國際傳媒新聞：2018/08/10~2018/08/16
“What Ever Happened to the Free Press?”
“Given the threat to democracy and the rise of autocracy around the world, now is the time to support, not decry, legitimate journalism and to reaffirm our commitment to free speech and a free press. The Nieman Foundation stands with its fellows and with all journalists who are working hard — under increasing financial pressure, political attack, and physical threat — to discover the facts and report the truth without fear or favor.”
NIEMAN FOUNDATION / AUG 16
The Investigative Editing Corps wants to help connect a volunteer editor with your newsroom
“Please fill out this form so I can describe the need for extra resources in local newsrooms. I was able to test the idea in two newsrooms over the past year: The Olean Times Herald in rural New York State and the Beaver County Times in western Pennsylvania with the help of the Jim Bettinger News Innovation Fund of the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University. The fund was launched with support from the Knight Foundation and Knight fellowship alumni and friends.”
MEDIUM / ROSE CIOTTA / AUG 16
How this Ohio newsroom got the community to contribute nearly $70,000 for journalism
“Richland Source wanted to create partnerships that allowed local organizations to support journalism while allowing that journalism to be independent in a kind of NPR or PBS underwriting approach. The newsroom created a list of subjects they planned to cover. In about one month, 22 community organizations signed up as newsroom partners to support two major projects with $70,000. They gave money at the $1,000, $2,500 and $5,000 levels. One gave $10,000.”
POYNTER / AUG 16
“Why the San Francisco Chronicle isn’t joining the editorial crowd on Trump”
“It plays into Trump’s narrative that the media are aligned against him. I can just anticipate his Thursday morning tweets accusing the ‘FAKE NEWS MEDIA’ of ‘COLLUSION!’ and ‘BIAS!’ He surely will attempt to cite this day of editorials to discredit critical and factual news stories in the future, even though no one involved in those pieces had anything to do with this campaign.”
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE / JOHN DIAZ / AUG 16
How to reinvent education coverage at the Los Angeles Times
“It might be tempting to focus on broader state and national issues, but that’s what the Washington Post did. In the process, the Post missed a series of scandals in the DC public school system.”
PHI DELTA KAPPAN / ALEXANDER RUSSO / AUG 16
Why readers pay for news (and why they don’t)
Based on 1,215 votes that Disqus collected over a four-week period, 30.45 percent of respondents said that they have paid for online news in the last year.
DISQUS / TONY HUE / AUG 16
The Seattle Times has attracted 36,000 digital subscribers since a paywall went up in 2013
“Newsletters are leads for the Seattle Times funnel. At first it was many things. We wanted writers to be creative and try out a lot of things. But we’ve refined that to drive subscribers and then retaining them.” (The Times has 183,000 subscribers to its seven different types of email offerings, like daily news and food and dining.)
DIGIDAY / ADITI SANGAL / AUG 16
“We actually lost subscribers over the crossword”
New ownership meant a new crossword, but readers “found it too cryptic.” A replacement puzzle was too “difficult to follow.” The solution: running two crosswords daily.
J-SOURCE / SPENCER TURCOTTE / AUG 16
The woman behind the New York Times’ high-risk, high-reward business strategy
“Through the Samsung deal and others with the likes of General Electric Co. and BMW AG , the 47-year-old executive is upending the Times century-old ad sales strategy, shifting away from one-off ad placements of the low-six-figure variety, in favor of more elaborate and lucrative deals that resemble corporate partnerships.”
WALL STREET JOURNAL / ALEXANDRA BRUELL / AUG 15
How social media took us from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump
“Power always learns, and powerful tools always fall into its hands. This is a hard lesson of history but a solid one. It is key to understanding how, in seven years, digital technologies have gone from being hailed as tools of freedom and change to being blamed for upheavals in Western democracies—for enabling increased polarization, rising authoritarianism, and meddling in national elections by Russia and others.”
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW / ZEYNEP TUFEKCI / AUG 15
Why the Washington Post’s Twitter has been so good lately
“SOMEBODY once told me the world is gonna roll me/ I ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed/ She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb/ In the shape of an ‘L’ on her forehead”
WASHINGTONIAN / ANDREW BEAUJON / AUG 15
Election projects around the world show the power — and necessity — of collaborative journalism
“I think it’s worth highlighting them, especially in advance of the U.S. midterms — there are several ideas here that could be used locally on a smaller scale.”
CENTER FOR COOPERATIVE MEDIA / STEFANIE MURRAY / AUG 15
Lots of news publishers have shut down their chatbots, but Quartz keeps on keeping on
“The studio makes standalone chatbots for advertisers such as HBO to promote its show ‘Westworld’…The moneymaking part makes it worthwhile for Quartz, along with the insights it’s learned. The client work funds Quartz’s journalism and lets it experiment without having to report to a client, said John Keefe, bot developer and product manager at Quartz.”
DIGIDAY / TIM PETERSON / AUG 13
A 3,148 word explainer on the blockchain and cryptocurrency-based journalism marketplace Civil
“Civil has to create not only a new blockchain-powered platform, but also a crowdsourced constitution, a non-profit journalism foundation and a council of expert advisers, all at the same time. It’s a little like creating a virtual country, complete with citizens who vote, an economy, a court system and a government, but the structure of this country is unlike anything that has come before it.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / MATHEW INGRAM / AUG 13
The Austin American-Statesman is closing down its weekly Spanish-language newspaper
Ahora Sí will cease publication on October 11. The Statesman also announced its 200-plus employees across the entire organization would be eligible for buyouts.
AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMEN / GARY DINGES / AUG 13
Why The New York Times so interested in Australia, according to one Australian
“The Times is already the 17th-most-viewed news website in Australia, so it stands to reason there are at least a few people willing to part with their dollars for access to the crosswords. Also, as the world’s power center continues to pivot towards Asia, Australia intuitively seems like a perfect place to grab front-row seats. It seems like a ‘nicer’ place to watch the incoming world order (with a more reliable subscriber base) than Beijing or Jakarta.”
THE OUTLINE / J.R. HENNESSY / AUG 13
How Gerry Lenfest morphed from reluctant newspaper owner into a savior of journalism
“The nonprofit/for-profit hybrid model that Lenfest set up in Philadelphia is not a panacea…Still, the Philadelphia experiment has brought stable ownership, community-minded oversight and a journalism-first mindset to the Inquirer and its sister properties after years of chaos.”
THE BOSTON GLOBE / DAN KENNEDY / AUG 13
How we hire front-end engineers at The New York Times
“Over the years, we’ve lost several external and internal candidates who wanted to be at The Times but were frustrated by having to prove themselves again and again. We recently made a major change: rather than having separate job postings and interview processes for each team, we consolidated to a single application and review process across all our front-end openings.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES / BRIAN HAMMAN / AUG 10
The local TV consolidation race is here
“Scale matters when we are competing against massive pay TV conglomerates, Facebook, Apple and Netflix. If you want a healthy broadcast business that keeps the Super Bowl on free TV, that encourages local investigative journalism and allows stations to go 24-7 live with California wildfire coverage, broadcasters can’t be the only media barred from getting bigger.”
AXIOS / SARA FISCHER / AUG 10
A Q&A with Northwestern’s new professor for social justice reporting (with a emphasis on LGBTQ issues)
“You can’t just accept the position of power in understanding what’s happening in the country. You have to look around the corner and look in the margins because the people who are most in the margins are often the ones who are often suffering the most.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / PETE VERNON AND STEVEN THRASHER / AUG 10
No, Jared Kushner, it was not okay to delete her journalists’ work
“There are a number of other technical reasons you might not be able to find a story in the archive, but one that would never occur to any rational journalist, or even any reasonable person, is your boss, the owner of the paper, is stealthily destroying your work and damaging the credibility of his own media publication in the process. Even in the annals of terrible media owners, this is something that would normally be credible only to a conspiracy theorist.”
WASHINGTON POST / ELIZABETH SPIERS / AUG 10
