Melissa Wall

Good Local News Panel: 4 outlets blooming in a hostile environment · The Media and Democracy Project Despite the serious headwinds that the local news business is facing, there are many excellent state and local news outlets. **This panel will highlight four exceptional news organizations** that ar...

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Good report!

Does your AI understand what the use of “but” implies here?

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Opinion: Confronting the collapse of local news in Pennsylvania Opinion: It’s time we acknowledge a hard truth: Trustworthy journalism doesn’t come free.

“In an era when information is abundant but trust is elusive, the collapse of local journalism poses a profound threat to our democracy. Across the United States, communities are grappling with the disappearance of news sources that once held power to account and kept residents informed”

Several strands of my work connect - research on refugee comms; participatory media / activist comms. Also I co- created a journalistic/media literacy art project - ICTA, Institute of Conspiracy Theory Analysis - inspired by 1940s project addressing the crisis of propaganda.

Another locally owned newspaper sold to Alden Global Capital. I’m working on a bill in the California legislature, AB 611, that would require 120 days warning before an independent newsroom gets acquired by a chain: leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNa...

This Disaster Media course content is so good! Thanks for sharing

Awesome project to preserve research

Your panel was so good!

Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died The academic and activist inspired generations of people to challenge corporate power and support a media reform movement that lives on.

The great champion of independent, speak-truth-to-power journalism, and of the democracy that can only survive if the press is free, Robert W. McChesney, has died at age 72. He fought the media oligarchs and the politicians who served them — and often won.

Now, we must carry the fight forward.

Media Matters compiled a list of 418 popular online shows — podcasts, streams, and other long-form audio and video content regularly posted online — that were active during 2024, assessed ideological alignment, and found 320 online shows with an ideological bent (191 right-leaning and 129 left-leaning) that covered news and politics and/or hosted related guests. Nine of the 10 online shows from our study with the largest total following across platforms were right-leaning, accounting for at least 197 million total followers and subscribers. These are the online shows of: Joe Rogan: 39.9 million Ben Shapiro: 25 million Jordan Peterson: 23 million Russell Brand: 22.5 million Theo Von: 22.3 million Charlie Kirk: 18.6 million Nelk Boys’ Full Send Podcast: 16.7 million Candace Owens: 15 million Dr. Phil: 14.2 million

Across streaming platforms including YouTube, Rumble, Twitch, Kick, and Spotify, the left-leaning online shows had at least 55.9 million total followers and subscribers — a figure which is dwarfed by the right-leaning online shows with at least 255.5 million. This content is further amplified on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok — social media platforms where the programs or hosts post full streams, clips, and show links. Left-leaning online shows had at least 48 million followers across these platforms, while the right-leaning online shows had more than 225 million followers. Of a cumulative 584.6 million followers and subscribers across all eight platforms, Media Matters found that right-leaning online shows accounted for roughly 82%, or 480.6 million — almost five times more than left-leaning shows’ nearly 104 million.

Something that's been clear to me for some time is that a lot of progressive advocacy and politics has overindexed on finding just the right combination of words to say while ignoring the fact that no media ecosystem exists where people might actually hear you say them. New from @mmfa.bsky.social

Other countries are fully targeting US academics with social media ads now, basically of the form "we still have inclusive liberal democracy and academic freedom here"

Congratulations to Pop Up team!

That was close

Great local reporting in Yucca Valley.

Great paper presentation by @melissawall.bsky.social from Cal State Northridge on #AI news anchors. A relevant topic for our modern, chaotic age. #swpaca25

Thanks for your perceptive questions and comments!

Resign

Thank you!

The Lutherans are now are greatest threat?

Like his mother in law?

Easier to grift another book contract and another Max show off a simplistic narrative.

Great thread, great reporting

Every serious news show should be interviewing @pyrogeog.bsky.social right now

Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.

I’d rather hear what concrete steps tenured faculty took to protect democracy in 2024. Rarely does writing a journal article/conference paper do this.

Foreign aid often goes to US companies that supply goods and services to other countries. So the real economic impact will be cuts to here.

All I want for Christmas is for a nonprofit to buy the @latimes.com