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🗞 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.

🗞 Harvard Business Review｜20200930
✅ Breaking Up Facebook Won’t Fix Social Media

ℹ One idea I discuss at length in the book is whether breaking up Facebook will fix the social media morass. Antitrust regulators are certainly eager to dismantle the world’s largest social network. Their argument for doing so cites a litany of real harms, including the erosion of privacy, the spread of misinformation and hate speech, the acceleration of political polarization, and threats to the integrity of elections.

🗞 journalism.co.uk｜20200922
✅ New online tool helps journalists report on suicide ethically

ℹ Despite existing guidelines, one in four stories published in the UK still provides explicit details of the method and more than a half of articles do not contain helpline information. This guide aims to tackle the problem.

🗞 NIEMAN REPORTS｜20200915
✅ Newsrooms Should Make Space for Emotions

ℹ Fostering more empathetic, honest, and grounded newsrooms will produce deeper storytelling.