The latest Atlanta Objective newsletter from George Chidi on the lack of press access to the YSL trial and exclusive court access given to AJC. He's retained counsel to challenge that.

https://theatlantaobjective.substack.com/p/kicking-in-another-door?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=256073&post_id=137517929&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=wdt2&utm_medium=email

If you didn't already know Chidi, he is on the list of those who will be called to testify in the Fulton County cases against DJT and coconspirators

Here's a referral link for subscribing (free or paid levels): https://theatlantaobjective.substack.com/?r=wdt2&utm_campaign=referrals-subscribe-page-share-screen&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct

#ATL #Atlanta #YSL #Journodon

Kicking In Another Door

The YSL trial bars everyone but the AJC from being in the room where it happens. I'm lawyering up.

The Atlanta Objective with George Chidi

Stunned that this isn't getting more attention in the local press, but I guess we do have a lot going down in the ATL at the moment

https://thegavoice.com/news/atlanta/atlanta-magazine-staff-quits-amidst-crackdown-on-progressive-coverage/

#Atlanta #ATL #Journalism #Journodon #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #LGBTQIAPlus

EDIT: This is getting bigbig for what I usually see on here, so I'm adding a thread below of ATL media to throw your support behind.

Atlanta Magazine Staff Quits Amidst Crackdown on “Progressive” Coverage

News, events, features, entertainment, interviews, Pride, nightlife, organizations, families, marriage

Georgia Voice - Gay & LGBT Atlanta News
Update on the Generic Visuals in the News Project: what we did in the UK this summer (Pt. 2) https://genericvisuals.leeds.ac.uk/generic-visuals-in-the-news-public-engagement-activities-part-2/ #journodon #commodon #journalism
Generic Visuals in the News Public Engagement Activities: Part 2 | Generic Visuals in the News: The Role of Stock Photos and Simple Data Visualizations in Assembling Publics

Update on the Generic Visuals in the New Project: what we did in the UK this summer (Pt. 1) https://genericvisuals.leeds.ac.uk/generic-visuals-in-the-news-public-engagement-activities-part-1/ #journodon #commodon #journalism
Generic Visuals in the News Public Engagement Activities: Part 1 | Generic Visuals in the News: The Role of Stock Photos and Simple Data Visualizations in Assembling Publics

@billard “journalism in the post platform era” is the next decade of work I think. *

*complete with all the usual meta discourse about whether it really IS the post platform era ;-)

#journodon #commodon

Un #FollowFriday periodístico:

Ethical Journalism Network: @ethicaljournalismnetwork
Knight First Amendment Inst.: @knightcolumbia
Nieman Journalism Lab: @niemanlab
On the Media: @onthemedia
POLITICO: @politico
ProPublica: @ProPublica
Reuters Institute: @reutersinstitute
The Markup: @themarkup

#FF #Follow #befound #Journalism #Journodon #Commodon
@communicationscholars

I got a chance to talk about my book with Barbie Zelizer and Pablo Boczkowski, "The Journalism Manifesto," with the good folks at the Media Diversity Institute podcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=LMLeOC-pUeQ

The book is here:

https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Journalism+Manifesto-p-9781509542659

#journalism #journodon

Radical Reform of the Media

YouTube

Objectivity is process, not people.

That’s it, that’s the toot.

#journodon #journalism #commodon

One of the most journalistically interesting aspects of the post-Trump era is to see the sharp and growing divergence between the NYT and WaPo digital “front pages.”

Between 2016 and 2021 you could bet it was the same a substantial amount of the time. #journalism #journodon

On #negativity: the clickbait headline 😉 version of this new study by Claire Robertson et al that just dropped in Nature Human Behaviour is:

"Each additional negative word increased the click-through rate by 2.3%

#commodon #journodon #journalism #news

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4

Negativity drives online news consumption - Nature Human Behaviour

Examining real-world data that tested different headlines for the same news story on real news readers, Robertson et al. find that people are more likely to click on a headline when it contains negative words compared to positive words.

Nature