國際傳媒:2021/11/12~2021/11/18

2021 年 11 月 19 日 | 媒大事

國際傳媒:2021/11/12~2021/11/18

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✅  Medill’s New Index Puts Spotlight on Rescuing At-Risk Subscribers

梅迪爾新聞學院新指數聚焦在拯救低閱率高風險訂戶

Data from the nearly 50 news outlets participating in the index show an average of more than 95% of their subscribers continuing as paying customers every month. But most days those customers are not visiting those websites. At small news outlets, subscribers show up an average of every third day. At large outlets, it’s every fifth day.

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✅  Why Facebook won’t let you control your own news feed

為什麼臉書不讓你掌控自己的動態消息?

Lawmakers want social networks to offer users a chronological timeline. Leaked documents help to explain why Facebook doesn’t.

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✅  About a third of news organizations have already adopted a remote or hybrid working model 

新聞機構約 1/3 已採取遠端或混合工作模式

Just 9% of newsrooms plan to reject remote work and return to their pre-pandemic setup.

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✅  How do you fix an “information disorder”? The Aspen Institute has some ideas

阿斯彭研究所報告:如何解決「資訊混亂失序」的 15 條改進建議

“Understanding the root problems of information disorder requires understanding hard-wired human behaviors, economic and political policy, group psychology and ideologies, and the relationship to people’s sense of individual and community identity.”

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✅  The metaverse is the next venue for body dysmorphia online

元宇宙是線上變形化身的下一個場域

Some people are excited to see realistic avatars that look like them. Others worry it might make body image issues even worse.

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✅  How obituaries got a jolt of new life in the Internet era

預知死亡紀事!訃聞如何在網路時代重獲新生?

Once a sleepy corner of journalism, obituaries have found new life in the Internet era. A well-crafted obit for a prominent figure — blending history and biography, triggering nostalgia or perhaps even the reader’s own feelings of mortality — can attract enormous readership online. And now there’s a need for speed: The obit that comes out first, or at least fast, can win the day.

整理:朱弘川╱編譯:鄭凱榕