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Thursday, April 13, 2017
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News and media literacy the way it’s always been taught may not be the right response to fake news woes“Should we still think of news as a separate space, as a specific type of information?” By Shan Wang. |
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With new editor Joe Brown, Popular Science is using a “Trojan horse” strategy to take on science skeptics“I wanted to make the most inclusive science and technology publication, period.” By Ricardo Bilton. |
What We’re Reading
Marketing Land / Tim Peterson
Instagram Stories tops 200M daily users, now bigger than Snapchat →
200 million vs. 158 million.
Poynter / Benjamin Mullin
Gawker founder Nick Denton’s next act: Something with internet forums →
Denton says that he wants to bridge the gap between public and private conversations. “So it would have started with a relaxed conversation, but it might end up potentially with an audience of millions.”
Bloomberg.com / Stefan Nicola
Facebook buys full-page ads in Germany in battle with fake news →
"Fake news can be identified as such," the ad reads, which will also be appearing in Der Spiegel's print and online product. "We fight their spread and are giving you some tips how you can recognize whether a news item is true or not."
MediaShift
To rebuild rural media ecosystems, think locally →
“Local-national partnerships are incredibly important, and we hope to see more of them. But we're not waiting for national outlets to show up in central Illinois – and when or if they do, we hope they'll be pleasantly surprised by what's already happening.”
Yahoo Finance
Newspaper consolidation continues in Atlantic Canada →
With its new acquisitions, “SaltWire Network's holdings include the leading newspapers in Nova Scotia (The Chronicle Herald and The Cape Breton Post), Prince Edward Island (The Guardian) and Newfoundland and Labrador (The Telegram).”
WSJ / Lukas I. Alpert
Storm Lake Times Pulitzer win highlights decline of family newspapers →
There are 82 daily U.S. newspapers that have been owned by the same family for more than 100 years.
Yahoo / Daniel Roberts
Vanity Fair is planning a digital paywall →
Editor-in-chief Graydon Carter reportedly wants the new paywall ready in the next two to six months. Years ago, the magazine very rarely made select print features subscriber-only (like a 2014 cover investigation on Edward Snowden) but it did not have any formal paywall.
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
The Times of London is wooing subscribers via a Brexit Facebook group →
“The Times has started a Facebook group dedicated to discussing Brexit topics, as part of plans to win over future subscribers.”
Digiday / Jessica Davies
Le Monde is using Snapchat Discover to teach fake-news spotting →
“The idea is not to point to one fake-news story after another, as there is so much of it, but to educate our audience to have good reflexes when they stumble on suspicious information," said Le Monde's Snapchat Discover editor Jean-Guillaume Santi.
CNBC / Julia Boorstin
NBCUniversal launches what it hopes will be the “largest premium ecosystem” for mobile ads →
“Now when advertisers come to NBCUniversal, they’ll be able to not only buy ads across the company’s digital and traditional platforms, but also across the premium mobile sites for whom Kargo sells ads — venues from Hearst to NYTimes.com. Together NBCUniversal and Kargo will offer advertisers access to over 171 million people.”