Ear Hustle’s new audio space is just the first step in a bigger plan

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Tuesday, August 13, 2024 [Ear Hustle’s new audio space is just the first step in a bigger plan]( The studio, at the California Institution for Women, will bring more incarcerated women’s voices to the podcast — and kickstart an ambitious training program. By Neel Dhanesha. What We’re Reading CommonWealth Beacon / Jennifer Smith [The Boston Globe hired a new podcast team — and then changed its mind →]( Linda Henry, CEO and co-owner of the Globe, says audio doesn’t attract subscribers. Associated Press / David Bauder [News outlets were leaked insider material from the Trump campaign. They chose not to print it →]( “Politico, The New York Times and The Washington Post have written about a potential hack of the campaign and described what they had in broad terms. Their decisions stand in marked contrast to the 2016 presidential campaign, when a Russian hack exposed emails to and from Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta. The website Wikileaks published a trove of these embarrassing missives, and mainstream news organizations covered them avidly.” The Hollywood Reporter / Rick Porter [Olympics close with huge ratings gains for NBCUniversal →]( “The company says the 2024 Olympics, which closed Sunday with a ceremony from Stade de France and a handoff to the next summer games in Los Angeles, averaged a combined 30.6 million viewers across all platforms for its ‘Paris Prime’ daytime telecast (2-5 p.m. ET in the United States) and nightly primetime shows. That’s a huge improvement — 82 percent — on the last Summer Olympics three years ago in Tokyo, which averaged 16.9 million cross-platform viewers for daytime and prime telecasts.” Columbia Journalism Review / Adam Piore [Turnaround Time: Mark Thompson, CNN’s chief executive, is tasked with transforming a struggling network →]( “If you ask CNN executives about their sense of urgency, they’ll reply: it took ten years for Thompson to enact a digital transformation of the Times, and he’s drawing upon that playbook here. ‘Turning a great news organization towards the future is not a one-day affair,’ Thompson wrote to staff in July. ‘It happens in stages and over time.’ The fate of CNN may depend on whether, absent devoted support from a publisher-family, executives and shareholders can be expected to show patience.'” The Verge / Gaby Del Valle [The Elon/Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster →]( “18 minutes after the conversation was supposed to begin, Musk claimed that X was the target of a ‘massive DDOS attack’ that had made it impossible for the Space to proceed as planned. The rest of X appears to be working normally, however, and a source at the company confirmed to The Verge that there wasn’t actually a denial-of-service attack. Another X staffer said there was a ’99 percent’ chance Elon was lying about an attack.” TechCrunch / Ivan Mehta [Prediction marketplace Polymarket partners with Perplexity to show news summaries →]( “Prediction marketplace Polymarket, which lets users bet on real-world events, is partnering with AI-powered search engine Perplexity to display news summaries of events. When users click on an event on Polymarket, they will now see a summary of news related to the event based on search results from Perplexity. There’s also a search box that you can use to ask more questions.” The New York Times / Katie Robertson and Nicholas Fandos [The New York Times will stop endorsing candidates in New York races →]( “A growing number of news outlets are moving away from political endorsements. In 2022, the second-largest newspaper operator in the country, Alden Global Capital, announced that its 200 newspapers would no longer endorse candidates in races for president, Senate and governor, saying readers were “often confused” about the distinction between news and opinion. The new owners of The Baltimore Sun said in January that they would also stop making endorsements.” Bloomberg / Alicia Clanton [Instagram views for major accounts drop with Meta shunning politics →]( “The study is among the first to quantify the effects of Instagram’s decision to limit political content from its recommendation algorithms unless a user opts in to seeing such posts … But critics say the company’s definition of political is unclear, and is stifling credible information from activists, news organizations and marginalized creators during an unprecedented global election year.” [Nieman Lab]( / [Fuego]( [Twitter]( / [Facebook]( [View email in browser]( [Unsubscribe]( You are receiving this daily newsletter because you signed up for for it at www.niemanlab.org. Nieman Journalism Lab Harvard University 1 Francis Ave.Cambridge, MA 02138 [Add us to your address book](