▍國際傳媒新聞：2019/08/09~2019/08/15
✅TVNEWSCHECK｜20190814
🔗The Time Has Come For Black News Channel
The country’s 38 million African-Americans deserve and want a news channel that speaks to them and goes beyond breaking news, says Watts who is the active chairman of the venture. (He spent last week traveling the country, trying to lock down advertising and distribution deals.)
✅POYNTER ｜20190813
🔗Layoffs hit several GateHouse newsrooms
GateHouse started making cuts this week at at least four papers, but it’s unknown if these cuts have anything to do with the potential merger or are more tied to disappointing quarterly results at New Media, which owns GateHouse. These layoffs come less than three months after GateHouse laid off several dozen journalists at newspapers all across the country.
✅TheDailybeast｜20190812
🔗NYT Top Editor: Trump Racism Headline Was a ‘F*cking Mess’
New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet admitted Monday that the paper can and should do a better job covering race in the era of President Donald Trump.
✅Wired｜20190812
🔗TikTok is fuelling India’s deadly hate speech epidemic
In small-town India, TikTok videos are a new hate speech minefield. Thousands of videos are being removed as users exploit the wild growth of the social network.
✅DIGIDAY｜20190812
🔗To increase retention, The Financial Times is using newsletter polls
The Financial Times has started incorporating polls into its email newsletters in an effort to encourage readers to interact more regularly with its content and ultimately increase subscriber retention. Early signs show it’s working.
✅journalism.co.uk｜20190806
🔗How First News helps kids understand the world around them
Ofcom’s recent report into news consumption in the UK has revealed that almost six in ten teenagers aged between 12 and 15 have an interest in news.
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