國際傳媒新聞：2018/10/12~2018/10/18

國際傳媒新聞：2018/10/12~2018/10/18

Reader payments now make up 12 percent of The Guardian’s revenue

“Anna Bateson, chief customer officer at The Guardian, said she sees that 12 percent figure rising to around 20 percent of the publisher’s total.”

DIGIDAY / LUCINDA SOUTHERN / OCT 18

Financial Times launches a new tool to help “knowledge-hungry” subscribers track their reading

“The tool will track the articles that subscribers read, giving them an indication of the amount of information they have read on a topic, and suggesting further reads to them. It aims to offer subscribers a more ‘satisfying read’, making it easier to find the content they need more quickly.”

JOURNALISM.CO.UK / CAROLINE SCOTT / OCT 18

Slate jumps into the daily news podcast arena with “What Next”

“Slate’s weekday podcast, ‘What Next,’ starting Oct. 17 and like the morning ‘The Daily,’ lasts 20 or so minutes and tackles the news of the day. Slate is trying to differentiate ‘What Next’ by designing it for the evening commute with a 5 p.m. post time.”

DIGIDAY / LUCIA MOSES / OCT 18

The challenge of reporting the Khashoggi story

“The struggle to double check evidence when the only sources of information—the Turkish government and closely intertwined Turkish media—are politically biased has been a challenge for journalists reporting the Khashoggi case.”

COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / AMANDA DARRACH / OCT 18

A year after her murder, where is the justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia?

“At 3pm on 16 October 2017, as she drove away from her family home, a bomb placed under her car was detonated. She was 53 years old. The last words she wrote were: ‘There are crooks everywhere, the situation is desperate.’”

THE GUARDIAN / MARGARET ATWOOD / OCT 18

Fake news is making college students question all news

“According to the report, when middle school students were asked to distinguish between an ad and a news story, they often couldn’t. High school students did not consistently notice that a chart on gun violence was created by a political action committee and college students did not go out of their way to research sites with .org URLs.”

POYNTER / DANIEL FUNKE / OCT 18

What just happened at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation?

“But it soon emerged that the impetus for Guthrie’s removal wasn’t as straightforward as replacing an ineffectual manager. Emails obtained by the Sydney Morning Herald suggested that Guthrie had been standing up to the chairman of the ABC’s board, Justin Milne, to protect the broadcaster’s legislated editorial independence. The possibility of political meddling at the ABC sparked outrage, and Milne soon resigned as well.”

COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / SHELLEY HEPWORTH / OCT 18

Stanford launches an initiative to helping journalists find data for investigative reporting at a lower cost

“Stanford students in Phillips’ fall course will work with local newsrooms to collect data needed for in-depth stories — such as gathering government records, in some cases by making Freedom of Information Act requests. The students will then transform that information into datasets that journalists can analyze. Students will also help journalists navigate the data.”

STANFORD NEWS / STANFORD UNIVERSITY / OCT 16

The main difference between subscription and membership

“Subscribers pay money to get a product (i.e. access to a site). Members join your (journalistic) cause. In our case: to be their antidote to the daily news grind.”

TWITTER / ROB WIJNBERG / OCT 16

Nate Silver will make one firm prediction about the midterms. Most journalists won’t want to hear it.

“Media understanding about probability, margin of error, and uncertainty is very poor.”

WASHINGTON POST / MARGARET SULLIVAN / OCT 16

Facebook is banning misinformation on voting in the U.S. midterms

It “will ban false information about voting requirements and fact-check fake reports of violence or long lines at polling stations.”

REUTERS / JOSEPH MENN / OCT 16

The unknown costs of rural broadband and the digital divide in the news cycle

“What does this gap mean for journalists? It means me paying over $80 a month just for reliable internet to do my job in Cedar Rapids while my friend in Minneapolis only has to pay $39 for hers. It means rural Americans aren’t reading your hot takes. They aren’t paying attention to the minutiae of the Kavanaugh hearing that the internet class chatters over, nor do they know what Kanye said on Twitter. All that work that The New York Times does to uncover the reality of the president’s finances in a 15,000-word online report goes into a void. Unless news makes it to TV, the majority of Americans won’t see it or consider it.”

COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / LYZ LENZ / OCT 15

Florida newsrooms turn to Facebook Live and sister stations after Hurricane Michael pummels the newsrooms

“The morning assignment meeting on Friday was held in a circle in the parking lot. The staff produced another newscast from the parking lot on Friday night. The backdrop was a giant chunk of roof that flew off a nearby building.”

BRIAN STELTER AND DIANNE GALLAGHER / OCT 15

“What would journalism be if we actually changed all the things we say we want to change?”

“The future of journalism is and always will be people. The thing that will save journalism is people. The ones in our newsrooms and the ones outside our newsrooms. People from all kind of backgrounds and perspectives. People who seek to use their voice to empower others. People who work together. Our future depends on how we treat them, how we include or exclude them, how we represent and serve them and how we invest in them.”

MEDIUM / HEATHER BRYANT / OCT 15

Egypt is using the country’s “fake news” law to imprison women who share their sexual harassment experiences on social media

“It’s not uncommon for women to turn to Twitter and Facebook to speak out against harassment, particularly in the #MeToo era. But Mona faced a different problem. Her arrest came at a time when Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi approved new legislation aimed at targeting people guilty of spreading ‘false news’ about Egypt.”

WIRED / ROSSALYN WARREN / OCT 15

Trump vows “severe punishment” if Saudi Arabia killed Jamal Khashoggi

“‘There’s a lot at stake,’ Mr. Trump continued. ‘And, maybe especially so because this man was a reporter. There’s something, you’ll be surprised to hear me say that, there’s something really terrible and disgusting about that if that were the case. We’re going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment.’”

CBS NEWS / 60 MINUTES / OCT 15

“Good luck separating ‘journalism’ and ‘opinion’ in the age of Trump”

A response to Eli Pariser’s Nieman Lab piece: “Especially in this day and age, you need a heavy does of context and analysis to make sense of what’s being said and done. ‘Straight’ stenography, in contrast, is the opposite of journalism.”

WHITE HOUSE WATCH / DAN FROOMKIN / OCT 12

How The Washington Post’s User Lab balances advertiser and subscriber demands

“So far the lab has tested its branded content disclosures (it validated The Post’s current use of ‘from’ an advertiser, as opposed to ‘presented by’ or ‘brought to you by’). It’s also created four new ad formats. It found that people preferred being served contextually relevant articles over retargeted ads, so it created Showcase, which bundles Post articles that are relevant to the reader into an ad unit.”

DIGIDAY / LUCIA MOSES / OCT 12