國際傳媒新聞:2019/01/25~2019/01/31
A Kickstarter for Lewis Wallace’s “The View from Somewhere: A Podcast about Journalism with a Purpose”
“The podcast features journalists from marginalized and oppressed communities who have pushed back on the ‘objective’ framework, or attempted new ways of thinking about and practicing journalism.”
KICKSTARTER / LEWIS WALLACE / JAN 29
The inside story of Beto O’Rourke’s short-lived alt-weekly
“His target was the city’s only major English-language newspaper, the Gannett-owned El Paso Times. ‘Too often we have heard the lament of our fellow El Pasoans who feel neglected and uninspired by the daily paper, beholden to a corporate board that meets in McLean, Virginia, where they don’t know the word adelante and they’ve never heard of Pat O’Rourke.’”
MOTHER JONES / TIM MURPHY / JAN 29
BuzzFeed’s experimental era is over
“All BuzzFeed ever got from Facebook is some high praise and the corporate equivalent of a free tote bag. Now BuzzFeed appears to be taking the same approach, turning to unpaid users to make more of its content — and hundreds of employees are out of work.”
NEW YORK / BRIAN FELDMAN / JAN 29
After backlash, BuzzFeed says it will pay out earned PTO to laid-off employees
“BuzzFeed will pay recently laid off employees for the paid time off they had earned but not used, it said Monday, reversing course after hundreds of current and former staffers signed an open letter demanding that it do so.”
CNN / OLIVER DARCY / JAN 29
Readers asked The Fresno Bee questions and the editor answered
“Q. I wish The Bee would highlight and focus on stories that directly impact our community. We can consume only so much national news via social media and TV.”
THE FRESNO BEE / JOE KIETA / JAN 29
Here’s what Apple News’ magazine subscription service will look like
“Today, we’ve been able to activate the landing page for this new service on Apple News running on iOS 12.2. It looks like the subscription service will be called “Apple News Magazines” and it will be associated to the user’s iTunes Store account, just like Apple Music. There are many mentions of ‘bundle subscription’ in this beta, which makes us believe this can be a part of Apple’s plan to release an all-in-one media subscription which will include Apple Music, TV shows and magazines.”
9TO5MAC / GUILHERME RAMBO / JAN 28
The crisis facing American journalism did not start with the internet
“Decades of sparse investment and enormous debt service left these companies exposed and hamstrung at a time when investment was needed, when mobile devices were changing the field at breakneck speed. The cost to the public is enormous.”
SLATE / JEREMY LITTAU / JAN 28
Cancel in protest? Or stay with a local newspaper that’s being strip-mined for profits?
“The paper has become almost useless to me, and it feels like paying for it is only helping a hedge fund instead of advancing journalism.”
THE WASHINGTON POST / MARGARET SULLIVAN / JAN 28
How volunteers for India’s ruling party are using WhatsApp to fuel misinformation ahead of elections
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has drawn up plans to have three WhatsApp groups for each of India’s 927,533 polling booths, according to reports. With each group containing a maximum of 256 members, that number of group chats could theoretically reach more than 700 million people out of India’s population of 1.3 billion.”
TIME / BILLY PERRIGO / JAN 28
The U.N.’s human rights office appoints a team to conduct an inquiry into Jamal Khashoggi’s murder
“Agnes Callamard, U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, told Reuters on Thursday she would travel to Turkey next week to head an ‘independent international inquiry’ into Khashoggi’s murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct 2.”
REUTERS / STEPHANIE NEBEHAY / JAN 28
Introducing the Canadian Journalism Innovators, a collaborative of media outlets to tackle the lack of money, innovation, and diversity
The nine participating media outlets so far are The Narwhal, Taproot Edmonton, The Pointer, Indian and Cowboy, The Sprawl, Media Indigena, The Public Record, The Deep, and The Discourse. The Vancouver Foundation has made an initial investment in the initiative.
J-SOURCE / JAN 28
The Guardian is still on track to break even in April this year
“Guardian News and Media editor-in-chief Katharine Viner has said a hard paywall ‘isn’t really a conversation’ at the news group anymore as she declared its “rewarding” donations method to be working.”
PRESS GAZETTE / CHARLOTTE TOBITT / JAN 28
BuzzFeed is hoping to save itself by merging with another media company
“BuzzFeed began laying off 15 percent of its staff — about 200 employees — on Friday. Its next move could be a merger with Group Nine, another big digital publisher.”
RECODE / PETER KAFKA / JAN 25
Johns Hopkins to buy Newseum building in D.C. as journalism museum plans to relocate
“The Newseum has operated since 2008 at the Penn Quarter location, near the Mall and a few blocks northwest of the Capitol, drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors a year but enduring financial challenges as it charged an admission fee while neighboring Smithsonian museums were free. The Freedom Forum announced in August 2017 that it was studying options for the building, including a sale, to escape what had become an untenable run of perennial budget deficits at the Newseum.”
THE WASHINGTON POST / NICK ANDERSON AND PEGGY MCGLONE / JAN 25
The past, present, and precarious future of LGBT media
“At this point, do we really need to keep prostrating ourselves — proving that LGBT stories are not only valuable, but ‘safe’ — to straight and cis-led corporations and advertisers who want to appear inclusive but not too inclusive? Do we want to be another business’s cool new vanity project until they get tired of us and pull the plug? And perhaps most importantly, are we getting too far away from the reason LGBT media was created in the first place?”
BUZZFEED NEWS / TRISH BENDIX / JAN 25
A media manifesto to prevent 2020 from becoming 2016
“If we think about policy journalism as simply the impact of governance on the American condition, the real human consequences of decisions made in Washington, D.C., and in state capitals, then policy journalism isn’t actually ‘really tough.’ It’s just journalism. And in the Trump era, the best of it has grabbed us. So as we search for clues on how journalists can repair the forever broken state of campaign reporting, it’s useful to sort through the moments when meaty policy fights have overtaken the national political conversation, to understand how attention works in today’s media.”
VANITY FAIR / PETER HAMBY / JAN 25
Q&A: Sam Felix, director of audience and platforms at The New York Times
“Obviously Reddit is not new, it’s actually been around for a very long time, but they are sort of emerging for us, in a way. When we look at how we engage with Reddit and what sort of investment we put into it, one of the things that was most attractive to us was leveraging AMAs as a way to expose this very engaged Times audience to our journalists and answer questions about how the report is made, pulling back the curtain on The New York Times.”
MEDIUM / LIZZY RABEN / JAN 25
U.N. names members of international inquiry on Khashoggi murder
“The U.N. rights office said in a statement that the independent panel would seek to establish ‘the nature and extent of States’ and individuals’ responsibilities for the killing.’”
REUTERS / STEPHANIE NEBEHAY / JAN 25
WarnerMedia shuts investment arm that backed Mic, Mashable, and other digital media startups
“WarnerMedia Investments, formerly known as Time Warner Investments, is no longer its own corporate entity as of the end of 2018, according to six sources familiar with the matter. Allison Goldberg, the executive in charge of the investment group, has also left the company.”
DIGIDAY / SAHIL PATEL / JAN 25
From BBC News to QANon: We went down YouTube’s recommendation rabbit hole
“Despite year-old promises to fix its “Up Next” content recommendation system, YouTube is still suggesting conspiracy videos, hyperpartisan and misogynist videos, pirated videos, and content from hate groups following common news-related searches.”
BUZZFEED NEWS / CAROLINE O’DONOVAN AND CHARLIE WARZEL / JAN 25