國際傳媒新聞：2018/05/25~2018/05/31
What’s driving the new wave of unionization sweeping digital newsrooms?
“For all of the changes in journalism since Broun’s call to arms, today’s journalists are streaming into unions for many of the same reasons as reporters in the 1930s: poor wages, long hours, skimpy benefits, and worries about layoffs.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / STEVEN GREENHOUSE / MAY 31
From social media to in-story experiences, chatbots help the BBC “do things faster and at scale”
“The royal wedding bot was added to 25 stories about the topic, which were loaded in 3 million browsers. About 20 per cent of the people who loaded the stories used it, and each person who interacted with it asked between five to seven questions.”
JOURNALISM.CO.UK / CATALINA ALBEANU / MAY 31
“The USNPL lists 7,269 news sources in the U.S. Only 2,702 of those produce ‘knowledge panels’ in Google, with the likely reason for lack of a panel being lack of a well developed Wikipedia page. Even aside from the knowledge panel problem, the lack of decent pages for local news means that students will not always be able to find any objective information. What struck me though was that this is a solvable problem. And it’s one our students can help solve.”
HAPGOOD / MIKE CAULFIELD / MAY 30
How to fact-check politics in countries with no press freedom
“Staying alive and surviving is the most important strategy in order not to risk yourselves and your organization,” Gülin Çavuş, a journalist at the Turkish fact-checking outlet Teyit, said. “It may sometimes be the best solution to postpone some of the projects and topics you desire to do, but you consider dangerous, to periods in which more democratic and freer press.”
POYNTER / DANIEL FUNKE / MAY 30
Google’s Richard Gingras on journalism in a digital age
“None of us involved in this pursuit, whether news organization or technology platform or journalist or journalist-to-be, should assume someone else will play the role of educating our societies about journalism’s purpose, of maintaining the ethics of the profession, and above all, maintaining the trust of the citizens we serve.”
MEDIUM / RICHARD GINGRAS / MAY 29
Elon Musk wants to fix media mistrust with a dopey rating system. There’s a better way.
“An ill-conceived rating system — Musk says smirkingly he would call it Pravda, Russian for ‘truth’— can never begin to touch the value of roughly 1,300 daily newspapers that are now gasping for breath. Local philanthropy and eventual nonprofit status are probably a part of the solution — if there is one.”
THE WASHINGTON POST / MARGARET SULLIVAN / MAY 29
A look at JX Press Corp., a Japanese news-breaking startup
“Tokyo-based JX Press has 24 staff with an average age of 29, two-thirds of which are engineers. The company has two main products: subscription-based breaking news service Fast Alert and a free mobile news application called NewsDigest.”
BLOOMBERG.COM / SHOKO ODA / MAY 29
The New York Times’ Showtime series shows how the journalism sausage is made
“Director Garbus effectively creates a screen within a screen for the tweets that drive the news — and frequently cuts to the CNN broadcasts of Times scoops to a broader world. Like director Alan Pakula in ‘Presidents,’ Garbus also showcases juxtapositions, beginning the first episode with newsroom reactions during Trump’s ‘American Carnage’ inauguration speech. She ends the episode with one of the strangest juxtapositions ever, Trump at the Easter Egg Hunt while reporters finish a story that settles on the most contentious word of this administration: collusion.”
POYNTER / DAVID BEARD / MAY 25
How local publisher Whereby.Us is building an email newsletter referral program
“We knew that so much of our growth was happening just by word of mouth and we wanted to find a way to systematize that process, but creating a referral program is a really big tech lift.”
LENFEST INSTITUTE / JOSEPH LICHTERMAN / MAY 25
Who is watching local TV news? New research provides some surprises
“New Knight research published today shows that the TV audience is largely 55+ years and shrinking, albeit slowly, as more Americans get their news from social media and smartphones.”
MEDIUM / KAREN RUNDLET / MAY 25
