國際傳媒新聞：2018/12/07~2018/12/13
Personal images posted on social media aren’tfree grist for use by media companies, judge rules
“The creator of a work should not be precluded from future profits should they lack the marketing prowess to capitalize on their work at the time of creation. Otto’s status as an amateur photographer with an iPhone does not limit his right to engage in sales of his work.”
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER / ERIQ GARDNER / DEC 13
Apple News is indeed evolving Texture into an Apple News subscription feature
“But some executives fear Texture could end up doing more harm than good. Their concern is Apple could steal their current subscribers, who would save money by reading articles on Texture instead. At $9.99 a month, Texture would be cheaper than an unlimited digital subscription to the New York Times — after introductory prices expire.” Apple bought Texture in March.
BLOOMBERG / GERRY SMITH / DEC 13
The updated mission statement and values of The New York Times
“This mission is rooted in our belief that great journalism has the power to make each reader’s life richer and more fulfilling, and all of society stronger and more just.”
TWITTER / SAM DOLNICK / DEC 13
New York Magazine’s staff is unionizing
“New York magazine joins a growing list of organizing efforts in the digital media industry in recent years, at outlets such as Gizmodo Media Group, Vice, the Guardian, HuffPost, the New Yorker, Vox Media, and others. This week, writers and editors at Slate voted to authorize a potential strike amid negotiations between editorial employees and management.”
BUZZFEED NEWS / STEVEN PERLBERG / DEC 13
Kentucky’s governor blasts the Louisville Courier-Journal for partnering with ProPublica
“This is also an organization, ProPublica, supported by George ‘I Hate America’ Soros. I mean, this is the sad reality of who the Courier-Journal, which pretends that it’s an actual news organization or a publication, is so remarkably biased they are now full in bed with this particular organization ProPublica.”
MEDIAITE / JOSH FELDMAN / DEC 13
Facebook’s fact-checking journalism partners: “Working with Facebook makes us look bad”
“‘They’ve essentially used us for crisis PR,’ said Brooke Binkowski, former managing editor of Snopes, a fact-checking site that has partnered with Facebook for two years.”
THE GUARDIAN / SAM LEVIN / DEC 13
Google’s Dragonfly will intensify surveillance on journalists in China
“Assuming Chinese journalists use Dragonfly for research the same way journalists outside the country use Google, these laws mean the Chinese state will be able to learn how journalists discover a story, establish contact with sources, and report the story out. Then the state can prosecute anyone with involvement in the process at their discretion.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / MIA SHUANG LI / DEC 12
Apply for funds to help start 2019 with better newsroom analytics
“News organizations who want to prioritize audience-driven storytelling and simplify their analytics with easy-to-use dashboards can now take advantage of subsidized access to the Metrics for News software and services provided by the American Press Institute.” The funding comes from Knight.
AMERICAN PRESS INSTITUTE / DEC 12
Has Washington media reached peak newsletter?
“If the prospect of yet another blast of news and analysis dinging your in-box makes you want to run screaming into the Potomac, you’re probably not the target audience for this latest newsletter, which rather than being aimed at DC insiders is targeting a more mainstream audience.”
WASHINGTONIAN / ANDREW BEAUJON / DEC 12
A look at Borderzine, Flint Beat, and The Colorado Independent — three nonprofit news outlets run by young women
“‘In reality, the Flint water crisis is just one of the many issues that the city faces,’ Jiquanda tells Teen Vogue. ‘We listen to the community. I don’t tell them what their issues are. I’m from Flint, born and raised, and I don’t tell them what they need. They tell me what they need, and that is how we shape the content in our newsroom.’”
TEEN VOGUE / LINLEY SANDERS / DEC 12
Google is shutting down Fusion Tables, saddening data journalists
Fusion Tables, a free data visualization tool, will be retired December 3, 2019.
TWITTER / EMMA CAREW GROVUM / DEC 11
Beyond 800 words: What user testing taught a journalist about writing news for young people
“Reduce the 24/7 churn. Slow down. Take time to write clear, considered articles. Think about your narrative.”
BBC NEWS LABS / ZOE MURPHY / DEC 11
How journalists are preparing for California’s next wildfire
“Until recently, the Chronicle would throw everyone they had at a big wildfire, and then forget about fires until the next one started. Now, the paper covers the subject year-round, with breaking-news coverage, investigative reporting about fire preparation and response, and in-depth pieces.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / TONY BIASOTTI / DEC 11
The Washington Post’s newsletter brand, 202, is outgrowing the inbox
“Since it launched as a single newsletter called PowerPost three years ago, the 202 has grown into a healthy sub-brand for the Post. A team of 14 people work on the newsletters full time, up from seven last year…The Post declined to share details about how many subscribers the 202 newsletters have, saying only that the total number of subscribers it has across all its newsletters is up more than 20 percent this year.”
DIGIDAY / MAX WILLENS / DEC 11
Advice for aspiring explainer journalists
“Journalism is inevitably shifting. These days, it is less about producing new information than it is about gathering information already on the record, evaluating it, and explaining and contextualizing it for an audience, perhaps with some analysis and argumentation for good measure.”
VOX / DAVID ROBERTS / DEC 11
Time’s People of the Year: Jamal Khashoggi, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, Maria Ressa, and the journalists of The Capital Gazette
“This year we are recognizing four journalists and one news organization who have paid a terrible price to seize the challenge of this moment: Jamal Khashoggi, Maria Ressa, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, and the Capital Gazette of Annapolis, Md.”
TIME / DEC 11
The best reporting from nonprofit news organizations in 2018
Investigations, immigration, influence and more: Here’s what top nonprofit newsies have been up to this year.
INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS / DEC 10
The Washington Post’s Fact Checker introduces Bottomless Pinocchio, a new rating for a false claim repeated over and over again
“The bar for the Bottomless Pinocchio is high: The claims must have received three or four Pinocchios from The Fact Checker, and they must have been repeated at least 20 times. Twenty is a sufficiently robust number that there can be no question the politician is aware that his or her facts are wrong. The list of Bottomless Pinocchios will be maintained on its own landing page.”
THE WASHINGTON POST / GLENN KESSLER / DEC 10
Social media outpaces print newspapers in the U.S. as a news source
“One-in-five U.S. adults say they often get news via social media, slightly higher than the share who often do so from print newspapers (16%) for the first time since Pew Research Center began asking these questions.”
PEW RESEARCH CENTER / ELISA SHEARER / DEC 10
What this journalist learned by being the local paper’s mascot
“Suiting up at the parade, the large tube engulfing my body felt like being placed into a sensory deprivation tank. An almost supernatural force swept through me. I was no longer Hunter Lee, I was Petey the newspaper.”
LONG BEACH PRESS-TELEGRAM / HUNTER LEE / DEC 10
Jamal Khashoggi’s last words disclosed in a transcript: “I can’t breathe”
“You are coming back,” the man says. “You can’t do that,” Khashoggi replies. “People are waiting outside.”
CNN / NIC ROBERTSON / DEC 10
How shoe-leather reporting boosted North Carolina’s explosive election fraud investigation
“Bruno, who spends much of his time chasing local news staples — shootings, weather events, car crashes, endless city hall squabbles — said the story was a reminder of the value of his work. His producers have extended his segments from the usual 1 minute 15 seconds to closer to 3 minutes, because of the magnitude of the story.”
WASHINGTON POST / ELI ROSENBERG / DEC 7
A generation of journalists in Canada are struggling
“We have, in the last few years, become more concerned about the impact on local democracy as the Canadian news media landscape shrinks. But much less has been said about the impact on a generation of journalists. How many voices have already been lost because they couldn’t face a precarious future? How many great journalists have left newsrooms because they could no longer bear the brunt of prejudice?”
J-SOURCE / H.G. WATSON / DEC 7
Digital influencers have changed advertising, and now they’re changing journalism, too
“Digital-first publishers often embed influencer talent among their own staffs: Many BuzzFeed video creators have social media followings robust enough to guarantee view numbers that would be unrealistic for other publishers, while Refinery29 staffers create sponsored posts for advertisers on their personal accounts.”
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / GEORGE CIVERIS / DEC 7
