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🗞 Global Investigative Journalism Network｜20201221
✅ Data Journalism Top 10 for 2020: COVID-19, Saving the Nile, Shape of Dreams, Visualizations for the Colorblind

This year — the year of the pandemic — in which the coronavirus dominated public conversation and news headlines, our mapping from January 1 to December 13 reflects that reality.

🗞 Columbia Journalism Review｜20201216
✅ The 2020 Journalism Crisis: A year in review

2020 was a banner year for news. While the year in journalism yielded intrepid political reporting amid a contentious election year, vital public health information amid a pandemic, and exacting historical analysis amid historic protests, publications across the country cut back: stripping salaries, ousting staffers, closing offices, and shutting down print editions.

🗞 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”.