國際傳媒新聞：2018/03/23~2018/03/29
“We’re trying to develop a systematic and comprehensive approach to tackle these challenges, and then to map that approach to the needs of each country or election” chief security officer Alex Stamos says. —
TechCrunch / Josh Constine / Mar 29
Think lithely, step lively: Greg Barber on newsroom tools at the Washington Post
What makes a good newsroom bridge? —
Global Editors’ Network / Freia Nahser / Mar 29
“Modeled on ICFJ’s Knight Fellowship program, TruthBuzz will embed experts in newsrooms to help reporters adopt compelling storytelling methods that improve the reach and impact of fact-checking and help ‘inoculate’ audiences against false or misleading information. The fellowship is only open to English-speaking media professionals already working in one of the target countries: Brazil, India, Indonesia, Nigeria and the U.S.” —
ICFJ / Cassandra Balfour and Alexsandra Canedo / Mar 29
Questions were collected in real time through the tool and being integrated into the live TV broadcast on election night. Throughout the campaign, around 20 per cent of questions came in via the bot. On election night, 48 per cent of questions came through from there. —
ABC News / Sonya Gee and Flip Prior / Mar 29
“The BBC now operates in more than 40 languages worldwide, and most recently opened new and expanded bureaux in Lagos, Bangkok, Cairo and Kathmandu.” —LO
PressGazette / Arun Kakar / Mar 28
Bloomberg expands Twitter news network TicToc into Asia
“Launched in December TicToc has a following of 171,000 and averages 750,000 daily viewers, according to Bloomberg.” —
Mumbrella Asia / Eleanor Dickinson / Mar 28
The sliming of Parkland students shows the spreading stain of media polarization
“What we’re seeing here is a spreading stain, in which conspiracy mongering from the likes of Infowars and, yes, Gateway Pundit is adopted by some elements of the formerly mainstream right and peddled to a receptive audience softened up for decades by Fox News.” —
Washington Post / Margaret Sullivan / Mar 28
“Slow journalism” and the 24/7 digital news cycle
“Each issue of Delayed Gratification, which is produced by a small central team and a large network of freelancers, covers a three month period and is published another three months after the dates covered in the magazine — enough time, Orchard explained, for final analysis on the topics to be given.” —
Journalism.co.uk / Caroline Scott / Mar 28
The Economist and Financial Times both hired Cambridge Analytica for U.S. expansion
“At the FT, editors and reporters have been asking about what Cambridge Analytica did for them, with suspicions raised after the newspaper included a single-line disclosure in some of their recent reporting of the firm.” —
BuzzFeed / Mark Di Stefano / Mar 28
“As the charts below show, many of the numbers are moving in the right direction — though not far enough or fast enough. Over the past three years, representation of women has increased at every level of The Times. Over all, our employees are now evenly split between men and women. Women in News and Opinion leadership increased to 46 percent in 2017, from 38 percent in 2015, and in business departments, to 46 percent, from 41 percent. The trend is not as uniformly positive for people of color.” —
The New York Times / Mar 28
Why do reporters take the risk to start a media business? These answers might surprise you.
“I am looking for the early signals of a successful journalism entrepreneur — what are the personality traits and skills that can help lead to success?” —
Medium / Phillip Smith / Mar 28
Younger viewers now watch Netflix more than the BBC, the BBC says in its annual report
“As the trend shifts towards on-demand viewing, the BBC risks being overtaken by competitors,” the BBC wrote in its report. —
The Guardian / Mark Sweney / Mar 28
Turner Sports is launching Bleacher Report Live, a paid streaming service for live sporting events
“Interestingly, B/R Live will let users buy only a portion of NBA games that are already in progress, instead of (as with the existing model) a full subscription to a package of games. Under the ‘micro-transaction’ model, fans will be able to pay perhaps 99 cents for five minutes of live action, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said.” —
Variety / Todd Spangler / Mar 27
“The six fellows are Kristen Balderas, Jesenia De Moya Correa, TyLisa Johnson, Heather Khalifa, Aneri Pattani and DeArbea Walker. (Lenfest, the nonprofit owner of PMN, gave PMN a $650,000 grant for the two-year program.) In addition to their full-time assignments as journalists, they will all have mentors, participate in regular seminars and work on a fellows-only product development project designed to bring more younger readers to PMN’s news platforms.” —
Poynter / Kristen Hare / Mar 27
Imagine if Gordon Gekko bought newspaper chains
Heath Freeman, the hedge fund manager whose Alden Global Capital owns the Digital First Media chain, doesn’t see the papers he owns as institutions to inform the public or hold officialdom to account, but to supply cash for him to use elsewhere, writes Joe Nocera: “According to figures compiled by the union that represents workers at DFM properties, the staff of the Denver Post has fallen from 184 journalists to 99 between 2012 and 2017. Yet last year, DFM’s chief executive sent a company-wide email saying that the company was ‘solidly profitable.’” —
Bloomberg View / Joe Nocera / Mar 27
Apple is expanding the number of publishers that can serve ads into Apple News articles
“Apple is all-in on the publisher charm offensive right now,” a source said. “They’re determined to be the non-Facebook.” —
Digiday / Tim Peterson / Mar 26
Listening is not enough: Mistrust and local news in urban and suburban Philly
“While many today point to the promise of local news as a means for building trust with communities, its existence alone is not enough—and it’s certainly not a one-size-fits-all solution.” —
Columbia Journalism Review / Andrea Wenzel, Anthony Nadler, Melissa Valle, Marc Lamont Hill / Mar 26
How two local news organizations are using chatbots to build rapport with audiences
“As long as you’re forthright about what you’re doing and who they’re talking to…you can still create that authentic relationship through something that’s artificial.” —
Columbia Journalism Review / Meg Heckman / Mar 26
“We carefully select target groups based on our customer base and all options that Facebook ad manager gives us. But the most important on this customer journey is the article itself. When it drives conversions, we keep promoting the text. The golden rule is always to earn more – attract more clients – than spend on Facebook ads.” —
Journalism.co.uk / Catalina Albeanu / Mar 26
Until journalism is a real meritocracy, J-school is a necessary evil for people of color
“As important as journalism internships are — and they are important — screeds advocating against J-school rarely acknowledge that a fair amount of journalists who look like me need the institutional legitimacy of places like Northwestern to even get an internship. And for people who can’t afford to work a low-paid or unpaid internship after college, getting your foot in the door as early as possible is paramount.” —
Slate Magazine / Rachelle Hampton / Mar 23
Here’s the blog for Shorenstein’s Single Subject News Project
“We’re a team on a mission to discover best practices on how nonprofit, single-subject news sites can engage, grow and monetize their online audiences.” —
Medium / Emily Roseman / Mar 23
Study: Data and platform-based jobs grow substantially in NYC newsrooms
“We find that data, analytic, and platform-based (DAP) jobs have grown substantially in newspaper and online media companies, now accounting for an estimated 9 percent of all jobs in those companies, while the share of traditional, non-DAP jobs decreased 8 percent in online media (9 percent in newspapers and 5 percent in broadcast).” —
Columbia Journalism Review / Matthew S. Weber and Allie Kosterich / Mar 23
Study: Data and platform-based jobs grow substantially in NYC newsrooms
“We find that data, analytic, and platform-based (DAP) jobs have grown substantially in newspaper and online media companies, now accounting for an estimated 9 percent of all jobs in those companies, while the share of traditional, non-DAP jobs decreased 8 percent in online media (9 percent in newspapers and 5 percent in broadcast).” —
Columbia Journalism Review / Matthew S. Weber and Allie Kosterich / Mar 23
