🗞 MASHABLE｜20201208
✅ Facebook does not do original news reporting

“The results show that the ability to correctly identify whether news sources do their own reporting is limited — and also varies widely by source,” reads the report. “Around half or more correctly identify that ABC News (56%) and The Wall Street Journal (52%) do their own original reporting, while 51% know that Facebook does not do its own reporting.”

🗞 JOURNALISM.CO.UK｜20201127
✅ ‘Platforms should pay for news’ a peer committee says

ℹ In a new report on sustainability of journalism, peers also call for fixing the ‘dysfunctional online advertising market’ and a wider use of apprenticeships to diversify the industry.

🗞 COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW ｜20201122
✅ What Journalism Can Learn from Mutual Aid

ℹ The rise of mutual aid solidarity networks has resulted from untenable economic disparity and social breakdown. That should tell journalists something we badly need to hear: when government and civic institutions fail to provide equal benefits across society, marginalized people will create new systems.

🗞 HAPPY｜20201118
✅ Fake news travels six times faster than accurate sources of journalism, new report finds

ℹ According to a study co-written by Rui Fan, the anger prevalent in fake news travels faster because users associate it with real-world events. It can be easy to continue using our online accounts at a default capacity, but this will ultimately continue the circulation of misinformation as there is nothing to challenge it.

🗞 EuroScientist ｜20201105
✅ AI IN JOURNALISM : WITH POWER COME RESPONSIBILITIES

ℹ “A lot of tech innovation in journalism is funded by the Google News Initiative. It’s really cool that they do it. But Google is a company, right? Media play a key role in our democracy and they should always be independent.”

🗞 PEW RESEARCH CENTER｜20201029
✅ Coronavirus-Driven Downturn Hits Newspapers Hard as TV News Thrives
ℹ Digital ads represent a newer source of revenue for newspapers as their overall circulation declines. Such ads can reach not only subscribers, but visitors to the free offerings on newspapers’ websites. But digital ad revenue offered little relief in the early days of the pandemic. Digital ad revenue fell by a median of 32% year over year in the second quarter.

🗞 SUBSTACK｜20201027
✅ What’s a newspaper presidential endorsement worth?

ℹ Not much, really. And yet every four years we go through the motions.

🗞 TECHCRUNCH｜20201016
✅ Twitter changes its hacked materials policy in wake of New York Post controversy

ℹ Twitter has announced an update to its hacked materials policy — saying it will no longer remove hacked content unless it’s directly shared by hackers or those “acting in concert with them”.

🗞 NIEMAN REPORTS｜20201013
✅ How The Associated Press Plans to Report The Election Results

ℹ “We certainly want to tell the American people—and the world—who has won the presidency as soon as possible, but accuracy comes first”

🗞 PRESS GAZETTE｜20201006
✅ UK gov report links local newspaper circulation and voter turnout: Absence of journalism in some areas potentially ‘catastrophic’

ℹ Government -backed research has found that for every percentage point growth in a local daily newspaper’s circulation, electoral turnout on its patch goes up by 0.37 percentage points.