國際傳媒新聞：2018/08/03~2018/08/09
Aftenposten customizes print news for next generation
“In five years, Aftenposten Junior has become Norway’s ninth-largest newspaper, and circulation numbers are still growing steadily.”
INTERNATIONAL NEWS MEDIA ASSOCIATION (INMA) / SIRI HOLSTAD JOHANNESSEN AND ANDREAS FINBORUD / AUG 9
An editor’s guide to creating an online portfolio
Sometimes, it’s hard to describe what editors, strategists, or engagement producers actually work on. Here’s a guide to help.
POYNTER / RACHEL SCHALLOM / AUG 9
Five opportunities for local reporting to team up with national partners
“When I ask people what’s needed in local news, the answer often focuses on reporting: more reporters, training to improve quality, ways to attract and keep local talent. Here are five opportunities for North Carolina newsrooms to work with national partners…”
NC LOCAL / MELANIE SILL / AUG 9
Can breaking news break through on Facebook? (A post by Facebook)
“Facebook’s team is focusing on refining the designs of the developing news tools, to make it clearer that each update is part of a larger story narrative and encourage them to see Facebook as a place to get a cohesive look at a big news story from publishers they trust.”
FACEBOOK NEWSROOM / AUG 8
A guide to covering the Manafort trial
How do NYT reporters work without ready access to laptops, phones, or coffee inside the courthouse? First, pay a local cafe about $6 to hold onto your stuff.
NEW YORK TIMES / EMILY COCHRANE / AUG 8
Is getting our news from smart speakers a threat to media diversity?
“If users don’t tailor their selections, Amazon, Apple, or Google will make that choice for them. And it will probably be NPR.”
SLATE / RACHEL WITHERS / AUG 8
A generation grows up in China without Google, Facebook, or Twitter
“Two economists from Peking University and Stanford University concluded this year, after an 18-month survey, that Chinese college students were indifferent about having access to uncensored, politically sensitive information. They had given nearly 1,000 students at two Beijing universities free tools to bypass censorship, but found that nearly half the students did not use them. Among those who did, almost none spent time browsing foreign news websites that were blocked.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES / LI YUAN / AUG 8
The New York Times now has 3.8 million subscribers; 2.9 million are digital-only
“Our subscribers who came to us around the 2016 Election and post-Election periods continue to retain better than previous cohorts. Subscription revenues accounted for nearly two-thirds of the company’s revenues.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY / AUG 8
How journalists should not cover an online conspiracy theory
“The resulting coverage can be divided into three basic categories: explainers, which don’t just dive into the intricacies of the conspiracy, but often include a glossary of key terms; hair-on-fire warnings about how dangerous and frightening the conspiracy is; and smug declarations that of course Trump supporters believe in something so stupid. As Abby Ohlheiser has noted, the tone and breakneck frequency of this coverage was immediately uproarious to participants, a great victory for what their supporters call the ‘great awakening’, often delivered with a characteristically trollish wink.”
THE GUARDIAN / WHITNEY PHILLIPS / AUG 7
Getty Images launches a new AI tool that helps publishers find the right picture for the story
“The tool works like a picture editor — it reads the text and tries to understand what the story is about. It then offers the first round of picture suggestions based not only on individual keywords but the meaning of sentences and paragraphs.”
JOURNALISM.CO.UK / MARCELA KUNOVA / AUG 7
Jared Kushner used to personally order the deletion of stories at his newspaper, the New York Observer
“Austin Smith, a software employee who worked on staff for the Observer Media Group and then as an outside consultant, said that he fielded and complied with Kushner’s deletion requests. Smith wrote about the incident on a Hacker News forum discussing unethical practices in programming.”
BUZZFEED NEWS / STEVEN PERLBERG / AUG 7
A friendly guide to using color in data visualization
“Once upon a time, I tweeted on an urgent matter. ‘Can somebody tell me how to get better with color?’ I wrote. ‘My color decisions are awful.’”
CHARTABLE / LISA CHARLOTTE ROST / AUG 6
The Google News Initiative launches teaching tools for University Network Members
Modules include instructions on safety and security, verification, and data acquisition.
MEDIUM / NICHOLAS WHITAKER / AUG 6
H.F. ‘Gerry’ Lenfest, the Philadelphia philanthropist and namesake of the Lenfest Institute for Journalism, dies at 88
“Lenfest and his wife made their fortune in cable television, and they decided to give it all away. Among his most generous gestures was donating the Philadelphia Media Network, which includes the Inquirer, Daily News, and Philly.com, to establish a new nonprofit, now known as the Lenfest Institute, whose mission is to support local journalism.”
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER / AUBREY NAGLE / AUG 6
Jeff Bezos has transformed The Washington Post since he bought it five years ago. Here’s what still needs changing.
“Some day, the White House is going to cease being so interesting. During the insane run-up to the 2016 election, some in the newsroom say, ad-hoc groups at the paper discussed preserving traffic during a presumably boring Hillary Clinton administration. It may be difficult to prioritize now, but employees would probably appreciate hearing there’s a plan for when the fire hose goes dry.”
THE WASHINGTONIAN / ANDREW BEAUJON / AUG 6
How podcasts are changing journalism
“Even as they draw from journalism standards and training, podcasters seem to embrace the idea that their tone, style and motivations go beyond traditional techniques, defining their craft in non-journalistic terms such as intimacy and connection.”
LOS ANGELES TIMES / JANET SAIDI / AUG 6
Is compassion fatigue inevitable in an age of 24-hour news?
“If it is true that empathy is a necessary motivator for making the world a better place, what happens when we feel bombarded every day with the details of local and global disasters, with every shocking crime, political scandal and climate calamity here and abroad?”
THE GUARDIAN / ELISA GABBERT / AUG 3
The New York Daily News quietly showed five more staffers the door, pushing the layoffs to 98
“The early buzz is that the company will try to obtain concessions from its unionized workforce next.”
NEW YORK POST / KEITH J. KELLY / AUG 3
