“Make climate impact part of all beats”: Tips from the Sustainable Journalism Partnership for better climate reporting

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Tuesday, October 17, 2023 [“Make climate impact part of all beats”: Tips from the Sustainable Journalism Partnership for better climate reporting]( “Good journalism is about doing compelling stories, and we seem to have forgotten that when it comes to climate journalism.” By Hanaa' Tameez. What We’re Reading TechCrunch / Amanda Silberling [Trust & Safety Tycoon lets you simulate the most agonizing job in tech →]( “By the time you finish the game, you’re given the option to keep working at Yapper, start your own company, consult for the government, or go into an early retirement.” The Washington Post / Laura Wagner [It’s becoming impossible to report from Gaza →]( “While major U.S. networks scrambled to ship star TV anchors to the relative safety of Israel, journalists within the 140-square-mile Gaza Strip are contending with a massive bombing campaign, electrical and internet outages, food and water shortages, and the psychological burden of reporting on the unfolding humanitarian crisis while living it themselves.” TechCrunch / Sarah Perez [Instagram head says Threads’ blocking of “covid” and related terms is temporary, to lift in “weeks or months” →]( “It’s an extreme step to take to actually create a blocklist of terms that, when searched, provide no results, as it limits conversations, debate, and news-sharing. It also means Threads won’t have the feel of a fast-moving news network, like X, where discussions happen in real-time and almost nothing is off-limits.” Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop [The toll on the press so far in Israel, Gaza, and Lebanon →]( “All wars are dangerous to cover. But the Committee to Protect Journalists said that last week was the deadliest it has ever recorded for journalists covering Israel and Palestine. The day of the Hamas attack alone, at least eleven members of the media were either killed, wounded, or detained, or disappeared, according to CPJ’s figures.” Platformer / Zoë Schiffer [How one former Twitter employee could beat Elon Musk in court →]( “The complaint represents one of the first legal wins to date for former Tweeps, who have collectively filed 2,000 arbitration claims against the company since Musk took it over nearly a year ago. While Yue’s case won’t go to trial until January, the complaint suggests that Musk at times acted illegally during his purge of three-quarters of Twitter’s workforce in the months after buying the company.” Futurism / Noor Al-Sibai [OpenAI just replaced its “core values” with completely different ones →]( “Sure, it’s all corporate blather. But you can’t help but wonder: if you can replace all your core values at the drop of a hat, were they really core values to begin with?” The Present Age / Parker Molloy [What Major League Baseball can teach us about access journalism →]( “Using the fear of revoked access or fear of employer retaliation to keep journalists in line can lead aspiring reporters to self-censor. Eventually, the people who have elevated positions in these industries are often the ones who feel less of a moral or ethical obligation to offend the people and organizations they cover.” MIT Technology Review / Katie Notopoulos [How to fix the internet →]( “We, the internet users, also need to learn to recalibrate our expectations and our behavior online. We need to learn to appreciate areas of the internet that are small, like a new Mastodon server or Discord or blog.” International News Media Association / Jocelin Abbey [Guardian Australia used outdoor billboards and train station video screens to promote live headlines →]( “The daily nature of these live headlines were designed to encourage audiences to use our news services on a more regular basis, stimulating brand loyalty and attentiveness.” The Verge / Nilay Patel [The New York Times files a motion to open up the Google antitrust trial →]( “Full disclosure: I’ve asked our legal team to sign The Verge and Vox Media on to any further motions of this kind since covering this trial has basically sucked. You can think whatever you want of Google or the DOJ, but it’s pretty universal that holding a trial of this magnitude behind closed doors means Judge Mehta is asking us to trust him just a little too much.” Columbia Journalism Review / Danny Funt [Digital media goes back to basics with email and (yup!) voicemail →]( “Meanwhile, the voicemails have proved stunningly effective. ‘I’m almost in tears listening to your recording, Meg,’ a listener replied … She has begun releasing a subscriber’s voicemail, along with a personal reply, every other week. It could probably be a standalone business, she said, ‘except that’s not currently what my work is.'” [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](