國際傳媒新聞：2019/01/04~2019/01/10
People older than 65 share the most fake news
“Facebook users ages 65 and older shared more than twice as many fake news articles than the next-oldest age group of 45 to 65, and nearly seven times as many fake news articles as the youngest age group (18 to 29).”
THE VERGE / CASEY NEWTON / JAN 10
Turkey sentences journalist Pelin Ünker to jail over the Paradise Papers investigation
“After the sentence was issued, Ünker told the ICIJ she intended to appeal, pointing out that the Yildirim family had admitted that articles about their Maltese businesses were accurate.”
THE GUARDIAN / JULIAN BORGER / JAN 9
How this local news reporter uncovered Buffalo’s “digital deserts,” where more than half of households lack internet
Caitlin Dewey, formerly of the Washington Post, reported how “it has been a battle to get people to even agree we had a connectivity issue,’ said Sanjay Gilani, the outgoing chief technology officer at the Buffalo schools. ‘Now everybody agrees – the data proves it. So I hope the debate is turning positively to what we can do and how we can fund it.’”
THE BUFFALO NEWS / CAITLIN DEWEY / JAN 9
So, Trump’s live TV speech happened. How did the media do?
“He made a lot of dubious claims.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES / MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM / JAN 9
The state of The New York Times in 2019
“Many of you have heard me say that the world doesn’t need more ‘content.’ There are enough hot takes, chat podcasts, and YouTube videos to sustain us through the apocalypse. What the world needs more of is great journalism.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY / A.G. SULZBERGER / JAN 9
Introducing a legal fund for factcheckers
“The project is being launched by three leading media law and journalism organizations: the Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI), the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP) and the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN).”
MEDIA LEGAL DEFENCE INITIATIVE / JAN 9
Quartz’s AI Studio launches an open-source platform to help journalists use machine learning
“But for the machine learning we think can help support reporters, the applications are far more specific. More like: ‘Computer, here are 100 examples of the pattern I’m looking for. Please find more of those this in this pile of 1 million records.’”
JOURNALISM.CO.UK / MARCELA KUNOVA / JAN 9
How memes counter disinformation and spread awareness of pollution in Beijing
“What’s remarkable is how, in a country where trust in institutions is low but censorship and misinformation are high, a critical mass of people recognized that they were being tricked by government data about pollution.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / AN XIAO MINA / JAN 8
Campaign journalism needs an overhaul. Here’s one radical idea.
“As the presidential election season kicked off in earnest this month, it was obvious the media would do what it always has done: focus on personalities and electability; get distracted by gaffes and blow them way out of proportion.”
THE WASHINGTON POST / MARGARET SULLIVAN / JAN 8
The Economist made its first brand TV ad in more than a decade
“‘We have made a strategic investment to talk with our target audience in a way that reinforces a more emotional connection to our brand,’ said Mark Cripps, Chief Marketing Officer for The Economist.” (The New York Times also returned to brand TV ads recently.)
YOUTUBE / THE ECONOMIST GROUP / JAN 4
Forbes is “testing a tool that writes rough versions of articles that contributors can simply polish up”
“The tools are not designed to produce something that a contributor or reporter would feel comfortable publishing as is. Instead, [Forbes Media CDO Salah] Zalatimo said, they are more like thought-starters, designed to get contributors’ creative juices flowing.”
DIGIDAY / MAX WILLENS / JAN 4
Meet the Press spent its last episode of 2018 on climate change — without airtime for deniers
“If you break down the 60-minute episode, solutions-focused politicians took up most of the time.”
GRIST / ERIC HOLTHAUS / JAN 4
“Our paper has been sold four times in eight years”: Local news executives on their focuses for 2019
“Q: What is on your wish list for 2019? A: No hurricanes, no recession and no major retailers going out of business.”
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER / NU YANG / JAN 4
How to report in an age of disinformation
“This might be when a false piece of information or content is embedded in an article or quoted in a story without adequate verification. But it might also be when a newsroom decides to publish a debunk or expose the primary source of a conspiracy. Either way, the agents of disinformation have won.”
FIRST DRAFT / CLAIRE WARDLE / JAN 4
How much of the Internet is fake? “Year after year, less than 60 percent of web traffic is human”
“Otherwise we’ll all end up on the bot internet of fake people, fake clicks, fake sites, and fake computers, where the only real thing is the ads.”
INTELLIGENCER / MAX READ / JAN 4
Women’s magazines are dying. Will we miss them when they’re gone?
“The magazine industry as a whole has been belt-tightening for years thanks to a print advertising famine, eliminating costly paper copies while trying to establish a beachhead on the Internet. Yet women’s publications somehow feel much more endangered than the rest, especially now that even the woke online upstarts that once aimed to replace them — sites such as the Hairpin, Rookie and the Toast — are themselves turning off the lights.”
THE WASHINGTON POST / LAVANYA RAMANATHAN / JAN 4
The New York Times’ publisher drafted a letter “all but apologizing” to China for a story on corruption there
In 2012, right when the Times was launching a Chinese-language edition. (The Times says Jill Abramson’s version of events “isn’t accurate.”)
FAST COMPANY / MARCUS BARAM / JAN 4
