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Thursday, June 8, 2017
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How 80-year-old Radio-Canada, the French-language arm of the CBC, is driving innovation from withinThe Digital R&D Lab, started five years ago as one employee’s passion project, serves as an internal incubator for ideas and plays host to digital projects carried out in partnership with non-Radio-Canada groups. By Tracey Lindeman. |
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The Swedish startup Kit is rethinking analytics for a broader view of what makes a story successful“We’re trying to fit in the space between the ‘what’ and ‘what came out of it’.” By Joseph Lichterman. |
What We’re Reading
Recode / Rani Molla
Online video is expected to triple bandwidth consumption in the next five years →
“Internet video consumption will make up 82 percent of all internet traffic in 2021, according to forecasts released today by Cisco, a company that sells networking equipment. Video accounted for 73 percent of traffic in 2016.”
MediaShift / James Breiner
Why readers are more willing than ever to pay for news →
“Contrary to all the predictions about the public's unwillingness to pay for news when it is freely available online, more publishers of high-quality, in-depth reporting are making money.”
Official Google Africa Blog / Daniel Sieberg
Google News Lab powers digital journalism training for 6,000 journalists in Africa →
Google, in conjunction with World Bank and Code For Africa, will help offer training on reporting, mapping, data visualization, verification, and fact checking.
Poynter / Alexios Mantzarlis
Conservative websites are far more likely to attack fact-checkers than their liberal counterparts →
The report’s conclusion: “All told, critics lobbed 71 accusations of bias against fact-checkers. Conservative websites were responsible for 97 percent of them.”
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
How Snaphat Discover’s only Norwegian publisher uses the platform →
Verdens Gang, Norway's most-read online news publisher, according to Reuters' Digital News Report, already reaches over half of the country's population of 5 million. Since launching on Snapchat Discover in January, the publisher has connected with the platform's much-coveted younger audience.
The Guardian
The Guardian US raises more than $50,000 in its crowdfunded campaign to report on sell-off of public lands →
The Guardian has had a membership program since 2014, though this is the first time it’s asked readers to support a specific reporting project.
The New York Times / Neil MacFarquhar and Andrew Rossback
How Russian propaganda spread from a parody website to Fox News →
After The New York Times asked about the article, it was deleted from the FoxNews.com website.