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Monday, May 22, 2017
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How NPR considers what new platforms — from smartwatches to fridges — will get its programming“Generally, we try to get to ‘yes’ faster than we try to get to ‘no.'” By Shan Wang. |
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“Who’s your 4chan correspondent?” (and other questions Storyful thinks newsrooms should be asking after the French election)“The example of France shows it is possible to curtail [misinformation] campaigns. But to do so, newsrooms need to move the discussion out of the realm of the theoretical and into the practical.” By Padraic Ryan. |
What We’re Reading
The New Yorker / Charles Bethea
The Onion “leaks” a trove of (fake) Trump documents →
“More than a dozen writers and eight graphics editors have been assembling that something over the past four months: seven hundred pages of Trump-related documents that have been ‘leaked’ to the Onion…’Document dumps…are the vogue way to talk about major breaking news in the world, whether it's WikiLeaks or the Panama Papers. Leaks seemed like the perfect means to get at Trump and his inner circle, as well as his decision-making.'”
ProPublica / Cynthia Gordy
ProPublica Illinois makes three hires →
Two from the Chicago Tribune (including former Nieman Fellow Jason Grotto), one from NPR.
The Conversation / Ben Eltham
An Australian professor wants to tax 25% of Facebook and Google’s domestic earnings for journalism →
“While many journalists remain understandably uncomfortable about state funding of the private media, such an outcome may be preferable to the current trend towards declining trust, vanishing scrutiny and fewer and fewer paid jobs in journalism.”
Poynter / Benjamin Mullin
The New York Times is expanding the Wirecutter to babies, personal finance, and pet gear →
“Up until this point, we’ve been mostly focused on electronics and home goods. But we want to be the place where everybody goes to easily pick the things that they need.”
Adweek / Christopher Heine
Instagram generates 3× the engagement for brands as Facebook →
“To be clear, these figures represent the raw number of likes, shares, comments and other social signals for those two categories — the stats are not adjusted, per-capita figures. While it's probably not surprising to most social media marketers — who don't work for media companies, that is — that Instagram yields a greater engagement rate (likes, shares, comments, etc., divided by viewers), it seems remarkable that it's made such gains in terms of sheer signals.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Glenn H. Burkins
Where have all the black digital publishers gone? →
What’s to blame for the lack of community-based journalism outfits aimed at African Americans? Like everything else, money.
Digiday / Lucia Moses
How food brand Tasty is a template for BuzzFeed’s vertical expansion →
The success of Tasty has helped to to inspire similar efforts such as Top Knot, Goodful, Nifty, Bring Me, and Sweaty.
Poynter / Kristen Hare
Facebook is testing products to connect its users to local news →
“The tests are on three products: One points users in community-linked Facebook groups to additional local news. Another, launching Tuesday, offers users who make their cities of residence public a badge identifying them as a local when they comment on a local publisher’s stories. A third helps people find local groups.”
the Guardian / Nick Hopkins
Revealed: Facebook’s internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence →
“Leaked policies guiding moderators on what content to allow are likely to fuel debate about social media giant's ethics.”
AIR
AIR chooses 14 participants for its Summer Full Spectrum Storytelling Intensive →
“From June 25-30 they’ll be attending Full Spectrum at UnionDocs in Brooklyn for a week of intense training with curriculum covering community stories, experiments in writing and interviewing, sound in space and the future of audio.”
Boston Magazine / Kyle Scott Clauss
You can’t use incognito mode anymore to get around The Boston Globe’s paywall anymore →
“The Globe launched BostonGlobe.com as a paywalled site in 2011. Three years and 60,000 digital-only subscribers later, the newspaper ditched the paywall in favor of a "meter," allowing for 10 free stories in a 30-day period.”