1. Today at 14:00 UK Time we are kicking off our weekly seminar series on the business and practice of journalism, chaired by @MeeraSelva1. The speaker will be @prashantrao from @TheAtlantic.
"Prashant is an editorial force. He’s overflowing with ideas about how a real-time magazine can cover the biggest stories on the planet," said @JeffreyGoldberg & @AdrienneLaF when he took this role
5. According to @NiemanLab, @TheAtlantic gained more than 36,000 new subscribers in March. Its traffic figures went to the roof too: 87 million unique visitors and 168 million page views. Their excellent coverage of #COVID19 has paid off niemanlab.org/2020/04/for-it…
6. Science Writer @edyong209 has published some of the best long-form journalism of the current pandemic. Here's one of those pieces on how #COVID19 will play out worldwide in the next few months theatlantic.com/health/archive…
7. The magazine has also explored important social angles during this crisis. @helenlewis explored in this long piece why coronavirus is a disaster for feminism. The piece is worth your time theatlantic.com/international/…
8. Today at 14:00 UK time @prashantrao will speak about how @TheAtlantic is being transformed into a global news brand. He will take questions from our Journalist Fellows and from the audience too #RISJSeminars
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🤖 Google is testing a product that uses artificial intelligence technology to produce news stories, pitching it to news organisations including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal’s owner, News Corp. nytimes.com/2023/07/19/bus…
🧵 Meta’s company strategy is giving lower priority to current affairs and politics on its social media platforms while beginning to also retract news pages from Canada. ft.com/content/8ebb88…
"Exiled journalists are always presented as like personas in the public discourse. But when it comes to the real life experience of being in exile as a journalist, there was a dominance of being abandoned by the international community," says @MLouisaE
"The lack of awareness is extremely frustrating on a personal or emotional level. It translates into basically a total absence of structural support," says @MLouisaE twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
"A free and vibrant media is the foundation for any healthy democracy," says Nic Glicher from @TRF in his introduction #DNR23 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
👎Fewer people are using Facebook for news, with Twitter usage relatively stable in most countries
📱TikTok is gaining even more ground among young audiences
💰The economic downturn is putting further pressure on business models reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-r…
Facebook is becoming much less important as a source of news
👎 Just 28% say they accessed news via Facebook in 2023 compared with 42% in 2016. News usage for Twitter has remained relatively stable, with usage of Mastodon very low. Evolution for each platform in the chart below
🇺🇦 Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a number of journalists and newsrooms have had to flee both Russia and Ukraine in order to keep reporting safely and independently from government influence. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/forced-ex…
🇸🇻 Often exile journalism is the only way independent media under authoritarianism can survive. Recently, Salvadorian newspaper @_elfaro_ announced that it had to move its legal and admin operations due to what they describe as a campaign of gov harassment reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/jailed-ex…
🔥What are the members of Cohort 3 at the Oxford Climate Journalism Network doing?
In this week's thread you'll find stories and projects by members and their teams, curated by our colleagues @arguedasortiz and @katherine_dunn
🇬🇧From the U.K., @KrystinaShveda and colleagues at @cnni have this detailed story on how extreme heat hits your health—and how how a severe heat wave in SE Asia hit outside workers first