Media Bits and Bytes – November 14, 2023
Portside
Workers’ rights vs owners’ tech
Workers’ rights vs owners’ tech
Workers’ rights vs owners’ tech
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Pittsburgh Union Progress: Interning at a Strike Newspaper Taught Me About Labor Rights and Journalism
Teen Vogue
In this op-ed, an intern for the Pittsburgh Union Progress talks about her experience at a strike paper.
Media Bits and Bytes – August 23, 2022
Portside
How the Internet's next evolution is shaping the film industry
Media Bits and Bytes – April 19, 2022
Portside
Tsunami of disinfo, Musk on the prowl, and other media moments
Media Bits and Bytes - April 6, 2021
Portside
News and analysis from the media merry-go-round
The Enduring Lessons of a New Deal Writers Project
Columbia Journalism Review
The goal of a new Federal Writers Project would be economic and cultural, putting writers to work capturing stories of the pandemic and this broader moment, while also serving as an archive for the existing work of local newspapers and non-profits.
labor
TNG-CWA's Jon Schleuss: Covid-19 is an "Extinction Level Event" If We Don't Save the News
Strikewave
Newspaper layoffs are going to get worse, it’s going to be hard, but I’m extremely motivated by our membership because they’re rising up in all these amazing ways to fight back against concessions and fight back against racist editorial decisions.
books
Can Journalism Be Saved?
The New York Review of Books
The evolution (or devolution) of journalism from reporting of facts through investigatory exposes to today's spread of Internet chatter.
Media Bits and Bytes - February 11, 2020
Portside
Censorship, disinformation, hysteria and more
In Re-Run Election: LA Times Journalist Wins Presidency of NewsGuild
CounterPunch
In Schleuss’s view, there is no substitute for “members standing up in the newsroom, arm in arm,” as LA Times staffers did during their three-year struggle for union representation and a first contract covering 475 workers
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