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Wednesday, February 15, 2017
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In a chaotic presidency, Civics 101 is giving listeners a reintroduction to how the U.S. government worksNew Hampshire Public Radio’s Civics 101 and The Washington Post’s Can He Do That? are helping to contextualize Trump’s presidency for those who don’t have much background knowledge. By Ricardo Bilton. |
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Dropped by NBC, Boston’s WHDH is placing a big bet on local news and aims to be “DVR-proof”Spurned by a network that wanted to own its own station in the market, WHDH has responded by offering 87 hours of local news a week. (Plus “Family Feud.”) By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
Wired / Samanth Subramanian
Meet the Macedonian teens who mastered fake news and corrupted the U.S. election →
“Between August and November, Boris earned nearly $16,000 off his two pro-Trump websites. The average monthly salary in Macedonia is $371.”
Digiday / Brian Morrissey
The Outline’s Josh Topolsky: There’s too much sameness in digital media →
“New digital brands get on the scene and say, 'I've got to get to 20 million [visitors], 50 million, whatever.' It's not about cultivating a brand or a voice. We could have the coolest ad product in the world, but it doesn't matter if we're not good, interesting and different and mean something to the audience we want to reach.”
Wired / Carl Brooks Jr.
Inside Blavity, the startup on a quest to be the news source for black millennials →
“Roughly 60 percent of the articles and videos on the site are submitted by readers, then edited by Blavity's staff.”
Digiday / Lucia Moses
How platforms get publishers to play the access game →
“We are seeing huge uplift, and I don't think we would have if we had stayed on the edges.”
Poynter / Melody Kramer
Meet the wildly popular blogger chronicling President Trump one day at a time →
“Matt now has more than 48,000 newsletter subscribers (and an enviable open rate over 50 percent) and is on pace to receive more than 2.5 million pageviews in February.”
Wired / Andy Greenberg
Edward Snowden’s new job: Protecting reporters from spies →
Snowden is focusing on “how to protect reporters and the people who feed them information in an era of eroding privacy—without requiring them to have an NSA analyst's expertise in encryption or to exile themselves to Moscow.”
Recode / Jason Del Rey
Marty Baron explains what it will take for the Washington Post to call a Trump lie a lie →
“‘I think we should call things false when we know they're false … and we have,’ Baron said. But using the word lie ‘does suggest that you know [the person] knew it was false’ and said it anyway. ‘Absent evidence of that,’ Baron said, don't expect the Washington Post to use the L word in reporting about the current administration.”