✎ THE GUARDIAN 英國《衛報》｜20220624
A year on from Apple Daily’s closure, what’s left of Hong Kong’s free press?
《蘋果日報》停刊一年後 香港新聞自由還剩下什麼？
With the newspaper’s founder and senior editors jailed, other pro-democracy media outlets shut and 1,000 journalists out of work, can press freedom survive in the territory?
✎ AXIOS 美國數位新聞網站《AXIOS》｜20220621
U.S. digital newspaper ad revenue expected to surpass print by 2026
美國數位報紙廣告收益將在2026年超越紙本報紙收益
The U.S. is expected to make history in 2026 when it becomes the first major media market in the world to see digital newspaper ad revenue eclipse print newspaper ad revenue, according to a new report from PwC.
✎ PressGazette 英國《新聞公報》｜20220615
Trust and interest in news falls in UK with Sun, Mail and Mirror bottom of table
英人對新聞業的信任與感興趣程度下降 《太陽報》、《每日郵報》與《每日鏡報》排名墊底
Almost half (46%) of British people actively avoid reading the news as a result of fatigue at excessive Covid and political coverage and a drop in trust in journalism, a new report has found.
✎ CJR 美國《哥倫比亞新聞評論》｜20220607
Two years of journalists scrambling to make sense of an ever-changing pandemic
兩年來記者爭先恐後地理解不斷變化的Covid-19疫情
Exhilarating because the coverage at times has been superb. Newsrooms eventually recognized the magnitude of what was happening, and remade themselves around a single story. At its best, journalism rediscovered its mission as a critical public service.
✎ THE JOURNALIST’S RESOURCE 哈佛大學肖倫斯坦中心《記者資源》｜20220528
Want to reach skeptics? Researchers suggest leaving the term ‘climate change’ out of some news coverage
報導想觸及氣候變遷懷疑論者？研究人員建議將「氣候變遷」一詞從新聞報導中剔除
An experiment finds small changes in framing and word choice can elicit significant changes in how science skeptics engage with news coverage of climate change.
✎ REUTERS 《路透社》｜20220523
Denmark hits streaming services with levy to support local TV
援助當地電視媒體 丹麥對串流媒體服務徵稅
Lawmakers in Denmark have agreed global TV streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon and Disney must pay a levy of 6% of their revenue in the country to support local TV production.
✎ PRESS GAZETTE 英國《新聞公報》｜20220515
BBC digital director: ‘Social media platforms are often working against us’
BBC數位總監：社群媒體平台老是跟我們作對
BBC digital director Naja Nielsen accused social media companies of “working against” journalists as she called on publishers to build up audiences on their own platforms.
BBC數位總監Naja Nielsen指控社群媒體公司與記者作對，因此呼籲各大出版商自己建立受眾平台。
✎ AP 《美聯社》｜20220510
Running Twitter may be much harder than Elon Musk thinks
經營推特或許比馬斯克所想的還要難得多
“If Musk is concerned that many people were upset that Trump was banned, he should see how many more people would be upset if Trump was not banned,” said Kirsten Martin, a professor of technology ethics at the University of Notre Dame. “Musk only appears to be worried about the opinion of a small group of individuals who incite violence or perpetuate hate speech.”
✎ RSF 無國界記者組織｜20220503
RSF’s 2022 World Press Freedom Index : a new era of polarisation
無國界記者組織公布2022世界新聞自由指數：兩極化的新時代
The 20th World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reveals a two-fold increase in polarisation amplified by information chaos – that is, media polarisation fuelling divisions within countries, as well as polarisation between countries at the international level.
✎ DIGIDAY 美國數位媒體《數位日報》｜20220425
Publishers seek reader payments without the pressure of a paywall
出版商在沒有付費牆壓力下尋求讀者付費訂閱
Business publisher Quartz has joined the likes of Vox and The Guardian in moving to a membership model, backed by the belief that readers will want to support the missions and journalism of the respective publishers enough to pay them without the pressure of a paywall. And Vice News plans to add a tip jar to gather reader donations this year. But can publishers still grow direct reader revenue without a paywall?