YULI AHMADA: Februari 2017

Selasa, 28 Februari 2017

Getting to the root of the “fake news” problem means fixing what’s broken about journalism itself: The latest from Nieman Lab

Monday, February 27, 2017

Getting to the root of the “fake news” problem means fixing what’s broken about journalism itself

At MisinfoCon, stopping “fake news” wasn’t the only focus: Issues from news literacy to newsroom standards and reader empathy to ad revenue were all up for discussion. By Shan Wang.

Marc Andreessen is still an optimist about the future of news, three years post-tweetstorm

“I think I am more convinced that consolidation needs to happen (across broadcast TV, cable TV, newspaper, magazine, radio, wire service, Internet).” By Joshua Benton.

The Atlantic brings readers into its archives with timelines based on their birthdays

What We’re Reading

The Verge / Casey Newton

Mozilla acquires Pocket to gain a foothold on mobile devices →

“Pocket comes to the table with 10 million monthly active users and a set of existing and potential businesses new to Mozilla, including advertising, a premium subscription service, and analytics for publishers.”

Digiday / Max Willens

The Huffington Post is trying to reach teenage girls via email, that thing they have to use for class sometimes →

“We know that teens haven't really made decisions about the brands they're going to allow into their lives in a behavioral way. This is about introducing them to HuffPost's brand.”

Politico / Louis Nelson

George W. Bush calls the media “indispensable to democracy” →

“Power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive, and it’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.”

Poynter / Benjamin Mullin

Months after breaking the Panama Papers, ICIJ is going independent →

“Our team had achieved what had never been achieved before. And here I was, facing the prospect of having to lay off journalists that were the heroes of this story.”

Society for News Design

These are the winners of the Society for News Design’s Best of Digital Design 2016 →

Gold medals to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

BuzzFeed / Joseph Bernstein

How YouTube serves as the content engine of the Internet’s dark side →

“The entire contemporary conspiracy-industrial complex of internet investigation and social media promulgation, which has become a defining feature of media and politics in the Trump era, would be a very small fraction of itself without YouTube.

Medium / James Tyner

Dear news media: Create news for people who have never read a newspaper →

“For people like us, who didn't grow up with newspapers and who have used the internet since we were toddlers, a lot of the conventions of news today don't make sense.”

NPR.org / Sam Sanders

How the media are using encryption tools to collect anonymous tips →

“I think what we’re seeing is things like Signal almost democratizing that ability [to leak].” Plus see our guide to how to leak here.

The Independent / Niamh McIntyre

Another 100 companies pull advertising from Breitbart →

“Audi, Visa, T Mobile and Lufthansa have joined the growing list of companies to withdraw, according to Sleeping Giants, the group behind the campaign, which claims that at least 1,250 advertisers no longer wish to be associated with it.”

Stratechery / Ben Thompson

How Twitter could do “live” better →

“Imagine a Twitter app that, instead of a generic Moment that is little more than Twitter's version of a thousand re-blogs, let you replay your Twitter stream from any particular moment in time.”

Sabtu, 25 Februari 2017

3 (free) things that journalists can do right now to protect their data and their sources at the border: The latest from Nieman Lab

Friday, February 24, 2017

3 (free) things that journalists can do right now to protect their data and their sources at the border

A guide for the slightly paranoid. By Laura Hazard Owen.

With truth and science under attack, Wired’s new editor Nick Thompson is planning a defense

“Wired is doing well, but this industry changes so fast that you have to be on top of all these opportunities and you have to look at ways you can evolve while staying core to what you really believe.” By Ricardo Bilton.

Despite monetization concerns, many news orgs are still all-in on platforms, says new Tow Report

What We’re Reading

Medium / Simon Galperin

The German startup Opinary is expanding to the U.S. →

The company creates embeddable tools that allow readers to share their opinions. We wrote about Opinary last summer.

Bloomberg / Gerry Smith

Univision starts a new e-sports website run by ex-Gawker Media editors →

“Editors of Deadspin and the gaming-themed Kotaku will run the new publication, called Compete, starting with two full-time writers who will cover the news and culture of competitive video-gaming. Gillette will be the sole advertiser for the first six months.”

AdWeek / Sami Main

Women’s Wear Daily scales back print editions and cuts staff →

The company said it’s looking to hire more digital staff and will only print special issues.

Digiday / Sahil Patel

Facebook wants longer videos, but takes away key view metric →

“Some publishers aren't pleased with the development, arguing that Facebook has removed a key metric that allows them to demonstrate actual engagement of their content. It comes at a confusing time, they add, because Facebook is now prioritizing longer watch time and higher-quality videos.”

Poynter / Kristen Hare

McClatchy’s new Video Lab West unit will experiment with VR, AR, and 360 video →

“The lab, based at the Sacramento Valley Train Station, will offer room for workshops, training and focus on working with fellows from outside the company. Google and YouTube employees will collaborate with the the fellowship classes, which will begin in 2017.”

Digiday / Shareen Pathak

The mystery of ad-buyer blacklists →

“The rise of Breitbart and focused attention on hard-right, fraudulent and fake-news sites have created renewed interest in blacklisting among brand clients, who look to it as a way to make sure their ads aren't appearing on sites that will embarrass the brand.”

Digiday / Lucia Moses

CNN relaunches its mobile app around – what else? – video →

"No one really knows when it'll happen, but in next couple years there'll be an inflection point where it's almost equitable, the amount of video that's being consumed on mobile versus desktop versus the television experience. We're trying to anticipate,” said Rajin Persaud, vp of mobile and TV products at CNN.

Washington Post

The Washington Post’s Arc Publishing signs New Zealand’s largest media company →

New Zealand Media and Entertainment is the 12 media company around the world to start using Arc.

Glossy / Bethany Biron

How 4 fashion publishers are using Instagram’s new galleries feature →

“For fashion publications that thrive on purveying the latest styles to the masses, having the opportunity to share a slideshow of looks, rather than inundating the feeds of followers with several standalone posts, is an opportunity to share more streamlined content to users.”

Current / Tyler Falk

NPR proposes new dues structure, strategy for stronger future with stations →

“NPR management has recommended to the board a pricing plan of flat annual increases in station membership dues and fees for newsmagazines and digital services. The increases are scaled to seven tiers based on station revenue, with the largest stations earning more than $20 million in annual revenue slated for a 4.25 percent increase each year. Meanwhile, stations with less than $500,000 in total annual revenue will see no increases.”

Jumat, 24 Februari 2017

The Ida B. Wells Society wants to build a better pipeline to connect news orgs with journalists of color: The latest from Nieman Lab

Thursday, February 23, 2017

The Ida B. Wells Society wants to build a better pipeline to connect news orgs with journalists of color

While investigative reporting is some of the most critical work journalists do, few of the people doing it are non-white. By Ricardo Bilton.

Newsonomics: Softbank, Fortress, Trump – and the real story of Gatehouse's boundless ambition

A leadership void in newspaper companies has opened up local journalism further to private equity firms looking to vacuum out profits. By Ken Doctor.

This tool from Google parent Alphabet tries to tackle “toxic” comments through machine learning

What We’re Reading

Axios / Sara Fischer and Shannon Vavra

The recent explosion of right-wing news sites →

“The data shows there has been an explosion of right-leaning news sites, coinciding with the rise of the Tea Party and alt-right movements beginning in 2010.”

Spotlight Fellowship

March 1 is the deadline to apply for The Boston Globe’s $100,000 Spotlight Fellowship →

“For one or more individuals or teams of journalists to work on in-depth research and reporting projects. The chosen journalist(s) will collaborate with established investigative reporters and editors from The Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Spotlight Team.”

The New Yorker / Elizabeth Kolbert

Why facts don’t change our minds →

“If we—or our friends or the pundits on CNN—spent less time pontificating and more trying to work through the implications of policy proposals, we'd realize how clueless we are and moderate our views. This, they write, ‘may be the only form of thinking that will shatter the illusion of explanatory depth and change people's attitudes.'”

Recode / Kurt Wagner

Facebook is starting to put ads in the middle of its videos →

“This is big news for publishers, many of which have trouble making money off videos they share to Facebook. Facebook lets publishers make money from branded content, or videos they create for marketers, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg has always been opposed to pre-roll ads, which are standard in the industry.”

BuzzFeed / Steven Perlberg

Facebook is meeting with top editors and news executives to smooth over its relationship with the media →

"They are this enormous player in the news business, and they don't yet know how to think about their own role and near hegemony," said New Yorker editor David Remnick, who attended a meeting at the home of Campbell Brown, Facebook’s new head of news partnerships.

Politico / Hadas Gold

The New York Times using the Oscars to launch a new ad campaign about ‘The Truth’ →

“Thirty second ad spots for the Oscars can run as much as $2.5 million each, according to Broadcasting and Cable Magazine, meaning the Times is paying a hefty fee for their splashy campaign. Over the past decade, Academy Awards broadcasts have averaged between 34 and 44 million live viewers, an audience only matched by NFL games”

Bloomberg / Joe Mayes

The FT is reportedly cutting 20 newsroom jobs as print revenue continues to fall →

“The newspaper is offering a handful of voluntary buyouts and won't replace some people who are leaving, which will cause headcount to shrink, said Kristina Eriksson, an FT spokeswoman, in an e-mailed statement. The Financial Times has about 600 editorial staff worldwide.”

Kamis, 23 Februari 2017

This anti-Brexit newspaper first launched as a pop-up, but it’s doing well enough to continue indefinitely: The latest from Nieman Lab

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

This anti-Brexit newspaper first launched as a pop-up, but it’s doing well enough to continue indefinitely

“If I were a U.S. journalist, I would be looking to launch The Trump Watch.” By Joseph Lichterman.

Brazil’s own Politico? Supported by paid newsletters, Poder360 digs into the country’s power structures

Revenue from a three-times-daily insider newsletter for corporate clients supports a newsgathering operation of more than 20 writers. By Natalia Mazotte.

Gather will offer a platform to explore questions around community engagement

What We’re Reading

Columbia Journalism Review / Emily Bell

How Mark Zuckerberg could really fix journalism →

“If, instead of scrapping over news initiatives, the four or five leading technology companies could donate $1 billion in endowment each for a new type of engine for independent journalism, it would be more significant a contribution than a thousand scattered initiatives put together.”

Politico / Nicholas Vinocur

Breitbart’s European offensive: all talk, no action →

“People involved in the expansion effort told Politico that difficulties in recruiting journalists, questions about which language to use and a desire to make a high impact on launch have all slowed down efforts to establish French and German editions.”

The New York Times / Farhad Manjoo

I ignored Trump news for a week. Here’s what I learned →

“My point: I wanted to see what I could learn about the modern news media by looking at how thoroughly Mr. Trump had subsumed it. In one way, my experiment failed: I could find almost no Trump-free part of the press.”

Immerse / Sam Ford

Investment in innovation should strive to make the whole newsroom “the lab” →

“That is a common refrain for innovation groups and labs inside a news organization; even when the budgets are lean for such groups, they can seem among the hardest for companies to justify keeping through a change in leadership or a quarter that doesn't meet financial expectations.”

Immerse / Aleszu Bajak

Booting up immersive news labs →

“Newsrooms are investing in laboratories to experiment with new storyforms. But many continue to rely on outside partners for their most ambitious immersive projects.”

Rabu, 22 Februari 2017

How to cover pols who lie, and why facts don’t always change minds: Updates from the fake-news world: The latest from Nieman Lab

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

How to cover pols who lie, and why facts don’t always change minds: Updates from the fake-news world

“Putting others’ words in quotation marks, to signal, ‘We don't know if this is true, we're just telling you what they said’ or even ‘Nudge, nudge, we know this isn't true,’ is a journalistic cop-out.” By Laura Hazard Owen.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is on a White House hit list for elimination

That’s bad in ways you already know and in more ways you don't. By Nicholas Quah.

What We’re Reading

Long Island University

These are the winners of the 2016 Polk Awards →

Winners include the Times, the Post, ProPublica, The Arizona Republic, and East Bay Express. (The awards are named for George Polk, a CBS correspondent who was assassinated on his way to starting a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard.)

Journalism.co.uk / Madalina Ciobanu

How WNYC’s Note to Self worked with its audience to start a conversation about digital privacy →

“Texting was fun and very effective, but in terms of being able to get a little deeper, there were limitations, so we decided to measure via the newsletter this time.”

Business Insider / Maxwell Tani

Entertainment news outlets wade into politics coverage →

“Overall, I guess you could say Donald Trump has finally, officially dragged politics down to our bread-and-circuses-and-tweets level, and we’re meeting him there.”

The Coral Project / Jesikah Maria Ross

How California’s Capital Public Radio built productive partnerships for community engaged journalism →

“Here are five lessons gleaned from the approach we took on Hidden Hunger, a multiplatform documentary that tells the stories of people coping with food insecurity and those working to alleviate hunger.”

Monday Note / Frederic Filloux

How Facebook and Google could disrupt the subscription model for news →

“By applying their technology to the publishers' antiquated subscription systems, the two Internet giants could help create a sustainable news ecosystem.”

Quartz / Alison Griswold

Facebook isn’t going after LinkedIn — it’s chasing a much, much bigger jobs market →

“When it comes to matching employers with job seekers, this means Facebook has a much bigger space to play in. Facebook's users include LinkedIn's ‘thought leaders’ and white-collar professionals, but they're also people seeking hourly positions, part-time work, and other opportunities that they'd probably find on sites like Monster, Indeed, or Craigslist long before LinkedIn. Facebook's job listings for the New York metro area currently include apprentice fitness coach, salon assistant, and professional valet driver.”

Columbia Journalism Review / Shelley Hepworth

Leaders of union drive among those laid off at Slate →

“Alissa Neil, a spokeswoman for Slate, denied the layoffs were targeted: ‘The layoffs this week were unrelated to any union activity,’ she wrote in an email to CJR. ‘Workers at Slate are of course free to make whatever decisions they want about organizing, and those decisions have not had and will never have any impact on their employment status here.'”

TechCrunch / Josh Constine

WhatsApp launches Status, an encrypted Snapchat Stories clone →

“It's another Facebook-owned Snapchat Stories copycat, but the twist is that it's end-to-end encrypted like WhatsApp messaging.”

Columbia Journalism Review / Lyz Lenz

New editor-in-chief takes Texas Monthly in a “lifestyle” direction →

However, in an editor’s note published after the CJR story was released, editor-in-chief Tim Taliaferro said, “In making this comment, I unfortunately gave the CJR the wrong impression.”

Digiday

How Swiss news publisher Le Temps is resurfacing evergreen content →

“Swiss news publisher Le Temps has a whimsically named Project Zombie that notifies the editor, via Slack bot or email, which articles will do well if they are published again on the site or social media.”

Journalism.co.uk / Caroline Scott

Ten Facebook Live tips from the Hindustan Times →

‘We’re doing a lot of Facebook Lives because we are seeing such incredible results,’ said Yusuf Omar, mobile editor, Hindustan Times, who noted the top three most-viewed videos on the publisher’s Facebook page last week were all live, shot on smartphones.”