The eyes of the country will be on Kenosha on Tuesday when President Trump pays a visit to the city that’s served as the most recent focus of national debates on race, policing, and vigilante justice.
If you missed this week’s conversation “Newsrooms and the Black Experience” hosted by RTDNA, you can now watch a recording.
The conversation features:
You can watch the video here.
Many of you are undoubtedly covering the huge national news story unfolding in Kenosha this week.
Poynter is providing this resource to help journalists keep up with the fast-moving story and sort out truth from fiction.
Stay safe and keep up this important work.
Poynter is offering a FREE one=hour webinar on how to cover political spending on Facebook during the 2020 campaign. Here’s more information:
The is a new digital tool created by cybersecurity engineers at New York University that allows journalists to view political spending on Facebook aggregated for their local areas and campaigns. The tool compiles spending by candidates, campaigns, political action committees and dark money groups. This training will offer an introduction to the Ad Observatory followed by a deep dive into how the tool can be used to spot trends and connections in the 2020 elections.
This training is designed for journalists who work in any medium — print, digital, broadcast or multimedia — covering the 2020 elections and campaign spending. When you’re done, you will have a working understanding of a new tool to find Facebook political advertising, and you will have a renewed understanding of campaign spending basics.
The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri is holding a panel discussion about misinformation and disinformation during the election season that you can watch for FREE. Check out the details here:
Jeff Kao, computational journalist at ProPublica, Aimee RInehart, Deputy Director of First Draft News and Jane Elizabeth, Managing Editor of The News & Observer, will discuss misinformation and disinformation in preparation for the election season. The differences, how to battle them, how to respond when others are spreading them – we will discuss these points and answer questions from atttendees.
Aug. 28 at 11 a.m. CT.
There’s no doubt that journalists are working under extraordinary stress right now, but RTDNA is offering some ideas for self care to work into your daily routines.
This article offers ideas for when you’re exhausted, anxious, angry, and feeling in a creative rut.
It also offers idea for unwinding after work and at the end of each day. Stay healthy! We need you!
The news-filled year that is 2020 has prompted awards programs to add special categories so newsrooms can highlight the work they did in an extraordinary year.
The Society of Professional Journalists is adding new categories on COVID-19, inequalities in society, and video game coverage. Read about that here.
The WBA Awards Committee is also adding some special categories for the 2020 awards contest. Those will be released in the coming week. Submissions will open on Dec. 1!
Poynter is writing this week about how the general election “has all the ingredients to become a river of disinformation.”
“The press needs to publish work capable of putting these conspiracy theories to test. Journalists must also produce explainers, detailing how the electoral process works and how the voting system can be audited.”
Ever since the advent of digital advertising, there’s been a focus on making the ads more efficient through targeting. The hope, of course, was to make them more valuable.
Well, a Dutch broadcaster recently decided to conduct an experiment in which it did away with all targeted ads. Conventional wisdom would tell you that this would hurt revenue.
Revenues went way up.
You can read more about it here.
RTDNA is hosting the following FREE webinar giving Black newsrooms leaders talk about their experiences in broadcast journalism. Don’t miss this!
We often say that journalism “gives voice to the voiceless,” when what it really does – or can do – is remind us to listen to voices we’ve ignored.
When communities are underrepresented in our coverage, they’re more likely to be marginalized or stereotyped. The same holds true in our newsrooms. RTDNA surveys show BIPOC are underrepresented in newsrooms and particularly in management roles. As our nation is reckoning with race, equity and inclusion, our newsrooms must too, and it starts with listening deeply.
Join us on Thursday, Aug. 27 at 1 p.m. CT for a Town Hall, where we’re talking to Black newsroom leaders who have spoken up about their experiences over the last weeks and months and inviting all local newsrooms to listen and learn, and take the lessons back to continue these conversations in your newsrooms.
Register to attend live. Free and open to all. A video recording will be posted publicly following the event.
Conversation Leaders:
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