國際傳媒新聞：2018/11/09~2018/11/15
Judge postpones — until Friday — his decision in CNN’s White House lawsuit
“Burnham, who’s been tasked with defending President Trump and several White House aides from CNN and Jim Acosta’s lawsuit, was responding to a hypothetical from Kelly. Burnham said that it would be perfectly legal for the White House to revoke a journalist’s press pass if it didn’t agree with their reporting. ‘As a matter of law… yes,’ he said.”
CNN BUSINESS / BRIAN STELTER / NOV 15
“New York Times Update”, Facebook’s response to the investigation
“We did not name Russia in our April 2017 white paper — but instead cited a US Government report in a footnote about Russian activity — because we felt that the US Director of National Intelligence was best placed to determine the source…. The New York Times is wrong to suggest that we ever asked Definers to pay for or write articles on Facebook’s behalf – or to spread misinformation.”
FACEBOOK NEWSROOM / NOV 15
Saudi Arabia seeks the death penalty for five out of 11 subjects charged with Jamal Khashoggi’s murder
Deputy public prosecutor and spokesman Shalaan al-Shalaan “said the Washington Post columnist was murdered after ‘negotiations’ for his return to the kingdom failed and that the killing was ordered by the head of a negotiating team sent to repatriate Khashoggi after he decided it was unfeasible to remove him from the consulate.”
REUTERS / STEPHEN KALIN / NOV 15
How the Chico Enterprise-Record is reporting on its hometown Camp fire
“The challenge, though, has been where to deliver the Paradise Post. ‘How do you distribute a newspaper to a town that’s not there?’ So they have been taking the full press run to evacuation centers while updating the website constantly.”
LOS ANGELES TIMES / BENJAMIN ORESKES / NOV 15
After major restructuring, digital media company Mitu rehires its CEO and raises $10 million
“Burstin’s return to L.A.-based Mitu comes following the layoff of around 30% of its employees in July, as the company shut down its longer-form, premium productions and cut its marketing team. As part of the refocusing, CEO Herb Scannell — who had been hired 10 months earlier — resigned, while president and co-founder Beatriz Acevedo stepped down to serve in an advisory capacity.”
VARIETY / TODD SPANGLER / NOV 15
Why this tech reporter uses burner phones and doorbells to cover Silicon Valley
“But now, of course, there’s an app for that. It’s called Burner and it lets you make calls and send texts with different phone numbers. I can even pick the area code so my subject thinks I’m calling from nearby, just like the spammers! (We have a lot in common, some people say.)”
THE NEW YORK TIMES / JACK NICAS / NOV 15
The Department of Justice argues the White House can choose which journalists get its permanent press passes
“‘The President and White House possess the same broad discretion to regulate access to the White House for journalists (and other members of the public) that they possess to select which journalists receive interviews, or which journalists they acknowledge at press conferences,’ lawyers say in the filing…. Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee, has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.”
CNN BUSINESS / BRIAN STELTER AND DAVID SHORTELL / NOV 14
Fox News signs onto CNN’s White House lawsuit
“In 2009, CNN supported Fox News’ right to take part in a White House event during the Obama administration. Earlier this year, Fox News anchor Bret Baier stood up when CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins was excluded by the Trump White House from an event taking place at the Rose Garden.”
VARIETY / BRIAN STEINBERG / NOV 14
Facebook’s fact-checking partners in Africa have just four workers in Nigeria, where 24M use the platform monthly
“In the US, Asia, and Europe, Facebook has come under intense scrutiny for its role in the circulation of ‘fake news’. But what happens when viral misinformation is allowed to spread through areas of Africa that are already in the midst of ethnic violence? And what is Facebook doing to ensure its platform is not being used to disseminate lies, spread fear, and foment hatred in Nigeria’s troubled heartland? … Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s minister of communications, spoke at the launch of the initiative in June. ‘In a multi-ethnic and multi-religious country like ours,’ he said, ‘fake news is a time bomb.’”
BBC AFRICA EYE / YEMISI ADEGOKE / NOV 14
How the Bay Area News Group used Slack to improve internal communication during breaking news
“For really big stories such as a major earthquake, we would use threads as sub-channels to keep conversations together and from overlapping. So for instance, we would create the following sub-channels: PLANNING TODAY, WHO’S WHERE, LOGISTICS, BUDGET, PLANNING AHEAD, WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW. We could always create newer sub-channels as needed.”
BETTER NEWS / NOV 14
The AP says its new election projection system worked well
“In races for Senate and governor, AP VoteCast correctly projected the winner in 92 percent of races at 5 p.m. In the others, AP VoteCast had two as a tossup, with a projected difference between the candidates of less than one percentage point; three races remain too close to call a week after Election Day; and one incorrect winner was projected.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS / LAUREN EASTON / NOV 13
True crime podcasts are as popular in Australia as everywhere else
And other takeaways from the OzPod conference.
ABC NEWS / KELLIE RIORDAN / NOV 13
The Daily Beast says it now has “thousands” of paid subscribers
The paid membership launched this summer. “We’ve got thousands and thousands of subscribers already,” says Noah Schachtman.
RECODE / ERIC JOHNSON / NOV 13
France to “embed” regulators at Facebook to combat hate speech
“From January, Macron’s administration will send a small team of senior civil servants to the company for six months to verify Facebook’s goodwill and determine whether its checks on racist, sexist or hate-fueled speech could be improved.”
REUTERS / MATHIEU ROSEMAIN / NOV 13
Welcome to the age of the hour-long YouTube video
“Those blocks of time should seem familiar, because they mirror the conventions of television.”
WIRED / EMMA GREY ELLIS / NOV 13
How podcasts became a seductive — and sometimes slippery — mode of storytelling
“Until the podcast boom, nobody entered the field of narrative audio thinking that it might be a route to fortune or fame. Public radio, in which many narrative podcasters got their start, is not for profit, and aims at producing programming in the service of a better, and better-informed, society. Now a thrilling sense of possibility exists among the kinds of people who once might have tried magazine freelancing or blogging: that someone with talent can make a living, or even become rich, by podcasting. “
THE NEW YORKER / REBECCA MEAD / NOV 13
The media’s eagerness to discount the “blue wave” feeds a dangerous problem
“By giving in to the impulse to analyze immediately, journalists and pundits feed the notion that the election should be over on election night.”
THE WASHINGTON POST / MARGARET SULLIVAN / NOV 13
Nationalism is driving fake news in India, and other findings from the BBC’s research into fake news
“Participants gave the BBC extensive access to their phones over a seven-day period, allowing the researchers to examine the kinds of material they shared, whom they shared it with and how often.”
BBC NEWS / NOV 13
The Financial Times sees podcasts leading to paying subscribers
“To to have a fertile hunting ground [for conversions] of highly engaged people, many of whom listen to 70 to 80 percent of the podcasts, is good. You’ll see a lot more of us trying to refine that. There is a big opportunity in using it to drive subscriptions.”
DIGIDAY / JESSICA DAVIES / NOV 13
Medium is a poor choice for blogging
“Every Medium article will greet each person who opens your link with a huge full-page banner every time.” (This article was posted to Medium.)
MEDIUM / NIKITONSKY / NOV 13
Journalism’s bad reflection: CJR looks closely at newsroom diversity in 10 communities, from Hawaii to Indiana
“Macario Ramírez, a Mexican-American activist who runs a folk art gallery in the Heights neighborhood, near downtown, says that he, too, has campaigned for better coverage from the Houston Chronicle. ‘We have picketed them more than five, six times, just because of their lack of responsiveness to the community and our needs,’ he says.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / THE EDITORS / NOV 9
HuffPost got audio of Axios’s weekly staff meeting, plus Slack screenshots
“Some staffers evidently weren’t comfortable with a news story being shaped into a promotional vehicle for a television series.”
HUFFPOST / ASHLEY FEINBERG / NOV 9
NPR launches fellowship to help diversify its sourcing — but should this really be a fellowship?
“NPR found that its sources were overwhelmingly white, male and located on the east and west coasts…This fellowship will boost newsroom efforts to bring more voices into our journalism.” But Nikole Hannah-Jones says: “Why does newsroom ‘diversity’ always have to come through a temporary back door? If you want diverse newsrooms, hire folks, full time. Period. That fact that POC always need a trial run says it ALL.”
NPR / NOV 9
Newsrooms have “failed spectacularly” at achieving racial diversity
“It’s not up to people of color to do this work alone,” Dodai Stewart, a deputy Metro editor at The New York Times and a vocal advocate for diversity in media, says. “The people who have the power are the ones who need to fix this.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / GABRIEL ARANA / NOV 9
