Mediagazer: How publishing houses are increasingly making senior-level hires and structural changes to improve diversity, like Hachette's newly launched imprint Legacy Lit (New York Times)

9:15 AM ET, November 2, 2020

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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:

With fears that Trump may prematurely claim victory, journalists must do something that is not in their nature: be patient and not join a rush to judgment — Almost two months before the 2016 presidential election, Dave Wasserman, an editor at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, wrote a prescient piece.

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Ben Smith / New York Times:

Since 2016, Trump's ongoing spectacle has slowed the decline of legacy media, but this election, regardless of who wins, marks the end of an era for the media — Trump made the legacy media great again. Here's what's next for them. — There's a media phenomenon the old-time blogger Mickey Kaus calls …

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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:

In an editor's note, The Atlantic says it regrets commissioning a story by Ruth Shalit Barrett, has updated her byline, thought she deserved a “second chance” — In pointing out errors and fabrications in a wildly popular story about niche sports, the magazine said it was wrong …

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism:

Survey of 136 news industry leaders from 38 countries: 55% say remote work has helped efficiency and 48% are planning to downsize physical premises — Reckoning with the lack of diversity in newsrooms | Attracting, developing and retaining talent | Executive summary ↑

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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Reuters survey: 42% of news leaders globally say improving ethnic diversity in their newsroom is the highest diversity priority, while 18% say gender diversity

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Columbia Journalism Review:

A review finds that less than half of 1,100 posts across Facebook and Instagram containing falsehoods debunked by third-party partners bore fact-checking labels — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, has been back in Congress this week to talk about the need to reform how social-media platforms moderate content …

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Mark Graham / Internet Archive Blogs:

The Internet Archive starts adding banners on some Wayback Machine pages with links that provide contextual information from fact-checking organizations — Fact checking organizations and origin websites sometimes have information about pages archived in the Wayback Machine.

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David Bauder / Associated Press:

AP says it will be more transparent with calling US elections, explaining how its experts make decisions and why they hold off declaring a winner in tight races — NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press, one of several news organizations whose declarations of winners drive election coverage …

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The Guardian:

UK High Court rules against Johnny Depp in his libel suit against The Sun and its publisher News Group Newspapers, which described him as a “wife beater” — Pirates of Caribbean actor had sued newspaper publisher for damage to his reputation — The Hollywood actor Johnny Depp …

New York Times:

How publishing houses are increasingly making senior-level hires and structural changes to improve diversity, like Hachette's newly launched imprint Legacy Lit — The push in book publishing for more authors and workers of color hasn't abated, and companies are increasingly making lasting changes to the way they do business.

Discussion: @nytimesbooks, @fredtjoseph, @msshanitarenee, @xanalter, @maritzamoulite, @newblackman and @hachetteus

Peter Sterne / New York Magazine:

Greenwald's break with The Intercept was inevitable: he planned to leave, viewed editing as censorship, and Substack may be able to match his six-figure salary — On Thursday, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald denounced The Intercept, the news outlet he co-founded six years ago, and announced his immediate resignation.

Alison Flood / The Guardian:

Bookshop.org, an alternative to Amazon that works with over 900 independent stores, is expanding to the UK after launching in the US in February — Bookshop.org, which launched in the US earlier this year, has accelerated UK plans and goes online this week in partnership with more than 130 shops

Discussion: @hettieveronica, Bookseller News and @bookshop_org_uk

Katie Robertson / New York Times:

A look at a typical week for former CNN reporter Peter Hamby, who moved to Snapchat in 2015 and hosts Good Luck America, a politics show with 2.5M subscribers — Peter Hamby hosts “Good Luck America” on Snapchat. “My North Star is really the low-information news consumer,” he says.

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Gabriel Snyder / Columbia Journalism Review:

NYT's biggest institutional challenge is its inability to state what it believes and why it matters, defaulting instead to a stance of “letting readers decide” — The New York Times landed this era's biggest prize in investigative journalism when it obtained Donald Trump's tax returns.

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