✎ THE VERGE 美國科技新聞網路媒體《THE VERGE》｜20240110

Twitch is cutting one-third of its staff

串流媒體平台Twitch將裁員三分之一

The streaming platform’s latest round of job cuts is affecting more than 500 employees, which is reportedly about 35 percent of its headcount.

✎ PRESS GAZETTE 英國《新聞公報》｜20240109

News media trends for 2024: AI, Whatsapp, newsletters and video among focus areas

2024 年新聞媒體趨勢：人工智慧、Whatsapp、電子報和影片是關注焦點

The Reuters Institute survey touched on AI pessimism, news avoidance and paywall success.

✎ Columbia Journalism Review 美國《哥倫比亞新聞評論》｜20240109

The post-election battle for Poland’s state-run media

波蘭國營媒體的選後之戰

A little over a year ago, Civic Platform, then the main opposition party in Poland, proposed a bill aimed at doing away with a rolling news channel produced by the country’s state-run broadcaster. “Money is being taken from Poles to finance propaganda,” a party representative said. “Poles deserve real public television, not like Russia Today, but like the BBC.” With the hard-right Law and Justice party leading the government, the proposal went nowhere, but ahead of an election in October, Civic Platform continued to beat the drum for reform of state-run media. “We will need exactly twenty-four hours for government television to turn into public television,” Donald Tusk, the party’s leader and a former prime minister, said at a rally.

✎ International Journalists’ Network 美國國際記者中心ICFJ「國際記者網」｜20240108

How independent media is navigating Hong Kong’s closing press freedom environment

獨立媒體如何因應香港日漸緊縮的新聞自由環境

Hong Kong is no longer the bastion of press freedom in the Asia Pacific it once was. Since Beijing imposed the National Security Law (NSL) in July 2020, newsrooms have been raided, journalists arrested, and news outlets shut down. Under this uncertain scenario, Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) is the only independent English-language media outlet remaining. Founded by journalist Tom Grundy in the wake of the Umbrella Movement in 2014, the newsroom team of nine journalists continue their mission to inform, although cautiously. 

✎ NIEMAN LAB 哈佛大學尼曼新聞基金會《尼曼新聞實驗室》｜20240108

Asking people to “do the research” on fake news stories makes them seem more believable, not less

要求人們對假新聞深入查核，反造成假新聞更可信

A new study asked thousands to evaluate the accuracy of news articles — both real and fake — by doing some research online. But for many, heading to Google led them farther from the truth, not closer.

✎ PEW RESEARCH CENTER 美國皮尤研究中心｜20240105

Teens and Social Media Fact Sheet

青少年和社群媒體資料概述

YouTube tops the list among teens, with roughly nine-in-ten saying they use the platform. TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram also remain popular – more than half of teens report using each of these sites. 

整理：朱弘川｜編譯：蔡宏杰