on the lessons we learned about narrative journalism and inventing all sorts of things we never could’ve.” Top journalism awards aside, she listens to it regularly for its unique storytelling on a range of subjects and issues. Susca turned to this decades-old piece on summer camp to help her 11-year-old daughter get ready for two weeks away in the woods.
Tweeting into the void
Journalists converge on Twitter, but public still prefers Facebook. Most journalists may be clacking away on Twitter, reaching sources via retweets and chatting with co-workers in replies, but the public generally prefers Facebook for their social media fix. Nearly 70% of journalists say Twitter is the platform that tops their...
Gen Z willing to pay for news … sometimes
Current and former newspaper customers cite a variety of reasons for abandoning, continuing or starting paid subscriptions. But for younger readers, the Black Lives Matter movement’s resurgence was pivotal, and their paying behavior is yet another sign that for Gen Z, digital-first means digital-only. With my American University colleague...
Film fest returns to in-person events
The best investigations are no longer conveyed in newsprint alone. Industry innovators are experimenting with newer media — from podcasts to graphics to films — to convey the gravity of their work in creative formats. The Double Exposure Film Festival, co-sponsored annually by IRW, is just that: a...
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