國際傳媒新聞:2019/09/06~2019/09/12

✅Gallup|20190906

🔗Americans Endorse Reporter-Audience Social Media Interaction

Americans give a “thumbs up” to news reporters using social media to interact with their audiences, but they prefer that reporters use it to correct the record or give greater depth on the stories they are reporting, instead of expressing their opinions about the news. A new Gallup/Knight Foundation survey finds 74% of U.S. adults saying it is generally a “good idea” for news reporters to interact via social media, with 25% describing it as a “bad idea.”

✅International Women’s Media Foundation|20190909

🔗IWMF Awarded $350K from Luminate to Expand Digital Safety Work

The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) today announced it has received a $350,000 grant from global philanthropic organization Luminate to launch the global portion of its initiative on digital safety for women journalists. 

✅MEDIUM |20190910

🔗‘Journalism Thinking’ doesn’t need a business model. It needs a call to arms

Early professional news networks in the 14th and 15th centuries were couriers on horseback, informing warlords and merchants. Even competitors saw the value in shared professional news gathering, when there wasn’t a state-owned alternative. Subscriptions, then, subsidized the first foreign affairs and business reporters.

✅Columbia Journalism Review|20190910

🔗Apple News is excluding local newsrooms from its coveted traffic bump

A study conducted by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism last year showed that Apple News’s Top Stories section in the UK funnels attention to a small handful of publishers. In our audit we wanted to compare how Apple News’ two approaches to curation—editorial and algorithmic—might affect which news outlets get attention. Like many algorithmic news curation systems, little is known about how Apple’s algorithm works or what types of stories it is designed to surface.

✅Quartz|20190910

🔗Quartz will use audience and AI to investigate online political influence

Four Quartz journalists will tackle one issue at a time, drawing on our unique background and global experience reporting on business structures, practices, and incentives to hold public and private institutions accountable for their choices and their use of power. 

✅WASHINGTON POST|20190911

🔗Express, commuter newspaper published by The Washington Post, shuts down after 16 years

Express, the free newspaper published weekdays by The Washington Post for Metro riders and other commuters, will shut down on Thursday, ending 16 years of publication, the company said Wednesday.

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