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Friday, April 21, 2017
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Stat is publishing a print section in Sunday’s Boston Globe — and it might be coming to a paper near youThe health and life sciences site is in talks with other newspapers about republishing its coverage in print. By Joseph Lichterman. |
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A new database of fake news sites details how much fakery has spread from Trump v. Clinton to local newsPlus: The New York Times walks back an extremely popular tweet, California adds media literacy to its curriculum, and the KIND Foundation tries out a “Pop Your Bubble” app that nobody is going to want to use. By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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What We’re Reading
Politico / Eliana Johnson
How Trump blew up the conservative media →
“This account, the result of conversations with nearly two dozen sources inside various news organizations, reveals how Trump's nomination and subsequent election scrambled the pecking order across the conservative media landscape in ways its leaders are still grappling with.”
Digiday / Jessica Davies
The Guardian pulls out of Facebook’s Instant Articles and Apple News →
“Plenty of publishers remain on IA, of course, but the loss of marquee publishers like The New York Times and the Guardian is not exactly a great sign of health. Other publishers are likely to take a hard look at where their interests intersect with Facebook's.”
www.ChinaPost.com.tw
Taiwan’s China Post is ending its print edition on May 15 →
According to chairman and publisher George Hsieh, “it was time for the newspaper to go digital after hits on both the official website and the newly-launched app surpassed subscriptions for the paper edition.” (The 65-year-old newspaper launched the first English-language newspaper app in Taiwan back in February.)
Recode / Kurt Wagner, April Glaser, Rani Molla
The apps to use if you want to keep your messages private →
From ones that don’t have end-to-end encryption (Twitter, Skype, Google Hangouts, etc), to ones that have it (iMessage, Signal, Confide, etc).
Medium / Will McDonald
How to fly drones for journalism in the U.S. →
“So here's some of what I got a lot of headaches learning and wish someone had spelled out in one place. Hopefully it will answer a lot of questions you may have about using drones at your news organization”
NPR / Elizabeth Jensen
NPR ombudsman: “If the goal is to increase diversity in the newsroom, last year’s was a disappointing showing.” →
“According to NPR’s human resources department, of the 350 employees in the news division as of Oct. 31, 2016, 75.4 percent were white. Asians made up 8.3 percent of the staff, followed by blacks or African-Americans (8.0 percent), Hispanics or Latinos (5.4 percent), those who identified as two or more races or ethnic identities (2.6 percent) and American Indian (0.3 percent).”