國際傳媒新聞：2018/11/16~2018/11/22
Why the decline of newspapers is bad for the environment
“New research suggests that corporations pollute more when there aren’t local papers to hold them accountable.”
PACIFIC STANDARD / SOPHIE YEO / NOV 20
Cable news networks spend far more time talking about hurricanes than wildfires
“The Camp Fire is the deadliest fire in the history of California. On Fox News and MSNBC, the peak density of coverage through Sunday has never matched the lowest density of coverage on those networks in the first two weeks after the formation of Hurricane Irma in 2017.”
WASHINGTON POST / PHILIP BUMP / NOV 20
Glamour magazine to cease regular print publication
“Although the number of Glamour’s paid subscribers has remained stable over the last three years, at around 2.2 million, [Samantha] Barry said it was time for the publication to break away from the printed page.”
NEW YORK TIMES / JACLYN PEISER / NOV 20
Instagram tries to crack down on fake likes, follows, and comments
“Instagram said it built machine learning tools to help detect and remove fake popularity boosting. Users can sign up for such services by providing their username and password in exchange for more likes and followers. These services use bots that leave comments and like posts on real Instagram accounts, often for a fee.”
CNN / KAYA YURIEFF / NOV 20
How Blavity is redefining the media world by helping African-American millennials “tell their own story”
Blavity “closed a $6.5 million Series A round with Google Ventures in July, bringing its total venture investment so far to $8.5 million. That’s an almost of unheard-of amount of money for an early-stage, black-owned startup, much less a new digital publication — especially one with a young, black, female CEO, Morgan DeBaun, Samuels’ cofounder.”
BUSINESS INSIDER / BRYAN LOGAN / NOV 20
ASNE diversity survey: meager participation but progress among those reporting
“Some told me that they have been barely able to hire the last five years and were… embarrassed to show their numbers.” Among 1,700 organizations surveyed, 293 responded, far below the 661 organizations that returned surveys last year.
POYNTER / RICK EDMONDS / NOV 20
A seat at the table: American newsrooms still don’t represent their diverse communities
“A half-century ago, the Kerner Commission investigated the racial unrest that tore at the fabric of the nation in 1967. The panel laid some of the responsibility on journalists for the deadly summer of violence: ‘The media report and write from the standpoint of a white man’s world.’”
POYNTER / DORIS TRUONG / NOV 19
Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales wanted to let readers edit the news. What went wrong?
“Wales tells CJR he hasn’t given up, and that the layoffs were part of a strategy to make the site more user driven. But he admits WikiTribune has also used up the money it raised from a crowdfunding campaign and a group of investors, including a $100,000 matching grant from the CUNY-based News Integrity Initiative and $500,000 from Google’s Digital News Initiative. (For the time being, Wales is funding the project himself.)”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / MATHEW INGRAM / NOV 19
Jonah Peretti floats a BuzzFeed-Vice-Vox Media-Group Nine-Refinery merger
“Mr. Peretti extolled the logic of combining forces: A larger entity could lobby for better business terms from Facebook and Google, and in turn supply them with videos and articles safe for users and friendlier for advertisers. He pointed to how Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have had to answer for the latest content crisis plaguing social media.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES / EDMUND LEE / NOV 19
Using op-ed pages and lobbyists, the media wants Congress to let it gang up on Facebook and Google
“News companies are barred from negotiating together without an exemption, or they could face steep penalties. In 2012, the Justice Department went after large book publishing houses for their effort to team up with Apple to fix e-book prices against the growing power of Amazon. News publishers believe they deserve to have the antitrust rule temporarily lifted.”
BUZZFEED NEWS / STEVEN PERLBERG / NOV 19
Why Facebook is investing £4.5 million in local U.K. news
“The Community News Project is a £4.5 million (USD $6 million) fund designed to support local journalism in the UK. This investment will enable the NCTJ to oversee the recruitment of around 80 trainee ‘community journalists’ and place them at the heart of local newsrooms on a two-year scheme. The goal is to encourage more reporting from towns which have lost their local newspaper and beat reporters.”
BEHIND LOCAL NEWS / NICK WRENN AND SIAN COX-BROOKER / NOV 19
“Nothing on this page is real”: How lies become truth in online America
“She had spent a few hours scrolling one afternoon when she heard a noise outside her window, and she turned away from the screen to look outside. A neighbor was sweeping his sidewalk, pushing tiny white rocks back into his rock garden. The sky was an uninterrupted blue. A mailman worked his way up the empty street. There were no signs of ‘Sharia Law.’ The migrant caravan was still hundreds of miles away in Mexico. Antifa protesters had yet to descend on Pahrump. Chapian squinted against the sun, closed the shades and went back to her screen.”
WASHINGTON POST / ELI SASLOW / NOV 19
The ruling on Jim Acosta’s press pass was not the end of the battle
“The ruling signals that Acosta is likely to prevail on the merits of his Fifth Amendment case, as the White House did not properly give notice, explanation, and an opportunity for rebuttal, as the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals had said was necessary in a similar case decided more than 40 years ago. Kelly explicitly did not rule on Acosta’s claim that his First Amendment rights had been violated.”
THE ATLANTIC / SCOTT NOVER / NOV 19
Google News may shutter in Europe over EU plans to charge tax for links
Richard Gringas, Google’s vice president of news, said “the last time a government attempted to charge Google for links, in 2014 in Spain, the company responded by shutting down Google News in the country. Spain passed a law requiring aggregation sites to pay for news links, in a bid to prop up struggling print news outlets. Google responded by closing the service for Spanish consumers, which he said prompted a fall in traffic to Spanish news websites.”
THE GUARDIAN / JIM WATERSON / NOV 19
Q&A: New WSJ editor Matt Murray focused on great journalism, diversity, younger readers
“When we revamped the leadership team last year, we took into account having greater gender and ethnic diversity. We were criticized internally a few years ago for not having women in leadership roles where they oversaw coverage. Now, in our six key coverage drivers, half of the leaders in the U.S. are women. And half of our bureau chiefs are women”
TALKING BIZ NEWS / CHRIS ROUSH / NOV 16
What we learned from the CJR newsstand in midtown
“It was notable how many people slowed down, read the ridiculous headlines, and kept walking, assuming they were real. That was an unexpected, but telling, commentary on the news environment we live in.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / KYLE POPE / NOV 16
Are community reporters earning reader confidence? Canadians aren’t sure.
“Rightly or wrongly, the media can be treated as a monolith, especially when it comes to the belief that we’re not doing our jobs correctly. There is an onus on the journalists who have the most contact with our audiences to put the industry’s best foot forward.”
J-SOURCE / PETER GOFFIN / NOV 16
Is media literacy more about knowing to doubt bad information — or to trust good information?
“How the students do this is not rocket science of course. They become more trusting because rather than relying on the surface features and innate plausibility of the prompts, they check what others say — Snopes, Wikipedia, Google News. If they find overwhelming consensus there, or reams of linked evidence on the reliability of the source, they make the call.”
HAPGOOD / MIKE CAULFIELD / NOV 16
Native American Journalists Association urges the Muscogee (Creek) Nation to reinstate press freedom
“…the repeal of the free press act is a direct attack on a fundamental Indigenous right…From holding the powerful accountable to disseminating stories of cultural significance, a free and independent Indigenous press supports the goals of tribal nations by providing an open public forum for community voices.”
NAJA / NOV 16
