John Oliver summed it up succinctly on Sunday night’s episode of Last Week Tonight, “the media is a food chain which would fall apart without local newspapers.” We’ll talk about Oliver’s harsh words for the content creators and why so many reporters and editors are cheering him on.
Kristen Hare, Poynter: “John Oliver: ‘The media is a food chain which would fall apart without local newspapers’”
Inae Oh, Mother Jones: “John Oliver takes on the bleak future of journalism”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq2_wSsDwkQ
J.D. Durkin, Mediaite: “Oliver laments state of print journalism, reimagines Spotlight in a digital-clickbait world”
Adam Gabbatt, The Guardian: “John Oliver examines journalism’s many problems: the blame is on us”
David Chavern, Newspaper Association of America: “Newspaper Association of America president & CEO David Chavern to John Oliver: “Newspapers need solutions, not petty insults and stating the obvious”
Rick Edmonds, Poynter: “I was interviewed by ‘Last Week Tonight.’ Here’s why the show is journalism”
Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post: “How not to respond to John Oliver’s ode to local newspapers”
Covering the Games
Peter Kafka, Recode: “The Washington Post will use robots to write stories about the Rio Olympics”
Dylan Byers, CNN Money: “New York Times launches text-message journalism for Rio Olympics”
Jason Abbruzzese, Mashable: “No GIFs of the Olympics, says Olympics committee”
Rob Price, Business Insider: “IOC announces ban on animated GIFs, livestreaming from Rio Olympics”
David Bauder, Associated Press: “NBC gears up for Olympics with extensive coverage plan”
Jason Lynch, Adweek: “$1.2 billion and counting: How NBCUniversal secured its biggest Olympics advertising windfall ever”
Lee Moran, Huffington Post: “The media is saying and doing a bunch of sexist stuff during the Olympics”
Sally Jenkins, Washington Post: “By ‘packaging’ the Olympics, NBC insults viewers, and the athletes themselves”
Edumund Lee, Recode: “There’s too much Olympics online, which is why TV programming is still a good idea”
Joseph Lichterman, Nieman Journalism Lab: “These are some of the coolest experiments in digital news covering the 2016 Rio Olympics”
USA Gymnastics sex abuse allegations
Marisa Kwiatkowski, Mark Alesia & Tim Evans, Indy Star: “Out of balance: How USA Gymnastics protected coaches over kids”
Mark Alesia, Indy Star: “Out of balance: Why coaches’ hugs make Becca Seaborn cringe”
Indy Star: “Out of balance: About Indy Star’s investigation”
Trump, Clinton & the Second Amendment
Josh Lederman, Associated Press: "Trump, on defense, blames media for Second Amendment flap"
Dan Rather, Facebook: "Not to be object-and-fair-journalist..."
Jim Rutenberg, New York Times: "Trump is testing the norms of objectivity in journalism"
David Mindich, Columbia Journalism Review: "For journalists covering Trump, a Murrow moment"
Clinton at NABJ/NAHJ
James Warren, Poynter: “Journalists grill Hillary Clinton at NABJ/NAHJ conference”
Michael Calderone, Huffington Post: “Hillary Clinton held her first press conference of 2016”
Hadas Gold, POLITICO: “Hillary Clinton praises the media and Jorge Ramos in speech to journalists”
David Folkenflik, NPR: “Why doesn’t Hillary Clinton have more press conferences?”
Fox News After Ailes
Gabriel Sherman, New York Magazine: “Ailesused Fox budget to finance campaign against enemies”
Brian Stelter, CNN Money: “Fox News voice not changing despite Ailes’ departure, but questions linger”
Cristina Lopez, Media Matters for America: “Rupert Murdoch (Who is supporting Trump) helps launch new Immigration Reform Initiative”
Bloomberg News: “Fox vows to preserve the ‘unique’ – and profitable – voice of Fox News amid turmoil”
Katherine Krueger, Talking Points Memo: “NYT: Investigators probing if Fox News execs enabled Ailes’ alleged harassment”
Jim Rutenberg & Ben Protess, New York Times: “Fox News sexual assault inquiry is said to look at what others knew”
Ken Doctor, POLITICO: “Trump, Murdoch, Ailes: A trifecta of woe, by the numbers”
Media Matters staff, Media Matters of America: “CNN’s Brian Stelter: Fox News sent a staffer to date me and spy on me ten years ago”
Sarah Ellison, Vanity Fair: “Exclusive: Inside the Fox News Bunker”
Falsehoods about flossing?
Jeff Donn, Associated Press: “Medical benefits of dental floss unproven”
NBC News: “New report suggests there is little evidence that flossing works”
Catherine Saint Louis, New York Times: “Feeling guilty about not flossing? Maybe there’s no need”
Kristen Hare, Poynter: “How an AP reporter took down flossing”
#FirstSevenJobs
Sonali Prasad, Poynter: “What were your #FirstSevenJobs before breaking into journalism”
