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Tuesday, February 14, 2017
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No mugshot exploitation here: The New Haven Independent aims to respect the reputations of those arrested in the community it coversThe news site has an unusual policy on crime reporting: No names or mugshots of those arrested unless they're public figures, the arrest is judged to be a public emergency, or its reporters are able to interview the accused directly. By Shan Wang. |
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Reply All gets a movie deal (with Robert Downey Jr.), and Spotify is on the hunt for original showsPlus: First Look Media’s launches a new Richard Simmons podcast, Stitcher goes premium, Spotify looks into original podcast content, and Radiolab goes remix. By Nicholas Quah. |
What We’re Reading
BuzzFeed / Steven Perlberg
How Donald Trump launched a new golden age for cable TV →
“The proof is in the tweeting. Last month, after a Bill O'Reilly segment on gun violence in Chicago, Trump posted the same statistics to highlight the "carnage." Minutes after a Fox News segment described Chelsea Manning — whose prison sentence was commuted by President Obama — as a "traitor," Trump tweeted the same descriptor.”
Quartz / Kevin J. Delaney
Bill Gates: “If anybody says we don’t need the media, that’s a little scary” →
“It's hard to be neutral, which is why having many media groups and reducing barriers to entry—which the digital technology has done—is a very good thing. The one thing that's new that is a little concerning is people seeking out things that are really not giving them the facts… playing to a narrow worldview—that is a concern.”
Recode / Kurt Wagner
Facebook is launching an app for Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV →
Facebook made a few other announcements today as well: Autoplay videos will now play with the sound on, it’ll have a picture-in-picture feature so you can scroll through your newsfeed and still watch video, and Facebook will now also support vertical video for all iOS and Android users because users were “more likely to watch vertical videos for longer and with the sound on.”
The Wall Street Journal / Shalini Ramachandran
NBCUniversal, BuzzFeed co-developing TV content →
“The companies said the first of the shows will be a ‘crime investigation docu-series’—akin to Netflix's ‘Making a Murderer’ and HBO's ‘The Jinx’—based on investigative reporting by a BuzzFeed News reporter, Katie J.M. Baker. The series will trace the case of Jessica Chambers, a Mississippi teenager who was mysteriously burned alive in December 2014.”
the Guardian / Amanda Meade
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is launching a factchecking partnership with a university →
"I think it's interesting that since we haven't been fact-checking, some of the old claims that we pinged are creeping back into the public debate again. Politicians breathed a sigh of relief when we disappeared. It's not just the politicians but anything that will affect public policy."
Wall Street Journal / Alexander Davis
For media startups, “the resistance will be venture-backed” →
An array of tech-focused opponents, journalistic outlets, and civic-engagement groups across the U.S. are marshaling forces to strike back against the Trump administration. They are teaming up with venture capitalists and other investors who are stunned by Trump's election and aghast at what the young administration already has done out of the gate.
Knight Foundation
Knight is holding an open call in March for ideas to improve the news and information ecosystem →
In mid-March, Knight will begin accepting applications for early-stage experiments that tackle concerns about trust and misinformation. The open call will be designed to test ideas and assumptions, and to attract a range of projects from inside and outside of Knight’s usual network. The details are still in flux (send input to: journalism@knightfoundation.org).
Columbia Journalism Review / Tamar Wilner
Facebook appeals to Texas reporters during local journalism roadshow →
The "News on Facebook" roadshow debuted last week in Dallas, where the social media company hosted roughly 70 print and broadcast reporters, most of them from Texas media. It also stopped in Atlanta, and will make trips to Seattle and San Diego soon.
Time / Andrew Katz
That viral photo of Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump isn’t what it seems →
“In this case, the photographer, Kevin Lamarque of Reuters, pushed the shutter in the fraction of the second that it took Trudeau to register Trump’s request to shake hands, isolating a moment that was never meant to be so editorialized.”