國際傳媒新聞:2019/11/15~2019/11/21

✅NPR |20191117

🔗The State Of Spanish-Language Media In U.S.

This week, Tribune Publishing announced it would be closing its Chicago-based Spanish-language weekly newspaper, Hoy. The paper was launched in 2003 to serve the city’s Spanish-speaking and bilingual communities.

✅NEW STATESMAN|20191118

🔗How the push notification came to rival the Six O’Clock News

The power to reach millions of phones has made deciding when to send a push notification a serious business for news outlets.

✅REYNOLDS JOURNALISM INSTITUTE|20191118

🔗Print archives show past impeachments. Where will we go to find the history being made today?

But where will journalists turn for context in the next impeachment? Especially as news transitions to digital publishing, the best practices of preservation and ensuring public access are taking a back seat, understandably but often tragically, to the need to keep news companies afloat. That’s why researchers are working to draw attention to this issue and help marshall new resources to provide solutions.

✅DIGIDAY|20191119

🔗How Reuters is building a marketplace for video-hungry publishers

With news publishers’ video needs growing all the time, Reuters is hoping to build itself into a marketplace that can serve all of them.

✅THE TYEE|20191119

🔗StarMetro Vancouver to Shut Down in Torstar Cost-Cutting Move

Newspaper giant Torstar will shut down StarMetro Vancouver and its four other free dailies across Canada on Dec. 20, company president John Boynton announced today in an internal email.

✅THE NEW YORK TIMES|20191119

🔗Gannett, Now Largest U.S. Newspaper Chain, Targets ‘Inefficiencies’

The deal to create the largest newspaper company in the nation — which became official at 4:10 p.m. on Tuesday — came about with remarkable speed for a merger that will reshape the media landscape.

✅RTDNA|20191120

🔗New wave of visual experiments challenges conventional TV wisdom

It’s no secret that news organizations constantly face a variety of very immediate existential threats. Yet hidden behind the gloomy headlines is an overlooked but crucial nuance: While print newspapers are struggling, even folding, local news broadcasting is still largely profitable.

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