國際傳媒新聞：2018/10/19~2018/10/25
What do newspapers lose when they use non-professional photography?
“The results showed that non-professionals were far more likely to take informational photos than were professional photojournalists. Just over eight in 10 non-professional photos were informational, while just under half (49 percent) of the professional photos were informational.”
AMERICAN PRESS INSTITUTE / NATALIE JOMINI STROUD / OCT 25
The Financial Times quits advertising on Facebook in the U.K. since the platform tightened rules for political ads
“The primary concern for the FT is any ad it buys in the U.K. that relates to a political content or figure must carry the logo ‘paid for by,’ blurring the line between journalism and political advocacy, in the eyes of the FT. Facebook has engaged in a wide-ranging push to bring transparency to political advertising in the wake of scandals arising from Russian interference in elections in both the U.S. and U.K.: ‘We take the moral responsibility of how we position the brand seriously.’”
DIGIDAY / LUCINDA SOUTHERN / OCT 25
Corporate news alert startup Factal launches its 24/7 global service
“The Seattle-based startup, which revealed itself in August, has been closely watched because its three founders came from Breaking News, a popular NBC News-owned journalism website and app that was shut down by the network in late 2016.” We wrote about Factal in August.
GEEKWIRE / FRANK CATALANO / OCT 25
NBC News joins the parade of streaming news outlets with NBC News Signal
“NBC News Signal is already up and running. Its programming is available on NBCNews.com, in the NBC News mobile and OTT apps, on PlutoTV and via YouTube and Twitter. A show anchored by Simone Boyce, who came abroad in July, will move from streaming at 7 p.m. on just Thursdays to airing every weeknight at that time, later in the current quarter. Additional daily programming, including a morning and afternoon show and hourly news updates called ‘Briefly’s,’ will launch later this quarter and in early 2019.”
VARIETY / BRIAN STEINBERG / OCT 25
CNN evacuated its New York building after receiving a suspicious package
President Obama, Hillary Clinton, George Soros, representatives of Congress, and more also received packages today and earlier this week. At an afternoon event, President Trump said “acts or threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the United States of America.”
CNN / NEWSROOM / OCT 24
4 kinds of content readers will actually pay for
“Content helping the reader understand the news flow”; “content close to readers in their daily life”; “content helping readers understand the world we live in”; and “content close to readers’ interests and identities.”
INTERNATIONAL NEWS MEDIA ASSOCIATION (INMA) / OCT 24
“Local news is very important, they treat us really well” — President Trump
“The next day, a White House official came to the back of Air Force One to pass out printouts of the Arizona Republic and Arizona Daily Star front pages with large photos of Trump and McSally. ‘TRUMP IN ARIZONA,’ the Republic’s hammer headline blared. ‘President heaps praise on McSally during raucous rally in Mesa,’ continued one subhead on the front page. The official said the president and his staff were eager for the traveling press corps to see the clippings.”
POLITICO / JASON SCHWARTZ AND CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO / OCT 23
Seven ways news outlets can rebuild trust and sustainability
“Based on my research over the past decade, much of it in the local news arena, as well as my on-going and previous journalistic work, here are seven recommendations which offer newsrooms — large and small — some potential ways forward.”
POYNTER / DAMIAN RADCLIFFE / OCT 23
The Epoch Times, a newspaper banned in China, is now one of Trump’s biggest defenders
“In recent weeks, the newspaper — offered for free in most US cities and published around the world — has published articles and graphics that would be a credit to Breitbart, promoting some of the most strident and paranoid claims from the Trump administration and its defenders.”
BUZZFEED NEWS / HAYES BROWN / OCT 23
Why the Richmond Times-Dispatch will no longer run political endorsements
“Endorsements create a perception that complicates the job of our objective journalists and makes their jobs unnecessarily more difficult. No matter how many times we explain that Editorial and News are separate, the side that didn’t win the endorsement often takes out its frustration on our reporters.”
RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH / TOM SILVESTRI / OCT 23
Can Tortoise, a “a membership boutique for slow journalism” from the BBC’s former head of news, be more than a rich person’s club?
“A Kickstarter campaign for Tortoise membership rocketed past £300,000, offering those who buy the highest tier for £8,000 their own named chair in the news conference. Vanneck-Smith said a large number of younger contributors had given small amounts on Kickstarter, and that the intent of the startup was to be redistributive — using the expensive membership tiers and other funding to broaden access.”
THE GUARDIAN / EMILY BELL / OCT 23
The temptations of Twitter: Why social media is still a minefield for journalists
“The nature of Twitter itself makes particular examples of partisan behavior stand out, in turn opening news organizations to accusations of partisan bias. While that has been true since the social media platform was created more than a decade ago, the vulnerability seems especially acute in this combative and hyperpartisan political climate.”
NBC NEWS / DYLAN BYERS / OCT 23
Wired’s 25th-anniversary cover is a peek into the past, present, and future of magazine design
“A magazine cover is now better off communicating a single, strong idea, not a laundry list of features…We always wanted Wired to be more like a book you collect, and less like a magazine you throw away.”
AIGA EYE ON DESIGN / MADELEINE MORLEY / OCT 22
The Times of India and the South China Morning Post are teaming up
“As a part of this alliance, select content from SCMP will be published on Times of India’s digital, mobile and web platforms, and Times of India will be SCMP’s primary partner in India for content syndication.”
PR NEWSWIRE / OCT 22
The U.K., France, and Germany — without the U.S. — urge Saudi Arabia to clarify what happened to Jamal Khashoggi
“In a joint statement released on Sunday, the UK, France and Germany said: ‘There remains an urgent need for clarification of exactly what happened on 2 October – beyond the hypotheses that have been raised so far in the Saudi investigation, which need to be backed by facts to be considered credible.’”
THE GUARDIAN / BETHAN MCKERNAN, PATRICK WINTOUR, AND JON SWAINE / OCT 22
To fix “fake news”: “If your Facebook feed is filled with garbage, it means you were reading garbage in the first place.”
VandeHei’s recommendations: Politicians should stop saying it, media organizations should ban reporters from sharing snark, social media companies should have a FCC for social media standards, and individuals should quit clicking on garbage. Media Twitter has some thoughts.
AXIOS / JIM VANDEHEI / OCT 22
A far-right billionaire is using his media outlets in Brazil to intimidate journalists in presidential election coverage
“Ever since publication of Saturday’s report about R7, the captive operatives inside Macedo’s media conglomerate – those who once functioned as journalists but have now been forcibly converted into Bolsonaro warriors – have been intensively investigating not only the journalists at the Intercept but also our families.”
THE INTERCEPT / GLENN GREENWALD / OCT 22
Facebook and Twitter have a responsibility to address systemic misinformation, instead of reacting to reporters’ individual flags
“Of course, it would be far worse if a company refused to patch a problem that journalists have uncovered. But at the same time, muckraking isn’t meant to fix the system one isolated instance at a time. Imagine if Nellie Bly had to infiltrate the same asylum over and over again, with each investigation prompting a single incremental change, like the removal of one abusive nurse.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES / EDITORIAL BOARD / OCT 22
What newspapers’ podcasts are teaching traditional text reporters
“Fowler was able to extend his one-hour prison interview to a wild 3 1/2-hour conversation. The problem? ‘The tape is horrible, through double-pane glass with a grate at the bottom,’ said Fowler, a Charlotte (North Carolina) Observer reporter who suddenly had to think audio for a seven-part series and seven-episode podcast about Carruth, the onetime Carolina Panthers wide receiver convicted of conspiracy in the 1999 murder of his pregnant girlfriend, Cherica Adams.”
POYNTER / DAVID BEARD / OCT 19
Forecasting the midterms: Uncertainty with a chance of finger-pointing
“Across this small but growing cohort of campaign analysis, the marching orders are to avoid any appearance of the sort of certainty given off two years ago.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / DAVID UBERTI / OCT 19
In Facebook’s effort to fight fake news, human fact-checkers struggle to keep up
“Out of Factcheck’s full-time staff of eight people, two focus specifically on Facebook. On average, they debunk less than one Facebook post a day. Some of the other third-party groups reported similar volumes. None of the organizations said they had received special instructions from Facebook ahead of the midterms, or perceived a sense of heightened urgency.”
WALL STREET JOURNAL / GEORGIA WELLS AND LUKAS I. ALPERT / OCT 19
Twitter pulls down bot network that pushed pro-Saudi talking points about disappeared journalist
“Some of the bot accounts tweeted using a hashtag in Arabic that became the top worldwide Twitter trend on Sunday. The hashtag roughly translated to “#We_all_trust_Mohammad_Bin_Salman,” the Crown Prince and putative leader of Saudi Arabia, who has come under international scrutiny following the disappearance of Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post.”
NBC NEWS / BEN COLLINS AND SHOSHANA WODINSKY / OCT 19
