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Right to Privacy and High-Profile Accusations
The Guardian explores why the British Broadcasting Corporation and the British media are not naming a “male BBC presenter who allegedly spent £35,000 on explicit photographs from a young person, despite widespread speculation about their identity on social media and messaging apps.”
The paper notes in “a series of rulings over the past decade, judges have made clear they increasingly prioritise the rights of an individual over the media’s right to report intrusive details.”
The accusations require better sourcing, and media outlets must be absolutely sure of who is accused, before tying an individual to the accusation.
“Wesley Lowery talks journalism education, objectivity, and learning by doing”
“The Athletic finally shut down a newspaper’s sports desk — just not the one people expected”
This is an amazing online headline.
The NiemanLab story about the New York Times closing down its sports desk in favour of using The Athletic (a company it purchased in January 2022) includes valuable insight into the New York Times focus upon its ‘bungle strategy’
Here’s Josh Benton:
“Indeed, The Bundle may soon be the only way to get access to the journalism of The New York Times. Today, I went to the Times’ main subscription page in an incognito browser window (so without any of my cookies or registration data). For years, there have been two main offerings on this page: a basic, just-the-news subscription and the All-Access bundle. But today, the only offer was for All-Access. I honestly could not figure out how to buy a New York Times news subscription without Games, Cooking, et al.”
The New York Times employees a bunch of PhDs and MBAs who think deeply and plan for the future of news. The Bundle as a strategy will spread.
Think Substack and all the discussion about bundling as part of its future.