國際傳媒新聞：2018/08/17~2018/08/23
Investigative journalists propel #MeToo reporting at China’s universities
“In China, public reports of sexual abuse first emerged in 2014, but until a year ago these allegations were limited to personal blogs shared on Chinese social media, such as WeChat and Weibo. These accounts were rarely, if ever, followed up by the mainstream news media.”
Global Investigative Journalism Network / Ying Chan, Siran Liang and Lizzy Huang / Aug 23
In Texas, a local public radio show defies the ‘Google it’ age
“What do you say to people who tell you, ‘Why don’t you just Google it?’” “Everybody says that, everybody I meet at parties. But the show is about more than just getting the information. It’s this place where people can exchange and contribute and be a part of something.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Tamar Wilner / Aug 23
To combat misinformation on WhatsApp, 150 government schools in India have fake news classes to teach kids about hoaxes
“If you get a message on WhatsApp saying there will be an earthquake in Kannur tomorrow, would you believe it and share it with your friends?”
BBC News / Soutik Biswas / Aug 23
This is the moment all of Trump’s anti-media rhetoric has been working toward
“Journalists can’t change the minds of those most firmly in Trump’s camp, those who have decided to believe only him. That’s a lost cause, and not our mission anyway. But they can stop allowing themselves to be used as tools in Trump’s relentless — and successful — campaign to undermine the truth. And do so knowing that it may be too late.”
Washington Post / Margaret Sullivan / Aug 23
How The Seattle Times brought in more than $4 million to fund critical coverage
Some insights: Community funding doesn’t improve the profit margin of the Times. The funding itself can take a lot of time. Conversations with one funder started in June of 2015, Chan said, and an agreement wasn’t signed until August of 2017. Donor development is not source development. And more.
Poynter / Kristen Hare / Aug 22
The American Press Institute is hiring a strategist to help newsrooms better use analytics to serve their audiences
“You will be working with reporters, editors, audience and analytics teams at newsrooms big and small across the country. You will be helping them focus on their audience through analytics and community surveys. You will be training teams to discover what works and what doesn’t in their journalism, helping them navigate their analytics and consult on content strategy. This job will also involve writing about success stories from our partners that will be shared publicly.”
American Press Institute / Aug 22
Apple is getting TV rights to The New York Times Magazine’s 70-page climate change story
“‘Losing Earth‘ occupied an entire special August 1 issue of the New York Times Magazine. Produced with the support of the Pulitzer Center, “Losing Earth” is based on more than 18 months of original reporting, well over a hundred interviews, and thousands of archival documents, many previously unknown, from government and industry sources.”
Deadline / Nellie Andreeva / Aug 22
Trust in the news media seems to be up, especially in local news, one new survey says
“A Poynter Media Trust Survey found 76 percent of Americans across the political spectrum have ‘a great deal’ or ‘a fair amount’ of trust in their local television news, and 73 percent have confidence in local newspapers. The divide in attitudes toward local versus national news is especially pronounced among Republicans: 71 percent said they trust local TV news in their community, 43 percentage points higher than those who trust national network television news.”
Poynter / Indira Lakshmana and Rick Edmonds / Aug 22
Business Insider shifts to focus on business as Insider brand takes lifestyle, general news content
“Some BI editorial teams — politics, news and military/defense — would be moving over to the Insider team, which was publishing on everything from cars to dessert to cheese, initially mostly in the form of social video designed for Facebook. The changes seem to line up with the company’s direction into subscriptions. It could be confusing for readers to run up against the BI Prime paywall given the dichotomy between those hard-core business stories and BI’s made-for-social, fluffier fare.”
Digiday / Aug 22
Google is developing an experimental podcast app called Shortwave
“Called Shortwave, the new app was revealed by a trademark filing…which describes it as ‘allow[ing] users to search, access, and play digital audio files, and to share links to audio files.’”
The Verge / Russell Brandom / Aug 21
Fake news 2.0: The propaganda war gets sophisticated
“Now that platforms are prioritizing the removal of millions of fake accounts, bad actors are looking to hijack real accounts to avoid detection.”
Axios / Sara Fischer / Aug 21
How Liberty University is censoring its student newspaper
As an administrator told the journalists: “Your job is to keep the LU reputation and the image as it is. … Don’t destroy the image of LU. Pretty simple. OK? Well you might say, ‘Well, that’s not my job, my job is to do journalism. My job is to be First Amendment. My job is to go out and dig and investigate, and I should do anything I want to do because I’m a journalist.’ So let’s get that notion out of your head. OK?”
World Magazine / Charissa Crotts, Elizabeth Rieth, Isaiah Johnson / Aug 21
Facebook suspended a leftist Latin American news network Telesur and gave three different reasons why
“A Facebook customer support agent told the network that the suspension appeared to be due to a technical glitch. The next day, Facebook wrote Telesur again, this time saying that the company’s engineers had conducted ‘several tests’ and assured the outlet that ‘technicians’ continued to look for an answer. On Wednesday, after a 48-hour blackout, Facebook wrote once more to say the page had been suspended due to a mysterious ‘instability on the platform,’ which had now been corrected.”
The Intercept / Sam Biddle / Aug 20
A Q&A with Elisabeth Goodridge, editorial director of newsletters at the New York Times
“If we make sure that we provide stellar products that people will actually want to open, again, that inbox is a very intimate space, it’s also a very crowded space, so we need to give them, and habituate them to something that they value, so that they open it up day in and day out. So that’s the number one goal, for us, is optimizing these newsletters so we can make them amazing, and number two, launch newsletters people will open. It’s considering not only writing a great subject line, all the way down to understanding what’s the footer experience.”
The Idea / Atlantic Media / Mollie Leavitt / Aug 20
A fake Twitter ad campaign encourages users to be more skeptical on social media
“Don’t Believe Every Tweet made the rounds early this morning, fooling tech critics and reporters into thinking Twitter had launched a marketing effort centered on its own inability to police fake and misleading information. The project includes a Twitter account, a YouTube video featuring comedian Greg Barris, and a website, complete with fake quotes from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.”
The Verge / Nick Statt / Aug 20
How one journalist built a free resource that has already coached hundreds of women in journalism
“Digitalwomenleaders.com, created by Katie Hawkins-Gaar, is a platform that facilitates a free 30-minute coaching session with any mentor who’s available. It’s first come, first serve and free to any woman working in journalism. All the coaches are doing this on a volunteer basis. I built and am updating the site on a pro bono basis so it’s just like a big gift to the journalism community.”
Poynter / Ren LaForme / Aug 20
The Los Angeles Times poaches veteran New York Times editor Sewell Chan
“Under new owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, the LA Times moved to expansive new offices in El Segundo and added a raft of marquee hires like Chan, who will serve as deputy manager editor under the paper’s top editor Norm Pearlstine. The Times plans to expand coverage on all fronts, including Hollywood, sports, food, and the environment.”
TheWrap / Jon Levine / Aug 20
The Sunday shows have a renewed sense of purpose, thanks to Donald Trump
“At one point, the president would record and watch all five Sunday shows, host of Meet the Press Chuck Todd told me. ‘I remember Corey [Lewandowski] telling me a story about how it took up half his Sunday,’ Todd said, referring to Trump’s former campaign manager. The president “fast forwards, but he watches all five.” Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn’t respond to an email about how the president’s Sunday-morning viewing habits have evolved.”
The Atlantic / Scott Nover / Aug 20
What are your ideas for helping local news?
Give subscriptions to local papers and sites or donate to local non-profit news orgs as gifts. Could you pay local journalists or newsrooms to rewrite a version for you instead of aggregating it? Local newsrooms, how can you partner up with each other? And more: Get in touch if you have other ideas.
Poynter / Kristen Hare / Aug 20
Editorials defending the press are a nice start. What’s really needed is a more practical kind of collaboration
“One example is the way hundreds of news organizations banded together recently to push back against a new policy of Facebook’s: to treat the paid promotions of news articles on political topics as if they were political advertising. The pushback resulted in Facebook’s pledge to reconsider the policy that threatened to confuse news with advertising for the platform’s billions of users. These instances make you think: What if?”
Washington Post / Margaret Sullivan / Aug 20
Malaysia scraps “fake news” law used to stifle free speech
“Malaysia was the first country in Southeast Asia to introduce a fake news law and rights groups feared it set a worrying precedent for the region, with the Philippines, Singapore and Cambodia all claiming they too were going to table legislation tackling the problem — though none have yet been passed. Baguilat added that the decision to repeal the law ‘sends a signal to the wider region that positive human rights change is within reach.’”
The Guardian / Hannah Ellis-Petersen / Aug 17
How perceptions of news accuracy shift with outlet — and topic
“As illustrated in other media bias research, partisans were divided over the accuracy of the headlines by outlet: Democrats were more likely to say articles attached to CNN headlines would be accurate, while Republicans said the same of Fox News.”
Morning Consult / Joanna Piacenza / Aug 17
Said something you’d like to forget? CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski won’t let it go.
“Kaczynski’s four-member group — known as KFile after its 28-year-old founder — may be the foremost practitioner of the journalistic equivalent of dumpster diving. Their reportorial MO is simple, if tedious: They dig through social-media posts, old audio and video recordings and forgotten speeches, articles and books to find troubling comments uttered or written by the people they’re investigating.”
The Washington Post / Paul Farhi / Aug 17
How BBC Ideas, the broadcaster’s short film site, is doing six months in
“Death is another subject which seems to be preying on our users’ minds. Videos such as ‘Why dying is not as bad as you think’ and ‘the Irish approach to death’ have been really popular on social media, with millions of views and thousands of comments and shares.”
About the BBC Blog / Bethan Jinkinson / Aug 17
