國際傳媒新聞:2019/09/13~2019/09/19

✅TECHCRUNCH|20190913

🔗This game uses troll tactics to teach critical thinking

Enter Finnish Public Broadcasting Company, Yle,  which is hoping to harness the engagement power of gamification to accelerate awareness and understanding of troll tactics and help more people spot malicious internet fakes. It has put together an online game, called Troll Factory, that lets you play at being, well, a hateful troll. Literally.

✅BBC|20190913

🔗YouTube advertises big brands alongside fake cancer cure videos

YouTube’s algorithm promotes fake cancer cures in a number of languages and the site runs adverts for major brands and universities next to misleading videos, a BBC investigation has found.

✅CNN|20190916

🔗Why you’re seeing so much news coverage of the climate crisis this month

Scientists and researchers have long been critical of major news organizations for placing climate on the back burner. The newsrooms with specialists covering the subject have stood out because so many other outlets’ coverage has been hit-and-miss.

✅MONDAY NOTE|20190916

🔗The Cutthroat Battle for Controlling Le Monde

What’s going on at Le Monde? Is its independence in peril? Probably not. But the current confrontation might radically change the ownership structure of France’s flagship paper.

✅AXIOS|20190917

🔗Washington Post builds ad network for publishers to take on Big Tech

The Washington Post on Tuesday will unveil Zeus Prime, a product that will allow companies to buy automated ads in real-time, similar to Big Tech platforms. Zeus will also support a new ad network that will include other publishers.

Philadelphia Inquirer|20190919

🔗Fund awards $5.25 million to Philly news organizations to support local journalism

A fund set up to support local journalism has awarded grants totaling $5.25 million to three organizations in Philadelphia at a time when newsrooms across the country face financial headwinds.

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