國際傳媒新聞：2018/06/15~2018/06/21
The Financial Times: We stopped advertising on Facebook over political ads policy
“It is dangerous to describe journalism as political content. Journalism is journalism, and political lobbying is political lobbying. To conflate the two is an extremely dangerous precedent, particularly in this era when there are so many question marks about the veracity of news. We pulled out, and we are yet to be convinced that Facebook is taking this issue seriously.”
DIGIDAY / BRIAN MORRISSEY / JUN 21
The Guardian, News UK, and the Telegraph are launching a joint advertising business
The Ozone Project, launching in the fall, will allow potential advertisers to buy online ad space across news titles the Guardian, the Times, the Sun, and the Telegraph from one single site. The deal involves only digital advertising, and all the newspaper groups will continue to have their own independent sales teams, who will compete against against each other for business. There will be no sharing of editorial content or data.
THE GUARDIAN / JIM WATERSON / JUN 21
An update from Facebook on its fact-checking program
Its third-party fact-checking program is currently in 14 countries and will expand to more over the course of this year, Facebook says (the option to fact-check video and photo content on the platform will expand to four countries): “These certified, independent fact-checkers rate the accuracy of stories on Facebook, helping us reduce the distribution of stories rated as false by an average of 80 percent.”
FACEBOOK / TESS LYONS / JUN 21
Why it’s important for local journalists to be the ones reporting local news
“It is possible for a piece of information to be accurate, but not true…That’s one reason why every reporter at Global Press Journal is from the community on which she reports: When you speak the local language and understand local customs, the information you gather is filtered in a culturally appropriate way.”
NIEMAN REPORTS / KRISTA KAPRALOS / JUN 20
Meet the woman who “really runs” the New York Times newsroom
“Ms. Powell-Brunson, 42, has worked at The Times for 18 years, and her responsibilities are vast and varied. She oversees operations for two of the paper’s most logistically complicated sections — National and Politics — where reporters crisscross the country to cover primaries, fires, erupting volcanoes and the president. She is also in charge of the national bureaus and manages 11 desk administrative managers and two confidential administrative assistants.”
NEW YORK TIMES / KATIE VAN SYCKLE / JUN 20
FoxNews.com is getting low traffic on its family separation stories, so it’s downplaying them
“When there’s a topic like this, which is very uncomfortable for a certain segment of the audience, they just are looking the other way.”
POLITICO / JASON SCHWARTZ / JUN 20
Ofcom research reveals lack of diversity in UK radio
While there was some problems with incomplete data with assessing industry demographics like disability and age, the dataset for gender was mostly complete: “63 per cent of board or senior management level roles are occupied by men.”
JOURNALISM.CO.UK / THEA MATTHEWS / JUN 20
How BBC Stories experiments with audio to reach younger audiences
“How does audio work that isn’t radio and isn’t a podcast? Can you get people to listen to a six-minute-long piece of audio on social media? Not many people are doing that.”
DIGIDAY / LUCINDA SOUTHERN / JUN 20
“Michael Barbaro, who hosts ‘The Daily’ podcast for the Times, said in Tuesday’s episode that he intended to play the audio for a segment on the immigration crisis until Davis heard that the White House was ‘not at all comfortable’ with Miller’s voice being featured on the podcast.”
HUFFPOST / SARA BOBOLTZ / JUN 19
Vox Media is folding Racked from a standalone site into a Vox vertical
“Sources say Vox Media has struggled to find a considerable voice or growth model for Racked — which was a part of Vox Media’s acquisition of Curbed Network in 2013. On the other hand, two other sites that came with the Curbed acquisition — Eater, a food guide site and Curbed, a real-estate site — have been able to develop as sustainable standalone brands.”
AXIOS / SARA FISCHER / JUN 19
How does philanthropic support impact newsroom diversity initiatives?
“From 2009 to 2015, there were 1,105 grants totaling $105.6 million from 274 funders to 294 recipients pertaining to either racial and ethnic groups, women and girls, or LGBTQI populations. There has been significantly less investment in gender-related news and staffing compared to racial and ethnic groups. Funding serving LGBTQI populations in journalism remains extremely limited.”
DEMOCRACY FUND / LEA TRUSTY / JUN 19
How Swiss news publisher NZZ built a flexible paywall with machine learning
“For instance, heavy users who have registered but not yet subscribed tend to convert higher when they see an offer for an annual rather than a monthly subscription. NZZ has also linked article metadata with user journeys, so someone who has read a high number of articles on banks in Zurich, for instance, will receive a payment message on the next relevant article they read. Adding personalized greetings to landing pages increased conversion by 25 percent.”
DIGIDAY / LUCINDA SOUTHERN / JUN 19
What journalists can learn from their local TV weather forecast (yes, really)
“We believe that if stories are built differently — using forms that follow a philosophy of ‘show me’ rather than “tell me” with their audiences — journalists could build news consumers’ confidence in media and media savvy at the same time. There have been examples of this for a while: Meteorologists and weather reporters have understood for years, decades even, how to engage their audiences with a topic that can be full of science jargon and fraught with uncertainty.”
AMERICAN PRESS INSTITUTE / JANE ELIZABETH / JUN 19
How are Americans doing at distinguishing between factual and opinion statements in the news?
“The politically aware, digitally savvy and those more trusting of the news media fare better; Republicans and Democrats both influenced by political appeal of statements.”
PEW RESEARCH CENTER / AMY MITCHELL, JEFFREY GOTTFRIED, MICHAEL BARTHEL, AND NAMI SUMIDA / JUN 18
The L.A. Times is officially in Patrick Soon-Shiong’s hands (and it has its next executive editor)
“‘The last three months has been an amazing experience for me to really learn — I mean on a steep learning curve — about all the elements that are affecting this industry,’ Soon-Shiong said Friday in an interview at the soon-to-be headquarters in El Segundo, just after signing paperwork to finalize the purchase. On Monday, he will wire the money — and then the historic sale will be complete.” Former Time Inc. executive Norman Pearlstine has been named as the executive editor.
LOS ANGELES TIMES / MEG JAMES / JUN 18
Michael Barbaro explains why The Daily podcast doesn’t cover Donald Trump’s tweets
And why “the show does not get made without Google Docs.”
RECODE / KARA SWISHER / JUN 18
Advocates are becoming journalists. Is that a good thing?
“I came to work at Human Rights Watch because I was interested in figuring out what it looked like to have a different financial model and a different trust model for achieving the good that accountability journalism achieves,” says communications director Nic Dawes, the former editor-in-chief of South Africa’s Mail & Guardian, who joined HRW in 2016.
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / MATHEW INGRAM / JUN 18
The raccoon that climbed the MPR building in St. Paul is now helping to support public radio
New members will receive a commemorative tote bag for a donation. While the funding strategy might not be totally sustainable, it’s certainly memorable.
MPR NEWS / NANCY YANG / JUN 15
Micropayments bring in new readers, activate subscribers for Winnipeg Free Press
“The biggest benefit we’ve really seen from micropay is that it lowers the commitment. What we created was this pattern of behaviour — it was a pretty high wall to cross, when the reader just wanted that one next story. Commitment is a big barrier, too; it’s not just the money. That notion that I’m going to be tied to something, I’m going to have to cancel later.”
INTERNATIONAL NEWS MEDIA ASSOCIATION (INMA) / SHELLEY SEALE / JUN 15
AT&T finishes acquiring Time Warner, becoming a massive media conglomerate
“The $85 billion deal puts the many massive media properties owned by Time Warner — including HBO, Warner Bros., and CNN — under the ownership of one of America’s largest internet, TV, and phone service providers. It creates a whole mess of potential conflicts of interest when it comes to content favoritism, with opponents of the deal drawing concern around AT&T’s ability to promote its own shows and movies over those of other companies.”
THE VERGE / JACOB KASTRENAKES / JUN 15
French media plan to meet with the government over Google-GDPR concerns
“France’s five main trade bodies representing publishers, advertisers, agencies and ad tech vendors are set to meet June 15 with Mounir Mahjoubi, France’s secretary of state for digital, said Bertrand Gié, president of Geste and digital director of national newspaper Le Figaro.”
DIGIDAY / JESSICA DAVIES / JUN 15
BBC News Labs and The Telegraph are including AMP Stories in their World Cup coverage
the BBC’s early research shows that users enjoy the simplicity of the experience, while the developers appreciate the relative simplicity of implementing it.
JOURNALISM.CO.UK / MARCELA KUNOVA / JUN 15
Nuzzel’s new ranking system scores news sources on “authority”
“Nuzzel is joining the Trust Project and the Credibility Coalition, and it’s also partnering with NewsGuard and Deepnews.ai.”
TECHCRUNCH / ANTHONY HA / JUN 15
