This is from 2015 but still relevant, although some tools may have been updated.
Month: March 2018
@niemanfdn @nytmike and @emilysteel from @nytimes about how they’ve covered #SexualHarassment
From a talk Wednesday at Harvard.
Fascinating talk underway with @nytmike and @emilysteel from @nytimes about how they've covered #SexualHarassment and bullying in the workplace--and what it takes to get the story right when powerful men are involved. Moderator: @AMLwhere. #MeToo pic.twitter.com/7tA6nqftME
— Nieman Foundation (@niemanfdn) March 7, 2018
Check out their 2017 investigation "Bill O’Reilly Thrives at Fox News, Even as Harassment Settlements Add Up" https://t.co/13NcT5L9zj
— Nieman Foundation (@niemanfdn) March 7, 2018
Steele of NYtimes says they watched Spotlight movie for inspiration for O’Reilly sex harass investigation #metoo #journalism
— COM 201 (@CO201) March 7, 2018
Steele said she borrowed from lines in the movie to talk to her sources. Not sure these are the exact lines, but FYI.
NYTimes reporter interviewed former O’Reilly guests for sex harass story. Found some on IMDB. #metoo #journalists
— COM 201 (@CO201) March 7, 2018
.@nytmike speaking at @niemanfdn: We are under great scrutiny because of our reporting. There's much more we need to do to explain what we do and what our role is. We have too better about it.
— Nieman Foundation (@niemanfdn) March 7, 2018
More from Spotlight: This follows a delay in the story after 9/11.
How newsrooms are adapting to the rising influence of technology companies.
Almost 2 years old. What has happened since then?
From the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School
- Publishers are posting an ever-increasing volume of stories directly to many different platforms, but with little insight as yet into what the long term effects might be.
- Some platforms and publishers have a very close relationship, with some platforms providing equipment or financial incentives to publishers that use their tools. At least one platform even requires publishers to pay it a percentage of ad revenue in exchange for using the platform.
- Scale matters. Some smaller and local newsrooms feel left out, whilst the larger or “more digital” publishers that have the closest relationships with platforms dominate attention.
- Publishers’ anxieties include a lack of data, loss of control, the uncertainty of financial return, and the potential obscurity of their brand in a distributed environment.
- The question of who owns the user highlights the biggest tension at the heart of the relationship between publishers and platforms. Is a reader of The New York Times on Facebook a New York Times reader, or a Facebook user reading the New York Times?
- Civic and democratic issues not prioritised by either publishers or platforms include archiving distributed journalism, transparency in algorithmic distribution, concentration of power, and availability of data.