A different kind of “both sides”: The L.A. Times’ new section De Los aims to draw Latino readers without the paywall

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Monday, July 10, 2023 [A different kind of “both sides”: The L.A. Times’ new section De Los aims to draw Latino readers without the paywall]( “There is no future for the L.A. Times without Latino subscribers, because that’s who lives here.” By Hanaa' Tameez. What We’re Reading American Crisis / Margaret Sullivan [Margaret Sullivan: “Enough already, mainstream journalists, with adopting right-wing framing!” →]( “There is the straight-up propaganda you see in the right-wing media, with the worst offender being Fox News…More insidious is the way the mainstream press (often accused of leaning left) happily adopts the language and framing of the right. Though they’d never admit it, they do this in order to ward off charges, from the right, of being unfair. The result: what I call performative neutrality, which does a subtler form of damage.” Press Gazette / Luba Kassova [60% of visits to major news sites are by men →]( Among the most male-skewed: Fox News (70% male), Politico (67%), and Bloomberg (65%). Of the 48 large news sites studied, only 4 had more visits from women than men: People (56% female), BuzzFeed (57%), Hello! (59%), and Cosmo (61%). The Verge / Jay Peters [Instagram’s Threads signed up 100 million users in less than five days →]( “Threads proved to be an early hit almost immediately. In the first two hours, it hit 2 million users and steadily climbed from there to 5 million, 10 million, 30 million, and then 70 million. The launch has been ‘way beyond our expectations,’ CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday.” The Verge / Wes Davis [Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement →]( “The suits alleges, among other things, that OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s LLaMA were trained on illegally-acquired datasets containing their works, which they say were acquired from ‘shadow library’ websites like Bibliotik, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and others, noting the books are ‘available in bulk via torrent systems.'” Press Gazette / Charlotte Tobitt [75% of the FT’s paying readers come through corporate and group deals →]( “Currently FT Enterprise sees almost 8,000 businesses, government and education institutions in 120 countries pay for their teams to have a group subscription providing full access to FT journalism alongside some exclusive tools…its revenue has grown at an average of more than 10% each year since 2018, according to the company.” The Wall Street Journal / Alexandra Bruell [He pushed The New York Times to buy Wordle. Now he has to make sports work. →]( “Despite the job cuts, the Athletic plans to increase head count as well as invest more in coverage areas with broad appeal, such as the National Football League and the English Premier League, according to Perpich and a recent company memo. Perpich also faces a possible organizing effort inside the roughly 400-person Athletic newsroom. He says he won’t oppose a union.” The Guardian / ZAM Magazine [The web of corruption, lies, and revenge behind the killing of Cameroonian journalist Martinez Zogo →]( “According to Amplitude FM’s editor-in-chief, Charlie Tchouémou, who identified the body, Zogo’s body had a broken right foot, multiple severed fingers and a twisted tongue. Cameroonian police arrested the alleged mastermind of the killing: the Gucci-suited media tycoon Jean-Pierre Amougou Belinga, owner of the television channel Vision4 TV and the newspaper L’Anecdote.” The New York Times / Chris Cameron [BBC suspends male staff member after report of payments for sexual images →]( “On social media over the weekend, prominent BBC presenters denied they were the subject of the accusations in The Sun’s report.” The Verge / Masha Borak [Telegram has become a window into war →]( “But despite its unique historical role, the platform, founded by Pavel Durov, presents a challenge. Its founder’s emphasis on privacy and hands-off moderation has protected its users from surveillance but has also allowed Telegram to become a tool of misinformation and manipulation — with users struggling to decipher the reality in the flood of information coming from their phones.” Canadian Press [Canada’s Online News Act is a “moment of reckoning” for publishers →]( “Some users, including CBC News editor in chief Brodie Fenlon, have said they’ve already seen posts from Canadian news brands disappear from Meta’s Instagram and Facebook platforms, potentially narrowing the company’s reach.” The Washington Post / Pranshu Verma [How an AI-written Star Wars story created chaos at Gizmodo →]( “In a Slack message reviewed by The Post, [editorial director Merrill] Brown told disgruntled employees Thursday that the company is ‘eager to thoughtfully gather and act on feedback’…The note drew 16 thumbs down emoji, 11 wastebasket emoji, six clown emoji, two face palm emoji, and two poop emoji, according to screenshots of the Slack conversation.” Press Gazette / Charlotte Tobitt [A European court has extended the “right to be forgotten” from search engines to news sites →]( The court “ruled in favor of a driver who had wanted to be anonymized in reporting of a deadly car crash for which he was responsible. The original article was written in 1994 but went online in 2008 when Le Soir created an online version of its archives dating back to 1989. The driver, a doctor, first wrote to the newspaper’s owner asking for the article to be removed, or for him to at least be made anonymous, in 2010 — but his request was refused.” The New York Times / Jeremy W. Peters and Alan Feuer [The case that could be Fox’s next Dominion →]( “If Mr. Epps moves forward, the case would be another legal complication and reputational stain for the conservative network, which faces a growing list of lawsuits related to its airing of false claims about the 2020 election and its aftermath. They include a $2.7 billion suit from a second voting technology company, Smartmatic, and two separate claims by Fox Corporation shareholders.” Reuters [Syria cancels the accreditations of two BBC journalists →]( “The accreditations of an unidentified correspondent and a camera operator had been revoked following ‘subjective and false information and reports’ on Syria, the ministry said on its website on Saturday. It described other BBC reports as ‘politicised.'” Press Gazette / Charlotte Tobitt [The Times of London has been publishing inaccurate stock price data for “a number of years” →]( “It was extremely regrettable.” [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](