New paths to transparency without Twitter

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Wednesday, December 14, 2022 [New paths to transparency without Twitter]( “A movement to expand industry transparency cannot be led by the news organizations that perpetuate the lack of transparency.” By Alex Perry. [AI throws a lifeline to local publishers]( “That’s more time that could (and should) be spent reporting or engaging with community members.” By Joe Amditis. [Well-being will become a core tenet of journalism]( “It matters not just for individual journalists, but for news itself and for the profession’s relationships with audiences and the public at large.” By Valérie Bélair-Gagnon. [Rising costs force more digital innovation]( “Those who moved fast over the past five years will come out on top, and those who didn’t will struggle, fire staff, and disappoint customers and advertisers with clunky sites, second-grade apps, and increasingly thin newspapers they’ll still try to charge the earth for.” By Peter Bale. [Belling the cat: The rise of independent fact-checking at scale]( “For a fact-checking effort to gain trust, the arbiters of truth cannot also be its distributors.” By Kavya Sukumar. [The year AI truly arrives — and with it the reckoning]( “Journalists will become even more essential to society as AI enters the mainstream, where we will help set standards, track potential abuses, and bring our ethics and standards to the technology.” By Burt Herman. [The year of the fact-check (no, really!)]( “Individual checks are now more important than the organizations that produce them.” By Bill Adair. What We’re Reading Bloomberg / Ashley Carman [Spotify pulls the plug on live audio shows in programming cutback →]( “Streaming companies and social-media outlets once viewed live audio streaming as a potential growth area.” Nieman Reports [“We need a language that has been developed, defined, and codified by people who look like us” →]( “Right now, the word objectivity to me is a weapon, and I say, ‘Throw it out.’ I want to have a whole new word.” Santa Fe Reporter / Andrew Oxford [Gannett’s gut punch: A take from New Mexico →]( “As Gannett furloughs its journalists in New Mexico, [Santa Fe Reporter] interviewed current and former employees to put into perspective just how disastrous years of layoffs and budget cuts have been at the newspapers this corporate giant has bought, then gutted in the state — not just for reporters but for the communities they serve.” Tech Policy Press / Craig Aaron [The antitrust, pro-journalism bill that is neither →]( “The JCPA is an industry-written bill designed to protect the biggest legacy media conglomerates.” Semafor / Max Tani [Journalists are being jailed and killed in record numbers →]( “At least 57 journalists were killed while working this year, a nearly 19% increase from last year; 65 journalists are currently being held hostage, and 49 reporters are missing,” according to Reporters Without Borders. AP / John Raby [Three Charleston Gazette-Mail reporters say they were fired after criticizing their paper’s president’s interview with an ex-coal CEO →]( “Last week the newspaper posted the interview with [former Massey Energy CEO Don] Blankenship, whose former company owned the Upper Big Branch mine where a 2010 explosion killed 29 men in southern West Virginia. Blankenship was convicted in 2015 of a misdemeanor for conspiring to violate mine safety laws and was sentenced to one year in federal prison.” New York Times / Ryan Mac, Mike Isaac, and Kate Conger [Musk shakes up Twitter’s legal team as he looks to cut more costs →]( Reportedly, “Twitter has not paid rent for its San Francisco headquarters or any of its global offices for weeks…Twitter’s leaders have also discussed the consequences of denying severance payments to thousands of people who have been laid off since the takeover.” Fútbol with Grant Wahl / Céline Gounder [Grant Wahl’s wife, Céline Gounder, says he died of a burst blood vessel and that there was “nothing nefarious about his death” →]( Wahl died of an aortic aneurysm, his wife, Céline Gounder, writes in his Substack. She addressed conspiracy theories around his death: “No amount of CPR or shocks would have saved him. His death was unrelated to COVID. His death was unrelated to vaccination status. There was nothing nefarious about his death.” The Verge / Ariel Shapiro [NPR cancels its summer internship program, citing budget cuts →]( “About one-sixth of current staffers at the network started as interns, according to NPR’s internship page (which is still up).” [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](