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Monday, January 23, 2017
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With Indivisible, public radio stations hope the call-in format will help Americans find common groundThe show is “about understanding the values that we hold and how we want to be — what are our shared hopes and dreams for who we want to be in the world and how are we seen,” says WNYC CEO Laura Walker. By Ricardo Bilton. |
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Patreon is helping The Asheville Blade connect directly with readers — and skip over advertisers entirely“I never have to consider if a story I run is going to make me take a financial hit. That lack of pressure gives us a huge amount of independence.” By Ricardo Bilton. |
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ProPublica is leading a nationwide effort to document hate crimes, with local and national partners“We're not alone in trying to compile the numbers, and we're not alone in trying to track all reports.” By Shan Wang. |
What We’re Reading
Twitter / laura_june
Matter Studios, the incubator that Medium spun off last year, has apparently shut down →
Its mission had been to give creators “the financing and creative support to develop different media products under their own brands.” We’ve asked the company for comment.
Wall Street Journal / Mike Shields
Vox Media taps Lindsay Nelson as its first CMO →
“Ms. Nelson will oversee a new marketing division within Vox that encompasses branded content, the company's growing stable of advertising products, revenue streams (such as ad revenue share deals with platforms like Facebook) and ad partnerships.”
johnkeefe.net / John Keefe
WNYC’s John Keefe is joining Quartz’s new Bot Studio →
The senior editor of WNYC’s data news team will join Quartz to help it build bots through its new Knight-funded Quartz Bot Studio and to manage future iterations of the organization’s iPhone and Android apps.
TechCrunch / Natasha Lomas
Fake news’ power to influence shrinks with a contextual warning, study finds →
“Researchers found that combining facts about climate change with a small dose of misinformation — in the form of a warning about potential distortion — helped study participants resist the influence of the false information.”
New York Times / Katie Benner
Snapchat Discover takes a hard line on misleading and explicit images →
“The new rules more explicitly restrict publishers from posting questionable pictures on Discover that do not have news or editorial value. Snapchat also clarified guidelines that prevent publishers from including reports or links to outside websites that could be considered fake news, saying that all content must be fact-checked and accurate.”
Chalkbeat
Chalkbeat is expanding to Detroit →
The education news site’s Detroit expansion joins its coverage in Indiana, New York, Colorado, and Tennessee.
Medium / Ernst-Jan Pfauth
De Correspondent now has 50,000 paying members →
“Some 78% of members pay €60 a year (around $65), the other 22% pay €6 a month ($6.50).”
Nytimes / Ben Smith
BuzzFeed News’ editor-in-chief Ben Smith explains why BuzzFeed published the Trump dossier →
“If I were to design a media ecosystem from scratch, it wouldn't be this one. And I certainly did not anticipate this environment in the utopian, early days of digital journalism 15 years ago. The web was supposed to allow powerful media organizations to build trust and connections to their audience by sharing their knowledge and sources. The audience could hold power to account. At its best, that kind of transparency has been powerful.”
Recode / Eric Johnson
How the press can save itself in the age of Trump →
"In order for the press to recover some authority, so that what it says about Trump makes a difference, I think journalists have to conduct an extraordinary act of listening that they've never tried to do before," says Jay Rosen.
Poynter / Melody Kramer
What does a news organization optimized for trust look like? →
“Since November, there's been a renewed interest in thinking about ways to rebuild trust with audiences, to listen to audiences and to include audiences as trusted partners in our work.”