國際傳媒新聞:2019/03/15~2019/03/21

THE JAPAN TIMES |0317

Non-Japanese people are poorly represented in Japanese media: That needs to change

For almost a decade, the Japanese TV show “Why Did You Come to Japan?” has operated on the premise of finding foreign tourists and asking them the titular question. It might seem like an innocent query at first, but in fact this show and its ilk embody everything that is wrong with the depiction of non-Japanese in Japanese media.

 

The Guardian|0317

BBC chair: UK media regulation is no longer fit for modern age

The BBC chair is to suggest that the system of media regulation is no longer fit for the modern age, after the corporation was forced to delay plans to make more programmes available for up to a year on iPlayer.

 

BetaNews|0318

The good and evil of robo-journalism

Writers and journalists all over the world have expected a reasonably high degree of job security, even as robots and automation swallow up other occupations and industries whole. Could all of this be about to change, thanks to robo-journalists?

 

University Affairs|0318

Canadian journalism schools partner in new association

J-Schools Canada, a network for journalism educators and program administrators, will have its first meeting at the Canadian Communication Association conference at Congress in June.

 

Columbia Journalism Review|0320

Terrorism bred online requires anticipatory, not reactionary coverage

“Unlike Bentham’s penitentiary, in which the knowledge they are being surveilled limits the brazenness of the prisoners, the easy publicness of actions on social media has not served to discourage bad actors. Instead, it has empowered them to shock and radicalize more widely than would have otherwise been the case.”

 

BLOOMBERG|0319

New York Times Cools on Apple, Whose News Subscription App Looms

The New York Times has recently cut the number of stories it’s giving to Apple Inc.’s news app, the newspaper publisher’s chief executive officer said, as the iPhone maker prepares to unveil a subscription service for news outlets next week.

 

Medium|0318

Inside The New York Times’s video strategy

Our strategy is really rooted in creating high quality journalism that’s in line with the rest of the report. We’re focused mainly on platform and on YouTube. However we do post our content on other platforms. And while we are thinking and focusing on those platforms, we want our work to find the largest possible audience, so we think deeply about strategies off platform, where to place our bet in terms of resources and how we measure success.

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