✎ AP 美聯社｜20221215
AP announces sweeping democracy journalism initiative
美聯社宣布推出全面的民主新聞倡議
The Associated Press announced today it will inject additional resources into covering democracy in the U.S. with the goal of helping an increasingly polarized public better understand their government.
✎ Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism 牛津大學路透新聞學研究所｜20221208
How publishers are learning to create and distribute news on TikTok
何以出版商正學習在TikTok平台設立帳號及發布新聞
News organisations are attracted by the fast-growing audience and younger demographic, but they are also motivated by the desire to provide reliable news, amid fears about widespread misinformation on the platform.
✎ Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism 牛津大學路透新聞學研究所｜20221201
How we follow climate change: climate news use and attitudes in eight countries
我們如何關注氣候變化：八個國家的氣候新聞利用和態度
Beyond these overall patterns, we also find important variations. Some are expected, such as that young people rely more on online media, older people more on television, and people on the political right often approach climate change differently from those on the left. Others are, at first glance, surprising. Fewer young people engage with climate change news and information than older people, and a clear majority on the political right trust scientists and are concerned about the impact climate change is having on people all over the world.
✎ DEUTSCHE WELLE 德國之聲｜20221122
Hong Kong: Apple Daily reporters plead guilty to collusion
香港：《蘋果日報》6名高層承認勾結外國勢力罪名
The staffers of Apple Daily are involved in a landmark case under a Beijing-imposed national security law. The Hong Kong news outlet was a vocal critic of the Chinese government until it collapsed last year.
✎ Columbia Journalism Review 美國《哥倫比亞新聞評論》｜20221115
Journalists want to re-create Twitter on Mastodon. Mastodon is not into it.
記者們想在社交平台Mastodon重現Twitter 而Mastodon不樂見
Among the reasons given for blocking users from the server are that it is allegedly populated by “click-bait/tabloid journalists” who “can be expected to collect, search through, and misinterpret anything you say with the goal to share this publicly to an as big audience as possible, enabling hate and harassment to any one as long as it gives them clicks [sic].” Others who have blocked the server say that its members are likely to be “surveillance capitalists” or “mainstream propagandists.”
✎ AXIOS 美國數位新聞網站《AXIOS》｜20221108
Newspapers shudder at threat of recession
報紙因經濟衰退因素瑟瑟發抖
Experts are sounding the alarm that a possible recession could threaten the embattled newspaper industry, whose two highest cost centers — labor and paper distribution — soared in the wake of the pandemic.
✎ PressGazette 英國《新聞公報》｜20221102
Meta to replace Facebook News tab’s human editors with AI
Meta以AI技術取代人工編輯臉書的新聞標籤
Meta plans to end human curation of the UK Facebook News tab, turning it into a fully automated product, Press Gazette has learned.
✎ DIGIDAY 美國數位媒體《數位日報》｜20221025
Why some of the largest publishers are breaking up with ad tech middlemen
何以大型出版商與廣告科技中介商分道揚鑣？
The prospect that publishers might walk away from ad tech vendors once seemed laughably remote. When it was mentioned at all it was mainly a negotiating tactic aimed at securing favorable commercial terms for publishers. Nowadays, there’s real intent whenever these moves are discussed.
✎ ENGADGET 科技新聞網站《ENGADGET》｜20221020
Google launches its News Showcase program in France
Google在法國推出News Showcase服務
It will give users free access to some paywalled content from partner publications.
✎ THE GUARDIAN 英國《衛報》｜20221009
CNN ‘deeply regrets’ distress caused by report on Thailand nursery killings
泰國托兒所槍擊慘案報導引發不快 CNN對此深表遺憾
News broadcaster’s footage of building’s blood-stained floor sparked police investigation