✎ TECHCRUNCH 資訊科技媒體《TechCrunch》｜20230202
Twitter to end free access to its API in Elon Musk’s latest monetization push
Elon Musk最近推動推特貨幣化政策 推特將終止免費支援API服務
Twitter will discontinue offering free access to the Twitter API starting February 9 and will launch a paid version, the Elon Musk-owned microblogging website said as it looks for more avenues to monetize the platform.
✎ DEADLINE 美國線上雜誌《Deadline》｜20230112
BBC Director General Tim Davie On Digital Switchover: “We’re Not Putting A Date On It Or Anything Stupid Like That”
BBC總裁Tim Davie針對電視數位轉換表示：「我們並未將數位化或任何愚蠢決定設定時間」
The BBC is “not proactively putting a date on a digital switchover or anything stupid like that,” Director General Tim Davie has said, but rather sparking a “broader conversation across the UK for when we do move across.”
✎ NPR 美國全國公共廣播電台｜20221229
For 3 big Alabama newspapers, the presses are grinding to a halt
美國阿拉巴馬州三大報停刊
As papers disappear, Abernathy says the question is whether digital publications can play the same role in civic life that newspapers traditionally have.
“The best, strongest, most committed daily newspapers really help bind together a state,” Abernathy says. “And I think that’s really what you’re dealing with is what is the relevance of these papers in a digital age? Who is setting the agenda for the topics that will be discussed, debated and decided on?”
✎ NPR 美國全國公共廣播電台｜20221229
Independent journalists in India are being targeted for their critical reporting
印度的獨立記者因其批判性報導而成為攻擊目標
NPR’s A Martinez talks to Washington Post columnist Rana Ayyub, who’s been critical of India’s prime minister, about threats to press freedom in the country.
✎ THE GUARDIAN 英國《衛報》｜20221220
The Qatar World Cup should be a watershed moment in sports journalism
卡達世界盃足球賽應成為運動賽事報導的轉捩點
It is vital that journalists continue to apply the same critical lens they’ve used on the Qatar World Cup when the tournament comes to Canada, Mexico and the US in four years’ time
（編按：卡達世界盃足球賽期間，全球媒體從人權問題、炫富等角度切入，批判東道主卡達，希望未來賽事回到民主國家舉辦之時，記者也能以同樣標準去批判主辦國。）
✎ 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.”