YULI AHMADA: November 2017

Kamis, 30 November 2017

This reporting project wants to get environmental investigations out of PDFs and white papers and to the people affected: The latest from Nieman Lab

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

This reporting project wants to get environmental investigations out of PDFs and white papers and to the people affected

Investigating environmental crimes in Indonesia, The Gecko Project wants “to push these things back into the places where they're reported out.” By Laura Hazard Owen.

Taking a cue from ProPublica, The Trace is partnering with local TV stations to report major gun stories

“We want to make sure reporters have what they need to do this work and see us as a valuable resource to help them do it.” By Ricardo Bilton.

Big broadcasters ruled Twitter during the UK’s general elections. But a few digital-only outlets managed to punch well above their weight

What We’re Reading

Wall Street Journal / Lukas I. Alpert

Facing a revenue shortfall, BuzzFeed is laying off about 100 employees and looking beyond native advertising →

BuzzFeed plans to reduce its U.S. staff by 8%, with all the cuts coming from the business and sales side of the organization. Some editorial staffers and business-side employees in the U.K. will also be let go. The company is also moving to create a number of new lifestyle verticals modeled after its food product, Tasty, and will put increased resources into its e-commerce business and focus more on outside development deals for its film and TV arm.

The Atlantic / Derek Thompson

How to survive the media apocalypse →

“In its inexhaustible capacity for experimentation, digital media has pivoted to programmatic advertising, pivoted to native advertising, pivoted to venture capital, pivoted to Facebook, pivoted to distributed, and pivoted to video. Here is a better experiment: Pivot to readers.”

CNBC / Sara Salinas

Snapchat’s redesign will separate its news-heavy Discover page from a user’s friend list →

Snap has long been plagued by criticism that the app is difficult to navigate and not intuitive, dragging daily active users below estimates and burying paid publisher content. The update will start rolling out to some users this week.

Wall Street Journal / Amol Sharma

ESPN to is laying off another 150 people →

In a memo to staff, ESPN President John Skipper said the majority of the jobs being eliminated are in studio production, technology and digital content, "and they generally reflect decisions to do less in certain instances and redirect resources." ESPN has 8,000 employees.

Journalism.co.uk / Damian Radcliffe

10 key principles for data-driven storytelling →

“Don't beat readers over the head with numbers. Data should be used to illustrate key points and help bring a story alive. The data itself is seldom the story, the implications of it need to be unpacked and explained.”

Digiday / Max Willens

As Amazon’s media ambitions grow, some publishers are wary →

“Some publishers said Amazon frequently asks publishers to create content with no clear incentive, leaving many uncertain and frustrated by their inability to make inroads with such a large platform: ‘This is the frenemy question with various platforms,’ said Stan Pavlovsky, the president of Meredith Digital. ‘If we're going to partner with Amazon, or Apple or Google, it has to be a win-win.'”

Washingtonian / Rachel Kurzius

A former DCist editor meets her toughest (and most persistent) critics from the comments →

“I was always curious about the people behind the screen names like sock puppet mayhem, OwCrapThatHurts, and B!tchIt'sSaturday.”

Wall Street Journal / Benjamin Mullin

Wired is launching a metered paywall →

Wired hasn’t yet set a price for the paywall, which will be introduced in January of 2018. (Wired’s editor-in-chief Nick Thompson was previously of the editor of newyorker.com, where he also oversaw the implementation of a metered paywall.) Condé Nast executives say the online subscription models at the New Yorker and Wired may be followed by paywalls at its other properties.

Medium / Jake Shapiro

Podcast startup RadioPublic announces new funding, including from Boston public media company WGBH →

"WGBH is committed to finding innovative models that benefit audiences and stations, helping public media successfully address the evolving media landscape and fulfill our public service mission in new ways. RadioPublic is at the vanguard of radio's transformation into a mobile, on-demand future, and we are proud partners in helping take it to scale."

Rabu, 29 November 2017

If your favorite podcast gets a new host, is it still your favorite podcast?: The latest from Nieman Lab

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Kamis, 23 November 2017

“Checking Twitter…while being rushed into a bunker”: Considering fake news and nuclear war: The latest from Nieman Lab

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

“Checking Twitter…while being rushed into a bunker”: Considering fake news and nuclear war

Plus: The EU is surveying its citizens on fake news; what CrossCheck learned in France; the upcoming Disinformation Action Lab. By Laura Hazard Owen.

In Turkey, use of Facebook and Twitter for news is falling, and WhatsApp is rising

What We’re Reading

Discourse / Lindsay Sample

Canadian digital journalism startup Discourse is launching a local news fellowship →

For the first six months in 2018, Discourse's local news fellowship will provide support — up to $9,000 each — to three reporting fellows to carry out sustained coverage of issues facing their communities. The fellowship is intended to support reporting on energy and environmental issues, with a focus on stories to “paint a broader picture of shared experiences across the country.”

Wall Street Journal / Lara O'Reilly

Fake-ad operation used to steal from publishers is uncovered →

“The fraudsters behind the Hyphbot scheme created more than 34,000 different domain names and more than a million different URLs, many designed to attempt to fool advertisers into thinking they were buying ad inventory from big-name publishers such as the Economist, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and CNN. It is a tactic known in the industry as ‘domain spoofing.'”

Twitter / secretgamergrrl

“I wouldn’t be surprised if you told me nobody has ever actually intentionally clicked any ad on the internet. Why the hell would you, ever?” →

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Washington Post / Paul Farhi

Why BuzzFeed teamed with a far-right figure to break the John Conyers scandal →

Cernovich, in an interview Tuesday, said it was more important for the story to be taken seriously than for him to "get the glory" by reporting it himself. Aware that his reputation could raise questions about the story's credibility, he said, he decided to pass the documents to BuzzFeed. “I knew Conyers would deny it if I broke it,” he said. “Everyone would call me fake news. . . . My thinking was: Let's keep our eye on the prize and not make this about me. Let's make this the Harvey Weinstein story about Congress.’ I knew if I gave it to BuzzFeed, it would be bulletproof.”

Poynter / Daniel Funke

Don’t put too much hope in EU legislation against fake news →

“I think governments in Europe can't do anything about fake news. It's going to have to be about enforcing their own hate speech laws online.”

HuffPost / Ashley Feinberg

At Vice, a New York Times exposé looms →

“I think by about 10 minutes in, people started to realize they just weren't going to talk about harassment at all.”

Digiday / Max Willens

Under The New York Times, Wirecutter has grown from 35 to 65 people →

Starting on Nov. 23 and rolling into next week, all 65 of those edit staffers will work in shifts to sift through a fire hose of deal offers coming from the retailers participating in America's biggest digital shopping weekend, looking for discounts on the hundreds of items its staffers have already reviewed.

Fast Company / Harry McCracken

The Washington Post: A software company? →

“Among the publications that have moved to Arc are the Los Angeles Times, Canada's Globe and Mail, the New Zealand Herald, and smaller outfits such as Alaska Dispatch News and Oregon's Willamette Week. In aggregate, sites running on Arc reach 300 million readers; publishers pay based on bandwidth, which means that the more successful they are at attracting readers, the better it is for Arc Publishing. The typical bottom line ranges from $10,000 a month at the low end up to $150,000 a month for Arc's biggest customers.”

Slate / Will Oremus

It’s time for online media to pivot from advertising →

“Giving everything away appears more than ever to be a path to commoditization and low margins, if not outright ruin.”

TechCrunch / Jon Russell

Tencent, the maker of WeChat, becomes the first Chinese tech firm valued at over $500 billion →

Entry to the half-a-trillion-dollar club — which includes Apple, Alphabet, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon — comes a week after Tencent posted a profit of 18 billion RMB ($2.7 billion) on revenue of 65.2 billion RMB ($9.8 billion) for the third quarter of 2017. Overall profit was up 69 percent year-on-year and revenue rose by 61 percent thanks to Tencent's games business.

The Splice Newsroom / Joshua Carroll

Frontier just launched Myanmar’s first local-language podcast – on Facebook →

“Podcast platforms popular elsewhere are little used in Myanmar. SoundCloud puts off many because Android users must download the app to listen, and few people in the country have iPhones. To get around that, Doh Athan can be streamed directly from Facebook, a platform that dominates Myanmar's internet.”

Rabu, 22 November 2017

Can Canada build its own independent podcast industry in the True North strong and free?: The latest from Nieman Lab

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Can Canada build its own independent podcast industry in the True North strong and free?

Plus: Everybody’s suddenly making podcasts for kids, a show reveals itself as part-fiction in its grand finale, and mixing podcasts and dating apps. By Nicholas Quah.

Here are three tools that help digital journalists save their work in case a site shuts down

“So many people who work professionally on the Internet really don’t know, until too late, that their work is this fragile.” By Laura Hazard Owen.

The future of news (and far beyond), according to Scandinavian media giant Schibsted’s latest trends report

What We’re Reading

Twitter / Alex Heath

Facebook Watch shows are getting renewed based on the repeat viewers they draw →

“Partners tell me FB is prepared to spend more in the search for a hit show.”

The Financial Times / John Ridding

The Financial Times now has more than 900,000 paying readers →

"It was a company-wide and coordinated push — from our excellent editorial coverage, with a string of strong exclusives and beautifully written features, to smart marketing, customer service and product and tech. It was also the result of many individual efforts, such as sending gift articles to friends and contacts and spreading the message about the FT.” Next step: 1 million.

Digiday / Sahil Patel

Born on Facebook, Al Jazeera’s AJ+ is now warming to YouTube →

"We're doing well on Facebook, but we were also looking at the retention numbers, and those were not as high as we would like them to be, especially on the content that we were putting a real investment into, which is our in-depth and investigative reporting.”

Global Editors Network

Have a climate story you want to tell in 360°? Apply to this accelerator program →

The European Forest Institute and the Global Editors Network are joining forces to launch the pilot project which supports journalists produce 360-degree videos on climate change and people's lives. Lookout360° combines in-field training and a three-month mentorship to support journalists produce immersive stories with a focus on climate change.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

UK’s investigative journalism collective The Bureau Local is hiring a ‘community organizer’ →

"This job represents a fantastic opportunity to empower local journalists to use the huge amounts of data now available, to ensure that people across the UK feel their local services and local representatives are working in their best interests."

Digiday / Lucia Moses

“Jack of all trades, master of none”: Why Mashable flamed out →

“‘It came from Pete on down — ‘What's going to be our version of Ben Smith?'” a former insider said. “‘They got Ben Smith, so we need someone,'” said another, describing the philosophy. “‘They started BuzzFeed Studios; let's start Mashable Studios.’ I'm surprised they didn't call it ‘MashFeed’ at some point.'” But as an ex-editorial staffer said, the pivot to general news made Mashable a ‘jack-of-all-trades, master of none. Everyone was aware BuzzFeed was beating us on stuff, and the tech pubs didn't take us seriously.'”

Washington Post / Brian Fung

What to know about the FCC’s upcoming plan to undo its net neutrality rules →

“With its final meeting of the year less than a month away, the Federal Communications Commission is expected to reveal the latest details of a plan to roll back the government’s net neutrality regulations this week. The result could reshape the entire digital ecosystem by giving Internet providers more control over what their customers can see and access online and how quickly they can do it.”

Slate / Caroline Albanese and David Stern

Slate will launch a redesigned site with a better ad experience in 2018 →

“After we launch the new site in 2018, there will be no more ads along the right-hand side of Slate. (Ads that appear in line with content ensure higher engagement rates.) Ad-insertion logic will be based on word counts, rather than on paragraphs, to ensure that the share of pixels on any given page that is devoted to ads is consistent.”

Selasa, 21 November 2017

Village Media, relying on local advertisers, seems to have found a scalable (and profitable) local news model: The latest from Nieman Lab

Monday, November 20, 2017

Village Media, relying on local advertisers, seems to have found a scalable (and profitable) local news model

“We have to find new and creative ways to not replace a client’s Google and Facebook spend but find our own portion of it.” By Christine Schmidt.

Three years in, Discourse Media looks to membership to power its national expansion

The Canadian news industry “has been in a long, slow, painful decline, and people are ready for solutions and to see something new.” By Christine Schmidt.

Investigate these resources for in-depth reporting, from the Global Investigative Journalism Conference

What We’re Reading

HuffPost / Ryan J. Reilly and Christopher Mathias

A freelance journalist swept up in mass arrests at protests at Trump’s inauguration faces his criminal trial today →

“A photojournalist facing a criminal trial on several felony charges sounds like something that would happen in another country. So this article is written in the style that would be used if it did.”

Crain's Chicago Business

Crain’s Chicago Business is shutting down its comments section, citing a lack of resources to curtail comments from trolls and hate speech →

“Simply put, we do not have the personnel to manage this commentary, to keep it civil and fair and to halt the back and forth before it devolves into invective, name-calling and, in too many cases, outright hate speech. We’d rather not play host to these often anonymous commenters. They drive out more civil readers and potential commenters. They sully our content, our brand and our sponsors. So, to borrow a phrase, we’re draining the swamp.”

Twitter / Rafat Ali

A recognition of the good news in media companies →

“The jig is up on platforms and despite their death grip, that may be the best news of all in media.”

Vox / Laura McGann

New York Times White House correspondent Glenn Thrush’s history of bad judgment around young women journalists →

“He kept saying he's an advocate for women and women journalists. That's how he presented himself to me. He tried to make himself seem like an ally and a mentor.”

The New Yorker / Emily Gould

An unabashed appreciation of Smitten Kitchen, the ur-food blog →

“Today, almost all of the personal blogs that began in the early aughts are gone, but Smitten Kitchen remains. Not only does it remain: it thrives; it grows.”

Democracy Fund / Josh Stearns

News Match, “largest grassroots fundraising campaign for nonprofit journalism ever,” announces more funding partners →

“In ten other states, individual donors and local foundations have stepped up with challenge grants to encourage people to give to nonprofit news, adding at least another $500,000 to support quality journalism this year. In total, more than 20 foundations, corporations, and individual donors are offering matching challenges, most of which were developed independently by local leadership at nonprofit news organizations.”

MediaShift / Heather Bryant

How the 'Paradise Papers' set the bar even higher for global collaboration →

“ICIJ's custom tool, Global I-Hub, again played a central role in connecting journalists. Described as a ‘Facebook for journalists,’ the proprietary software served as a secure space for reporters to share things they had found in the data, note quotes and plan coverage. Hamilton says GoTo Meeting was another common tool to connect editors via video chat to talk things out when meeting in person wasn't feasible. On the data side, the work benefitted from ICIJ's expanded data team. Linkurious was used to track and display connections between entities in the data. Hamilton says the hardest part early in the project was just getting the data into a workable shape to share with partners.”

Columbia Journalism Review / Shaya Tayefe Mohajer

The LA Times flirts with unionization, defying its history and challenging its current parent company →

“From 1960 to 1980, the Times was a totem of West Coast journalism that had been built up into a journalistic force by the aspirations of Otis Chandler, the golden boy heir to the one of the most powerful and most aggressively anti-union families in Southern California. The Times became a marquis newspaper during his time as publisher, and by-and-large his employees felt richly compensated not only in pay but prestige.”

Poynter / Melody Kramer

How accessible is your website for the disabled? →

“In August, two New York federal judges said that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was applicable to websites, following a Florida federal judge's verdict this past June that ruled that the grocery store Winn-Dixie ‘violated Title III of the ADA by having a website that was not useable by plaintiff … to download coupons, order prescriptions, and find store locations.'”