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On the Spin Sucks blog, Gini Dietrich discusses Twitch, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts and shares what you need to know about each as it pertains to journalism. https://ow.ly/CH4o50RJWyz

The media gets things wrong in their reporting most of the time—like in this example. The problem is that we usually don’t have the context to know that, so we just assume what is told to us is accurate. I mean, it’s professional journalism, right? I’m today’s example, The Guardian, a global Top 10 news source, reported that Utah’s famous double arch had collapsed, sharing this photo of the double arch from the Indiana Jones scene as found in Arches National Park. But they shared the wrong information. It wasn’t the famous double arch in the national park. It was a lesser known arch hundreds of miles away found on the shoreline of Lake Powell, also in Southern Utah, and part of a feature referred to as the toilet bowl. Pretty cool in its own right, but certainly not the famed double arches. They may or may not ever fix this article. Even if they do, only a tiny portion of people who read it the first time will ever see the correction. But boy did they get a lot of eyeballs on the original. 👉🏼👉🏼Now here’s the important part. Translate this seemingly obvious mistake to any other topic of your choosing. They were wrong here, but not THAT wrong, right? I mean, they’re both arches, and they both in southern Utah, and they’re both fragile. So, close enough. But what about when it’s something more consequential, about a war, about an airplane crash, about a sumpreme court ruling, about a crime, about…..anything else. How often are the subtle but important details incorrectly reported to us? This one seems obvious, but to those not familiar with these parks and don’t get the local news that got it right, they don’t know the difference. Journalism today has become a race to be first, driven by the need to get more eyed balls first. Otherwise they don’t make money. And while not all of their mistakes are this blatantly wrong, their work is laiden with mistakes and inaccuracies large and small, and across all publishers. Reader beware.

Above a photo of current and former all-star contributors to the Our Town Reno mutual aid journalism initiative at our 2023 zine launch inc. Nancy Vazquez Loera Scott William King Andrew Zuker Ray Grosser Kingkini Sengupta . During the meet and greet on Nov. 16, there was a fascinating discussion evoking narrative disruption by Joseph Green, and about the book The View from Somewhere by Lewis Raven Wallace, as well as suggestions to have more community gatherings to discuss the dissemination of our hyperlocal information. There was an interesting offer to organize a benefit concert to help fund our new independence. Author/artist Sierra Stevens kicked off the evening by reading a passage from our yearly zine she produced entirely, describing a role model who helped turn her difficult local childhood around. This was followed by a lively back and forth conversation which flowed for over an hour, within the colorful, cozy confines of our gracious hosts at the Radical Cat Cafe. Thank you to all who attended, including some who have been on this journey with us since the beginning while the documentary Invisible Girl was filmed, (whose hero, now an accomplished young woman, was also present), those who asked questions and to our all-star reporters, who were asked about their favorite stories and biggest challenges. Many mentioned facing toxic comments on social media feeds, which is why we must have occasional in person, face to face, human interactions within our community to discuss serious topics with our collective well being on the line. While we go around meeting people in northern Nevada looking for stories and profiling those struggling and the do gooders, we believe it’s also important to meet those who believe in the value of what we are putting back into the community via social media, post by post, video by video, article by article. We encourage all to reach out and keep sharing their own stories, let us know what we should report about, to get to know each other better, to highlight what’s worthy, to raise awareness and flags, and to keep fighting to make northern Nevada a better place for all. https://lnkd.in/gTq9nmS8

Greetings, programs! I recently immersed myself in an enlightening piece featuring Tony Stubblebine, the force behind Medium, and his valuable insights about the convergence of tech and journalism. The article offers a fascinating dive into how technology is reshaping our perception of news and knowledge sharing. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in understanding the evolving dynamics between these two vital domains. Take a look: https://lnkd.in/evpBx396 #Technology #Journalism #FutureOfNews #Medium

Luigi Zingales and Bethany McLean from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business hosted Semafor co-founder Ben Smith to discuss the future of journalism. Episode Notes Given the recent mass layoffs, acceleration of media consolidation, continued decline of local journalism, and rapid uptake of generative AI, the news industry—fundamental to institutional accountability in capitalist democracies—appears to be in deep crisis. Joining Bethany and Luigi to make the case that journalism can not only survive but thrive is Ben Smith, longtime journalist, former New York Times media columnist, co-founder of global digital news publication Semafor, and the author of "Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral." How much of today's state of journalism can be attributed to mistakes and how much to inevitability? Where does the marriage between social media and news go next? How can journalism remain financially viable? Offering a nuanced perspective on the opportunities and pitfalls facing the news industry today, the three of them discuss the future of journalism in the age of clicks and a path back to a media landscape that informs, educates, and holds power to account. https://lnkd.in/gcpARtZx

Today, the media often forgets journalism's key values: truth and respect. We need to focus on solutions, not just catchy news. We should aim for media that satisfies our need for information and also values accuracy and respect. So, how can media improve to create a more informed and respectful society? I believe with independent content creators and podcasters specifically we get better and unfiltered information about what's going on. What do you think? Who are your favorite content platforms? #Journalism #MediaEthics #RespectfulDiscourse #TruthInMedia #CivicResponsibility

Is traditional media losing its grip? We sought the voices of content creators who have made a name for themselves focusing on reporting the news via TikTok and Instagram. Could this be the future of journalism? Read their insights and what this means for the industry by clicking here: https://lnkd.in/gGFTrrr5 #Journalism #ContentCreators #Click2View.

So how can we continue writing about fashion in an informed yet critical manner?

In this week's Behind the Blog, I wrote about the strange feeling of watching people openly speculate about whether 404 Media will succeed or fail. We’ve gotten a lot of press since launching, all of it very good and charitable and optimistic, including an article that came out in the Columbia Journalism Review yesterday. In it, a journalism professor says, “The best journalists in the world may not know anything about running a company. It’s a much different ballgame when you are talking about keeping on the lights, as opposed to making sure your FOIA doesn’t go years and years without an answer.” It is a different ballgame. I never thought I’d own part of a business, and it wasn’t necessarily a dream of mine. And if the state of the industry wasn’t so absolute shit, and I didn’t believe in this being one of very few ways to keep journalism alive and journalists thriving, and if I didn’t have the other three to do this with... I would never have imagined doing it. But the people “keeping on the lights” at many major publications today are frankly inept. They’re so detached from what journalism is, why it’s valuable, and what people actually want from it that they buy outlets and brands they seem to actively hate and turn once-stellar newsrooms into shell-shocked dog food factories. None of my co-founders at 404 went to business school, or journalism school for that matter, but I think we’re doing ok. The “ballgame” those people are playing is like betting on Dizzy Bat with other people’s cash. It’s not the same. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eCMVvrZk