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Tuesday, February 21, 2017
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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. |
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is on a White House hit list for eliminationThat’s bad in ways you already know and in more ways you don't. By Nicholas Quah. |
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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.”