Spain leans into daily news podcasts, with eight shows launched since 2021

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Wednesday, October 19, 2022 [Spain leans into daily news podcasts, with eight shows launched since 2021]( “It’s a format that rewards a bit of journalistic intuition, as it’s almost impossible to build podcasts to just fit searches and platform algorithms.” By Hanaa' Tameez. [Confused about the Meta/Wire saga? Read these stories, it’ll help]( What We’re Reading New York Times / Daniel Victor [Who will wilt first, Liz Truss or a ball of lettuce? This British newspaper is keeping track. →]( “Purchased at a Tesco grocery store for 60 pence (68 cents), the lettuce has become a caricature of the Conservative leader’s flailing hold on power, pitted against the prime minister by The Daily Star, a left-leaning British tabloid.” Vox / Neel Dhanesha [AI art looks way too European →]( “Much of the fine art world is dominated by white, Western artists. This leads to AI-generated images that look overwhelmingly Western…If DALL-E manages to depict a world free of racist and sexist stereotypes, it would still do so in the image of the West.” Poynter / Rick Edmonds [How inflation has zapped newspaper finances →]( Among the solutions: A fuel surcharge for print readers. “Without doing this, we would have lost carriers, had more down routes, and really poor customer delivery service.” Vox / Peter Kafka [Alex Jones lost a $1 billion trial. How is Infowars still streaming? →]( “Their mission is to shut me up and take me off the air,” Jones told his followers via video after the verdict. That’s not going to happen in the near future. And it’s possible it may never happen. The Guardian / Severin Carrell and Jim Waterson [BBC prepares secret scripts for possible use in winter blackouts →]( “The BBC has prepared secret scripts that could be read on air if energy shortages cause blackouts or the loss of gas supplies this winter. The scripts, seen by the Guardian, set out how the corporation would reassure the public in the event that a ‘major loss of power’ causes mobile phone networks, internet access, banking systems or traffic lights to fail across England, Wales and Scotland. Northern Ireland would be unaffected because its electricity grid is shared with the Republic of Ireland.” The Hollywood Reporter / J. Clara Chan [Audie Cornish’s CNN podcast will premiere in November →]( Audie Cornish, the venerated NPR host who left the public radio giant in January to join CNN and the now-shuttered CNN+, will debut The Assignment With Audie Cornish on Nov. 17. New York Times / Steve Coll [Margaret Sullivan wants journalism to defend democracy →]( “Too many journalists — worried about their reputations for neutrality, under pressure from corporate bosses and mired in their comfortable traditions — are still doing their jobs the same old way. It’s not good enough.” Inbox Collective / Sarah Ebner [With open rates becoming less reliable, the FT needed a way to better measure the success of their email strategy. They found it through surveys. →]( “The results of the survey were beyond our most optimistic predictions, with over 78,000 responses (so far) since we launched in March.” The Verge / Emma Roth [Netflix password-sharing crackdown will roll out globally in “early 2023” →]( “Earlier this year, Netflix reported losing subscribers for the first time in over 10 years, with the company’s subscriber count dipping by another 1.3 million in the US and Canada and 1 million worldwide last quarter. To remedy this, Netflix has also been slowly nudging subscribers away from password sharing.” Rolling Stone / Tatiana Siegel [An ABC News producer had his home raided by the FBI. His colleagues say they haven’t seen him since. →]( James Gordon Meek is an Emmy-winning journalist who also was a former senior counterterrorism adviser and investigator for the House Homeland Security Committee. An ABC representative told Rolling Stone, “He resigned very abruptly and hasn’t worked for us for months.” The Verge / Nilay Patel [Signal says its messages are more private than iMessage and WhatsApp. Here’s how. →]( “Signal knows nothing about who you are. It doesn’t have your profile information and it has introduced group encryption protections. We don’t know who you are talking to or who is in the membership of a group … WhatsApp, on the other hand, collects the information about your profile, your profile photo, who is talking to whom, who is a group member. That is powerful metadata.” Washington Post / Josh Rogin [Saudi Arabia sentenced a United States citizen to 16 years in prison for tweets he posted while inside the U.S. →]( “Last November, when [Saad Ibrahim Almadi] traveled to Riyadh to visit family, he was detained regarding 14 tweets posted on his account over the previous seven years … ‘He had what I would call mild opinions about the government,’ his son Ibrahim told me. ‘They took him from the airport.'” Intelligencer / John Herrman [Kanye West and the siren song of “alt-social” →]( “One problem is that, even by the low standards of its peers, Parler is a ghost town. It’s a place where Ye can post and people really can ignore him. It’s a place with no adjacency to power, elite discourse, or celebrity.” Poynter / Angela Fu [The median salary for journalists of color at six Gannett outlets is $11,500 less than that of their white counterparts →]( A NewsGuild pay study, which covered roughly 200 reporters at nearly a dozen unionized papers, also found gender pay gaps of more than $8,000. [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](