▍國際傳媒新聞：2019/07/26~2019/08/01
✅EMARKETER｜20190726
🔗Ad Blocking Growth Is Slowing Down, but Not Going Away
Fewer internet users than expected are blocking ads across the US and Western Europe. For the second year in a row, we’ve downgraded our estimates of the ad blocking population in France, Germany, the UK and US, as well as our forecast for future growth.
✅Politico｜20190729
🔗Black journalists push media to cover ‘hyper-racial’ moment in politics
The Associated Press earlier this year shifted a national race and ethnicity reporter to its 2020 election team, an acknowledgment that race has become a defining element of President Donald Trump’s campaigns.
✅Politico｜20190729
🔗CNN and Jeff Zucker plot 2020 election coverage and promise things will be different
It’s Mueller Day in Washington, and the man calling out instructions in the darkened control room of CNN’s Washington bureau gets his wish as the screens on the wall in front him, along with TV screens across the country, change at his command. These decisions are usually made by one of the network’s many producers, but this particular camera angle was emphatically suggested by none other than network president Jeff Zucker, who came down from New York to prepare for this week’s Democratic primary debate and decided to make a quick stop in the control room. Mueller’s halting testimony was not making for the most riveting TV, and Zucker was doing his best to liven things up.
✅DIGIDAY｜20190730
🔗How French newspaper Le Figaro finds value in more casual readers
Like other publishers with subscription models, French newspaper Le Figaro is trying to figure out how to balance new customer acquisition with retention. To do so, it’s changed the way it measures churn and is taking a closer look at what happens after subscribers cancel.
✅PRESS GAZETTE｜20190730
🔗Gay Star News closes suddenly with 20 jobs lost in ‘great shame’ for LGBTQ media
Staff were called into a team meeting yesterday afternoon and told the company was closing with immediate effect because it had become insolvent, Press Gaze
✅THE GRARDIAN｜20190729
🔗Plan for safeguards to protect ‘dignity’ of reality TV participants
British TV and radio stations will be explicitly required to protect the “welfare, wellbeing and dignity” of individuals who take part in their programmes, under proposals that could radically change how reality TV is made in the UK – and have a collateral impact on news and documentaries.
✅THE NEW YORK TIMES｜20190801
🔗A Future Without the Front Page
What happens when the presses stop rolling? Who will tell the stories of touchdowns scored, heroes honored and neighbors lost? We asked news industry innovators to share their visions for what comes next, and what fills the void.
整理：朱弘川╱編輯：鄭凱榕
