▍國際傳媒新聞：2019/07/19~2019/07/25
✅THE DAILY BEAST｜20190717
🔗The New York Times Is Out to Make Its Obituaries Less White and Less Male
In recent months, the newspaper has been quietly deploying a statistical demographic tool to help assure that at least 30 percent of its obituaries feature women, with ambitions to raise the obit percentage for racial and sexual- and gender-identity minorities as well.
✅THE TIMES｜20190718
🔗Licence fee: BBC could become a subscription service, says director-general
The BBC could switch away from the licence fee to a Netflix-style voluntary subscription model, the director-general acknowledged yesterday.
✅ROLLING STONE｜20190718
🔗Five Times Spotify Has U-turned on Its Content Strategy
Recent history, however, suggests that Spotify doesn’t always make the most consistent strategic plays outside of music. While it’s common for tech companies to “launch and iterate”, Spotify has done so more than most. In fact, over the course of its 11 years of existence – and since its 2011 debut in the United States – the company has announced, and then dumped, a string of key new-content initiatives to help lead its financials into the light. Here are just a few of them.
✅PRESS GAZETTE｜20190722
🔗Government launches £2m pilot innovation fund to help find sustainable journalism model
The UK Government will establish a £2m innovation fund to support public interest journalism, with a focus on local and regional news providers.
✅THE GUARDIAN ｜20190722
🔗Internet advertising to grow at slowest rate since 2001 dotcom bust
Internet advertising is forecast to grow by 10% globally next year, the lowest level since 2001, according to research by the global media agency group Zenith. The shrinking growth rate means that cinema advertising, which is forecast to surge more than 12% next year, will become the fastest-growing ad medium.
✅WASHINGTON POST ｜20190722
A nonprofit with deep ties to the newspaper industry is investing $50 million into research on technology’s impact on democracy — from countering online disinformation to how companies such as Facebook and YouTube impact public opinion.
✅WASHINGTON POST ｜20190724
The U.S. government on Wednesday issued an unprecedented rebuke of Facebook after a year of massive privacy mishaps, charging that the company deceived its users and “undermined” choices they made to protect their data as part of a settlement that requires the tech giant.
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