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Friday, August 11, 2017
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Remember that Norwegian site that made readers take a quiz before commenting? Here’s an update on itFor one thing, people did really, really badly on the quizzes (although that could be due to a language barrier). By Christine Schmidt. |
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There is a darker side of Westerners writing about foreign fake news factoriesPlus: Crimea’s News Front; the fate of online trust; Facebook stops saying “fake news.” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
The Coral Project Guides
A comprehensive library of community guides for journalism, from The Coral Project →
A set of instructions, ideas, and case studies written by a range of experts, from journalists to UX researchers to librarians.
Medium / Lori Shontz
Teaching engagement in j-schools means listening to our students →
“If we journalism educators want students to get out of their comfort zones, we need to get out of ours, too.”
Wikimedia Foundation
Mozilla, Creative Commons, and Wikipedia launch a fellowship in the name of a slain Syrian advocate →
Plus, a preview of Wikimania 2017 taking place this weekend.
Journalism.co.uk / Catalina Albeanu
This tool is bringing artificial intelligence to fact-checking audio and video →
“Who Said What, a tool that will use artificial intelligence to identify quotes in audio and video segments in an effort to help journalists and fact-checkers verify information, received a $50,000 grant from the Knight Foundation in June.”
Digiday / Jessica Davies
How people across the world spend time on social platforms, in 5 charts →
“Japan is the only country where Twitter is the most popular platform.”
Poynter / Daniel Funke
Parse.ly has raised $6.8 million and reached profitability. Here's what it's doing with the money. →
“Heads-up, Chartbeat, one of your competitors is growing — and it’s growing fast.”
Axios / Mike Allen
Inside Drudge’s new look: “black and white and read all over” →
“Matt Drudge — who has kept his look steady even as everything else in media has convulsed — made a striking change Monday, beginning with a “NUKE YOU” banner headline: His photos, usually colorful amid the spare typewriter front, were suddenly black and white.”