This week's news roundup is dominated by the big Digital News Report for 2022. We dive in and talk about social media, representation, and old people getting worried about the "youths" these days.
Our sources this week:
Booksellers leader rallies for abortion rights: https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4263&share=true#m56778
Comprehensive roundup on the publishers' side from PW: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/89727-post-roe-publishers-scramble-to-meet-the-political-moment.html
"The Digital News Report for 2022," the much-anticipated annual digital journalism review from Reuters, has been released. Key takeaways from What's New in Publishing: https://whatsnewinpublishing.com/digital-news-report-2022-publisher-challenges-and-solutions/
Another article and view from WNiP: https://whatsnewinpublishing.com/burning-questions-the-2022-digital-news-report-answered-and-a-few-it-created/
And some hand-wringing about young people not doing news the old way from stalwart Nieman Lab: https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/06/the-differences-seem-to-be-growing-a-look-at-the-rising-generation-of-news-consumers
Jamilah King will be managing editor at Buzzfeed: https://twitter.com/jamilahking/status/1545061499097563136
Jennifer Kho the new executive editor at the Chicago Sun-Times: https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/2022/6/2/23152077/sun-times-jennifer-kho-executive-editor
Take a look at what we're reading on our Bookshop page: https://bookshop.org/shop/theinksink
