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Friday, March 10, 2017
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Reporting from “the last frontier”: The Arctic Times Project is bringing journalists to a once-closed region“This is an opportunity to write about something new.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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“It had gotten so big I thought I better pull the plug”: Updates from the fake-news worldPlus: European investigations, the complexities of fact-checking “fact-based opinions”, and how kids deal with fake news. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
Digiday / Lucia Moses
Here’s how The New Yorker is capitalizing on its ‘Trump bump’ →
Newsletter subscribers, for instance, are more likely than the average person to become paying subscribers, so The New Yorker has launched several around popular sections and individual writers, like cartoons, fiction and humor writer Andy Borowitz, for a total of eight.
The Information / Tom Dotan
Fewer but bigger ad deals challenge smaller publishers →
“Multiple publishing executives say advertisers have increased the size of the branded content deals markedly and they're pulling back on the smaller deals that many of the smaller publishers used to rely on…For smaller publishers, this suggests a need for combinations. There have already been some rollups in digital publishing with the aim of maximizing scale and combining staffs.”
CNN / Doug Criss
This is where fake news goes to die →
“Snopes is the first place a lot of people go when they’re not quite sure about what they’ve seen online. But Mikkelson and others who run the site have aspirations to be more than just a debunker of fake news. They want it to be a place where people come for real news, too.”
NPR.org / Esme Nicholson
In a crucial election year, worries grow in Germany about fake news →
“Since retracting the story, Bild has employed an ombudsman and has started offering up one of its journalists every day to take questions from readers via a live online video link. “
BuzzFeed / Craig Silverman and Jane Lytvynenko
How a liberal troll became spammers’ favorite fake news source →
“Misinformation about American politics is now an international business opportunity.”
Recode / Kurt Wagner
Who’s in charge at Twitter these days? →
Over the past three years, a dozen key VPs and senior executives departed, including 60 percent of Twitter's listed executive team. It's an issue that has been magnified because Twitter's network is public and departing executives often tweet out goodbyes. Besides @jack, who are the other people in charge?
Poynter / Benjamin Mullin
7 newsrooms closed their PolitiFact chapters since the presidential campaign →
“And as it turns out we’re now devoting the time we were devoting to PolitiFact to having a reporter concentrate on the impact President Trump and the GOP Congress will have on Rhode Island. So far it seems like a good move — we still get plenty of national fact-checking and we have an experienced reporter really focused on Trump.”
BuzzFeed / Matthew Champion
A British judge just explained how Twitter works →
“In his 28-page ruling, the judge in the case, Mr Justice Warby, explained that although Twitter was ‘widely used and very well known,’ it was a ‘relatively new medium, and not every knows all the details of how it works.’ So as an appendix to the judgment, he attached a 26-point ‘How Twitter Works’ guide that had been agreed by the two parties.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Tony Biasotti
Q&A: How Shea Serrano went from middle school science teacher to NYT bestselling author →
“I said, Let me be the Little Penny to your Anfernee Hardaway. [Remember those Chris Rock-voiced Nike commercials from the mid-'90s?] Let me make all this noise and you don't have to worry about it. So we did this big push to get him on The New York Times bestseller list, and it worked.”
BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed launched the 2nd season of its “See Something Say Something” podcast →
The podcast focuses on Muslim identity in America.