國際傳媒新聞：2018/04/20~2018/04/26
Lawmakers in the U.K. did not hold back their criticism in front of Facebook’s CTO
“The CTO [Mike Schroepfer] said Facebook ads would be labeled as ‘political,’ and that all promotions would be available to be searched in an archive the social network will keep available for seven years. Data in the archive will also show how many people may have seen each ad, and how much was paid for their display.”
BLOOMBERG / NATE LANXON / APR 26
College newspapers across US are campaigning to secure their future
“A lot of the time, there’s not a lot of advocacy for student journalists. We want to make sure we’re part of the conversation, too.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS / ALEXANDRA VILLARREAL / APR 26
“On the podcast, Steel explained how she and Schmidt strategized before every phone call during their months of reporting on O’Reilly. They discussed who should make the call and exactly what to ask, to have the best chances of getting the true story.”
RECODE MEDIA / PETER KAFKA / APR 26
Why Trump is winning and the press is losing
“I think our top journalists are correct that if they become the political opposition to Trump, they will lose. And yet, they have to go to war against a political style in which power gets to write its own story. There is a risk that they will fail to make this distinction.”
NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS / JAY ROSEN / APR 26
Three questions for local news teams to ask before starting that membership program
“If people can’t afford to give money, how else could they contribute?”
POYNTER / KRISTEN HARE / APR 26
As election looms, Brazil braces for fake news
How Brazil is preparing for misinformation in its election.
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / RICARDO GANDOUR / APR 25
U.S. falls to #45 in Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index (from #43)
“The climate of hatred is steadily more visible in the Index, which evaluates the level of press freedom in 180 countries each year. Hostility towards the media from political leaders is no longer limited to authoritarian countries such as Turkey (down two at 157th) and Egypt (161st), where “media-phobia” is now so pronounced that journalists are routinely accused of terrorism and all those who don’t offer loyalty are arbitrarily imprisoned. More and more democratically-elected leaders no longer see the media as part of democracy’s essential underpinning, but as an adversary to which they openly display their aversion.”
REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS / APR 25
“After The Chronicle spent more than a week trying to verify Cloud’s existence, the company that owns The Student Loan Report confirmed that Cloud was fake. ‘Drew Cloud is a pseudonym that a diverse group of authors at Student Loan Report, LLC use to share experiences and information related to the challenges college students face with funding their education,’ wrote Nate Matherson, CEO of LendEDU. Before that admission, however, Cloud had corresponded at length with many journalists, pitching them stories and offering email interviews, many of which were published. When The Chronicle attempted to contact him through the address last week, Cloud said he was traveling and had limited access to his account. He didn’t respond to additional inquiries.”
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION / DAN BAUMAN AND CHRIS QUINTANA / APR 25
Guardian on track to break even as company halves its losses
“Guardian News & Media reported a £19m loss in the year to the end of March, in the previous financial year. The publisher, which is now in the final year of a three-year plan to break even, has cut losses to a third of the £57m reported when the drive to reshape the business began.”
THE GUARDIAN / MARK SWENEY / APR 25
Will looming privacy regulations only strengthen Google and Facebook?
Europe’s GDPR laws, which “require tech companies to ask for users’ consent for their data, are likely to hand Google and Facebook an advantage. That’s because wary consumers are more prone to trust recognized names with their information than unfamiliar newcomers. And the laws may deter start-ups that do not have the resources to comply with the rules from competing with the big companies.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES / DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI AND ADAM SATARIANO / APR 24
Bloomberg is planning to launch a paywall
“Bloomberg is finalizing plans to roll out a paid subscription offering for its Bloomberg.com property, according to people familiar with the matter. The paywall is set to roll out in May, according to the people, though the launch date could change. The launch of the paywall is set to coincide with a relaunch of the Bloomberg.com website, according to the people.”
BUSINESS INSIDER / APR 24
How merchants use Facebook to flood Amazon with fake reviews
Amazon.com bans paying for reviews. But “many of these fraudulent reviews originate on Facebook, where sellers seek shoppers on dozens of networks, including Amazon Review Club and Amazon Reviewers Group, to give glowing feedback in exchange for money or other compensation. The practice artificially inflates the ranking of thousands of products, experts say, misleading consumers.”
WASHINGTON POST / ELIZABETH DWOSKIN AND CRAIG TIMBERG / APR 24
McClatchy’s newspapers are rolling out a streamlined subscription tool with the help of Google
“When a Google user hits a paywall on any McClatchy news site, a subscription box will offer the option to subscribe directly with the local publisher, or with Google. Subscribe with Google also allows a user to access McClatchy’s digital news content across platforms and highlights content in search.”
MCCLATCHY / APR 24
Get inspired with these 11 data journalism projects, from Argentina to South Africa
Following the money, humanizing the data, examining high speed rail, gaming the vote, and more.
DATA JOURNALISM AWARDS / MARIANNE BOUCHART / APR 23
Newsday wants to move from ‘voice of God’ editorials to convening conversations
“The next chapter in opinion journalism is instead of dictating the conversation, we’re convening the conversation,” said Sam Guzik, editor for platform and strategies, opinion. “It’s less about telling people what to think and more about saying ‘Let’s come to a consensus and find the way forward as a community.’”
POYNTER / KRISTEN HARE / APR 23
Google gathers more personal data than Facebook does — so why aren’t we talking about it?
“As justifiable as the focus on Facebook has been, though, it isn’t the full picture. If the concern is that companies might be collecting some personal data without our knowledge or explicit consent, Alphabet’s Google is a far bigger threat by many measures: the volume of information it gathers, the reach of its tracking and the time people spend on its sites…”
WALL STREET JOURNAL / CHRISTOPHER MIMS / APR 23
The Economic Hardship Reporting Project sets up a special fund for laid-off Denver Post staffers
“The latest fund dedicated to former Denver Post journalists is something of a public statement, according to [the project’s executive editor, Alissa] Quart. ‘We’ve been sort of focused like a laser [on] supporting staff that are being laid off when there’s a bad actor involved like Alden Global Capital,’ she says. Last fall, when billionaire Joe Ricketts shut down local news sites Gothamist and DNAinfo after staff voted to unionize, EHRP offered a $5,000 grant to writers displaced from the sites.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / COREY HUTCHINS / APR 23
The Economic Hardship Reporting Project sets up a special fund for laid-off Denver Post staffers
“The latest fund dedicated to former Denver Post journalists is something of a public statement, according to [the project’s executive editor, Alissa] Quart. ‘We’ve been sort of focused like a laser [on] supporting staff that are being laid off when there’s a bad actor involved like Alden Global Capital,’ she says. Last fall, when billionaire Joe Ricketts shut down local news sites Gothamist and DNAinfo after staff voted to unionize, EHRP offered a $5,000 grant to writers displaced from the sites.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / COREY HUTCHINS / APR 23
Here’s a sneak peek into the European Journalism Centre’s upcoming Data Journalism Handbook
Hint: it’s about algorithmic accountability.
EUROPEAN JOURNALISM CENTRE / BIBA KLOMP / APR 20
Hearst is cutting back on aggregation and viral fluff in favor of original reporting
Back in January 2017, only one of the company’s top 50 stories included some research or reporting or both, said Kate Lewis, svp and editorial director of Hearst Magazines Digital Media. The vast majority of those stories were quick takes, like a compilation of Twitter responses to a news event…. But Lewis found that by December that year, 28 of Hearst’s top 50 stories had research or original reporting. That held steady, with 24 of the top 50 in February having research or reporting, according to Hearst.”
DIGIDAY / LUCIA MOSES / APR 20
China’s Weibo just walked back a ban on LGBT content after users protested
“It represents a rare case in which a Chinese social media company has agreed to scale back censorship of a topic in response to user protests. The climbdown from Weibo comes amid a broad crackdown in China on online content. President Xi Jinping has tightened restrictions on online speech as well as the press, which is heavily censored.”
BUZZFEED / MEGHA RAJAGOPALAN AND WILLIAM YANG / APR 20
Dozens of journalists in Pakistan are speaking out against the government’s curbs on the media
“The transmission of Pakistan’s most widely watched news channel, Geo, has been blocked in many parts of the country for almost a month. Government officials and the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority, PEMRA, insist they have not blocked the news channel. Instead, PEMRA issued instructions to cable operators earlier this week to restore Geo to normal distribution or face suspension of their licenses.”
VOICE OF AMERICA / IFTIKHAR HUSSAIN AND MUBASHIR ZAIDI / APR 20
Good Morning America will launch a newsletter as the morning TV battle goes digital
“‘Good Morning America’ is revamping the digital extensions of the flagship ABC morning program, said Michael Corn, the show’s senior executive producer, in an interview. While ‘GMA’s’ digital presence has long been a part of a larger alliance between ABC News and Yahoo, this new effort represents an attempt to give fans of the program a more closely aligned site. ‘We had a very basic approach to digital before this, a meat-and-potatoes approach,’ says Corn.”
VARIETY / BRIAN STEINBERG / APR 20
“The company, Tortoise, got off the ground earlier this year after [James] Harding, who is also a former editor of the Times, left his post as director of BBC News – one of the most prominent jobs in British journalism – to build a new media outlet…. ‘The general sense has been that it’s a UK-based Axios,’ said an industry source. ‘A small group of smart hacks focusing on the biggest stories of the day and breaking a bit of news. But also some slower, higher-impact stuff — hence, well, the name.’”
BUZZFEED / MARK DI STEFANO / APR 20
