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Thursday, December 15, 2016
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Clamping down on viral fake news, Facebook partners with sites like Snopes and adds new user reportingA new system funnels fake news reports to fact-checkers from Snopes, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and ABC. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
 | Connecting with diverse perspectives“To ensure that news reports have impact, we’ll need to connect with readers because we reflect the readers.” By Doris Truong. |
 | From pinning tweets to tweeting pins“If it is a journalist’s job to report and analyze current events, we cannot do so while blind to the fact that people interact most directly with the news as consumers” By Margarita Noriega. |
 | The next revolution is voice“The first killer apps in this space will look a lot like an intelligent, thoughtful radio — a radio station tuned to your interests, a station that knows who you are and listens.” By Steve Henn. |
 | Local journalism will fight a new fight“We will never be able to compete with the national news outlets on scale. So instead, we will acknowledge our strengths: Proximity. Intimacy. Fidelity.” By Ashley C. Woods. |
 | The resurgence of reach“The mantra of ‘know your users and just concentrate on them’ may leave some news organizations fishing in an ever-shrinking pool of similar users.” By Tanya Cordrey. |
 | Tested like never before“News leaders will need to be brave enough to resist the urge to overcorrect.” By Vivian Schiller. |
 | From empathy to community“Empathy may help discover unmet needs in the short term, but community will allow news organizations to scale solutions and build greater trust in the long term.” By Emi Kolawole. |
 | Inspiration and hope will matter more than ever“The steady drumbeat of anger, violence, bullying, terror, war, despair, division, and fear will push people to seek out inspiration, meaning, and a reasoned exchange of ideas.” By Guy Raz. |
 | Chasing mobile search results“Some outlets will even choose what stories to cover based on anticipated search demand, walking the increasingly fine line between service journalism and content farming.” By Helen Havlak. |
 | Navigating power in Trump’s America“Welcome to fear and loathing in Trump’s America. Fear and loathing not only by the American citizenry, but also by the media whose job it is to cover him.” By Cory Haik. |
 | Building reader relationships“Currently, most — if not all — news organizations struggle to figure out who their existing users are, and they aren’t even close to knowing who their potential users are.” By Tracie Powell. |
 | A dangerous anti-press mix“It’s not enough for people to read the news. They have to trust it.” By Peter Sterne. |
 | The safe space of service journalism“The pendulum is swinging back, and at the forefront of that swing will be service journalism and trusted guidance.” By Tim Herrera. |
 | History will exclude you, again“Every aspect of technology has been also influenced by women and people of color — but somehow they get left out of the narrative and excluded from leadership roles.” By Robert Hernandez. |
 | Nonprofits team up for impact“But that only gets you so far if all those publications have a largely overlapping audience nested securely within the progressive bubble.” By Scott Dodd. |
 | What can we own?“2016 offered painful reminders of all the things that media doesn’t control.” By Javaun Moradi. |
 | The aberration of 20th-century journalism“High-quality, high-cost, and crucially high-impact journalism is a cultural form worthy of our support and protection and not a commercial product in search of a business model.” By Gabriel Snyder. |
 | Pure reach has reached its limit“In this coming year, publishers may no longer be able to afford to consider reach without return.” By Renée Kaplan. |
 | A rise in high-price, high-value subscriptions“While large-scale social platform distribution makes sense for a number of publications to reach as many readers wherever they are on whatever device or platform, scale isn’t everything to everyone in the media ecosystem.” By Nushin Rashidian. |
 | Incorporating audience feedback at scale“Existing audiences who feel that their experiences are seriously considered are more likely to remain engaged and, where relevant, pay to subscribe.” By Emily Goligoski. |
 | Local news gets interesting“Going deep with local news means creating uniquely valuable journalism, rather than fighting the traffic battle against dozens of hot takes on Washington's latest twists and turns.” By Burt Herman. |
 | Podcasting’s coming class war“The independent community will be pressured into self-organizing. Though the ecosystem will end the year less open than when it started the year, there will at least be formal sites of resistance.” By Nicholas Quah. |
 | Virtual reality on mobile leaps forward“Storytelling using VR will be easier to achieve, and more members of the audience will be prepared to welcome it.” By Mario Garcia. |
 | The year of the newsy podcast“In a crowded marketplace, maybe that’s what young people want — reliable news with a trustworthy perspective. They’re not looking for omniscient objectivity, but trusted, truthful perspectives.” By Asma Khalid. |
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The Verge / Natt Garun
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation / Lincoln Archer
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“Just one month since its launch, ABC News has clocked up more than 70,000 subscribers”