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Friday, March 17, 2017
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Harvard Library gets slammed for its earnest fake news guide: Updates from the fake news worldPlus: The science of why we spread stories, Russian propaganda gets into fake news, and a “satirical” fake news site pulls the plug after Whoopi Goldberg calls it out. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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“My goal in public media”: How 16 producers worked to create more community-focused journalismNew reports look at the impact of AIR’s Localore Finding America project, which embedded independent producers at public media stations around the country. By Joseph Lichterman. |
What We’re Reading
The Register / Katyanna Quach
Google Home is testing something that sounds a lot like audio ads →
“This isn’t an ad; the beauty in the Assistant is that it invites our partners to be our guest and share their tales.”
Ad Age / Garett Sloane
National advertisers call for audits at Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and more →
“Last month, Google and Facebook announced they would commit to verifying ad campaign data with the rating council. The moves followed a call by Marc Pritchard, Procter & Gamble’s global marketing officer, to clean up the digital media supply chain.”
CNN / Theodore Schleifer
For $675, you might be able to get a TV ad in front of Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago →
“Outside pressure groups are flocking to the West Palm Beach media market for narrow, cheap television campaigns on weekends when Trump calls it home. The budgets are small, but the buys are a reminder of the unusual efforts being undertaken just to convince one particularly avid television watcher.”
Source / Stacy-Marie Ishmael
This isn’t the diverse newsroom you’re looking for →
“It is not enough for us to merely admit that we have a problem, though there are still many of us for whom that would be a useful first step. Because there's knowing that we make a series of negative snap judgements about someone based on characteristics they have no control over, and then there's taking deliberate action to change that.”
Poynter / Benjamin Mullin
In Trump’s America, the competition for investigative journalists is fierce →
“It’s a ferocious battle for investigative talent,” said Carolyn Ryan, a masthead editor recently put in charge of recruiting at The New York Times. “It’s the most intense I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been hiring reporters for a long time.”
The New York Times / Farhad Manjoo
How the Internet is saving culture, not killing it →
“In the last few years, and with greater intensity in the last 12 months, people started paying for online content. They are doing so at an accelerating pace, and on a dependable, recurring schedule, often through subscriptions. And they're paying for everything.”
Business Insider / Maxwell Tani and Oliver darcy
Politico moves reporters to new beats as it refocuses media coverage around politics →
“The Politico media beat is not going to continue to run the way it has. They are going to move it to DC and change it substantially. It will be more about the intersection between media and politics, and less about the business of media,” an anonymous source told Business Insider.
The Guardian / Jane Martinson
The Guardian pulls ads from Google and YouTube after they were placed next to extremist material →
“Ads for the Guardian's membership scheme are understood to have been placed alongside a range of extremist material after an agency acting on the media group's behalf used Google's AdX ad exchange. David Pemsel, the Guardian's chief executive, wrote to Google to say that it was ‘completely unacceptable’ for its advertising to be misused in this way.”
The Lens blog / John Leland
Democratizing the sky: drones in visual journalism →
“I think it's only a matter of time before we have micro drones with high-quality cameras that reporters can take into the field,” says New York Times staff photographer Josh Haner.