國際傳媒新聞：2018/09/07~2018/09/13
ASNE has postponed its annual diversity survey results because not enough newsroom have shared their data
“Only 234 out of nearly 1,700 newspapers and digital media outlets submitted data for this year’s survey. The resulting response rate of less than 14 percent means that data collected thus far could not be interpreted as representative of the contemporary media landscape. ASNE will continue to collect data for another 30 days until Oct. 12.” (Last year, 661 news orgs submitted data.)
ASNE / SEP 13
A newspaper diminished by cutbacks prepares to cover another monster storm
“As Hurricane Florence bears down on the Carolinas, the Raleigh newspaper is a shadow of what it was in 1999. As a result of the kind of downsizing and layoffs that have affected newspapers everywhere, its newsroom has shrunk from 250 journalists to just 65.”
THE WASHINGTON POST / PAUL FARHI / SEP 13
Under the Trump administration, journalism professors are changing the way they teach
“Trump stories can just eat up your entire semester when it comes to current events. There’s all this stuff that I want to talk about that is important, that has nothing to do with Trump, but if you let it, it will come up every day in discussion and become a dominant feature in the class, which I don’t want.”
THE DAILY BEAST / MATT TULLIS / SEP 12
The BBC is launching a weekly news show on Facebook Watch in the U.S.
“Cut Through the Noise will be a made-for-mobile show that will tackle a different issue each week, presented from BBC News’ Washington, D.C., bureau or from the field. It will be the first program from a non-U.S. publisher to be carried on Facebook’s nascent service, since it was announced in 2017.”
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER / ALEX RITMAN / SEP 12
CrowdTangle now lets users report potentially false news
“The feature does not let CrowdTangle users report potentially false photos or videos, according to the post — just story links. Once they’re reported, those stories are then sent to Facebook’s ‘misinformation team’ to see if the feature is helpful in identifying fake news stories.”
POYNTER / DANIEL FUNKE / SEP 12
ASNE and APME are merging to become the News Leaders Association
“Editors’ jobs have never been more challenging, and we believe that our groups are stronger together as we work to be a valuable resource for leaders at news organizations of all sizes,” said APME (Associated Press Media Editors) president Angie Muhs.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEWS EDITORS / SEP 12
A letter from the editor: Engadget’s next chapter
Dana Wollman is Engadget’s new editor-in-chief. “Nowadays, we spend a lot more of our time on news analysis and features that attempt to make sense of what can feel like a fast-moving and at times very iterative tech-news cycle.”
ENGADGET / DANA WOLLMAN / SEP 11
Newspapers start dropping their paywalls for Hurricane Florence
“We believe coverage of this major event is critical news essential to public safety and public well being, and we are offering all of content related to Hurricane Florence for free until further notice.”
INDEPENDENT MAIL / MIKE ELLIS / SEP 11
Don’t cheer the decline of the newspaper industry
“The fall of a perceived elitist mainstream newspaper does not mean that some scrappy non-biased paper has miraculously sprung up in its place.”
THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE / GERARD T. MUNDY / SEP 11
Hoodline raises $10 million for its hyperlocal automated data newswire
We wrote about Hoodline in February: “Hoodline’s major offering is an automated news wire service focused on the local stories that can be found by mining large data sets, whether from city governments or from private companies like Yelp and Zumper.”
TECHCRUNCH / INGRID LUNDEN / SEP 11
Lawsuits over journalist Twitter accounts may become more common
“BH Media says it owns the account because another reporter created it in 2010, ‘within the scope of his employment’ for a partner paper, before resigning and returning the account to his employer. Bitter was hired in 2011 on the same beat, at which point he received the account’s login information. A story in the Times suggested that the paper provided it to Bitter, who disputes that and says he received it by email from the reporter who created the account — an email sent from his predecessor’s personal address to Bitter’s personal address.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / JONATHAN PETERS / SEP 11
How The Atlantic, LA Times, and others are staffing up
At the LA Times, for instance, “the paper has put up more than two dozen job listings” since owner Patrick Soon-Shiong named Norman Pearlstine editor.
DIGIDAY / MAX WILLENS / SEP 11
Russian trolls’ tweets cited in more than 100 UK news articles
“The accounts were cited in news stories by the British press more than 20 times. Adding to the 80 citations The Guardian uncovered in November 2017, Russian propaganda ended up being published by the British press more than 100 times.”
THE GUARDIAN / ALEX HERN / SEP 11
With an eye on The Athletic’s growth, newspapers roll out sports-only subscriptions
“The sports-only cohort is pretty large and they engage at a pretty high rate. But they weren’t ready to commit to the full subscription,” McClatchy’s Grant Belaire said. “We’ve got built-in relationships. And it’s cut, paste, repeat in many of these markets.”
DIGIDAY / LUCIA MOSES / SEP 10
What journalism could learn from the membership mindset of Burning Man
“Members of the Big Imagination art group brought a Boeing 747 aircraft – and an accompanying disco party – to Burning Man in 2016. The effort to bring a plane to the dry-lake playa required thousands of hours with volunteer members. … For our research team at Membership Puzzle, it served as a highly visual example of collaboration on a shared endeavour, with people of varying levels of expertise in different areas.”
THE GUARDIAN / EMILY GOLIGOSKI / SEP 10
Over 23,000 people asked The New York Times questions about the anonymous op-ed — here are some of the answers
“‘How are you certain of the author’s identity?’ — Martin Trott, Jackson Hole, Wyo. ‘Through direct communication with the author, some background checking and the testimony of the trusted intermediary.’ — Jim Dao”
THE NEW YORK TIMES / READER CENTER / SEP 10
Apple is talking to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and more about joining its subscription service
“Texture — often described as a Netflix or Hulu for magazines — currently lets consumers read as many stories as they want from dozens of magazines for a $10 monthly subscription. It’s unclear whether Apple executives want to add stories from the three dailies into the same subscription service or market the papers as an add-on.”
RECODE / PETER KAFKA / SEP 10
Observations on how we teach drone journalism
“The biggest determinant in skill at the beginning of our 15-week course is if someone is a gamer. This shouldn’t be surprising, but still kind of was. Our students who did the best right out of the gate were the ones who had spent considerable time honing their eye-hand coordination playing PC or console games.”
REYNOLDS JOURNALISM INSTITUTE / JUDD SLIVKA / SEP 7
The man behind Maine’s unparalleled consolidation of local news
“In less than a decade, Brower has acquired six of Maine’s seven daily newspapers and 21 of just more than 30 weeklies — a degree of newspaper consolidation unmatched in any other state. “
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / CASEY KELLY / SEP 7
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen named new director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
“Professor Nielsen will succeed Dr. David Levy, who is stepping down after ten years as Institute director. During Dr. Levy’s directorship the Institute has grown enormously, with a more than threefold increase in staff and funding, a strengthened fellowship program, the creation of a substantial research team, and increased impact on journalism and the news industry.”
REUTERS INSTITUTE / GLOBAL INITIATIVE, IDEAS@GLOBAL-INITIATIVE.COM / SEP 7
