國際傳媒新聞：2018/09/14~2018/09/20
Only 234 out of 1,700 newspapers and digital media outlets have filled out the ASNE diversity survey (aka DO IT NOW)
The Ford Foundation, News Integrity Initiative, Lenfest Institute, Democracy Fund, Logan Family Foundation, Knight Foundation, and McCormick Foundation released a joint statement urging newsroom leaders to complete the survey. If your newsroom needs a link to the survey, then contact lead researcher Dr. Meredith Clark, assistant professor of the University of Virginia’s Department of Media Studies, at mdc6j@virginia.edu, or ASNE Executive Director Teri Hayt at thayt@asne.org.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEWS EDITORS / SEP 20
The Times of London is putting its free politics email newsletter behind the paywall
“I’m glad you’re still enjoying Red Box, but you are not getting the most out of it without a full subscription to read the stories, columns, interviews, reviews, obituaries and letters which I link to every day. So from next week Red Box will only be available to Times subscribers.” (We wrote about the email’s underlying tech back in 2015.)
PRESS GAZETTE / CHARLOTTE TOBITT / SEP 20
The L.A. Times’ Patrick Soon-Shiong sees esports as part of his strategy to combat fake news
“Adding that his ‘great fear’ is fake news and disinformation, and that the current generation of social networks has facilitated an increased degree of tribalism, Soon-Shiong hopes to create ‘information of joy’ that can bring about a new kind of ‘interactivity’ with news stories.”
THE WASHINGTON POST / NOAH SMITH / SEP 20
The U.K. government is preparing to set up a regulator for the internet
“Under legislation being drafted by the Home Office and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) due to be announced this winter, a new regulatory framework for online ‘social harms’ would be created.”
BUZZFEED NEWS / ALEX WICKHAM / SEP 20
The way we tell stories has changed, thanks to FOIA and data journalism. The law is changing, too.
“In many ways, journalists’ access to critical information is being restricted, either by the passive or explicit threat of criminal penalties, de-prioritization in favor of corporate secrecy, or an inadequate legal understanding of technological advances.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / D. VICTORIA BARANETSKY / SEP 20
The politics of hurricane coverage
“The Weather Channel’s Mike Seidel similarly became a meme victim during Florence for video that depicted him struggling to stay vertical in the storm’s winds, while men walked behind him seemingly unbothered; his network said Seidel had a hard time keeping his footing because he was on wet grass.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS / DAVID BAUDER / SEP 20
A very Australian coup: Murdoch, an exiting prime minister, and the power of News Corp
“Rudd, equally, believes the cacophony of negativity from News Corp undermined his first prime ministership, then that of successor Julia Gillard. He has called for a ‘full-throated inquiry’ into News Corp and branded the company ‘a cancer on democracy’. But the details that have emerged over the past 48 hours of the role the US-based Murdoch played during last month’s visit to his Australian assets raise serious questions about how Australian politics can be swayed by a concentrated media industry where News Corp dominates.”
THE GUARDIAN / ANNE DAVIS / SEP 20
“Post-cable” news network Cheddar’s next stop is at 18,000 gas station pumps
“Cheddar has grown its audience in part by trying to make itself as ubiquitous as possible. Cheddar and its general-interest news network Cheddar Big News are available on most streaming video bundles, such as Sling TV and YouTube TV, and even a number of traditional cable packages.”
MEDIAPOST / ALEX WEPRIN / SEP 20
How Civil’s podcast partner reports on itself and blockchain’s implications for journalism
“If I, as a tech journalist, roll my eyes when I hear about blockchain, somebody is not doing a good job explaining this stuff. That’s where the opportunity is — for two women, two moms, who are going out on their own, who have to understand blockchain. There’s your entryway to a podcast.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES / JACLYN PEISER / SEP 20
20 local newsrooms just chipped in to buy the “prohibitively expensive” Texas Voter Registration Database
“Each newsroom had to provide a signed affidavit saying we would not use this data for commercial purposes. We will only use this data for news gathering and stories. We’ve all agreed to NOT post the entire data online.” The total cost was $3,600.
TWITTER / MATT DEMPSEY / SEP 19
Ten years after the financial crisis, business journalism awaits its reckoning
“That business journalists are still defending their role in a meltdown that happened ten years ago speaks to how deep the criticism cut and how raw the debate still is. I was editor of Barrons.com before the crisis and didn’t see it coming, either.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / HOWARD R. GOLD / SEP 18
How citizen journalists and scholars are using the internet to find China’s internment camps for Muslims
“Seeing the satellite imagery convinced him that it really was possible that Muslims were being detained en masse in his native country—and that some of the camps kept growing, month after month. He started posting the images on his blog and his Twitter account, along with the coordinates of the facilities, so that anybody could examine them. This project, to which he said he devoted an hour of free time each day on average, soon attracted the attention of professional journalists and scholars. They began to collaborate.”
THE ATLANTIC / SIGAL SAMUEL / SEP 18
Why European journalists struggle to engage with their communities
“After 25 phone interviews, 11 news organisation visits in five countries and one survey, here’s what we found.”
EUROPEAN JOURNALISM CENTRE / BEN WHITELAW / SEP 18
Can the U.S. government spy on journalists through a foreign intelligence law?
“Journalists merely by being contacted by a FISA target might be subject to monitoring — these guidelines, as far as we can tell, don’t contemplate that situation or add any additional protections,” said Ramya Krishnan, a staff attorney with the Knight First Amendment Institute.
THE INTERCEPT / CORA CURRIER / SEP 18
Marc Benioff explains why he is buying Time Magazine
“While having a massage late Sunday, the West Coast-based tech billionaire discussed via text message…”
NEW YORK TIMES / DAVID STREITFELD / SEP 17
Facebook and the newsroom: 6 questions for Siva Vaidhyanathan
“But as things are going, advertising-based news outlets might number in the single digits within a decade because all their money went to Facebook and Google.”
JOURNALIST’S RESOURCE / DENISE-MARIE ORDWAY / SEP 17
Who’s left covering Brooklyn with the big newspapers in retreat?
“One of the issues that we’re wrestling with is: How local do we want to be, and how much do we want to zoom in on some of these stories…In the digital era, one of the big challenges is, if you report a story about a particular neighborhood, how much interest is it to people outside the other neighborhoods? How can you actually ensure that the people in the neighborhood read it? That becomes a platform and promotion and engagement challenge.”
THE ATLANTIC / SCOTT NOVER / SEP 17
Time Magazine sold to Salesforce founder Marc Benioff and his wife, Lynne, for $190 million
Mr. Benioff said, “We’re investing in a company with tremendous impact on the world, one that is also an incredibly strong business. That’s what we’re looking for when we invest as a family.”
WALL STREET JOURNAL / JEFFREY TRACHTENBERG / SEP 17
How BBC News Labs is experimenting with AMP’s new “Stories” format for news
“With our stories published and added to the sitemap, we waited for the traffic to roll in. Unfortunately, it wasn’t that simple — without promotion on the BBC site, very few viewers were discovering the stories through search alone. Following a blog on the Russian site and some promotion across social media, our numbers did increase a bit. Our data shows that the Russian-language AMP Stories actually received close to six times as many total views as the English-language Stories.”
MEDIUM / TAMSIN GREEN / SEP 17
Pulitzer Center launches 5-year, $5.5 million rainforest journalism fund
“Supported by a grant from the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment through the Norwegian International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI), the Rainforest Journalism Fund represents a major investment in international environmental and climate reporting, with plans to support nearly 200 original reporting projects along with annual regional conferences designed to raise the level of reporting on global rainforest issues such as deforestation and climate change.”
PULITZER CENTER / JEFF BARRUS / SEP 14
De Correspondent’s Rob Wijnberg on “the problem with real news — and what we can do about it”
“The key habit we had to break was the journalist’s traditional bar for relevance and timeliness. There’s a kind of unspoken agreement among journalists on what exactly constitutes the most important ‘issues of the day’ — and that unspoken agreement is tightly linked to the fact that journalists are themselves extremely heavy news consumers.”
MEDIUM / ROB WIJNBERG / SEP 14
