▍國際傳媒：2020/08/28~2020/09/03

✅DIGIDAY｜20200826

🔗Google Chrome’s new ‘heavy ads’ blocker catches some publishers by surprise

Google Chrome this week began rolling out a new feature designed to block ads that use an “egregious” amount of network bandwidth or battery power — an update that has caught some publishers on the back foot.

✅THE GUARDIAN｜20200831

🔗Tim Davie faces battle to find new BBC funding model

The corporation has looked at replacing the licence fee with a new special income tax.

✅DIGIDAY｜20200827

🔗‘The second wave’: Publishers see the value of providing education through newsletter courses

As publishers look for pockets of audience engagement wherever they can find them, limited-run educational newsletters are a gambit gaining some traction.

✅NIEMAN REPORTS｜20200825

🔗Is Movement Journalism What’s Needed During this Reckoning over Race and Inequality?

A movement journalist examines what it means to engage with communities and challenge the status quo.

✅THE NEW YORK TIMES｜20200901

🔗Twitter to Add Context to Trending Topics

The social media company is trying to clean up a feature that has been used for disinformation, but stopped short of what critics want.

✅THE DRUM｜20200901

🔗Quartz explains how it doubled subscriber numbers in a year

Quartz recently breached 21,000 paying members, almost doubling its subscriber base in less than a year. Katie Weber, president of Quartz, explains how the publisher has been growing its paid proposition at an accelerated rate during a pandemic.