Canadian news media engagement is down, less news is being consumed, and many Canadians do not even realize the shift has occurred. MEO’s Information Ecosystem Brief, “Old News, New Reality: A Year of Meta’s News Ban in Canada”, looks at what happened when Meta banned news for users in Canada.
Some great stuff here from Oriol Salvador, the first in his series collecting his “thoughts after attending the 3-day Transformation Boost course at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, in New York City” earlier this month. This is well worth a read, and this is what’s jumping out at me at least initially: … Read more
I came across this by quite the circuitous route, but it’s very cool and I think exactly fits the bill of what I was looking for as a way to index—and increase discoverability of—and present audio and video content like interviews and first-person narratives—whether “oral histories” or not. OHMS is a two-piece system for, first … Read more
Subscriptions Still on the Rise at Most Newspapers in the Medill Subscriber Engagement Index Susan Chandler, Nov 21, 2022: One ray of good news during the Covid pandemic: More U.S. consumers read and subscribed to local news publications. But industry experts feared that rising tide might ebb in 2022 as people headed back to work … Read more