Speculative journalism can help people think about possible future events, but comes with ethical caveats, acc. @NiemanReports

Increased merger of advocacy & journalism seen among NGOs, foundations, even artistic collectives like Kenya’s The Carrot Co with its ‘Frontline Women’ video project

Bluetooth mobile app brings news & a new journalism to media-dark villages in India

Small-effort journalism is often also small-value. Man-on-the-street stories used to be the lowest news-value format. Now it’s stories based on a half-dozen tweets. #JournalismThatMatters

Some kinds of journalism aren’t worth saving @NiemanLab @HBCompass #JournalismHappens

Understanding how Gen Y & Gen Z use news: #ItsPersonal – the 6 core needs of young news consumers

Journalists on social media used to be about personal expression; now they should be about facts & depth

Journos turn to news blogs with an email newsletter backend to get indie coverage out #journalismhappens

Newsletter companies like Substack and Revue have opened the tech-stack doors to building your own publishing system without relying on social media algorithms, and maybe even pulling in some personal subscription revenue. But they’re not perfect. Half of the journalists I interviewed for this piece use Substack, citing its ease with launch and payments; those not using it said they were either wary of how high the cut of revenue was (10 percent) or unaware that it existed (and had built their own Mailchimp/Stripe/Patreon integrations).

Read the full piece at <a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/10/from-newsroom-to-newsletter-how-local-journalists-are-diying-important-coverage-via-email/

Profit & power priorities at most newspapers negate wider interest in status as educational journalistic nonprofit

“First-generation fact-checking” is not enough without advocating for accuracy