▍國際傳媒：2020/07/31~2020/08/06

✅DIGIDAY｜20200731

🔗It’s 2020, and CNN and Fox News are still battling over Comscore numbers

Everyone pretty much moved on, but in the years since the incident, CNN and Fox News have continued issuing frequent press releases about their traffic, reminiscent of how TV networks regularly report their ratings but less common for other digital news operations (there are exceptions, of course).

✅THE NEW YORK TIMES｜20200801

🔗More Than 1,000 Companies Boycotted Facebook. Did It Work?

Major advertisers on Facebook reduced their spending by millions of dollars in July, but not enough to significantly damage the platform’s revenue.

✅CJR｜20200803

🔗‘When the heart gets filtered up through the camera’: Vietnam War photographers on how to cover COVID better

As outlets ticked off the grim numerical milestones, photojournalists struggled for better ways to convey the devastation. The definitive image of the crisis has eluded us.

✅PRESS GAZETTE｜20200804

🔗Newsrooms eye permanent change to working practices after Covid-19 lockdown

The need to maintain social distancing has meant that newsrooms are still largely empty more than four months after the UK went into lockdown, with most journalists continuing to work from home.

✅CNN｜20200804

🔗Journalists have died for their reporting in Indian-administered Kashmir. But since last year, few dare to print the truth

Newspapers that wanted to get back into print had to send their journalists to the government-controlled Media Facilitation Center. Under constant government surveillance, reporters there were asked to download approved material, including government press releases, for publication in their newspapers, some of the journalists said.

✅UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS｜20200805

🔗Journalists’ Twitter use shows them talking within smaller bubbles

Twitter seemed an ideal way to do that, given its unique role among journalists as a virtual water cooler, Usher said. “Most of the time, what happens on Twitter does not reflect the real world. But in the case of political journalism and political elites, generally speaking, what happens on Twitter is reality.” It’s an online reflection of their offline lives and work, she said, and plays a significant role in agenda-setting.

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