Why researchers shouldn’t study The New York Times to understand U.S. news media as a whole

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Wednesday, June 28, 2023 [Why researchers shouldn’t study The New York Times to understand U.S. news media as a whole]( “I think the value of our paper is to tell researchers that you can use The New York Times, but you need to realize The New York Times is representative of itself.” By Denise-Marie Ordway, The Journalist's Resource. What We’re Reading Vanity Fair / Charlotte Klein [Mainstream outlets grapple with another conspiratorial candidate in Robert F. Kennedy Jr. →]( Not mentioned? CNN’s recent [tweet]( “There’s nothing junior about presidential candidate RFK Jr.’s pecs after his shirtless workout went viral.” WSJ / Patience Haggin [Report: About 80% of Google’s video-ad placements on third-party sites violated promised standards →]( “The firm [Adalytics] accused the company of placing ads in small, muted, automatically-played videos off to the side of a page’s main content, on sites that don’t meet Google’s standards for monetization, among other violations.” Bloomberg / Lucas Shaw and Gerry Smith [Live news is coming to the Max streaming service →]( “Putting news on Max in the US could be complicated. Pay-TV providers like Comcast Corp. and DirecTV typically pay for the right to offer cable channels to their subscribers and are sensitive about efforts by media companies to offer the same programming online. Warner Bros. Discovery executives are weighing different approaches to offering live CNN programming on Max in the US, including some that don’t require renegotiating deals with TV providers, one person said.” Hamilton Spectator / Josh Rubin [Toronto Star owner in talks to merge with Postmedia →]( NordStar and Postmedia said they have signed a non-binding letter of intent and many details appear to have been worked out, but they cautioned that “negotiation of this transaction is ongoing.” Press Gazette / Charlotte Tobitt [U.K.’s Reach launches its first metered paywall →]( “The Manchester Evening News has become the first Reach title to launch a paid-for premium membership offering.” the Guardian / Angelique Chrisafis [France’s flagship Sunday newspaper is on strike after a “far-right personality” named editor →]( “The paper [Le Journal du Dimanche], known as the JDD, is seen as France’s key Sunday paper, a mainstream title known for its political interviews and inside take on government policy, no matter the government in power. But the paper was not published last Sunday amid a strike by almost all staff after it was announced that the new editor-in-chief was to be Geoffroy Lejeune.” Digiday / Kayleigh Barber [U.S. publishers are tiring of testing alternatives to third-party cookies →]( “A handful of frustrated U.S. publishers are feeling the exhaustion of having to test each and every universal identifier on the market, or risk losing out on incremental ad revenue.” Bloonface [Why did the #TwitterMigration to federated social platforms like Mastodon fail? →]( “The people who accept these trade-offs are not normal, and they’re in charge.” TechCrunch / Aisha Malik [Telegram is adding Stories next month →]( “Finally a way to ensure your crypto scams disappear from the public record within 24 hours,” Platformer [noted.]( New York Times / Sapna Maheshwari [After Montana banned TikTok, users sued. Turns out TikTok is footing their bill. →]( “The strategy in Montana is similar to the one it deployed in 2020 after President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order barring TikTok from operating in the United States. At that time, too, TikTok covertly funded a lawsuit brought by creators” NextAfter / Nathan Hill [Which offer generated more emails signups, a weekly newsletter or an ebook? One local radio station ran the test. →]( North Carolina’s WUNC says it has struggled in converting web traffic into email subscribers in the past. Adweek / Mark Stenberg [The AP debuts a redesigned website in a bid for direct advertising →]( The Associated Press, which gets roughly 80% of its revenue from content licensing, is also hiring a direct sales team for the first time in its 177-year history. Podnews / James Cridland [The history of the Stitcher app →]( And two reminders from Podnews, now that one of the oldest podcast apps is closing: “Check your podcast website for Stitcher links, icons and buttons and remove them.” “If you can, consider using dynamic audio insertion to tell listeners who use Stitcher to find something else” Indiegraf / Erin Millar [Indiegraf names news startups to receive support from $3.5 million fund →]( The first recipients include publishers serving audiences in English, French and Spanish in communities across North America, including [Range Media]( in Spokane, Washington, the Spanish-language [Conecta Arizona]( and [Kansas City Defender.]( [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](