Mediagazer: States Newsroom to launch nonprofit political news site in CO in coming months, as part of its 25-state expansion by 2021; Tennessee Lookout launched this week (Corey Hutchins/The Colorado Independent)

7:10 AM ET, May 11, 2020

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As Australian and French regulators plan to make tech companies pay publishers for news content, leaders from Ireland to Malaysia say they are paying attention — News organizations have long hoped that tech platforms would pay them for news. Now regulators abroad are moving to make that happen.

Discussion: @jeffjarvis, @davewiner, @jason_kint, @benjaminbland, @mazmhussain, @ninabernstein1, @benyt, @ewong and @megankstack, more at Techmeme »

Jeffrey M. Jones / Knight Foundation:

Gallup/Knight survey: 65% of US adults favor local news orgs receiving COVID-19 relief money, but their willingness to personally pay for local news remains low — The economic slowdown affecting the U.S. is worsening an already perilous financial situation for local news organizations, especially local newspapers.

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu, @knightfdn, @dangainor, @frankwords, @iohnsands, @knightfdn and @knightfdn

Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:

Canada's $50M Local Journalism Initiative is funding 168 reporting positions, most at established outlets, as critics ask why more didn't go to smaller outlets — The country's $50 million Local Journalism Initiative is funding more than 160 reporting positions across the country.

Discussion: @jessebrown and @jbenton

Pew Research Center:
Pew survey of US adults: 59% say news media provides information they need about COVID-19 while 24% disagree; partisan divide over media's usefulness persists

Discussion: @davidakin, @kat__stafford, @pewresearch, @swiftstories, @pewjournalism, @pewresearch, @pewresearch, @pewresearch, @kirsten_worden and @pewresearch

Sarah Jones / New York Magazine:

National Labor Relations Board on Friday ruled against every objection raised by Hearst to the bargaining unit proposed by the WGAE and ordered a union election — When the editorial staff of Hearst Magazines decided to form a union with the Writers Guild of America, East, they expected some resistance from their powerful employer.

Discussion: @sarahljaffe, @kath_krueger, @onesarahjones, @lainnafader, @grimkim, @bdwilliams910, @itsa_talia, @wgaeast, @lainnafader, @haleymlotek and @moorehn

Jon Caramanica / New York Times:

Instagram Live has become the definitive medium of quarantine for rappers, producers, DJs, and other artists, with hip-hop stars leading the way — The pandemic halted in-person gatherings, but a new type of party was born on social media, with rap stars leading the charge.

Discussion: @nytimesarts, @mehpatrol, @joncaramanica and @joncaramanica, more at Techmeme »

Corey Hutchins / The Colorado Independent:

States Newsroom to launch nonprofit political news site in CO in coming months, as part of its 25-state expansion by 2021; Tennessee Lookout launched this week — A new statewide nonprofit digital news outlet with robust but undisclosed funding will launch in the coming months to cover public affairs in Colorado.

Discussion: @coreyhutchins and @coreyhutchins

Patsy Widakuswara / Voice of America:

VOA's semi-independent and sometimes aggressive news coverage has caused tension with the WH for decades that has only escalated with the current administration — For the Voice of America news executive who made the fateful decision, the scoop was too extraordinary and important to pass up.

Discussion: @kenroth, @brianstelter, @dandrezner, @peterbakernyt, @nytpolitics, @alinebarros2, @inteloperator, @spj_tweets, @pwidakuswara and @navbahor

Ayesha Tanzeem / Voice of America:

Pakistan's detention of the owner and EIC of GEO News, a popular news channel and website in the country, raises concerns among press freedom advocates — ISLAMABAD - One of Pakistan's biggest media tycoons has been in custody for two months in a case involving alleged corruption in a 34-year-old land deal.

Discussion: @sibtearif, @penamerica, Geo.tv, The News International and The News International

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism:

Reuters Institute: of 226 news outlets across 23 EU countries, those orgs with higher accuracy assessments from experts tend to have higher public trust ratings — French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire is seen on a TV screen during a television interview at the Bercy Finance Ministry …

Discussion: @risj_oxford, @ejonews, @meeraselva1, @risj_oxford, @paulbradshaw and @risj_oxford

Tim Peterson / Digiday:

Some publishers cut back programmatic inventory to protect their long-term ad prices; the average US display ad CPM fell from $1.34 on March 1 to $0.91 on May 3 — In a weak ad market, conventional wisdom would have publishers trying to sell more ads to offset lower ad prices.

Discussion: Aldo's Notes and @acfou

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:

How the Newspaper Navigator AI agent has helped the Library of Congress digitize newspaper illustrations and photos and make them searchable — Historians interested in the way events and people were chronicled in the old days once had to sort through card catalogs for old papers …

Discussion: @aamyjames

Ruth Michaelson / Columbia Journalism Review:

Ruth Michaelson, the Guardian reporter kicked out of Egypt for covering a study that modeled the COVID-19 outbreak in Egypt, describes her last days there — The warning that I would be expelled from Egypt began with a few simple words. “They just want to see your visa,” …

Discussion: @arialavrilleux

Al Jazeera:

DHS tightens visa restrictions for journalists from China, limiting visas for Chinese reporters to 90 days, with the option for extension — New visa restrictions seen as a retaliatory measure after China expelled American journalists from three US newspapers.

Discussion: @raju, The Guardian, The Week, Law360 and Wall Street Journal

Variety:

How streamers like Bytedance have prospered in China while the country has lost 20% of its theatrical release capacity and 5K+ film and TV companies — Things got weird on the Chinese Internet in January. — With at least 760 million of the nation's residents — a group more than twice …

Discussion: @variety and @variety