國際傳媒新聞：2019/01/18~2019/01/24

國際傳媒新聞：2019/01/18~2019/01/24

Jarrod Dicker, who left the Washington Post for blockchain startup Po.et, rejoins the Washington Post

“The reality is that we’re facing a long road to adoption & need to be sensitive to a market that has speed limits. What does 100MPH really accomplish other than tickets, accidents, and extra gas?” Here’s the Post’s announcement on his rehire, as vice president of commercial technology and development.

TWITTER / JARROD DICKER / JAN 24

Five things to know about the future of journalism

“5. News is more diverse than ever, and the best journalism in many cases better than ever, taking everyone from the most powerful politicians to the biggest private companies.”

REUTERS INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF JOURNALISM / RASMUS KLEIS NIELSEN AND MEERA SELVA / JAN 24

Is Twitter ruining American journalism?

“But Twitter is not that carefree clubhouse for journalism anymore. Instead it is the epicenter of a nonstop information war, an almost comically undermanaged gladiatorial arena where activists and disinformation artists and politicians and marketers gather to target and influence the wider media world.” (Remember, Farhad spent time “away” from Twitter before.)

THE NEW YORK TIMES / FARHAD MANJOO / JAN 24

Facebook is setting up an anti-scam project (as part of a dropped lawsuit from a consumer finance journalist)

“The first time my attention was drawn to this was a man who accused me of scamming him out of £19,000. I don’t do adverts, full stop. Any advert with me in it is a lie, it’s a scam. That’s where the anger came from.”

THE GUARDIAN / ALEX HERN / JAN 24

The Guardian earns its first Oscar nomination

“Black Sheep follows the true story of Cornelius Walker whose mother moved him and his family from London to Essex after the murder of ten-year-old Damilola Taylor. Walker lived near Taylor, was the same age and also black. ‘Cornelius suddenly found himself living on a white estate run by racists,’ the Guardian description of the film says.”

PRESS GAZETTE / FREDDY MAYHEW / JAN 23

Is media coverage of the Mueller investigation a problem?

“…reporters are not perfect. And editing systems are never completely foolproof. But the internet means that mistakes never go away, so reporters who’ve had problems in the past should expect to see those reputation issues dragged up again and again if they continue to get in tough spots, especially if they work on important stories, like those about the special counsel’s investigation.”

FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / JAN 23

Gawker 2.0 implodes as its only reporters quit

“On Wednesday morning, the site’s only two full-time writers — former Vanity Fair writer Maya Kosoff and former Cosmopolitan writer Anna Breslaw — announced in a statement to The Daily Beast that they have left over concerns about Carson Griffith, the recently hired editorial director.”

THE DAILY BEAST / MAXWELL TANI / JAN 23

First Draft leaves Shorenstein and will now operate as an independent entity in London and New York

“We are building on our pioneering work around elections in the US, France, UK, Germany, Brazil and Nigeria to support the development of sustainable, collaborative efforts globally in 2019. We have plans to support projects in Argentina, Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Spain and Uruguay, plus a cross-border project to investigate misinformation tactics and trends in Europe.”

FIRST DRAFT NEWS / JAN 23

The Economist launches a daily news podcast with eight staffers

“The Economist plans to differentiate by delivering stories with a world view, drawing on its global correspondents as well as covering news that doesn’t always make the headlines but still has significance. Case in point: During pilot episodes, it featured how the changing sales of mooncakes — sent as gifts or sometimes bribes in China — act as a barometer on the health of the economy.”

DIGIDAY / LUCINDA SOUTHERN / JAN 23

Stung by criticism, Facebook’s Sandberg outlines new plans to tackle misinformation

“She said Facebook was now cracking down on fake accounts and misinformation, blocking ‘more than one million Facebook accounts every day, often as they are created.’”

TECHCRUNCH / MIKE BUTCHER / JAN 22

Niche publishers pursue an “everything about something” approach to local news

“Local independent online niche sites are springing up around the country, from Sioux Falls Business, to Eco Rhode Island, North Carolina Health News, and Spokane Faith and Values.”

EDITOR & PUBLISHER / MATT DERIENZO / JAN 22

Vox Media is acquiring The Coral Project

The price was not disclosed. Vox will also take on The Coral Project’s six full-time staffers.

AXIOS / SARA FISCHER / JAN 22

Google is considering pulling Google News from Europe

“The European Union’s Copyright Directive will give publishers the right to demand money from the Alphabet Inc. unit, Facebook Inc. and other web platforms when fragments of their articles show up in news search results, or are shared by users. The law was to supposed to be finalized this week but was delayed by disagreement among member states.”

BLOOMBERG / NATALIA DROZDIAK / JAN 22

Facebook should treat the cause, not the symptoms, of journalism’s plight

“Absent from both the Reuters Institute report’s suggestions and from Facebook’s current journalism funding scheme is the one thing journalism actually needs: a guarantee that the conditions on the platform will benefit those producing high-quality reporting, which would obviate the need for sudden cash infusions. This simple pledge might be implicit in the myriad changes that Facebook is making to its own products and business models but it is not yet explicit.”

COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW / EMILY BELL / JAN 18