▍國際傳媒新聞：2019/05/10~2019/05/16
✅Columbia Journalism Review｜20190510
🔗Audit suggests Google favors a small number of major outlets
In the last week of April, nearly 23 percent of all traffic to news sites tracked by web analytics firm Parse.lycame from search engines. Google alone accounts for nearly half of the external referral traffic—traffic, that is, that comes from platforms, apps, and other outside sources— to news sites. Together with the fact that Facebook referral traffic is on the wane, this means that Google’s search algorithm is now perhaps the most powerful mediator of online attention to the news.
✅THE NEW YORK TIMES｜20190512
🔗How a Newspaper War in New Orleans Ended: With a Baked Alaska and Layoffs
New Orleans thus became the latest American city to be left with fewer reporters covering its affairs, as local newspapers across the country — through mergers, buyouts, layoffs, whatever it takes — try to survive.
✅NEWS & TECH ｜20190513
🔗Canadian newspaper readership up, survey says
The seventh annual Newspapers 24/7 Report found that 88 percent of Canadians read a newspaper in either print or digital format at least once a week, a three percent increase from the inaugural study, conducted in 2012.
✅Pew Research Center｜20190513
In the context of these developments, a Pew Research Center survey of adults in 11 emerging economies finds these publics are worried about the risks associated with social media and other communications technologies – even as they cite their benefits in other respects. Succinctly put, the prevailing view in the surveyed countries is that mobile phones, the internet, and social media have collectively amplified politics in both positive and negative directions – simultaneously making people more empowered politically and potentially more exposed to harm.
✅Phys.org｜20190514
🔗US journalism has become more subjective: study
U.S.-based journalism has gradually shifted away from objective news and offers more opinion-based content that appeals to emotion and relies heavily on argumentation and advocacy, according to a new RAND Corporation report.
✅CNN｜20190516
🔗White House creates tool for people to report alleged social media bias
The White House on Wednesday launched a tool for people to report instances of perceived social media bias, signaling President Donald Trump’s and top Republicans’ plan to continue vilifying technology companies, which are currently seen as political villains by many in the conservative base.
✅Columbia Journalism Review｜20190516
🔗French media is polarizing. But not in the way we expected.
The media in the US is breaking apart from left to right, across the political spectrum, but media in France is breaking from top to bottom.
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