國際傳媒新聞：2018/09/28~2018/10/04
West Virginia environmental reporter Ken Ward, Jr. earns a MacArthur “genuis grant”
“What is it that these people saw in me that they think I can somehow go and do to make life better for people in West Virginia? I gotta figure out what that is and go do it.” We interviewed Ken about his participation in the ProPublica Local Reporting Network this year.
WEST VIRGINIA GAZETTE-MAIL / OCT 4
Civil is still adding newsrooms as the token sale ….. is a work in progress
GroundTruth, The Blackness, Dromómanos, and 14ymedio are joining the herd. Civil’s token sale has sold 5.51 percent of its target and has 10 days left in this ICO.
CIVIL / MATT COOLIDGE / OCT 4
The Paradise Papers investigation is nearly a year old — what else should the team report on?
“Almost a year ago, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and 95 other media organizations from across the world published an expose of shadowy dealings from the offshore world. The Paradise Papers looked at the elite law firm Appleby and its clients, including multinationals such as Apple and people such as the Queen of England and Lionel Messi.” What’s your lingering question?
INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS / AMY WILSON-CHAPMAN AND WILL FITZGIBBON / OCT 4
Goodbye CNNMoney, hello CNN Business
“CNN is ditching the CNNMoney brand, which was part of a joint venture with then-Time Inc.’s Money and Fortune magazines going back to 2001. ‘The driving force behind this change is, we felt the CNNMoney brand wasn’t quite up to telling the generational story of business news at this moment,’ said Jason Farkas, who’s running the new site as vp and gm of CNN Business.”
DIGIDAY / LUCIA MOSES / OCT 4
A Saudi contributor to the Washington Post is missing in Turkey
“Jamal Khashoggi, 59, is a longtime Saudi journalist, foreign correspondent, editor and columnist whose work has been controversial in the past in the ultraconservative Sunni kingdom. He went into a self-imposed exile in the United States following the ascension of Prince Mohammed, now next in line to the throne to his father, the 82-year-old King Salman.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS / JON GAMBRELL AND AYSE WIETING / OCT 4
San Francisco Magazine is shifting from news focus while laying off staffers
“I knew the writing was on the wall in the first part of 2018 when I had to slash our editorial budget by one-third — and that included laying off our executive editor, Gary,” the former editor said.
MISSION LOCAL / JOE ESKENAZI / OCT 4
How much are non-news junkies following the Kavanaugh story?
“Over the past week or so, readers who were already following current events regularly followed the hearings. It’s not so easy to claim that all those who are traditionally less tuned in were transfixed as well.”
THE ATLANTIC / SHAN WANG / OCT 3
How Times journalists uncovered the original source of the president’s wealth
“Over all, the effort was sprawling and multilayered, involving more than 100,000 pages of documents, both public and confidential; interviews with key sources and requests through the Freedom of Information Act. Together, they showed that the president participated in dubious tax schemes in the 1990s, including outright fraud, and that he wasn’t the self-made billionaire he has claimed to be.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES / MELINA DELKIC / OCT 3
The Guardian is relaunching its weekly edition as a glossy news magazine
“The move will mean Guardian Weekly will be stocked alongside other news magazines such as the Economist and the New Yorker.”
THE GUARDIAN / JIM WATERSON / OCT 3
Montana: Dark money versus a dwindling local news landscape
“Earlier this year, journalists broke a massive story concerning potential conflicts of interest involving Secretary Zinke’s landholdings in Whitefish. The reporters behind the scoop didn’t work for the local newspapers, or the Maury Povich and Connie Chung-owned alt-weekly, or any of the Lee Enterprise papers. They work for Politico, and are based in Washington, DC.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / ANNE HELEN PETERSEN / OCT 3
Google is building a search engine for fact checks
“The feature, which the company has been working on for months, uses the same signals as other Google products, such as Google News, to surface work from fact-checkers like Snopes and PolitiFact.”
POYNTER / DANIEL FUNKE / OCT 3
The Washington Post Magazine relaunches with revamped editorial features and a new design
“Our long-form pieces will now have a distinctive online design — one that is visually connected to the rest of The Washington Post but also gives the magazine an identity of its own.”
WASHINGTON POST / OCT 2
WBUR’s innovation lab is looking for six public radio stations for revenue experiments with a CPB grant
With a $750,000 grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, “each participating station will work with BizLab for six months, using lean, user-centered design methodologies to identify and test new sources of revenue for that station.”
WBUR / OCT 2
Here’s how one mixed-race reporter in the White House Press Corps grapples with the lack of diversity
“‘Good’ journalism in the Trump-era has become synonymous with access. But when you’re talking with people who view any hint of race as an on-ramp to identity politics, it’s almost impossible for a black reporter to gain their trust.”
WASHINGTONIAN / BRITTANY SHEPHERD / OCT 2
Why a new fake news law in Singapore could be a big test for Facebook, Google, and Twitter
“‘The ultimate goal of these measures is not censorship, but the exact opposite — to ensure our freedom of speech can be meaningfully exercised, in a properly functioning ‘marketplace of ideas’ that is not drowned out by fake actors or false content,’ the committee wrote.”
BUZZFEED NEWS / CRAIG SILVERMAN / OCT 2
Three Pennsylvania news groups launch a joint investigative news project covering the state capital
“The project, called Spotlight PA, will include more than a dozen multiplatform journalists, who will jointly scour public documents, build sources across the political spectrum, and follow the money to shed light on one of the most expensive state governing bodies in the nation.”
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER / OCT 2
News organizations can now apply for funds to use the Coral Project’s Talk, DocumentCloud & MuckRock, and the Listening Post Collective
The Community Listening and Engagement Fund is opening its third round of subsidies for newsroom tools.
LENFEST INSTITUTE, KNIGHT FOUNDATION / DEMOCRACY FUND, NEWS INTEGRITY INITIATIVE / OCT 1
A journalist reckons with truth
“I see fact-based media in this bizarre standoff with people who don’t give a shit about truth and have found a great strategy to call bias.”
RECKONINGS / OCT 1
New York Times opinion section yanks Twitter poll on Kavanaugh accuser
“‘Christine Blasey Ford is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee today,’ the Times wrote in the tweet. ‘Do you find her testimony credible?’ The account’s followers were prompted to select ‘Yes,’ ‘No,’ or ‘Unsure.’”
POLITICO / QUINT FORGEY / SEP 28
