by Tim Peterson | Feb 15, 2022 | Media, Modern Newsroom, podcasts
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Google Play | Spotify In the entertainment industry, there’s a term called “multi-hyphenate” that refers to people who may act, direct, write, produce, sing and/or perform other crafts. As an entertainment journalist at The...
by Tim Peterson | Feb 8, 2022 | Media, Modern Newsroom, podcasts
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Google Play | Spotify After the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in May 2020, many journalism outlets and journalists spent time reckoning with how the news industry could improve its coverage for Black people. Among...
by Sara Guaglione | Feb 4, 2022 | Media, Modern Newsroom
The Washington Post has folded The Lily, its free standalone vertical on gender and identity issues for millennial women. The Post’s coverage of these issues now populates a new hub on the Post’s website, and The Lily’s seven-person team has been reassigned to the...
by Sara Guaglione | Jan 31, 2022 | Media, Modern Newsroom
Alesha Williams Boyd will become the first woman of color editor-in-chief at Mashable on Jan. 31 – cracking the typically white male-dominated ranks of top editors at publications that cover tech and digital culture. Previously the senior digital director at USA Today...
by Sara Guaglione | Jan 27, 2022 | Media, Modern Newsroom
As media companies open up their offices to give employees the option to work somewhere other than home, managers are tasked with figuring out how to coordinate the comings and goings of their hybrid workforces. Publishers have turned to workplace software companies...
by Sara Guaglione | Jan 19, 2022 | Media, Modern Newsroom
For many media unions, the latest battleground is not the fight for wage increases or promotions: It’s the return to in-person work. Nearly two years since the pandemic began, media employees are still dissatisfied with their companies’ plans to bring them back to...
