國際傳媒新聞：2018/06/22~06/28
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory points to a media failure that keeps repeating
“‘Kind of pisses me off that @nytimes is still asking Who Is Ocasio-Cortez? when it should have covered her campaign,’ Abramson tweeted. The Times had included her in stories during the campaign but had not devoted a profile to her; in addition, its editorial board took Crowley to task for sending a Latina surrogate to debate Ocasio-Cortez.”
WASHINGTON POST / MARGARET SULLIVAN / JUN 28
Behind the scenes of a murder investigation that mobilized 230 journalists
“One project within Monitor da Violência tracked all murders that occurred in Brazil over the course of one week. The massive investigation took place between 21–27 August 2017 and involved 230 journalists from 55 affiliated newsrooms all over the country. They discovered that that there was one murder every eight minutes. This amounts to a staggering total of 1,195 deaths in one week, painting a gloomy picture of a country where a man can be murdered for a debt of $20, domestic disputes can escalate into violent killings, and data surrounding police killings is hard to find.”
GLOBAL EDITORS NETWORK / FREIA NAHSER / JUN 28
Women in public-facing journalism jobs are exhausted by harassment
“Men get attacked for their opinions, and women get attacked because they have opinions.”
POYNTER / RACHEL SCHALLOM / JUN 28
Please stop saying “Spotify for news” is going to get people to pay for news
“A music streaming service, a daily metropolitan paper, and a specialized weekly email newsletter could all charge $10 to $15 a month for content access, but they’re ultimately fostering vastly different customer relationships — and their supporters have different motivations for paying. To conflate the value of these products in users’ lives is sloppy thinking.”
MEMBERSHIP PUZZLE PROJECT / CHERIE HU / JUN 28
Life after Tronc: Norman Pearlstine’s plans for the L.A. Times
“Throughout the interview Pearlstine spoke with the guarded curiosity of a reporter who has just begun digging into what promises to be a really good story. He won’t overpromise, but doesn’t believe he’ll under-deliver—the goods are there. Pearlstine is in an exploratory phase and faces formidable challenges such as restaffing a Washington bureau that many veteran journalists fled under threat of closure from previous owners, in a time when covering the president presents unprecedented challenges.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER / JUN 28
Progressive media saw the socialist upset in the Democratic party coming
Primary winner “Ocasio-Cortez herself gave some credit to the site, telling The Washington Post (which was also ahead of the curve about her candidacy) that an early Intercept story about her was a ‘game-changer.’ For the most part, the race was covered by local media, like NY1, Politico New York and the Village Voice. It wasn’t on the radar of many national outlets.”
CNN MONEY / BRIAN STELTER / JUN 27
“In interviews, executives conceded that determining the origin and motivation of many page operators is too great an effort for a private company to manage. Instead, the focus is on limiting the reach of serial offenders, punishing behaviors without often being able to get to the source. The brunt of Facebook’s news vetting in Mexico falls to a small group of third-party fact-checkers, whose job is to play whack-a-mole — debunking one story at a time, with each taking several days to disprove.”
WASHINGTON POST / ELIZABETH DWOSKIN / JUN 27
Politics pushes Central American voices out of child separation coverage
“I watch the news and I don’t see any of the people who’ve been writing on these issues for decades,” says Leisy Abrego, an Associate Professor in Chicana/o Studies at UCLA and author of two books on child refugees, including the award-winning Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders. “It’s like those women and children don’t have their own stories, their own particular communities with very particular realities —and like there aren’t those of us who’ve been committed to understanding this for a long time.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / ROBERTO LOVATO / JUN 27
“The new publication, The Virginia Mercury, will not depend on ad or subscriber revenue. Instead, it will use a nonprofit model. Fiscal sponsorship organization the New Venture Fund is pooling donations from numerous sources, in state and out of state. The organization will also be funding a group of sites similar to the Virginia Mercury, countrywide. Some will be brand-new projects and some will be a revamp of pre-existing papers, like the Colorado Independent.”
STYLE WEEKLY / PAUL SPENCER / JUN 27
CNN International creates consulting unit after a branded content studio
“It’s imperative we continue to evolve the [business] model like this,” said Rob Bradley, vp of digital commercial strategy and revenue at CNN International Commercial. “We can’t just be media companies anymore.”
DIGIDAY / JESSICA DAVIES / JUN 27
Charlotte Agenda has a mighty business model. How’s the journalism?
“The infrequent newsletter Charlotte Rebuttal devotes pages to criticizing the site. Twitter account @AgendaFive mocks the startup’s articles with parody headlines and lambasts the perceived cozy relationship between the site’s writers and the businesses they cover. Some of the city’s legacy-media journalists believe Charlotte Agenda’s approach fails to treat readers with intellectual respect. Others notice the page view stats that accompany every article and see the startup as part of a clickbait culture that relies on popularity to determine a story’s value.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / ALLISON BRADEN / JUN 26
Tim Cook on why Apple News needs human editors: “News was kind of going a little crazy”
“For Apple News, we felt top stories should be selected by humans, to make sure you’re not picking content that strictly has the goal of enraging people.”
THE WRAP / SEAN BURCH / JUN 26
Rapidly expanding fact-checking movement faces growing pains
“Fact-checkers are no longer the fresh-faced journalistic reform movement pushed forward by the tail winds of positive expectations. We are wrinkly arbiters of a take-no-prisoners war for the future of the internet. And yet I think that in too many ways we still behave like in those early days when we were an experiment — when our good qualities were refreshing and our bad ones part of the learning curve.”
WASHINGTON POST / GLENN KESSLER / JUN 26
Start-up Truepic lets users verify a photo, and fights AI deep-fakes
Truepic verifies the image hasn’t been altered already, and watermarks it with a time stamp, geocode, URL and other metadata. It just raised $8 million to go a step further, and identify fake videos or photos generated by AI.
TECHCRUNCH / JOSH CONSTINE / JUN 26
The BBC’s Shared Data Unit offers public datasets to over 700 regional media outlets
Many regional journalists, as well as their audiences, struggle to interpret national-level data and understand what stories can come from it. The Shared Data Unit provides a toolkit for journalists on topics such as crime, teaching, transports, or housing, that includes clean data and a guide on how to interpret it. The data is then shared with regional partners so they can tell a story to their specific audiences. The initiative has generated more than 300 stories, according to the BBC.
JOURNALISM.CO.UK / MARCELA KUNOVA / JUN 25
This small California publication provides a blueprint for how local buyers can save a newspaper
“Another important step was the decision to form as a California benefit corporation. The five board members understood from day one that the Coastside News Group Inc., the entity that now owns the Half Moon Bay Review, exists not only to seek profit but also to benefit the community. It’s an important signal to investors and to readers. Our enterprise is owned by neighbors who are committed to improving this special place.”
POYNTER / CLAY LAMBERT / JUN 25
“If journalists are making an assessment about which of their peers is worth paying attention to on Twitter, this huge gender asymmetry in aggregate followers may well have a disproportionate impact in the perceived legitimacy of their peers.”
VOX / LAURA MCGANN / JUN 22
What happens when China’s state-run media embraces AI?
“It’s mostly about improving propaganda,” says Sarah Cook, East Asia analyst at Freedom House, a civil liberties advocacy group, of the agency’s AI initiative. “If they’re able to reach more people with more convincing propaganda then that affects how people view the world, how people view China.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / KELSEY ABLES / JUN 22
Want to create your own Public Newsroom? Here’s why you should — and how to do it
“During the past year and a half, we’ve hosted nearly 70 Public Newsroom workshops featuring incredible local artists, organizers and journalists as hosts and more than 1,200 wonderfully inquisitive attendees. Every Thursday night we at City Bureau are reminded just how hungry folks are for an open, brave space to learn and exchange ideas about the city where they live.”
CITY BUREAU / ANDREA FAYE HART / JUN 22
“Schrag could not easily free up already-strapped reporters from his newsrooms to dedicate to the project, nor did he have the time and know-how to approach potential funders and ask them to finance a freelance reporter and a half for about a year.”
CENTER FOR COOPERATIVE MEDIA / TARA GEORGE / JUN 22
American media, please stop falling for Russian trolls
“Journalists helped propel the account’s remarkable growth, which continued even after Twitter and Facebook vowed to crack down on troll accounts. CNN found more than two dozen instances in which tweets from @wokeluisa appeared in news stories published by the BBC, USA Today, Time, Wired, HuffPo, BET, and others. In August 2016, CNN embedded a tweet from ‘Jenna Abrams,’ an account that Twitter later said had been run by the Internet Research Agency.”
CNN / DONIE O’SULLIVAN / JUN 22
