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Thursday, August 10, 2017
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The Shawnee Mission Post sees success in a new formula: Paywall. More civics. Fewer restaurants.“Nobody goes into journalism because they want to cater to advertisers and deliver them as many eyeballs as possible.” By Christine Schmidt. |
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Mozilla fights misinformation with a new program (and some help from Firefox users)“How do you make it more palatable and acceptable for people to emotionally engage with reality?” By Laura Hazard Owen. |
What We’re Reading
Variety / Todd Spangler
BuzzFeed News’ Twitter live daily morning show will debut in September →
“The weekday show, ‘AM to DM,’ will run 8-9 a.m. ET on the Twitter account of @BuzzFeedNews. The program will be hosted by Saeed Jones, BuzzFeed News' executive editor of culture and BuzzFeed Books editor Isaac Fitzgerald.”
Street Fight / Tom Grubisich
Facebook talks about its ‘shared future’ with local news publishers →
“Underneath the grim headlines, many news publishers, big and small, for-profit and nonprofit, are making nice with one of the giant platforms – Facebook.”
MediaShift / Gabriele Boland
How top publishers are restoring trust on social →
One notable finding: people are more likely to trust news sites that write about more than politics.
Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech / Lee Rainie
The fate of online trust in the next decade →
“Many experts say lack of trust will not be a barrier to increased public reliance on the internet. Those who are hopeful that trust will grow expect technical and regulatory change will combat users' concerns about security and privacy.”
Splinter / David Uberti
BuzzFeed News is slowly getting less white and less male →
“Sixty-one percent of the newsroom identifies as white, down from 69 percent two years ago.”
Medium / Chris Moran
‘Raining clicks’: why we need better thinking on technology, data and journalism →
A reaction to Franklin Foer's “When Silicon Valley Took Over Journalism” piece.
Journalism / Mădălina Ciobanu
Through curation, NewsMavens aims to create a front page put together by women in newsrooms →
“A new initiative called NewsMavens, spearheaded by Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza with support from Google’s Digital News Initiative Fund, wants to bring together a group of women editors from newspapers all around Europe to curate stories produced by their newsrooms about European issues and news events.”
Digiday / Max Willens
How 4 of the priciest content subscriptions stack up →
Here's a look at what some of the priciest subscriptions out there cost and what their members get in return.”