🗞 The Guardian 英國《衛報》｜20211204
✅ Nobel winner: ‘We journalists are the defence line between dictatorship and war’
諾貝爾獎得主：「我們記者室獨裁和戰爭之間的防線」

“It’s a huge signal that we are in that same kind of moment. We are on the verge of fascism. It’s different this time because it’s being enabled by technology but it’s also happening faster. There is this insidious manipulation happening at scale and humanity is wrapping its head around that.”
It is, she says, “a sliding doors moment”.

🗞 International Journalists’ Network (IJNet) 國際記者網｜20211124
✅ What J-Schools should teach about freelancing
關於「自由特約」新聞學院應該教導的事

A colleague, who preferred not to be named, said that because she was new to freelancing, she had no idea how to properly pitch a story. A journalism graduate, she asked if a pitch should include a full reported draft. Her school did not prepare her for this element of reporting.

🗞 Journalism.co.uk 英國新聞媒體網站《Journalism.co.uk》｜20211123
✅ Check out this new guide on how AI can support your journalism
新指南：人工智能如何協助您的新聞工作？

The team behind the JournalismAI project at LSE has created a resource that covers just about every question journalists may have about artificial intelligence and its place in the newsroom.

🗞 NIEMAN LAB 哈佛大學尼曼新聞基金會《尼曼新聞實驗室》｜20211116
✅ About a third of news organizations have already adopted a remote or hybrid working model
新聞機構約 1/3 已採取遠端或混合工作模式

Just 9% of newsrooms plan to reject remote work and return to their pre-pandemic setup.

🗞 Nieman Lab 哈佛大學尼曼新聞基金會《尼曼新聞實驗室》｜20211110
✅ Public access television channels are an untapped resource for building local journalism
公共近用電視頻道是建立在地新聞的未開發資源

Instead of letting public access channels wither due to commercial market fluctuations, we should publicly fund and expand the precious communication infrastructure that access media offers.

🗞 Journalists Resource 哈佛大學肖倫斯坦中心《記者資源》｜20211101
✅ How the Internet of Things poses a threat to journalists
物聯網如何對記者構成威脅？

A cybersecurity researcher discusses the IoT devices journalists might encounter at work and at home — and how these devices can threaten their work and wellbeing.

🗞 THE WASHINGTON POST 《華盛頓郵報》 ｜20211026
✅ How Facebook shapes your feed
臉書如何形塑你的動態消息？

Facebook’s news feed algorithm has been blamed for fanning sectarian hatred, steering users toward extremism and conspiracy theories, and incentivizing politicians to take more divisive stands. It’s in the spotlight thanks to waves of revelations from the Facebook Papers and testimony from whistleblower Frances Haugen, who argues it’s at the core of the company’s problems.

🗞 Nieman Lab 哈佛大學尼曼新聞基金會《尼曼新聞實驗室》｜20211020
✅ It’s time to create an alternative path into a journalism career
是時候建立通往新聞事業的替代道路了！

American journalists look less and less like the country they cover — in terms of race, class, and background. We need to expand the pool of people who can enter the industry, and an idea from K-12 education might help.

🗞 NIEMAN LAB 哈佛大學《尼曼新聞實驗室》｜20211013
✅ Media consolidation and algorithms make Facebook a bad place for sharing local news, study finds 研究發現：媒體整合及演算法讓臉書成為分享在地新聞的歹所在

The combination of local news outlets being bought out by bigger media conglomerates and the ever-present influence of social media in helping spread news seems to have created a new phenomenon, according to a new study: Issues of importance to local audiences are being drowned out in favor of harder-hitting news pieces with national relevance.

🗞 REST OF WORLD 國際非營利新聞機構《海外》（報導全球科技新聞，記者團隊會說 20 種語言、來自 41 個國家，且在不斷增加中）｜20211005
✅ How the Facebook outage crippled businesses and communication around the world 臉書大當機是如何癱瘓全球商業與通訊？

Facebook’s products are more than just a social network for hundreds of millions of people globally. Beyond being communication tools, the company’s platforms are e-commerce resources, storefronts, and health and emergency aids. In some regions, Facebook is the internet.