▍國際傳媒：2020/06/26~2020/07/02

✅NIEMAN STORYBOARD｜20200624

🔗The route to a Pulitzer in opinion writing: rigorous reporting

A newcomer to a tiny newspaper in rural Texas brings fresh eyes, big-city experience, a drummer’s rhythm, and some “swagger” to his editorials.

✅THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER｜20200627

🔗How NPR’s ‘Code Switch’ Podcast Became a Hit Telling Stories “The Way They Needed to Be Told”

The show, led by Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Demby, has spent years interrogating the effects of race and identity on society and is now gaining many new listeners.

✅THE GUARDIAN｜20200628

🔗Australian regional media to gain funding after ‘catastrophic’ ad revenue fall

More than 100 newspapers and broadcasters deemed eligible for share of $50m government funding.

✅DIGIDAY｜20200630

🔗‘Being Black, you have to work twice as hard’: Inside Bleacher Report’s staff revolt that toppled a CEO

There is a literal divide within Bleacher Report between its predominantly white executives and its Black content creators. In B/R’s New York City offices, most members of the leadership team as well as its predominantly white sales, revenue and marketing teams sit on the third floor. Below on the second floor sits the company’s content teams, which is where the majority of its Black employees can be found. 

✅SIMON OWENS’S TECH AND MEDIA NEWSLETTER｜20200701

🔗How The Daily Show reinvented itself for the social media age

Noah’s team began experimenting with native internet content before even the first episode aired. Given that he was a relatively unknown figure, Comedy Central predicted that people would begin turning to Google to learn more about him. So they shot several short videos in which Noah himself answered the internet’s questions about him. They then took those videos and uploaded them to YouTube — only they kept them unlisted so that someone simply browsing YouTube wouldn’t find them.

✅MIT Technology Review｜20200701

🔗A plan to redesign the internet could make apps that no one controls

Definity wants to allow the creation of apps that can run on the network itself rather than on servers owned by Facebook, Google or Amazon. Can it succeed where others have failed?

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