“We actually go back to the beginning”: After launching in London, the TikTok-focused News Movement comes to the U.S.

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Wednesday, November 9, 2022 [“We actually go back to the beginning”: After launching in London, the TikTok-focused News Movement comes to the U.S.]( “One of our first successful TikTok videos that surpassed over a million views is our explainer of where Ukraine is on a map.” By Marina Adami. What We’re Reading The Verge / Jay Peters [Twitter’s solution for ruining verification was another checkmark →]( The “Official” mark was live [less than a day]( before Elon Musk tweeted that he “killed it.” A Twitter employee [tweeted]( the label would still go out as part of the Twitter Blue launch beginning with “government and commercial entities.” (As of 2:00 p.m. Eastern, the “Official” label had been removed from major news orgs like NPR and The Washington Post.) New York Times / Stuart A. Thompson [How news about Maricopa County’s ballot-counting machines went viral →]( The Election Integrity Partnership, a coalition of online information researchers, tracked tweets and retweets from users who had more than 100,000 followers on Twitter. The narrative has continued to spread on Wednesday as several close races in Arizona were still not called. Harvard Business Review / Marlo Lyons [What to do after being laid off →]( “Being laid off is not a reflection of your skill set — it’s a reflection of your former company’s lack of proper planning during a turbulent economy or of its change in business strategy.” New York Times [The New York Times on why it brought The Needle back →]( The Times [stopped updating the forecasts]( at 4 a.m. Eastern time on Nov. 9 after “the ‘red wave’ did not materialize” and it became clear “the remaining vote that will decide control of Congress will take days, if not weeks, to count.” IJNet / ALICE HÉRAIT [Young people in Taiwan are pushing for a more independent media →]( “The Reporter now has a newsroom in the heart of Taipei, Taiwan’s capital, with about 40 employees of an average age of 30. In its seven years of existence, this free online media has managed to attract 17,600 ‘sponsors’ — readers who contribute to funding the editorial staff.” CNN / Sahar Akbarzai and Lauren Kent [Iran is accused of plotting to kill two journalists in the U.K. →]( “Two of our British-Iranian journalists have, in recent days, been notified of an increase in the threats to them,” the London-based Iran International said in the statement. “The Metropolitan Police have now formally notified both journalists that these threats represent an imminent, credible and significant risk to their lives and those of their families.” Axios / Sara Fischer and Kerry Flynn [Recession fears are shaking a newspaper industry dominated by chains →]( “Any further downturn or pressure on that [profit] flips more local newspapers into a situation where the hedge fund has milked everything and it no longer becomes profitable for them, so they’re shut down.” AP / Mike Catalini [How can the AP call races right as polls close? →]( “How the tally is counted includes tons of preparation, journalists in all 50 states and a network of roughly 4,000 stringers, or temporary freelancers. So, what about those race calls that land as the moment polls close — before any votes have officially been counted?” Substack / Luppe B. Luppen (@nycsouthpaw) [New York Times polls defeat New York Times political analysis →]( “All of the NYT/Siena polls pointed to a remarkable, and largely unanticipated fact: Despite what appeared to be unfavorable political climate, Democrats were holding their own in House elections in all the ‘archetypal swing districts’ the surveys had measured…That could and should have an important finding, but instead it was overwhelmed by the newspaper’s preconceived narrative of Democratic weakness.” Los Angeles Times / Stephen Battaglio [Why free streaming channels could be the future of broadcast TV news →]( “The channels — NBC News Now, ABC News Live and CBS News Streaming — were launched over the last decade without much fanfare. But they have quietly built audiences, and the news divisions presidents all say their services are profitable. Each offers a mix of repeats of network TV news broadcasts and original live reporting and documentaries.” Washington Post / Naomi Nix [Facebook’s parent company is laying off 11,000 people – about 13% of its workforce – amid digital ad downturn →]( “Zuckerberg said [Meta] would refocus on such priorities as its advertising business and elevating content from viral creators over friends and family, a strategy that has made the short-form video app TikTok so popular.” the Guardian [Condé Nast is suing Drake and 21 Savage for promoting their new album with fake Vogue covers →]( “The fake Vogue cover was the first in a series of spoofs that made up the Her Loss media campaign. NPR debunked a pseudo–’Tiny Desk Concert’ shot in a room almost identical to the NPR office. Howard Stern himself took part in a Stern Show segment that did not air as part of any official episode. And Saturday Night Live and ‘A Colors Show’ were the subject of similar send-ups.” Mother Jones / Tim Murphy [To understand Kari Lake, you have to understand local TV news →]( “[Local TV news] is also, in some ways, one of the most conservative—not in a partisan way, but through the undercurrents of family and fear that course through its programming. It’s conservative in the way that NextDoor and Amazon Ring are—offering a portal into a perilous world where your kid is always at risk, and where the police scanner was for decades the ultimate assignment desk.” Columbia Journalism Review / Mercy Tonnia Orengo [The Data Liberation Project tracks the government, not the midterms →]( “Election data, to some extent, has been perhaps the most used data in journalism for a long time now,” [Jeremy] Singer-Vine said. No need to add to the pile. 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